Friday 14 January 2022 7:30PM

Jennifer Johnston mezzo-soprano; Malcolm Martineau piano

Woman, Interrupted

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Jennifer Johnston mezzo-soprano
Malcolm Martineau piano
Kiyomi Seed percussion

Winner of Singer of the Year at the 2021 Royal Philharmonic Society Awards at Wigmore Hall last November, the Liverpool mezzo is never short of creative ideas, as this particular event in collaboration with Malcolm Martineau and focusing on ‘Women, Interrupted’ demonstrates in a programme of works in four languages written between the 17th and 21st centuries.

Jonathan Dove (b.1959)
- - My Love is Mine
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
- - From silent shades, and the Elysian groves (Bess of Bedlam) Z370
    - (realised by Benjamin Britten)
Cheryl Frances-Hoad (b.1980)
- - They Bore him Barefaced on the Bier
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
- - La mort d’Ophélie Op. 18 No. 2
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
- - Arianna a Naxos HXXVIb:2
Interval
Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
- - Goethe Lieder
    - Mignon I
    - Mignon II
    - Mignon III
    - Mignon: Kennst du das Land
Schubert (1797-1828)
- - Vedi quanto adoro D510
Henry Purcell
- - Dido and Aeneas Z626
    - When I am laid in earth
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
- - Phaedra Op. 93