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A Shakespeare Songbook
Sophie Bevan soprano; Allan Clayton tenor; Christopher Glynn piano
Date
Thu 13 Jul 2017, 7.30pm
Duration
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
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Artists

  • Sophie Bevansoprano
  • Allan Claytontenor
  • Christopher Glynnpiano

Programme

  • Thomas Arne
    1710-1778
      • When daisies pied and violets blue from Love's Labour's Lost
        :
      • When daisies pied
  • John Ireland
    1879-1962
      • Songs of a Wayfarer
        :
      • When daffodils begin to peer
  • Geoffrey Bush
    1920-1988
      • Three Elizabethan Songs
        :
      • Sigh no more, ladies
  • Roger Quilter
    1877-1953
      • Three Shakespeare Songs Op. 6
        :
      • Blow, blow, thou winter wind
  • George Frideric Handel
    1685-1759
      • L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato HWV55
        :
      • As steals the morn upon the night

Interval

  • Gerald Finzi
    1901-1956
      • Let us garlands bring Op. 18
        :
      • Come away, come away, death
      • O mistress mine
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold
    1897-1957
      • Songs of the Clown Op. 29
        :
      • Adieu Good Man Devil
      • Hey Robin!
      • For the Rain It Raineth Every Day
  • Roger Quilter
    1877-1953
      • 5 Shakespeare Songs (set 2) Op. 23
        :
      • It was a lover and his lass

Overview

Sophie Bevan and Allan Clayton open theirShakespeare Songbook to reveal 25 delightfulsettings of the Bard.

Their recital includes everythingfrom Morley’s ‘It was a lover and his lass’, writtenduring Shakespeare’s lifetime, and the high Victorianaof Myles Birket Foster to John Dankworth’shauntingly beautiful ‘Our revels now are ended’.

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