GUY CUTTING & GEORGE IRELAND: WHITHER MUST I WANDER?
Guy Cutting (tenor) and George Ireland (piano) present a programme of songs exploring the feelings and experiences of the traveller who wanders far from home.
We journey from a peaceful English countryside of apple trees, birdsong and water mills to more unfamiliar climes by land and sea. Tinged by a longing for home and nostalgia the programme is centred around Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Songs of Travel, and includes a new commission by young British composer, Piers Connor Kennedy, written especially for this programme, alongside songs by Ivor Gurney, Benjamin Britten, Jonathan Dove and Peter Warlock.
Full programme:
Ralph Vaughan Williams The Water Mill; Slow Air (from Suite of 6 Short Pieces); Linden Lea; Sky above the roof
Ivor Gurney The Apple Orchard; Desire in Spring; Bread and Cherries; A Piper; Walking Song
Benjamin Britten Sailing (from Holiday Diary); Midnight on the Great Western; Down by the Salley Gardens
Jonathan Dove Fair Ship; Calm is the morn
Peter Warlock My Own Country
Piers Connor Kennedy New commission
Herbert Howells Procession (from Three Pieces)
Ralph Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel
Download and read the programme here Guy Cutting programme
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