Please note: This concert is in the past and has already taken place.

Details

SJE Arts - St John the Evangelist Church
109A Iffley Road
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX4 1EH
England

Programme

Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – My heart is like a singing bird
Leonard Bernstein – Five Kid songs: 'I Hate Music'
Franz Schubert – An die Musik, D.547
Hugo Wolf – An eine Äolsharfe (Mörike Lieder)
Johannes Brahms – An ein Veilchen, Op.49 no.2
Joseph Marx – Nocturne
Cesar Franck – Nocturne, FWV 85
Aimee-Rita La Villette Strohl – Chansons de Bilitis: selection
Francis Poulenc – Deux Poems de Louis Aragon, FP 122
~ Interval ~
Cheryl Frances-Hoad – Something More Than Mortal
Émile Paladilhe – Psyché
Henri Duparc – L'invitation au voyage (c. 1870)
Kaija Saariaho – 4 Instants: Parfum de l'instant
Deborah Pritchard – Everyone Sang
Samuel Barber – A Slumber Song of the Madonna
Ivor Gurney – 5 Elizabethan Songs: Sleep
Errollyn Wallen – Peace on Earth

Performers

Carolyn Sampson – soprano
Joseph Middleton – piano

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Programme Note

The album by which this recital is inspired is Carolyn’s 100th! An electric mixture of classics including pieces by Schubert and Brahms and new compositions by Pritchard, Frances-Hoad and Wallen make this a concert not to be missed.

Oxford May Music Festival: But I Like to Sing

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