Programme Details
VILLA-LOBOS Floresta do Amazonas (excerpts)
FRANÇAIX Prière du soir
L BERKELEY Songs of the Half-Light, Op 65
RUIZ-PIPÓ Cantos a la noche
CAMPION The cypress curtain of the night
DOWLAND Mourn, mourn, day is with darkness fled; Awake, sweet love
SCHUBERT Nachtstück, D 672; Nacht und Träume, D 827; Morgenlied, D 685
SEIBER Four French Folk Songs
Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s poem ‘Dawn on the Night-Journey’ is the catalyst for a programme of songs depicting the transition from dusk to dawn and its metaphors: the vastness of time, the uncertainty of the unknown and the impermanence of life.