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Love's Voice
British song-cycles by Howells, Warlock, Ireland, Finzi and Ian Venables
Part of the Festival of English Music 2019
Add to my Calendar 27-05-2019 10:45 27-05-2019 12:45 36 Love's Voice The annual English Music Festival celebrates the brilliance, innovation, beauty and rich musical heritage of Britain with a strong focus on unearthing overlooked or forgotten masterpieces of the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. This intimate chamber recital features works of transformative beauty including song cycles by Herbert Howells, John Ireland, Gerald Finzi and Ian Venables, performed by acclaimed Indian tenor, Anando Mukerjee and pianist, Pavel Timofeyevsky. Ian Venables’s Venetian Songs are based on words by the Victorian author and critic, John Addington Symonds, and include The Invitation to the Gondola; the author’s wistful evocation of Venice as ‘a city seen in dreams’. Dorchester Abbey, Dorchester on Thames DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Dorchester Abbey
High Street
Dorchester on Thames
Oxfordshire
OX10 7HH
England
Programme
Herbert Howells – 4 Songs, Op.22
Peter Warlock – Three Belloc Songs
Herbert Howells – Snapshots, Op.30
John Ireland – Songs Sacred and Profane
Ian Venables – Venetian Songs – Love’s Voice, Op.22
Gerald Finzi – Oh Fair to See, Op.13
Peter Warlock – Folk Song Preludes
Performers
Anando Mukerjee – Tenor
Pavel Timofeyevsky – piano
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Programme Note
The annual English Music Festival celebrates the brilliance, innovation, beauty and rich musical heritage of Britain with a strong focus on unearthing overlooked or forgotten masterpieces of the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century.
This intimate chamber recital features works of transformative beauty including song cycles by Herbert Howells, John Ireland, Gerald Finzi and Ian Venables, performed by acclaimed Indian tenor, Anando Mukerjee and pianist, Pavel Timofeyevsky.
Ian Venables’s Venetian Songs are based on words by the Victorian author and critic, John Addington Symonds, and include The Invitation to the Gondola; the author’s wistful evocation of Venice as ‘a city seen in dreams’.
