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Recital
Blythburgh Church as part of the Aldeburgh Festival, 19 June 2002
(This programme was also performed at the Herbst Theatre, San Francisco, 30 April 2002)
Simon Keenlyside, baritone
Malcolm Martineau, piano
John Ireland:
Sea Fever
John Liptrot Hatton:
To Anthea Who May Command Him Anything
Arthur Somervell:
Birds in the High Hall-Garden
Percy Aldridge Grainger:
The Sprig of Thyme
Peter Warlock:
My Own Country
Sleep
Piggesnie
Herbert Howells:
The Little Boy Lost
Gustav Holst:
Betelgeuse
Benjamin Britten:
Songs and Proverbs of William Blake, op. 74
Franz Schubert:
Lied des Orpheus, als er in die Hölle ging (Orpheus’ song when he went to hell)
Die Einsiedelei (The hermitage)
An den Mond in einer Herbstnacht (To the moon in a night in autmn)
Der Wanderer an den Mond (The wanderer to the moon)
Die Sterne, D 939 (The stars)
Gabriel Fauré:
Mandoline (Mandolin)
En sourdine (Muted)
Green
Notre amour (Our love)
Secret
Le papillon et la fleur (The butterfly and the flower)
Serenata toscana (Tuscan serenade)
Encores:
Ned Rorem:
Root Cellar
Youth, Day, Old Age and Night"
What the critics say
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Rupert Christiansen reviews (among other things) a triple-bill at Aldeburgh Festival for the Telegraph (Filed: 24/06/2002)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2002/06/24/bmsark24.xml
"As the sun sent fading midsummer light into Blythburgh church, we listened to a glorious recital by Simon Keenlyside, most notable for an intense performance of Britten's Songs and Proverbs of William Blake"