Sounds Lyrical – Faye Robinson (soprano) and Marianna Cortesi (piano)

Saturday 1st June, 1.00pm

York Unitarian Chapel

In partnership with Stairwell Books, eight young composers will be invited to set eight local and regional poets. These new compositions will form the core of a contemporary song recital.

Programme

Part I:

Cecilia McDowell: If there are angels

Rebecca Clarke: The cloths of heaven

James MacMillan: Three Scottish Songs

James MacMillan: Ballad

Madeleine Dring: Weep you no more sad fountains

Jonathan Dove: Weep not my wanton

James MacMillan: The Children

Part II 

Steve Crowther: Souvenirs (poem by Maria Garner)

James Else: Retratos III (poem by Alan Gillott)

George Hetherton: Butterfly House (poem by Ian Parks)

Ewan East: Emergency (poem by Robert Powell)

Thomas J Crawley: When you were seven (poem by Ann Heath)