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St Peter's Church
119 Eaton Square
Eaton Square, Belgravia
London
SW1W 9AL
England
Programme
Charles Williams – While I Live: The Dream of Olwen
Grace Williams – The Dancers: Roundelay
Eric Thiman – Departure
Michael Neaum – She Moved Through the Fair (Trad, arr)
Claude Debussy – Preludes, Book I: La Fille aux Chevaux de Lin
Franz Schubert – Standchen (Zogernd leise), D.921
Eriks Esenvalds – Who can sail without the wind
Eriks Esenvalds – Northern Lights
David Willcocks – Three Shakespeare Songs: Full Fathom Five
Robert Schumann – Meerfey, Op. 69
Gustav Holst – Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, Op.26
Edward Elgar – My Love dwelt in a Northern Land, Op.18 no.3
Béla Bartók – The Sorrow of Love
Granville Bantock – Silent Strings
Tomas Luis de Victoria – Duo Seraphim clamabant
Performers
Deborah Miles-Johnson – Musical Director
Wendy Norman – Piano
Esther Beyer – Harp
Gloriana
Programme Note
Shakespeare’s allusion to our ‘little life rounded with a sleep’, is echoed in our programme of love and loss expressed in elusive and spiritual music. Esther’s harp magic accompanies atmospheric folk songs; lovers, fairies and angels are all about but nobody is quite what they seem. In the pivotal piece, Holst’s Rig Veda, heavenly singers hymn the dawn with harp accompaniment. Northern Lights – seen by the ancients as spirits – are evoked by Eriks Ešenvalds as other-worldly sounds. Schumann, Elgar and Bartók add to the enchanting mix.
