VIVALDI TO VERDI
Tuesday 27 July 2010, 7.30pm
St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 4JJ
Box Office: 020 7766 1100 Online: http://www.smitf.org/
Tickets £18, £15, £9
Artistic Director: Gillian Humphreys
The programme is a rich and varied tapestry woven from many coloured threads of music from around the world, reflecting the diverse backgrounds of the performers. The Concordia International Ensemble celebrates through the seasons the journey of life, the joy and sorrows encountered along the way and rejoices in the amazing healing power of music to span generations and continents.
Vivaldi Winter 1st Movement – Allegro
Satoko Fukuda & Karelia Trio
Gorecki Totus Tuus
VOCES 8
Konstantin Simonov Wait for me
Henry Purcell Dido’s Lament
Valda Wilson & John Paul Ekins
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears, soft stillness and the night become the touches of sweet harmony – Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice, Act IV
Rachmaninoff Vocalise
Valda, Satoko & John Paul
Mozart ‘Fra gli amplessi’ Cosi fan tutte
Nicky Spence, Valda & John Paul
Quilter It was a lover and his lass
Nicky & John Paul
Vivaldi Spring 1st Movement – Allegro
Satoko Fukuda & Karelia Trio
Grieg To the Spring
Gamal Khamis
Set your sights pure and high and step out into the world of your dreams. (Munakata Shiko)
Eugene Bozza Aria
Gareth McLearnon & Gamal
Ungar/McLearnon Ashokan Farewell
Gareth, Satoko, Gamal
Tchaikovsky The Russian Dance
Satoko & Gamal
Shostakovich Piano Quintet 3 Movement – Scherzo
John Paul, Satoko & Karelia Trio
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Vivaldi Summer – 3rd Movement
Satoko Fukuda & Karelia Trio
Bernstein, Bart, Gershwin Maria / Who Will Buy / I Got Rhythm
VOCES 8
Hamilton Harty In Ireland
Gareth & Gamal
Traditional Last Rose of Summer
Valda & Gamal
Dunhill The Clothes of Heaven
Nicky & Gamal
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths inwrought with golden and silver light. The blue and the dim and the dark cloths of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. W B Yeats
Liszt Liebesträume
John Paul
Tosti La Serenata
Nicky & John Paul
Bizet Pearl Fishers duet
Nicky, Dingle, Yandell, John, Paul & Gareth
Happiness is a gift. It comes like a butterfly in the winter woods. Let it sit with us for a while and bring us peace and harmony.
Verdi Requiem aeternam
Valda, John Paul & VOCES8
St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 4JJ
Box Office: 020 7766 1100 Online: http://www.smitf.org/
Tickets £18, £15, £9