Song
Here are a couple of examples of programmes which I have devised. The Scottish Programme was performed at the European Festival of Lieder in Warsaw in 2009 with mezzo-soprano, Catherine King, (“Song” from Peacocks with a Hundred Eyes). “Alma Mahler and her World” is a simpler version of “Art Sung III – Reality” with a narrative linking the songs together.
Scottish Programme
Sir John B. McEwan
Three Songs (Text by Verlaine)
Song of autumn
The wood’s aglow
Soleils Couchants
John McLeod
Peacocks with a hundred eyes
(Text by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Christina Rossetti)
Song – Remember – Echo – A Birthday
Claire Liddell
Five Orkney Scenes
(Text by George Mackay Brown)
Old fisherman with guitar
Country Girl
Beachcomber
Fisherman’s Bride
Roads
Francis George Scott
The Eemis Stane
Crowdieknowe
(Text by Hugh MacDiarmid)
The Wee Man
(Translated from the Auvergnat by Willa Muir)
Ay, waukin, O
The Discreet Hint
My luve is like a red,red rose
Rattlin’, Roarin’ Willie
(Text by Robert Burns)
John McLeod
Song from “Peacocks with a Hundred Eyes”
Mezzo-Soprano and Piano
John B. McEwan
The Wood’s Aglow from “Three Song”
Baritone and Piano
Alma Mahler and her World
Alma Schindler-Mahler
Bei dir is es traut
Ich wandle unter Blumen
In meines Vaters Garten
Alexander Zemlinsky
Entbietung Op 7, nr 2
Irmelin Rose Op 7, nr 4
Sonntag Op 7, nr 5
Richard Wagner
from the Wesendock Lieder
Im Treibhaus
Schmerzen
Gustav Mahler
Lob des hohen Verstands
Liebst du um Schönheit
Alma Schindler-Mahler
Der Erkennende
Waldseligkeit
Hymne