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St Laurence's Church
King Street
Ludlow
Shropshire
SY8 1AN
England
Programme
Frank Bridge – 3 Songs for Mezzo, Viola & Piano, H.76
Madeleine Dring – A Bay in Anglesey
Madeleine Dring – Night Songs: 'Through the centuries'
Madeleine Dring – Night Songs: 'Separation'
Madeleine Dring – It was a Lover and his Lass
Arthur Bliss – 2 Nursery Rhymes
Ralph Vaughan Williams – 3 Vocalises: Prelude
Sally Beamish – Buzz
Nicola LeFanu – Songs for Jane: 'Far Away'
Michael Berkeley – Three Rilke Sonnet: 'Sonnet for Orpheus'
Brett Dean – I starred last night, I shone
Benjamin Britten – Lachrymae, Op.48a
Edmund Rubbra – 2 sonnets by William Alabaster
Performers
Lotte Betts-Dean – mezzo-soprano
Brett Dean – viola
Iain Burnside – piano
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Programme Note
A highlight of this year's Ludlow English Song Weekend, a three day celebration of art song in English in the beautiful town of Ludlow in the Shropshire Hills. Book for one of our concerts, or immerse yourself in a weekend of music with discussions, films and masterclasses. For details of the full festival programme visit the Ludlow English Song Weekend website.
An exciting opportunity to hear the visionary Australian mezzo Lotte Betts-Dean – “a force in music to be reckoned with” (Nicholas Daniel OBE) – performing at LESW for the first time alongside her father, the renowned Australian violist and composer Brett Dean.
Joined by Iain Burnside, Lotte and Brett offer us a programme bursting with music about living life to the fullest. From Frank Bridge’s yearning songs for voice, viola and piano – 'What heart knows another? Ah! Who knows his own?' – to Sally Beamish’s titular Buzz, wishing for “a Bee’s experience / Of clover and of Noon!” We’ll also hear Benjamin Britten’s Lachrymae for solo viola, written on the very instrument given to Britten by Bridge – his teacher – when they parted for the last time in 1939; and Brett Dean’s Last Night I Starred, I Shone, written for his daughter and premiered in 2023.
“Impressive control, an irrepressible sense of drama and extraordinary self- assurance... Betts-Dean manoeuvred unflustered between registers and vocal modes with an unbroken sense of line and an unmissable, urgent musicality. She’s certainly one to watch.” Flora Willson, The Guardian
