Artists
- Elizabeth Wattssoprano
- Roger Vignolespiano
Archived Event
Those Summer Nights: The Poems of Théophile Gautier
Elizabeth Watts soprano; Roger Vignoles piano
- Date
- Thu 21 Jul 2016, 7.30pm
- Duration
- This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
- Availability
Programme
- Louis Vierne1870-1937
- Trois mélodies Op. 11:
- No. 1 Beaux papillons blancs
- Édouard Lalo1823-1892
- L'esclave
- Charles Gounod1818-1893
- La chanson du pêcheur
- Georges Bizet1838-1875
- Vingt mélodies Op. 21:
- No. 13 Absence
- Henri Duparc1848-1933
- Lamento
- Reynaldo Hahn1874-1947
- Infidélité
- Ernest Chausson1855-1899
- La caravane Op. 14
- Claude Debussy1862-1918
- Les papillons
- Coquetterie posthume
- Séguidille
- Manuel de Falla1876-1946
- Les colombes
- Chinoiserie
- Séguidille
Interval
- Hector Berlioz1803-1869
- Les nuits d'été
Encore
- Ernest Chausson1855-1899
- Les papillons Op. 2 No. 3
Overview
Elizabeth Watts and Roger Vignoles celebrate highsummer with a scintillating programme of Frenchsong.
Their programme includes some of thefinest of all mélodies, including Debussy’s seductive‘Séguidille’ and the haunting lines of Duparc’s‘Lamento’. The verse of Théophile Gautier,polemicist, poet and storyteller, supplies the threadthat links each piece and proved such an inspirationto Berlioz in his Les nuits d’été.