Gurney and Britten: Peter Harris & Hamish Brown
14 October 2017, 5:30pm - 6:00pm
Peter Harris and Hamish Brown were joint winners of the Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform, giving a stunning audition recital at the Spring Weekend of Song. Today they give their showcase concert, in a programme featuring Ivor Gurney’s moving 1919 settings of A.E. Housman, Ludlow and Teme, and Britten’s remarkable settings of John Donne. They also include American composer Jake Heggie’s short cycle Friendly Persuasions.
Our other Young Artist Platform showcase recital will be given by Michael Mofidian and Keval Shah on Sunday 22 October.
Watch a clip of Peter and Hamish at their audition recital, performing Britten's setting of Michelangelo's Sonnet XXXII:
[youtube url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrmgu47kCXI]
Programme
- Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976)
- The Holy Sonnets of John Donne (1945) Op. 35
- O my blacke Soule! now thou art summoned
- Batter my heart three person'd God; for, you
- O might those sighes and teares returne againe into my breast and eyes
- Oh, to vex me, contraryes meet in one
- What if this present were the world's last night?
- Since she whom I love hath payd her last debt
- At the round earth's imagined corners, blew
- Thou hast made me, and shall they work decay?
- Death be not proud, though some have called thee
- Jake Heggie (1961)
- Friendly Persuasions - Homage to Poulenc (2008)
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13 October 2017 | 9:00am