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International Musicians Platform

As You Like It: Shakespeare Songs

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Add to my Calendar 09-08-2015 15:30 09-08-2015 17:30 36 International Musicians Platform Programme: Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953) - Three Shakespeare Songs, Op. 6                     Come away death              From Twelfth Night O mistress mine             From Twelfth Night Blow, blow, thou winter wind                 From As you like it   Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976) - Fancie      Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963) - Fancy                             From The Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene 2 Ernest Chausson (1855 - 1899) - Trois chansons de Shakespeare, Op. 28           Chanson de clown     Adapted from Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene 4 Chanson d'amour     Adapted from Measure for Measure Chanson d'Ophelie    Adapted from Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 5   Franz Schubert  - An Sylvia                                 From Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act IV, Scene 2   Michael Tippett (1905 - 1998) - Songs for Ariel                          From The Tempest Come unto these yellow sands  Full fathom five  Where the bee sucks    Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695), arr. Tippett/Bergmann - An Epithalamium         from The Fairy Queen, adapted from A Midsummer Night’s Dream   Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809) - She never told her love                     From Twelfth Night, Act II Scene 4   Franz Schubert - Trinklied                                  From Anthony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene 7   Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903) - Lied des transferierten Zettel                     From A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III, Scene 1    Geoffrey Bush (1920 - 1988) - It was a lover and his lass                  From As You Like It, Act V, Scene 3 Mervyn Horder (1910 - 1998) - Under the Greenwood Tree                 From As You Like It, Act II, Scene 5   John Dankworth (1927 - 2010) - Shall I compare thee to a Summers Day?         From Sonnet No. 18 John Dankworth - Dunsinane Blues                             After Macbeth   Peter Dickinson (born 1934) - Hark, hark, the lark                     From Cymbeline, Act II, Scene 3 Buccleuch and Queensberry Hotel, Dumfries DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Buccleuch and Queensberry Hotel
Drumlanrig Street
Thornhill
Dumfries
Dumfries and Galloway
DG3 5LU
Scotland

Programme

Ernest Chausson – Chansons de Shakespeare, Op.28
Francis Poulenc – Fancy, FP 174
Roger Quilter – 3 Shakespeare Songs (first set), Op.6

Performers

Nicky Spence – tenor
Simon Lepper – piano

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Programme Note

Programme:

Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953) - Three Shakespeare Songs, Op. 6                    

Come away death              From Twelfth Night

O mistress mine             From Twelfth Night

Blow, blow, thou winter wind                 From As you like it

 

Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976) - Fancie     

Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963) - Fancy                            

From The Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene 2

Ernest Chausson (1855 - 1899) - Trois chansons de Shakespeare, Op. 28        

 

Chanson de clown     Adapted from Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene 4

Chanson d'amour     Adapted from Measure for Measure

Chanson d'Ophelie    Adapted from Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 5

 

Franz Schubert  - An Sylvia                                

From Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act IV, Scene 2

 

Michael Tippett (1905 - 1998) - Songs for Ariel                         

From The Tempest

Come unto these yellow sands 

Full fathom five 

Where the bee sucks 

 

Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695), arr. Tippett/Bergmann - An Epithalamium        

from The Fairy Queen, adapted from A Midsummer Night’s Dream

 

Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809) - She never told her love                    

From Twelfth Night, Act II Scene 4

 

Franz Schubert - Trinklied                                 

From Anthony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene 7

 

Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903) - Lied des transferierten Zettel                    

From A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III, Scene 1 

 

Geoffrey Bush (1920 - 1988) - It was a lover and his lass                 

From As You Like It, Act V, Scene 3

Mervyn Horder (1910 - 1998) - Under the Greenwood Tree                

From As You Like It, Act II, Scene 5

 

John Dankworth (1927 - 2010) - Shall I compare thee to a Summers Day?        

From Sonnet No. 18

John Dankworth - Dunsinane Blues                            

After Macbeth

 

Peter Dickinson (born 1934) - Hark, hark, the lark                    

From Cymbeline, Act II, Scene 3

Nicky Spence

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