When Poems Resound: Audio Package

When Poems Resound

This audio package comprises a zipped file containing:

• 32 x MP3 (320kbps) audio tracks
• the PDF Programme booklet and
• the PDF concert poster.

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Audio recording by Alexander Garside. Audio editing, programme and poster design by Philip Garside.

Concert details

Directors: Ingrid Schoenfeld & William McElwee

Accompanist: Jonathan Berkahn

Guest conductor: Heather Easting

7.30pm Saturday 19 August 2023

St Mary of the Angels Church, 17 Boulcott Street, Wellington

Tracks

1 Mille regretz (publ. 1549) Josquin de Prez (c.1450-1521) 

Morten Lauridsen (1943-) Nocturnes (2005-2008)

2 i. Sa nuit d’été (Its summer night)

3. ii. Soneto de la noche (Sonnet of the night)

4. iii. Sure on this shining night

5. iv. Epilogue – Voici le soir (Night has come)

Jonathan Berkahn: William Blake Songs. William Blake (1757-1827)

6. Laughing Song

7. The Schoolboy

8. Holy Thursday (II)

9. London

10. The Little Vagabond

11. The Clod and the Pebble

12. A poison tree

13. On Another’s Sorrow

14. The Lamb

15. The Tyger

16. Night

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958): Three Shakespeare Songs (1951)

17. i. Full Fathom Five

18. ii. The Cloud-Capp’d Towers

19. iii. Over Hill, Over Dale

20. Come Heavy Sleepe: The First Booke of Songs (1597). John Dowland (1562-1626)

21. Evening (Op. 27 No. 2 1909): Sergey Taneyev (1856-1915). Jakov Polonsky (~1842), trans. Dr Rebecca Stanton

22. Lay a garland (~1840): Robert Lucas de Pearsall (1795-1856). Beaumont & Fletcher (1619)

23. Anna, mihi dilecta (1579): Orlando di Lasso (c.1532-1594)

24. Alister McAlpine’s Lament (1912): Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958). The Scottish Minstrel (1824)

25. Commonplace Hymn: Prof. Robert Easting (text & tune). Arr. Heather Easting

26. Sunset Poem from Under Milk Wood: Arthur Troyte (1811-1857). Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)

Eric Whitacre (1970-). Ogden Nash (1902-1971).

Animal Crackers vol. 1 (2006)

27. i. The Panther

28. ii. The Cow

29. iii. The Firefly

Animal Crackers vol. 2 (2009)

30. i. The Canary

31. ii. The Eel

32. iii. The Kangaroo