ROGRAMME

Ivor Gurney Five Elizabethan Songs
Michael Head The Singer
Ralph Vaughan Williams Silent Noon
Rebecca Clarke A Dream
Frank Bridge Sigh no more ladies
Arr. Britten Sweet Polly Oliver
Madeleine Dring Business Girls; Song of a Nightclub Proprietress
Geoffrey Bush Cuisine Provençale; Sigh No More, Ladies
Ivor Novello We’ll gather lilacs
Noel Coward Alice is at it again; A bar on the Piccola Marina

Begin the weekend in true Two Moors Festival fashion with a delightful programme of English song, performed by one of the UK’s most treasured sopranos, Elizabeth Watts. A winner of the Rosenblatt Recital Song Prize at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, Elizabeth, together with the acclaimed accompanist Julius Drake, will entertain and entrance you with songs by Ivor Gurney, Vaughan-Williams and Noel Coward among others. Enjoy an hour of world-class music from ‘one of the most beautiful voices Britain has produced in a generation’ (International Record Review).