Malcolm Arnold Cecil Armstrong Gibbs Lionel Bart Granville Bantock Arnold Bax Richard Rodney Bennett Lennox Berkeley Lord Berners Howard Blake Arthur Bliss John Blow Frank Bridge Benjamin Britten William Denis Browne Geoffrey Bush 4th SINGAPORE LIEDER FESTIVAL 100 ENGLISH COMPOSERS James Butt George Butterworth Clive Carey Jeremiah Clarke Rebecca Clarke Eric Coates Noël Coward David Cox William Croft Frederick Delius Peter Dickinson Jonathan Dove Madeleine Dring Thomas Dunhill Elton John Edward Elgar Ernest Farrar Gerald Finzi Myles Birket Foster Henry Balfour Gardiner Edward German Herbert Fryer Henry Geehl Harry Gifford Ivor Gurney Julius Harrison Jonathan Harvey Michael Head Tony Hewitt-Jones Ian Higginson Trevor Hold Gustav Holst Robin Holloway Antony Hopkins Herbert Howells Lord Mervyn Horder Pelham Humphrey William Hurlstone John Ireland Gordon Jacob Constant Lambert George Le Brunn Liza Lehmann Andrew Lloyd Webber Bertram Luard- Selby Elisabeth Lutyens Elizabeth Maconchy Caroline Maude Paul McCartney Ernest Moeran Lionel Monckton Jeremy Nicholas Michael Nyman Tarik O’Regan Roxanna Panufnik Hubert Parry Graham Peel Elizabeth Poston Henry Purcell Roger Quilter Betty Roe Cyril Rootham Edmund Rubbra John Rutter Harold Samuel Cyril Scott Geoffrey Shaw Martin Shaw Arthur Somervell Philip Stone Arthur Sullivan Phyllis Tate Eric Thiman Michael Tippett Ralph Vaughan Williams Ian Venables Richard Walthew William Walton Peter Warlock Judith Weir Eric Wetherell Sandy Wilson Peter Wishart Haydn Wood Hugh Wood
25, 26 and 28 September 2014 2, 3 and 5 October 2014 Living Room, The Arts House
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PROGRAMME
DAY 1—25 SEPTEMBER 2014 CITY, TOWN AND COUNTRYSIDE
1) Michael Head (1900—1976) —Sweet chance that led my steps abroad
2) Harold Samuel (1879—1937) —The fairy boat
3) Richard Henry Walthew (1872—1951) —The splendour falls
4) George Butterworth (1885—1916) —Is my team ploughing
5) Gordon Jacob (1895—1984) —Mother, I will have a husband
6) H. Balfour Gardiner (1877—1950) —The stranger’s song
7) Cyril Scott (1879—1970) —Where be going
8) Arthur Bliss (1891—1975)—The return from town
9) Trevor Hold (1939—2004) —A villanelle for Kirby Hall
10) Noël Coward (1899—1973)— Alice is at it again
INTERVAL
11) David Cox (1916—1997) —Fine English days
12) Geoffrey Shaw (1879—1943) —London birds
13) Hubert Parry (1848—1918)—From a city window
14) Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872—1958) —London
15) Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889—1960)—Covent Garden
16) Elisabeth Lutyens (1906—1983) —Refugee blues
17) Lionel Monckton (1861—1924)—Chalk Farm to Camberwell Green
18) George Le Brunn (1863—1905)—O Mr Porter
19) Sandy Wilson (1924—2014) —A room in Bloomsbury
20) Richard Rodney Bennett (1936—2012) —Let’s go and live in the country
JOANNA PAUL, Mezzosoprano ADRIAN POON, Tenor SHANE THIO, Piano
DAY 2—26 SEPTEMBER 2014 THE ENGLISH GARDEN
1) Granville Bantock (1868—1946) —Return of spring
2) James Butt (1929—2003) —When I am dead
3) Frederick Delius (1862—1934) —To daffodils
4) Jonathan Dove (1959—)—My love is mine
5) Ernest Farrar (1885—1918) —Silent noon
6) Ivor Gurney (1890—1937) —The apple orchard
7) Julius Harrison (1885—1963)—I know a bank
8) Robin Holloway (1943—)—Fig tree in leaf
9) William Hurlstone (1876—1906) —Blossom
10) John Ireland (1879—1962) —The trellis
INTERVAL
11) Bertram Luard-Selby (1853—1918) —A widow bird sat mourning
12) Michael Nyman (1944—) —If
13) Tarik o’Regan (1978—) —Love, raise your voice
14) Graham Peel (1878—1937) —The early morning
15) Elizabeth Poston (1905—1987) —Sweet Suffolk owl
16) Roger Quilter (1877—1953) —June
17) Phyllis Tate (1911—1987) —Lark in the clear air
18) Ian Venables (1955—)—Flying crooked
19) Hugh Wood (1932—) —Easter
20) Haydn Wood (1882—1959) —Love’s garden of roses
REBECCA LI, Soprano ADRIAN POON, Tenor SHANE THIO, Piano
DAY 3—28 SEPTEMBER 2014 SHAKESPEARE SONGS
1) Lord Mervyn Horder (1910—1998) —Who is Silvia?
2) Ernest John Moeran (1894—1950)—A lover and his lass
3) Martin Shaw (1875—1958)— I know a bank
4) Eric Coates (1886—1957) —It was a lover and his lass
5) Myles Birket Foster (1851—1922) —Under the greenwood tree
6) Roger Quilter (1877—1953) —It was a lover and his lass
7) Frank Bridge (1879—1941) —Blow, blow thou winter wind
8) Liza Lehmann (1862—1918) —It was a lover and his lass
9) Elizabeth Maconchy (1907—1994) —The wind and the rain
10) Gerald Finzi (1901—1956) —It was a lover and his lass
INTERVAL
11) Peter Dickinson (1934—) —Drinking song
12) Peter Warlock (1894—1930) —Pretty ring time
13) Arthur Sullivan (1842—1900) —Where the bee sucks
14) Madeleine Dring (1923—1977) —It was a lover
15) Michael Tippett (1905—1998) —Come unto these yellow sands
16) Geoffrey Bush (1920—1998) —It was a lover and his lass
17) Hubert Parry (1848—1918) —Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day
18) Ian Higginson (1959—) —It was a lover and his Lass
19) Roxanna Panufnik (1968—) —Sweet love remember’d
20) Edward German (1862—1936)—It was a lover and his lass
SU YIWEN, Soprano ADRIAN POON, Tenor SHANE THIO, Piano
DAY 4—2 OCTOBER 2014 SONGS TO THE DIVINE
1) Thomas Dunhill (1877—1946) —to the queen of heaven
2) Herbert Fryer (1877—1957) —The virgin’s cradle hymn
3) Arnold Bax (1883—1953) —Cradle song
4) Eric Thiman (1900—1975)—As Joseph was a walking
5) Pelham Humphrey (1647—1674), realised by Benjamin Britten—Hymn to God our Father
6) John Blow (1649—1708), realised by Benjamin Britten—Oh! That mine eyes would melt
7) Henry Purcell (1659—1695), realised by Benjamin Britten—We sing to him
8) Jeremiah Clarke (1674—1707), realised by Benjamin Britten—A divine hymn
9) William Croft (1678—1727), realised by Benjamin Britten—A hymn on divine musick
10) Caroline Maude (1848—1930) —Magdelen
INTERVAL
11) Herbert Howells (1892—1983) —King David
12) Rebecca Clarke (1886—1979)—A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah
13) Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889—1960) —The lamb and the dove
14) Cyril Rootham (1875—1938) – A child’s prayer
15) Clive Carey (1883—1968) —Love on my heart from heaven fell
16) Edmund Rubbra (1901—1986) —Psalm 150
17) Benjamin Britten (1913—1976) —Canticle 1: My beloved is mine
18) Peter Wishart (1921—1984) —My God, why hast thou forsaken me?
19) John Rutter (1945—) —All Things Bright and Beautiful
20) Arthur Sullivan (1842—1900) —The lost chord
JOANNA PAUL, Mezzo-soprano PETER ONG, Tenor ADRIAN POON, Tenor SHANE THIO, Piano
DAY 5—3 OCTOBER 2014 HUMOUR AND POPULAR CULTURE
1) Edward Elgar (1857—1934) —Blue eyes fairy
2) Lionel Monckton (1861—1924)—Two little sausages
3) Liza Lehmann (1862—1918) —There are fairies at the bottom of our garden
4) Harry Gifford (1876—1960) —She sells sea-shells
5) Henry Geehl (1881—1961) —For you alone
6) Haydn Wood (1882—1959) —Roses of Picardy
7) Lord Berners (1883—1950) —Come on Algenon
8) Eric Coates (1886—1957) —Birdsongs at eventide
9) Noël Coward (1899—1973)—A bar on the Piccola Marina
10) William Walton (1902—1983) —Old Sir Faulk
INTERVAL
11) Benjamin Britten (1913—1976)—When you’re feeling like expressing your affection
12) Malcolm Arnold (1921—2006) —Hey, hey, the country’s here
13) Philip Stone (1924—2003) —I got something in my eye
14) Lionel Bart (1930—1999) —Where is love?
15) Richard Rodney Bennett (1936—2012) —Twinkle, twinkle little star
16) Howard Blake (1938—) —Walking in the air
17) James Paul McCartney (1942—) —My love
18) Reginald Kenneth Dwight [Elton John] (1947—) —Your song
19) Jeremy Nicholas (1947—) —I can’t quite remember your name
20) Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948—) —Love changes everything
PETER ONG, Tenor ADRIAN POON, Tenor WONG CHEE YEAN, Piano
DAY 6—5 OCTOBER 2014 LOVE SONGS
1) Lennox Berkeley (1903—1989) —How love came in
2) Frank Bridge (1879—1941) —Love went a-riding
3) Benjamin Britten (1913—1976)—Mother comfort
4) William Denis Browne (1888—1915) —To Gratiana singing and dancing
5) Jonathan Dove (1959—)—Between your sheets you soundly sleep
6) Jonathan Harvey (1939—2012) —Lullaby for the unsleeping
7) Michael Head (1900—1976)—Beloved
8) Tony Hewitt-Jones (1926—1989) —Now what is love?
9) Gustav Holst (1874—1934) —Lovely kind and kindly loving
10) Antony Hopkins (1921—2014) —Melancholy song
INTERVAL
11) Constant Lambert (1905—1951) —The intruder
12) Henry Purcell (1659—1695), realised by Benjamin Britten—Sweeter than roses
13) Roger Quilter (1877—1953) —Now sleeps the crimson petal
14) Betty Roe (1930—) —as the holly groweth green
15) Arthur Somervell (1863—1937) —The bargain
16) Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872—1958) —Silent noon
17) William Walton (1902—1983) —Wapping old stairs
18) Peter Warlock (1894—1930) —Late summer
19) Judith Weir (1954—) —The song of a girl ravished away by the fairies in the South Uist
20) Eric Wetherell (1925—)—Shall I compare thee?
CHERYLENE LIEW, Soprano ADRIAN POON, Tenor SHANE THIO, Piano