Britten’s Folksongs and Meditations
Britten’s Folksongs and Meditations
A journey through Britten’s re-imagined folksongs and his profound guitar masterpiece, the Nocturnal after John Dowland.
EMILY JENNINGS soprano
CASSANDRA MATHEWS classical guitar
ARCHIE BONHAM piano
Programme
A selection of Benjamin Britten’s traditional folksong arrangements for voice and piano:
Ca’ the yowes
Avenging and bright
Oliver Cromwell
O can ye sew cushions
Come you not from Newcastle
The last Rose of Summer
Early one morning
The trees they grow so high
O Waly, Waly
The Salley Gardens
Sweet Polly Oliver
Sail on, sail on
The Miller of Dee
How sweet the answer
Ca’ the yowes
Avenging and bright
Oliver Cromwell
O can ye sew cushions
Come you not from Newcastle
The last Rose of Summer
Early one morning
The trees they grow so high
O Waly, Waly
The Salley Gardens
Sweet Polly Oliver
Sail on, sail on
The Miller of Dee
How sweet the answer
Nocturnal after John Dowland, Op.70
Gloriana, Op.53 – The Second Lute Song of the Earl of Essex
A selection of Britten’s traditional folksong arrangements for voice and guitar:
I will give my love an apple
Sailor-boy
Bonny at morn
Master Kilby
The shooting of his dear
The soldier and the sailor