An Evening with British Songs ⅩⅣ　《Dream Valley》

Beautiful, nostalgic, and  humorous “dream valley” of British Songs …..with fabulous horn player Hitoshi IMAI (NHK Symphony Orchestra) as a guest.

Programme;

Roger Quilter “Three Songs of William Blake Op.20”(1917)

Peter Warlock “Three Belloc Songs”(1926)

Frederick Delius “Four Old English Lyrics”(1919)

Peter Warlock “Peterisms 1st Set” (1923)

Akane Nakanishi “Dream Valley for tenor and horn”(2010)

Benjamin Britten “Canticle Ⅰ”(1947)

Benjamin Britten “Canticle Ⅲ for tenor, horn and piano”(1954)

Hirohisa TSUJI sings songs by Dowland and his contemporaries with lute accompaniment, in the Songsters Galaxy Concert Series.

Akane NAKANISHI Composition Exhibition Ⅴ　”Music and Drama” has been Akane’s fundamental theme since her PhD years. In this concert, pieces by solo, duo, trio, and more and more people….are presented to show various possibility of  “music and drama”.

SOLO “Greensleeves theme and variations for piano solo” pf. Kenichi NAKAGAWA  (2008  world premiere of whole piece)

DUO “Four Songs of Bells” text by Edger Alan Poe    ten. Hirohisa TSUJI guitar. Norio SATOH (2010 world premiere)

DUO “Three Movements for 4 hands” piano Akane NAKANISHI and Midori TAMURA (1992)

TRIO (Guest piece) Composed by Satoru NAKANISHI “Ganzenai Uta” text by Chuya NAKAHARA  ten.Hideyuki 6 Hirohisa TSUJI pf. Akane NAKANISHI (2010 world premiere)

MORE”Sprituals” for female ensemble a cappella   Ensemble. The Songsters (1991-2010 world premiere of whole cycle)

EVEN MORE “Haratai kenbai Ren” text by Kenji MIYAZAWA   Choir. Epice cond. Mikio HAYAKAWA (2009)

See details.

SSAATTBB mixed choir (without accompaniment), Text by Kenji MIYAZAWA. ca. 8 min.

Text in alphabet  also indicated.

Revival Series presents charm of  Japanese songs and British songs!