CLOSE TO NATURE

Mark Padmore, tenor with Nancy Cooley, piano.

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In a change to our original programme we present a group of Schubert’s Lieder which follow the changing cycle of the seasons through the year.

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The early twentieth-century composer Rebecca Clarke was a superb word-setter: we have chosen three of her highly atmospheric songs which touch on the supernatural and the mythic.

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Britten’s song-cycle Winter Words sets poems by Thomas Hardy that observe and reflect deeply on our place in the natural world.