Evert Jan Nagtegaal and the Art of Song
Soprano Jodie Devos and pianist Nicolas Krüger perform an English-language program of songs by composers from three countries: Great Britain, Belgium, and France. The program is titled ‘And Love Said…’ because love is the common theme.
The program includes the following pieces:
Poldowski – ‘Reeds of Innocence’ (William Blake)
Ralph Vaughan Williams – from ‘Songs of Travel’ – ‘Let Beauty Awake’ (Robert Stevenson)
Roger Quilter – ‘Love’s Philosophy’ (Percy Shelley)
Ivor Gurney – ‘Vive Elizabethans Songs’
a. ‘Orpheus’ (Shakespeare)
b. ‘Tears’ (Anonymous)
c. ‘Under the Greenwood Tree’ (Shakespeare)
d. ‘Sleep’(John Fletcher)
e. ‘Spring’ (Thomas Nashe)
Frank Bridge –
a. ‘Come to Me in My Dreams’ H.71 (Matthew Arnold)
b. ‘Love Went A-Riding over the Earth’ H. 114 (Mary Coleridge)
Irene Poldowski – ‘To Love’ (Anonymous)
Patrick Leterme (*1981) – ‘Two Poems by Oscar Wilde’
a. ‘My Voice’
b. ‘Her Voice’
Benjamin Britten – ‘On This Island’ op. 11 (W.H. Auden)
a. ‘Let the Florid Music Praise!’
b. ‘Now the Leaves Are Falling Fast’
c. ‘Seascape’
d. ‘Nocturne’
e. ‘As It Is, Plenty’
Darius Milhaud – ‘Two Love Poems’ op.30 (Rabindranath Tagore)
a. ‘Love, My Heart Longs Day and Night’
b. ‘Peace, My Heart’
Encore: William Walton – ‘Old Sir Faulk, Tall as a Stork’
