Britannia, the Second

NOW AVAILABLE ON  YOUTUBE,  CLICK HERE.

Shakespeare Songs, Op. 23 by Roger Quilter (1877-1953)

• Under the Greenwood Tree – click for full text

  

• Blow, blow thou winter wind – click for full text

Mike Dodaro, baritone and Joan Lundquist, piano

Metamorphoses after Ovid by Benjamin Britten (1913 – 1976)

Each of the six sections is based on a character from Roman mythology who is briefly described:

1. Pan, “who played upon the reed pipe which was Syrinx, his beloved.”
2. Phaeton, “who rode upon the chariot of the sun for one day and was hurled into the river Padus by a thunderbolt.”
3. Niobe, “who, lamenting the death of her fourteen children, was turned into a mountain.”will
4. Bacchus, “at whose feasts is heard the noise of gaggling women’s tattling tongues and shouting out of boys.”

5. 

   Narcissus, “who fell in love with his own image and became a flower.”

6. Arethusa, “who, flying from the love of Alpheus the river god, was turned into a fountain.”

Sharon Jung, oboe

Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, descriptions of movements

Take, oh take those lips away, Shakespeare Songs, Op. 23 by Roger Quilter (1877-1953)
– click for full text

Mike Dodaro, baritone and Joan Lundquist, piano

Silent Noon, IRV 25, No. 2 from The House of Life, A Cycle of Six Sonnets by Ralph Vaughan Williams  (1872-1958)
– click for full text

Regina Thomas, soprano and Joan Lundquist, piano

Heigh ho, the wind and the Rain, Shakespeare Songs, Op. 23 by Roger Quilter (1877-1953)
– click for full text

Mike Dodaro, baritone and Joan Lundquist, piano

FOR INFORMATION ABOUT DECEMBER PERFORMING ARTISTS,  CLICK HERE