Nicholas Collon joins us for an adventurous programme of scenic orchestral works featuring the world premiere of a brand-new piece by Composer-in-Association Tom Coult. Francesca Chiejina takes on Berg’s deeply lyrical Seven Early Songs, before we step into Strauss’s gargantuan An Alpine Symphony with its sheer, mountainous imagery and overwhelming scope.
Pre-concert performance, Foyer Bar, 6.30pm
Ahead of the concert, the RNCM Songster from the Royal Northern College of Music will be performing in the Foyer Bar.
The RNCM Songsters are a specially selected group of students at the RNCM; singers and pianists who are passionate and excel in the performance of art song. They perform in bespoke and innovative recital programmes of song at events within the college, and externally at various other musical organisations and venues. They have performed for many music societies across the United Kingdom, as well as a number of leading festivals of song, including Leeds Lieder and Manchester Song Festival. In 2019 they collaborated with pianist David Owen Norris on a recording project of the art songs of Arthur Sullivan. As part of their training, they get to work with visiting tutors specialising in art song repertoire, including Julius Drake, Roderick WIlliams, Richard Stokes, Alice Coote, and David Owen Norris. The Artistic Director of RNCM Songsters is Jonathan Fisher.
Pre-concert programme
Falla: El Paño Moreno and Asturiana from Siete Canciones Populares Españolas
Strauss: Die Nacht and Breit uber mein Haupt
Armstrong-Gibbs: The Cherry Tree
Butterworth: Loveliest of Trees and When I Was One and Twenty from A Shropshire Lad
Vaughan Williams: Silent Noon
Strauss: Traum durch die dammerung and Allerseelen
Rodgers and Hammerstein II: Anything You Can Do from Annie Get Your Gun
Rodgers and Hammerstein II: Some Enchanted Evening from South Pacific
Sondheim: Send in the Clowns from A Little Night Music
Bernstein: Somewhere from West Side Story
Rodgers and Hammerstein II: The Sound of Music, Edelweiss and Climb Every Mountain from The Sound of Music
The RNCM Songsters appears by kind permission of the RNCM.
