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Details
Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall
University of York
York
YO10 5DD
England
Programme
Maurice Ravel – Piano Concerto in G major: Adagio
Jean Françaix – Deux Motets
Claude Debussy – Les Angélus (arr. Clytus Gottwald)
Camille Saint-Saens – Two Songs
Arthur Honegger – Song selection
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Three Shakespeare songs
Germaine Tailleferre – Chiens
Léo Ferré – Chanson d'automne
Performers
Hilary Suckling – Piano
William Campbell – organ
Robert Hollingworth – Conductor
The 24
Programme Note
The 24 with Hilary Suckling presents a French programme of mostly twentieth-century music – much of it unknown or heard in new clothes. They offer the second only UK performance of Jean Francaix's Deux motets (the last performance was by Nadia Boulanger!) alongside bewitching arrangements of Debussy songs for choir and Madrigal by Saint-Saens. In songs by Arthur Honegger, the short piano works by Germaine Tailleferre and Lili Boulanger, you can almost smell the pastis – and with Poulenc, the lazy cigarette ('je ne veux pas travailler, je veux fumer'). Vaughan Williams’s Three Shakespeare Songs – a firm favourite with audiences – sneaks in due to the composer's connection with Ravel: Roderick Williams's arrangement for piano and voices of the mesmeric slow movement from Ravel's Piano Concerto in G provides the final twist in this inventive programme!
