Notes of Old

Notes of Old

Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano)

Sholto Kynoch (piano)

Winner of the 2023 BBC Music Magazine Vocal Award, Helen Charlston, joins pianist Sholto Kynoch in a programme which weaves together music from across the centuries. Music by Bach, Monteverdi and Sweelinck resonates in unexpected ways with songs by Schubert, Hahn, and our featured emerging composer Anna Semple – highlighting the enduring tapestry of human experience that transcends temporal boundaries! The pair then perform Schumann’s Kerner Lieder, an extraordinary cycle of love and loss, that also owes much to music of the past.

Frederic Mompou: Pour evoquer l'image du passé
Reynaldo Hahn: Néère
Claudio Monteverdi: Si dolce è'l tormento

J.S. Bach: Widerstehe doch der Sünde
Franz Schubert: Wiedersehn
Bach-Kurtág: Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit

Anna Semple: I am not yours
Franz Schubert: Die Mutter Erde

Reynaldo Hahn: À Chloris
Maurice Ravel: Ballade de la Reine morte d'aimer
Pauline Viardot: Canción de la Infanta
Frederic Mompou: Pour appeler la joie
Gustave Charpentier: Sans frayeur dans ce bois

Interval

Robert Schumann: Kerner Lieder, Op.35

 

^{Duration: approximately 90 minutes (including interval)}