Samling Artist Showcase ‘Conversation Pieces’ at Wigmore Hall, London on Tuesday 7th November 2023

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Samling Artist Showcase ‘Conversation Pieces’

Add to my Calendar 07-11-2023 19:30 07-11-2023 21:30 36 Samling Artist Showcase ‘Conversation Pieces’ Popular in the eighteenth century, Conversation Piece portraits depicted small groups of family or friends in domestic or garden settings. In this year’s Wigmore Hall Showcase, six Samling Artists invite you to enter the world of the Conversation Piece, revealing in song what might have been said and what was left unsaid across time and space. This song recital brings together an impressive line-up of some of the brightest and best young artists, including Bethany Horak-Hallett and Ted Black making their Wigmore Hall debuts. It is the flagship public event for the Samling Artist Programme and a key element of the ongoing support provided to alumni. This concert is part of Wigmore Hall's £5 ticket scheme for under-35s. Associate sponsor: Womble Bond Dickinson Wigmore Hall, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Wigmore Hall
36 Wigmore St
Marylebone
London
W1U 2BP
England

Tuesday 7th November 2023
7:30 PM

Programme

Johannes Brahms – Wechsellied zum Tanze, Op.31 no.1
Gabriel Fauré – Cinq Mélodies 'de Venise', Op.58 (1891)
Jean Sibelius – Bollspelet vid Trianon, Op.36 no.3
Edvard Grieg – Borte! Op.25 no.5
Edvard Grieg – En fuglevise, Op.25 no.6
Maurice Ravel – Sur l’herbe
Charles Bordes – Colloque sentimental
Claude Debussy – La mort des amants, 5 poèmes de Baudelaire:
Johannes Brahms – Vergebliches Standchen, Op.80 no.4
Johannes Brahms – Rede, Mädchen, allzu liebes, Liebeslieder-Walzer Op. 52
~ Interval ~
Hugo Wolf – Ein Ständchen euch zu bringen (Italienisches Liederbuch)
Hugo Wolf – Mein Liebster singt am Haus (Italienisches Liederbuch)
Hugo Wolf – Was für ein Lied soll dir gesungen werden? (Italienisches Liederbuch)
Hugo Wolf – Wer rief dich denn? (Italienisches Liederbuch:)
Louis Aubert – La lettre
Cheryl Frances-Hoad – 6 Songs of Melmoth: Elinora’s letter (some salt-water damage to the text) 1516
Cheryl Frances-Hoad – 6 Songs of Melmoth: Shipwreck gossip (Old Biddy Brannington) 1816
Muriel Herbert – Jour des Morts
Jonathan Dove – Penelope (All the Future Days)
Charles Ives – The Children’s Hour
Charles Villiers Stanford – A Lullaby, Op.19 no.2
Harold Fraser-Simson – Halfway Down the Stairs
Richard Rodney Bennett – Sonnet on a Monkey
Liza Lehmann – Jim (Who ran away from his Nurse, and was eaten by a Lion)
Mervyn Horder – Under the greenwood tree
Eric Coates – Sigh no more, ladies

Performers

Harriet Burns – soprano
Bethany Horak-Hallett – mezzo-soprano
Ted Black – tenor
James Newby – baritone
Ian Tindale – Piano
Krystal Tunnicliffe – Piano

Samling Institute for Young Artists

Programme Note

Popular in the eighteenth century, Conversation Piece portraits depicted small groups of family or friends in domestic or garden settings. In this year’s Wigmore Hall Showcase, six Samling Artists invite you to enter the world of the Conversation Piece, revealing in song what might have been said and what was left unsaid across time and space.

This song recital brings together an impressive line-up of some of the brightest and best young artists, including Bethany Horak-Hallett and Ted Black making their Wigmore Hall debuts. It is the flagship public event for the Samling Artist Programme and a key element of the ongoing support provided to alumni.

This concert is part of Wigmore Hall's £5 ticket scheme for under-35s.

Associate sponsor: Womble Bond Dickinson

Samling Artist Showcase ‘Conversation Pieces’

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