Reid Lunch-hour Concert

Programme

The Queen's Epicedium: 'Incassum, Lesbia' ... Henry Purcell (1659-1695) realised Benjamin Britten
  (Elegy on the death of Queen Mary, 1694)

Five early settings of W. H. Auden and Thomas Lovell Beddoes ... Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
  1. To lie flat on the back (Auden)
  2. If thou wilt east thine heart (Dirge for Wolfram) (Beddoes)
  3. Night covers up the rigid land (Auden)
  4. Wild with passion (Song on the water) (Beddoes)
  5. Fish in the unruffled lakes (Auden)

Sechs Holderlin-Fragmente, op. 61 ... Benjamin Britten
  1. Menschenbeifall (The applause of men)
  2. Die Heimat (Home)
  3. Sokrates und Alcibiades (Socrates and Alcibiades)
  4. Die Jugend (Youth)
  5. Hälfte des Lebens (Middle of life)
  6. Die Linien des Lebens (The Lines of Life)

Um Mitternacht (At Midnight) ... Benjamin Britten
  (text by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

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