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ReferencePG/1995/1122

Title

Programmes for 'Britten and America' as part of 'The Britten Songs' Series

Date22 Nov 1995

DescriptionWorks performed:
First concert: Britten: Wild with Passion; Britten: If Thou Wilt Ease Thine Heart; Britten: Cradle Song; Copland: Three Poems of Emily Dickinson: I. Nature the Gentlest Mother, II. Heart, We Will Forget Him, III. Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven?; Britten: Who Are These Children?; Bernstein: La Bonne Cuisine: I. Plum Pudding, II. Ox-tails, III. Tavouk Gueunksis; IV. Rabbit at Top Speed; Copland: Long Time Ago; Copland: Simple Gifts; Britten: Appalachian Folksong (Soldier, Won't You Marry Me); Second concert: Britten: Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo; Britten: Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente; Schumann: Dichterliebe
Venue:
Wigmore Hall, London, England
Performers:
First concert: Susan Roberts (soprano); Jamie MacDougall (tenor); Julius Drake (piano); Second concert: Anthony Rolfe-Johnson (tenor); Graham Johnson (piano)
Further information:
Two copies. Programme covers two concerts, the first 'Britten and America' and the second a 'Benjamin Britten Birthday Concert'.

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