Winchester Arts Song Series

Jonathan Hanley Tenor
Gavin Roberts Piano

Britten - Finzi - Yiu - Howells

Raymond Yiu’s song cycle Dead Letters, inspired by Britten’s Serenade, brings together different poets to tell the imagined story of young love between poets Gerald Manley-Hopkins and Digby Dolben, who drowned himself at the age of 19. It is performed here interspersed with music by composers whose sonic landscapes have inspired Yiu, such as Gerald Finzi, Benjamin Britten and Thomas Campion, with music by Madeleine Dring, Ralph Vaughan-Williams and John Dowland, whose songs explore Yiu’s themes of youth, love and loss.

PROGRAMME
Finzi Summer Schemes 
Yiu Remembrance, Pastoral
Finzi Oh fair to see
Yiu Canzonetta
Britten Lute song II, from Gloriana
Campion Your faire lookes enflame my desire
Yiu Serenade
Vaughan Williams Orpheus with his lute
Yiu Sonnet
Britten Canticle I
Yiu Aria
Dring Crabbed age and youth
Yiu Nocturne
Finzi Only the wanderer
Howells Finzi's rest
Dowland In darkness let me dwell
Yiu Elegy
Finzi Since we loved