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International Musicians Platform

As You Like It: Shakespeare Songs

Part of the International Musicians Platform Festival

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 ChaussonChansons de Shakespeare, Op.28
Francis PoulencFancy, FP 174
Roger Quilter3 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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