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Blackheath Presents
Fleur Barron & Jocelyn Freeman
Songs of Sappho
THU 19 MAY 7.30pm | The Hearn Recital Room
Rising star mezzo-soprano
Fleur Barron returns to Blackheath Halls to perform a programme of songs inspired by the Greek poet, Sappho with series curator and pianist,
Jocelyn Freeman. Their creatively devised recital will include items by Brahms, Gurney and Hahn alongside Elizabeth Vercoe’s
Irreveries from Sappho and intertwined musical responses to the iconic
Bilitis from Rita Strohl and Claude Debussy.
SongEasel Icons and Legends 2022 Series celebrates a notorious dinner meeting in Paris in May 1922 that included Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky and Sergei Diaghilev.
Programme
Johannes Brahms
Sapphische Ode,
Der Schmied
Dein blaues äuge
Von Ewige Liebe
Ivor Gurney: Seven Sappho Songs
3. The Apple Orchard
4. Hesperus
7. Lonely Night
Rita Strohl
Selected songs from 'Bilitis’
Debussy
Chansons de Bilitis
Reynaldo Hahn
Quand je fus pris au Pavillon
Si mes vers avaient des ailes
A Chloris
Elizabeth Vercoe
Irreveries from Sappho
TICKETS: £10
Running Time: approx. 70 mins no interval
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