Wigmore Hall, london

Sunday, 26 July 1987, 11.30am

Music by Henry Purcell (1659-1695) and Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

Purcell (realised: Britten): Songs and duets
Sound the Trumpet
Lost is my Quiet
Sweeter than Roses
I’ll sail upon the Dog-star
Alleluia

Purcell (realised: Britten):
Job’s Curse

Britten: Tit for Tat (settings of five poems by Walter de la Mare)
A Song of Enchantment
Autumn
Silver
Vigil
Tit for Tat

Britten: Six Hölderlin Fragments
Menschenbeifall
Die Heimat
Sokrates und Alcibiades
Die Jugend
Hälfte des Lebens
Die Linien des Lebens

Purcell (realised: Britten): Queen’s Epicedium (Elegy on the Death of Queen Mary, 1965)

Britten: Four songs from Friday Afternoons, op 6
Begone Dull Care
Fishing
New Year Carol
Cuckoo

arr. Britten: Four Folksongs
Little Sir William
Sally in our Alley
There’s none to soothe
O Waly, Waly

Purcell (realised: Britten): Shepherd, leave decoying