Sonnets in Song: Daniel Norman & Christopher Gould
25 October 2018, 1:05pm - 2:00pm
Daniel Norman and Christopher Gould, known as a superb and insightful duo, explore the role of the sonnet in song: a great meeting of poetry and music. Their programme ranges from settings of Petrarch by Schubert and Liszt, to Britten’s ecstatic settings of Michelangelo, to Parry’s little known collection of sonnets by Shakespeare.
Programme
- Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
- Sonett III (1818) D630
- Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976)
- Seven Sonnets of Michaelangelo (1942) Op. 22
- Hubert Parry (1848 - 1918)
- Four Sonnets by William Shakespeare (1873) 1873-1880
- John Dankworth (1927 - 2010)
- Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (1964)
- Duke Ellington (1899 - 1974)
- My love is as a fever (Sonnet 147) (1964)
- Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
- Pace non trovo
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