Songs at Six: Blue
- 6pm
About this event:
- Category:
- Classical Music | Milton Court | Vocal
- Event type:
- Free | In-person
- Admission:
- Free No tickets required
- Location:
- Milton Court Concert Hall
Event information
Taking inspiration from Joni Mitchell's iconic 1971 album of the same name, this programme, led by Dr Bretton Brown, celebrates via art song in a wealth of languages this most magical, most spiritual of colours: blue.
Free, no tickets required
Programme & Performers
Alan Louis Smith ‘Lapis lazuli’ from Windows: Five Songs of Love
Maurice Ravel ‘Chanson épique’ from Don Quichotte à Dulcinée
Georges Bizet Pastel
Cecilia Livingston ‘Paula Modersohn-Becker’ from Breath Alone
Francis Poulenc ‘Paul Klee’ from Le travail du peintre
Bretton Brown Colour
Lori Laitman ‘Blue Iris’ from Early Snow
Mengyixuan Qi soprano
Kayla Raschke soprano
Eva Stone-Barney mezzo-soprano
Maria Inês Reis mezzo-soprano
Ana Laura Gentile Marquitti piano
Maxime Trechsel piano
Gabriel Fauré ‘Paradis’ from La Chanson d’Ève, Op 95
Alanis Morissette Ablaze
Ned Rorem I am Rose
Johannes Brahms Dein blaues Auge
Nagayo Moto-ori Aoi me no ningyō
Kosaku Yamada Aoki fushido-o ware kazaru
Robert Schumann ‘Er ist’s’ from Album für die Jugend, Op 79
Undine Smith Moore Love, let the wind cry…how I adore thee
Richard Strauss Traum durch die Dämmerung
Maud Niklas soprano
Kayla Raschke soprano
Mengyixuan Qi soprano
Eva Stone-Barney mezzo-soprano
Maria Inês Reis mezzo-soprano
Maxime Trechsel piano
Enxi Lai piano
Ottorino Respighi ‘Crepuscolo’ from Deità silvane, P107
Henri Duparc Le manoir de Rosemonde
Federico Mompou ‘Fes me la vida transparent’ from Combat del somni
Claude Debussy ‘Spleen’ from Ariettes oubliées, L63
Lili Boulanger ‘Vous m’avez regardé avec toute votre âme’ from Clairières dans le ciel
Joni Mitchell Blue
Francis Poulenc Bleuet, FP102
Mengyixuan Qi soprano
Eva Stone-Barney mezzo-soprano
Maud Niklas soprano
Kayla Raschke soprano
Maria Inês Reis mezzo-soprano
Berniya Hamie piano
Venue information
Milton Court, based across the road from our Silk Street building, provides the School with world-class performance and training spaces, including a state of the art concert hall, a lyric theatre, a studio theatre and several major rehearsal rooms.
- Milton Court, 1 Milton Street, London, EC2Y 9BH
