Thursday Lunchtime Concerts
Siân Dicker
soprano
Krystal Tunnicliffe
piano
Beethoven
‘Es war einmal ein König’ from ‘Aus Goethes Faust’ Op. 75, No.3
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel
Bergeslust, Op. 10, No.5, Schwanenlied Op. 1 No. 1
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel
Nach Süden Op. 10 No. 1
Brahms
An die Nachtigall Op. 46 No.4
Wolf
‘Der Knabe und das Immlein’ (No. 2) from ‘Mörike-Lieder’
Caplet
Trois Fables de Jean de la Fontaine
Warlock
The Fox
Barber
'The Monk and his Cat' Op. 29 from ‘Hermit Songs’
Price
‘A Flea and a Fly’ from ‘Four Encore Songs’
Bennett
‘Sonnet on a Monkey’ & ‘A Melancholy Lay’ from ‘A Garland for Marjory Fleming’
Bennett
‘The Mouse and the Bumblebee’ from ‘Songs Before Sleep’
Porter
‘The Tale of the Oyster’ from ‘Fifty Million Frenchmen’

Siân Dicker and Krystal Tunnicliffe present a concert inspired by the idea of nature represented through song – moving chronologically through time and around the world to touch on all sorts of members of the animal kingdom.

Beginning in Germany with songs of fleas and birds by Beethoven, Fanny Mendelssohn and Brahms, they then move to France, with Debussy’s great friend André Caplet. Caplet’s settings of the 17th century fabulist Jean de la Fontaine’s text tell moralistic tales of animal pairs – a raven and a fox, a grasshopper and an ant, and a wolf and a lamb.

Foxes, cats and flies are the focus of songs by eccentric British composer Peter Warlock, and Americans Samuel Barber and Florence Price. And to finish, three songs by Richard Rodney Bennett, including settings of the eight-year-old Scottish poet Marjory Fleming, and a jazzy Cole Porter number which tells of an oyster on the adventure of its life.

NB. SJSS will be implementing a socially distanced and safe environment. Practical details will be forwarded to ticket holders prior to the event. Should circumstances prevent the concerts from going ahead then full refunds will be provided.

https://www.siandicker.com/
https://www.krystaltunnicliffe.com/

Concert Programme available to read or download >>HERE<<

 

DIGITAL VERSION AVAILABLE at www.sjss.org.uk from 8th October 2020

Presented in conjunction with the Oxford Lieder Festival