Handel – S’è delitto trar da’ lacci – Act III Lotario HWV 26

Pianist Matthew Jorysz

Handel – Fra tempeste funeste a quest’alma – Rodelinda

Pianist Leo Nicholson      

Handel – Scherza Infida – Ariodante

Pianist Leo Nicholson  

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

Benjamin Britten – I know a bank – from A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Pianist Matthew Jorysz

Henry Purcell arr. Britten – I take no pleasure

Pianist Matthew Jorysz

Felix Mendelssohn – Venetianisches Gondellied Op. 57 No. 5

Pianist Matthew Jorysz 

Dimitri Shostakovich – Прощай, Гренада! Farewell, Granada! from Spanish Songs Op.100 No.1

Pianist Katie Wong

Dimitri Shostakovich – Первая встреча – The First Meeting from Spanish Songs Op.100 No.3

Vítězslava Kaprálová – Bílym satkem mává, kdo se loući – With a white kerchief he waves – from Vteřiny Op.18 No.1

Pianist Matthew Jorysz 

Vítězslava Kaprálová – Koleda 1937

Pianist Katie Wong

A composer of phenomenal promise who died in France aged just twenty-five from tuberculosis in the summer of 1940, having seen her homeland overrun by the Nazis in the previous year. In Prague she was a pupil of the eccentric Bohuslav Martinů, and upon moving to Paris she may have studied under the prolific Nadia Boulanger. It is tantalising to consider what seminal influences she and Lili Boulanger might have exerted on the course of twentieth century music if they had lived past the age of twenty five.

 

 

Lord Berners – Red Roses from English Songs – live concert

Pianist Craig White