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Artists
- Claire Boothsoprano
- Christopher Glynnpiano
Archived Event
Modest Musorgsky: Unorthodox Music
Claire Booth soprano; Christopher Glynn piano
- Date
- Tue 11 Jan 2022, 1.00pm
- Tickets
- Archived Event
- Duration
- This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval
- Availability
Programme
Prologue
- Modest Musorgsky1839-1881
- A Society Tale: The Goat
Nursery
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- From Memories of Childhood:
- Nurse and I
- The Nursery:
- With Nurse
- In the corner
- From Memories of Childhood:
- First Punishment: Nurse Shuts me in a Dark Room
- The Nursery:
- On the Hobbyhorse
Youthful Years
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- Longing
- Impromptu passionné
- From my tears
- Night(1868 version)
Marriage
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- Hopak(1868 version)
- Oh, how your eyes look at me sometimes
- Songs and Dances of Death:
- Trepak
Loneliness
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- The leaves rustled sadly
- Pictures from an Exhibition:
- Cum mortuis in lingua mortua
- Sunless:
- Within four walls
- On the river
- Rêverie
Encore
- Modest Musorgsky1839-1881
- You drunken sot!
Overview
This mixture of piano pieces and songs celebrates the ‘unorthodox’ music of Modest Musorgsky, member of the Mighty Handful of Russian nationalist composers and a unique genius in the realms of vocal music and especially opera. The remarkable Yorkshire soprano has enjoyed a long and distinguished collaboration with the pianist, who is also artistic director of the Ryedale Festival and who in 2011 curated a notable Wigmore series of Ravel’s complete songs.