Saturday 29 September 2007, 7.30 pm
Missa San Marco (Voces 8)
Kyrie
Gloria
Sanctus
Agnus Dei
I’ll miss you (first performance) (Voces 8)
Woman’s Constancy
On Chloris
Overlooking the River Stour (Joan Rodgers)
To the City of London (Mark Stone)
Sonnet – Composed upon Westminster Bridge
London
London is a fine town
Forever Child (Voces 8)
The Fly
New Year’s Chimes
Where Go the Boats?
A Boy’s Song
God be in my head
The Swing
On My First Son
The concert included several works from the recently released Forever Child CD (above, 2006), including the Missa San Marco, Dover Beach and the title work.
The four London-themed songs later came to form the song-cycle Flower of Cities, together with three other settings of Byron, Dunbar and Wordsworth. Mark Stone recorded these on his The Songs of Ronald Corp disc (below) which contains two other songs from this concert, Tennyson’s Break, break, break and Harry Graham’s The Bath.
Interval
A Good Night (Joan Rodgers)
An Hymn
The Soul
A Clear Midnight (first performance) (Marcus Farnsworth)
Dover Beach (Voces 8)
Before I was born, your love embraced me (Mark Wilde)
The Singers
Break, break, break
The Kiss (Catherine Hopper & Mark Wilde)
Inversnaid
The Divine Image (Catherine Hopper)
The Bath
Dhammapada (extract) (first performance) (Voces 8)
Voces 8
Joan Rodgers, soprano
Mark Stone, baritone
Marke Wilde, tenor
Marcus Farnsworth, baritone
Catherine Hopper, mezzo-soprano
Simon Lepper, piano
(Toward the Unknown Region and ‘A Clear Midnight’ from The Music of Whitman was due to be sung by Gerard Collett, but he was indisposed)
Wigmore Hall
36 Wigmore Street
London W1U 2BP
The concert was presented in support of the Musicians Benevolent Fund
