Programme

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Five Pieces for Piano (Second Set) (1978-2023)

 

1. Für Elise II

2. Polka (from the incidental music to Chekov’s Uncle Vanya)

3. A Carol for…

4. La belle Polonaise (from the incidental music to Giraudoux’s

La Folle de Chaillot)

5. Valentine

 

Milica Lawrence - piano

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Art Songs I:

To the Maiden in the East (H.D. Thoreau) (1974)

The Little Hill (Edna St. Vincent Millay) (1974)

Three Songs of William Butler Yeats (1978-84)

Brown Penny

The Curlew

The Cloths of Heaven

‘A husband whom she loves’, from La Castrata (2010)

 

Clare Ghigo - soprano

Milica Lawrence - piano

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Sonata da Chiesa sopra Salmo VIII for trumpet and organ (2024)

 

World Première

 

1. Domine, Dominus noster (O Lord, our Governor)

2. Lunam et stellas (The Moon and the Stars)

3. Volucres cæli (The Birds of the Air)

4. Quam admirabilem est nomen tuum (How excellent is thy name)

 

Jason Camilleri - trumpet

Milica Lawrence - piano

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Interval

 

A Word from the Composer…

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Ricordanza dell’Umbria (1988)

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Milica Lawrence - piano

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Art Songs II:

Der Tanz der Götter (2018)

Die Einsame (Wang Shengyu, tr. Hans Bethge)

Der Tanz der Götter (Li Bai, tr. Hans Bethge)

Abendsonne (Ma Xinyi, tr. Hans Bethge)

from A New England Almanack (1985)

On the Merrimack, 1865 (J.G. Whittier)

October (R.U. Johnson)

The Lumberman’s Alphabet (Trad.)

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Ken Scicluna - baritone

Milica Lawrence - piano

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Sonata da Chiesa sopra Salmo VIII (repeat)

1. Domine, Dominus noster (O Lord, our Governor)

2. Lunam et stellas (The Moon and the Stars)

3. Volucres cæli (The Birds of the Air)

4. Quam admirabilem est nomen tuum (How excellent is thy name)