Summer Nights
21 October 2025, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Nancy Holt and Weng Soon Tee transport us across the seasons with a performance of Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été (‘Summer Nights’). Berlioz began these six settings of Théophile Gautier in 1840, the same year as Schumann wrote Dichterliebe and many other of his most famous songs: Les Nuits d’été seem almost revolutionary in this context, and inhabit a thoroughly distinct soundworld. They have long been one of Berlioz’s most popular works. Alongside this, Nancy and Weng journey to Scandinavia for songs by Grieg and Sibelius, and they also include music by our Associate Composer, Emily Hazrati.
Programme
- Emily Hazrati
- The Sick Rose
- Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869)
- Villanelle (1841) Op. 7 no.1 from Les nuits d'été
- Le spectre de la rose (1841) Op. 7 no.2 from Les nuits d'été
- Au cimetière (1841) Op. 7 no.5 from Les nuits d'été
- L'île inconnue (1841) Op. 7 no.6 from Les nuits d'été
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- Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907)
- Sechs Lieder (Six Songs) (1884) Op. 48
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- Emily Hazrati
- Jabberwocky
- Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957)
- Norden 'The North' (1917) Op. 90 no.1
- Säv, säv, susa Op. 36 no.4
- Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte (1900) Op. 37 no.5 1900-1902
- Var det en dröm? (1902) Op. 37 no.4
