Waltzes, Madrigals & Summer Songs: Royal Free Music Society Midsummer Concert at St John's Wood Church, London on Saturday 23rd June 2018

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Waltzes, Madrigals & Summer Songs

Royal Free Music Society Midsummer Concert

Add to my Calendar 23-06-2018 19:30 23-06-2018 21:30 36 Waltzes, Madrigals & Summer Songs Many of this evening's pieces, like Johannes Brahms’ Liebeslieder Walzer, draw their inspiration from folk melodies and poems.   Ralph Vaughan Williams too was inspired by traditional folk songs – travelling the English countryside to collect and write down tunes that, by the early 1900s, were already starting to die out.   His contemporary, Edward Elgar was also a great lover of the British countryside - nature clearly inspired the poetic imagery in the graceful songs of his that we’ll be performing.  And we’ll be taking you back more than four-hundred years with a selection of classic madrigals – complex polyphonic pieces that were popular hits in Elizabethan England. St John’s Wood Church is wheelchair-accessible.  St John's Wood Church, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St John's Wood Church
Lord's Roundabout
St John's Wood
London
NW8 7NE
England

Saturday 23rd June 2018
7:30 PM

Programme

Johannes Brahms – Liebeslieder Waltzer, Op.52 (singers and 4 hands)
Gustav Holst – I Sowed the Seeds of Love
Gerald Finzi – God is gone up, Op.27 no.2
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Linden Lea
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – My Soul there is a country
Gabriel Fauré – Cantique de Jean Racine, Op.11
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – Songs of Farewell: 2, I know my soul hath power
Edward Elgar – The Saga of King Olaf: 'As Torrents In Summer'
Edward Elgar – My Love dwelt in a Northern Land, Op.18 no.3
John Bennet – Weep, O Mine Eyes
Thomas Morley – My Bonny Lass She Smileth
Thomas Morley – April Is in My Mistress' Face
Ralph Vaughan Williams – 5 English Folk Songs

Performers

Benjamin Wolf – Conductor
Gill Cracknell – piano
Michael Clayton – piano

Royal Free Music Society Choir

Programme Note

Many of this evening's pieces, like Johannes Brahms’ Liebeslieder Walzer, draw their inspiration from folk melodies and poems.

Ralph Vaughan Williams too was inspired by traditional folk songs – travelling the English countryside to collect and write down tunes that, by the early 1900s, were already starting to die out.

His contemporary, Edward Elgar was also a great lover of the British countryside - nature clearly inspired the poetic imagery in the graceful songs of his that we’ll be performing.

And we’ll be taking you back more than four-hundred years with a selection of classic madrigals – complex polyphonic pieces that were popular hits in Elizabethan England.

St John’s Wood Church is wheelchair-accessible.

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