This Sceptered Isle: British Song
CLAIRE BOOTH soprano, ENSEMBLE 360 Playhouse
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BRITTEN Phantasy Quartet (15’)
BRITTEN / PURCELL She Loves and She Confesses Too (2’)
BRITTEN / PURCELL Oh Solitude (6’)
BRITTEN / PURCELL Bess of Bedlam (4’)
MATTHEWS Seascapes (13’)
KNUSSEN Whitman Settings - When I heard the learn’d Astronomer (3’)
KNUSSEN Whitman Settings - A Noiseless patient Spider (3’)
KNUSSEN Whitman Settings - The Dalliance of the Eagles (2’)
KNUSSEN Whitman Settings - The Voice of the Rain (3’)
WALTON Piano Quartet (30’)
A celebration of British song from one of its finest exponents. Praised for her “radiant, rapturous, wonderfully nuanced performances” (The Scotsman), Claire Booth performs a selection of her best-loved music, from Britten’s stirring reimagining of Purcell songs to Colin Matthews’ evocative seascapes in celebration of the prolific composer’s 80th birthday.
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