麻豆社

Soprano Elizabeth Watts and pianist Roger Vignoles perform a programme of English music, including songs by Henry Purcell, and by one of Purcell's greatest advocates - Benjamin Britten. Complementing these are a set of Elizabethan songs by Ivor Gurney - a poet and composer who survived the trenches in the First World War.

BRITTEN
On This Island Op. 11
Let the florid music praise!
Now the leaves are falling fast
Seascape
Nocturne
As it is, plenty!

PURCELL
Music for a while
Not all my torments
Sweeter than roses
T'was within a furlong of Edinburgh town

GURNEY
Five Elizabethan Songs
Orpheus with his lute
Tears
Under the Greenwood tree
Sleep
Spring

TRADITIONAL arr. BRITTEN
Oft in the stilly night
The bonny Earl o'Moray
O waly, waly
Sweet Polly Oliver

Elizabeth Watts (soprano)
Roger Vignoles (piano).