In a semi-staged evening of song, opera and poetry, our Samling Academy Singers share some of the treasures that we find and lose on our journey through life – the exciting discoveries of new love, nostalgia for the places we can never return to and the everyday drama of misplaced objects. The programme is directed by Samling Artists Miranda Wright and Leo Nicholson, who will accompany.

‘I’ve seen earlier cohorts of Samling Academy singers in action and they never cease to amaze me.’ David Whetstone, The QT Online

Programme

Bushes and briars, arr. Donald James
Abschied, 6 Deutsche Lieder, Op.15, Josephine Lang
Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen, Die Zauberflöte, W.A. Mozart
Nachtviolen, D.752, Franz Schubert
Before I gaze at you again, Camelot, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe
Pastoral song (My mother bids me bind my hair), Hob. XXVIa:27, Joseph Haydn
Le colibri, Ernest Chausson
Mistaken, All you who sleep tonight, Jonathan Dove
Ae Fond Kiss, trad arr George Macilwham
From a Railway Carriage, Alec Rowley
Yö (Night), Op.22, no.3 ,Toivo Kuula
Lost Love, Herbert Howells

The Slow Train, Michael Flanders and Donald Swann arr. Paul Ayres
Gavotte, Herbert Howells
Wayfaring stranger, trad arr. John Jacob Niles
Someone to watch over me, Oh, Kay! George Gerswhin
Abendsegen, Hänsel und Gretel, Engelbert Humperdinck
Little Smary, Leonard Bernstein
L’ho perduta, Le nozze di Figaro, W.A. Mozart
Ill Wind, Michael Flanders and Donald Swann
I hate men, Kiss me, Kate Cole Porter
Are men so simple, Love at the Inn, Roger Quilter
Love calls through the summer night, Love at the Inn, Roger Quilter

Rehearsal photos: (c) Mark Pinder