Jessica Summers (soprano) and
Jelena Makarova (piano)

Living Songs: Songs of Love and Exile

Saturday 5th February 2021 @ 7.30pmLiving Songs showcases songs by living composers alongside more well-known classical song repertoire. This concert will include music by Richard Causton, Silvina Milstein, Wolfgang Rhim, Steve Crowther, Patrick John Jones, David Lancaster and Edmund Hunt.

A collection will be made in aid of Safe Passage, helping refugees access legal routes to safety.

Patrick John Jones: Elsewhere 137 (2021) world première

John Dowland: Flow, my Tears (1600)

Silvina Milstein: Raise no funeral song… (2022) world première

Wolfgang Rihm: Zwei Gedichte von Marina Zwetajewa (2016)

David Lancaster: The Dark Gate (2016)

Richard Causton: Poems Almost Of This World (2005)

Edmund Hunt: There is a Blue-Green Eye (2022)

Kurt Weill: Intermezzo (1917)

Steve Crowther: Emma and I (2017)

Ivor Novello: Love Is My Reason (1945), We’ll Gather Lilacs (1945)