In a frenetic world where there never seems time ‘to stop and stare’, this year’s Samling Artist Showcase celebrates the art of contemplation and what it means to be alive. Drawing inspiration from the poetry of the Romantics to the present day, the programme will reflect ‘On Man, On Nature and On Human Life’.

With Samling Artists
Jessica Cale soprano
Beth Moxon mezzo-soprano
Dafydd Jones tenor
Jamie Woollard bass
Jonathan Ware piano
JongSun Woo piano

Programme

Meirion Williams, Gwnyfyd (Paradise)

Benjamin Britten, Les illuminations
1. Fanfare | 2. Villes | 3a and 3b. Phrase and Antique | 4. Royauté
5. Marine | 6. Interlude | 7. Being beauteous | 8. Parade | 9. Départ

Sergei Rachmaninoff, from 6 Romances, Op.4
O net, molyu, ne ukhodi (O stay my love)
V molchan’i nochi tajnoj (In the silence of the secret night)
Utro (Morning)

Gabriel Fauré, Nell, Op.28, no.7

Ernest Chausson, Le colibri

Franz Schubert, Nachtstück

Dilys Elwyn-Edwards, Caneuon y tri Aderyn (Songs of the Three Birds)
Y Gylfinir (The Curlew) | Tylluanod (Owls)
Mae Hiraeth yn y môr (There’s longing in the sea)

Lewis Murphy and Laura Attridge, Onwards (world premiere)

Yshani Perinpanayagam and Laura Attridge, Constellations

Charles Koechlin, Si tu le veux

Claude Debussy, En sourdine, Fêtes galantes

Alfred Bachelet, Chère nuit

Hugo Wolf, from Mörike Lieder 
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