Henry Purcell1659-1695If music be the food of love Z379c (realised by Benjamin Britten)Not all my torments can your pity move Z400 (realised by Benjamin Britten)Rule a Wife and Have a Wife Z587:–There’s not a swain on the plain (realised by Benjamin Britten)Sweeter than roses Z585 (realised by Benjamin Britten)
Aaron Copland1900-199012 poems of Emily Dickinson:–Nature, the Gentlest Mother–There came a wind like a bugle–The world feels dusty–Heart, we will forget him–Dear March, Come In!–Sleep is supposed to be–Going to heaven!–The Chariot
Johann Philipp Krieger1649-1725Die HeissverliebteVerliebtes Weinen und LachenLiebespeinAn die Einsamkeit
OverviewA lyric soprano with a steadilyrising international reputationincludes songs from her homelandfrom the Baroque and Romanticperiods, plus Britten’s imaginativePurcell realisations and Copland’ssensitive settings of the reclusiveEmily Dickinson.