DISS 2015: Something Old, Something New

Andrew Watts: countertenor
David Miller: lute
Martyna Kazmierczak: piano

Wednesday 12 August, 7.45pm Great Hall
£18.50 reserved / £14 unreserved / Under 16s £9.25 reserved / £7 unreserved

A glorious programme balancing Dowland’s yearning, melancholic lute songs with Britten’s brilliant and – sometimes mysterious – folksong arrangements.

Andrew Watts’ many operatic engagements include appearances with the Royal Opera Covent Garden, English National Opera, Glyndebourne Festival, Aldeburgh Festival and BBC Proms. His concert engagements include appearances with BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, Los Angeles and Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestras, at the Salzburg, Lucerne, Lausanne, Cernier and Edinburgh Festivals, Vienna, New York, Budapest, Seville, Paris, Cologne, Brussels, France, Australia and Italy.

“In fact he is so much in demand, he has been known to be in production in two different countries simultaneously on more than one occasion.” Miranda Jackson on Andrew Watts

Programme includes:
Dowland Come Again Sweet Love; Sorrow Sorrow Stay; Fine Knacks for Ladies
Dowland Lute Solos
Dowland Flow My Tears; A Shepherd in a Shade; In Darkness let me Dwell
Purcell A Morning Hymn; ‘Tis Nature’s Voice; Crown The Altar
Purcell Lute Solo
Purcell Music for a While; There’s not a Swain on the Plain
Purcell Evening Hymn
Purcell arr. Britten If Music be the Food of Love
Britten Tit for Tat
Songs by Mahler, Fauré, Poulenc, and traditional Folk Songs

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