Wednesday 2 December 2020 7:30PM

Kitty Whately mezzo-soprano; Simon Lepper piano

Careful the tale you tell...

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This concert was live-streamed as part of the Wigmore Hall Autumn Series. The video is no longer online but other concerts are available to watch in full here: Wigmore Hall Concert Video Library

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Kitty Whately mezzo-soprano
Simon Lepper piano
Kevin Whately narrator
Madelaine Newton narrator

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Jonathan Dove (b.1959)
- - All the Future Days
    - The Siren
Margaret Atwood
- - Reading: Siren Song
Traditional
- - Reading: The Great Silkie
Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979)
- - The Seal Man
John Masefield
- - Reading: Sea Fever
Yeats (1865-1939)
- - Reading: excerpt from The Stolen Child
Judith Weir (b.1954)
- - Songs from the Exotic
    - The song of a girl ravished away by the fairies in South Uist
Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
- - La Belle Dame sans merci
Yeats
- - Reading: The Song of Wandering Aengus
Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
- - King David
Wendell Berry
- - Reading: The Peace of Wild Things
John Clare
- - Reading: In Hilly Wood
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
- - Hermit Songs Op. 29
    - St Ita's Vision
Colm Toibin
- - Reading: The Testament of Mary (extract)
Samuel Barber
- - Hermit Songs Op. 29
    - The Crucifixion
Tennyson (1809-1892)
- - Reading: Lady Godiva
Juliana Hall (b.1958)
- - Godiva: monodrama for mezzo-soprano and piano on a libretto by Caitlin Vincent
Carol Ann Duffy
- - Reading: Music
Stephen Sondheim (b.1930)
- - Passion
    - I read
  - Into the Woods
    - Moments in the Woods
Carol Ann Duffy
- - Reading: Little Red Cap
Angela Alaimo O’Donnell
- - Reading: Glass Slipper Sonnet
Stephen Sondheim
- - Into the Woods
    - On the Steps of the Palace
Young
- - Reading: Red Whistles at the Wolf
Stephen Sondheim
- - Into the Woods
    - Children Will Listen