NCH Presents: Stanford Centenary Series curated by Finghin Collins (2)

A series of three chamber concerts, curated by pianist Finghin Collins, marking the centenary of the death of the Irish composer Sir Charles Villiers Stanford.

Song settings are at the heart of the second concert in the series; we commence with a largely unknown cycle of songs, “A Fire of Turf”, to texts by the Irish poet Winifred Letts, celebrating the passing seasons of the year, the changing winds, the supremacy of nature and (in true Hardyesque fashion) its oblivion to man. We also hear settings of Joyce and Masefield texts by two of Stanford’s pupils Rebecca Clarke and Muriel Herbert. Finally, we hear one of Stanford’s finest mature works – the sonata for clarinet and piano.  

Featuring artists: Benjamin Russell, baritone; Finghin Collins, piano ; Sharon Carty, mezzo-soprano ; John Finucane, clarinet 

Presented by NCH.

Programme

Stanford - A Fire of Turf (seven songs)  
Rebecca Clarke / Muriel Herbert - Songs (*list below)  
Stanford - Clarinet Sonata op. 129 (1911)  

*Clarke and Herbert song group 
Clarke - The Seal Man (Masefield)  
Clarke - June Twilight (Masefield)  
Herbert - Tewkesbury Road (Masefield)  
Herbert - I hear an army charging (Joyce)  
Herbert - Lean out of the Window (Joyce)   
Herbert - To Daffodils (Herrick)  
Clarke - Sally Gardens (Yeats) 
Clarke - Greeting (Ella Young)  
Herbert - The Lake Isle of Innisfree (Yeats)  
Clarke - Shy One (Yeats)  
Clarke - The Cloths of Heaven (Yeats)      

Tickets

€17.50, available via the NCH website.