FOUR LAST SONGS – Claire Booth (soprano) & Ensemble 360
R STRAUSS Sextet from Capriccio (12’) SARGEN New work (5’) SIBELIUS En Saga (20’) WAGNER Siegfried Idyll (20’) R STRAUSS (arr. Ledger) Four Last Songs (25’) “A swansong of sublime […]
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HENNY PENNY: A CHILDREN’S OPERA – Claire Booth (soprano), Ensemble 360 & Children of Sheffield
PHILLIPS Henny Penny (20’) ASSORTED Song Cycle (30’) A world-first live staging of new opera and song made for – and by – curious young minds. ‘Henny Penny’ is a
THIS SCEPTERED ISLE: BRITISH SONG – Claire Booth (soprano) & Ensemble 360
BRITTEN Phantasy Quartet (15’) BRITTEN / PURCELL She Loves and She Confesses Too (2’) BRITTEN / PURCELL Oh Solitude (6’) BRITTEN / PURCELL Bess of Bedlam (4’) MATTHEWS Seascapes (13’)
KAFKA FRAGMENTS – Claire Booth (soprano) & Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin)
KURTÁG Kafka Fragments (60’) Comprising 40 short excerpts from Kafka’s writings, diaries, and letters – often heartfelt and confessional – Kurtág’s Kafka Fragments is a work of sparse, lyrical beauty.
SPEAK OF THE NORTH final concert only- Claire Booth (soprano), Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin) & Christopher Glynn (piano)
GRAINGER Folk Music (selection) (20’) HIGGINS Speak of the North (35’) In a beautiful church on the Chatsworth Estate, violinist Tamsin Waley Cohen, praised for her “undeniably fabulous playing” (Classical
SPEAK OF THE NORTH: A day of music and walking with Claire Booth (soprano), Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin) & Christopher Glynn (piano)
10.00am St Peter’s Church, Edensor GRIEG Violin Sonata No.2 in G (20’) Hautussa (duration) 11.00 am Guided walk (approx 3 miles) 1.00pm St Anne’s Church, Beeley Poetry, Song and Landscape
RELAXED CONCERT: PETER AND THE WOLF – Claire Booth (soprano), Ensemble 360 & Nicholas Jubber (narrator)
RAVEL (arr. Strivens) Shéhérazade (20’) PROKOFIEV Peter and the Wolf (30’) For this ‘Relaxed’ concert of storytelling music featuring Prokofiev’s beloved musical folk story, doors will be left open, lights
PETER AND THE WOLF & OTHER STORIES – Claire Booth (soprano), Ensemble 360 & Nicholas Jubber (narrator)
DEBUSSY Danse Sacrée et Profane (10’) RAVEL (arr. Strivens) Shéhérazade (20’) DEBUSSY Trio for Flute, Viola and Harp (16’) PROKOFIEV ‘Peter and the Wolf’ (30’) Timeless tales of far-off adventure
LA VOIX HUMAINE – Claire Booth (soprano) & Christopher Glynn (piano)
POULENC La Dame de Monte Carlo (7’) Toréador (2’) Corcardes (6’) DUREY Trois Chansons Basques (4’) AURIC Huit Poèmes de Jean Cocteau (19’) MILHAUD Trois Poèmes de Jean Cocteau Op.59
FELDMAN & BECKETT: WORDS & MUSIC – Claire Booth (soprano) & Ensemble 360
FELDMAN Why Patterns? (30’) BECKETT Rockabye (20’) FELDMAN Two Intermissions (1950) 1 & 2 (4’) FELDMAN Samuel Beckett, Words and Music (42’) Visionary titans in their respective artforms, the warm