Andrew Kennedy

Simon Lepper

Siva Oke

Andrew Kennedy (tenor)

Simon Lepper (piano)

Purcell (arr. Britten) If music be the food of love (3rd version); Pious Celinda;
On the brow of Richmond Hill

Haydn The Wanderer; Sailor’s Song

Charles Dibdin (Britten) Tom Bowling

Quilter Four songs from Seven Elizabethan Lyrics, Op.12

Delius Twilight Fancies; So White, so soft, so sweet is she; The Bird’s story;

Love’s Philosophy; To the Queen of my Heart

Hugh Wood Wild Cyclamen, 12 songs to poems by Robert Graves

Ian Venables Vitae Summa brevis; The November piano

Warlock In an arbour green; Late Summer; The night; My own country; Captain Stratton’s Fancy

Pre-concert talk 2pm Siva Oke talking about Delius.

Sunday 24th June 2012

3pm

Diana Moore

Elisabeth Burgess

Valerie Langfield

Diana Moore (mezzo)

Elisabeth Burgess (piano)

Feminine Charms
Programme of songs by women composers, including:

Lynne Plowman Three cummings songs: maggie and milly and molly and may (première); who knows if the moon’s a balloon (première), i carry your heart. Commission sponsored by the Kay Trust

Maude Valérie White The Throstle; So, we’ll go no more a’roving

Muriel Emily Herbert Loveliest of Trees; Renouncement

Rebecca Clark The Cherry-Blossom Wand; The Seal Man; Infant Joy

Mary Plumstead My true love hath my heart; Close thine eyes; Down by the Salley Gardens

Liza Lehmann Thoughts have wings; Charles Augustus Fortescue

Phyllis Tate A Cradle Song ; Epitaph

Teresa del Riego Slave Song

Amy Woodforde-Finden Kashmiri Song; Till I wake

Ethel Smyth Possession

Elisabeth Lutyens As I walked out one evening

Rhian Samuel Two songs

Elaine Hugh-Jones Fear no more the heat o’the sun

Pre-concert talk 2pm Valerie Langfield on 'Women Composers'.

Sunday 29th July 2012

3pm

Roderick Williams

Susie Allan

Michael Berkeley

Roderick Williams (baritone)

Susie Allan (piano)

John Ireland Great Things; Summer Schemes; Weathers

Ian Venables The Pine Boughs Past Music

John Ireland The Land of Lost Content

Michael Berkeley Hollow Fires

Arthur Somervell A Shropshire Lad

Pre-concert talk 2pm Michael Berkeley.

Sunday 19th August 2012

3pm