The Earth has music
22 October 2024, 7:30pm - 8:45pm
James Gilchrist and Anna Tilbrook have been delighting audiences in Oxford and internationally for over 25 years and their varied and compelling programmes have made them firm favourites of Oxford Song Festival audiences. In this sumptuous selection of songs charting the relationship between humankind and nature, they perform works by Lili Boulanger, Muriel Herbert, Roger Quilter and Gustav Mahler.
Programme
- Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953)
- Blow, blow thou winter wind (1905) Op. 6 from Three Shakespeare Songs (First Set)
- Fear no more the heat o' the sun
- Under the Greenwood Tree
- Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924)
- Les roses d'Ispahan Op. 39 no.4
- Automne Op. 18 no.3
- Le papillon et la fleur (1869) Op. 1 no.1
- Lili Boulanger (1893 - 1918)
- Nous nous aimerons (1914) from Clairières dans le ciel
- Vous m'avez regardé avec toute votre âme (1914) from Clairières dans le ciel
- Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911)
- Ablösung im Sommer (1887) no.11 1887-1891 from Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit
- Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt (1893) from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
- Rheinlegendchen (1991) 1892-99, revised 1901 from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
- Lob des hohen Verstandes (1899) 1892-99, revised 1901 from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
- Muriel Herbert (1897 - 1984)
- Renouncement (1923)
- The Lake Isle of Innisfree
- To daisies
- Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953)
- Now sleeps the crimson petal (1904) Op. 3 no.2
- A last year's rose Op. 14 no.3
- O mistress mine (1905) Op. 6 from Three Shakespeare Songs (First Set)
