The Sir John Soane Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields has a veritable cornucopia of treasures and artefacts. The architect Sir John was a close friend of Mozart's original "Susanna" – Nancy Storace - and these two recitals, given in the Museum and in various Soane properties reflect his love of antiquities and of the music of his time.
The life and music of Sir John Soane - a programme with anecdotes
There are two alternative programmes:
The Spirit's Song
Music inspired by the antiquities in 12 Lincoln's Inn Field
Charlotte de Rothschild - soprano, Danielle Perrett – harp
Adam lay ybounden | Peter Warlock |
To the Queen of Heaven | Thomas Dunhill |
Ye spotted snakes | John Christopher Smith |
The Warning | James Hook |
The Spirit's song | Joseph Haydn |
O had I Jubal's lyre (Joshua) | George Frederick Handel |
Weep you no more, sad fountains | Roger Quilter |
Pastorella delle Alpi | Goacchino Rossini |
Harp solo; Fantasia and Air; Cease your funning (Beggar's Opera) | arr. W. R. Hunt |
Ach, ich fühl's (Pamina's aria from The Magic Flute) | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
The monk and his cat | Samuel Barber |
Mandoline | Gabriel Fauré |
Orpheus with his lute | Edmund Rubbra |
Un moto di gioja (The Marriage of Figaro) | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Music for a while | Henry Purcell (1659-1695) |
When Daisies pied (Love's Labour's Lost) Blow, blow thou Winter wind (As you like it) Where the bee sucks (The Tempest) |
Thomas Arne (1710-1778) |
She never told her love (Twelfth Night) My mother bids me bind my hair |
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) |
O del mio dolce ardor | Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1714-1787) |
No more his fears alarming (The Pirates) | Stephen Storace (1762-1796) |
How beautiful are the feet (The Messiah) | George Frederick Handel (1685-1759) |
Ach, ich fühl's (Pamina's aria from The Magic Flute) | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) |
Air de Sara | Philippe-Jacques Meyer (1737-1819) |
Pastorella delle Alpi | Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) |
I N T E R V A L | |
Die Forelle | Franz Schubert (1797-1828) |
Songs from the Vauxhall Gardens Tell me, lovely shepherd |
William Boyce (1711-1779) |
When I was a chit (1796) | James Hook (1746-1827) |
O ravishing delight | Thomas Arne |
The Favourite Troop Variations on God save the King (Harp solo) |
William Elrington T. D. Thomas |
Auf Flügeln des Gesanges | Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) |
Suzanna’s two arias from The Marriage of Figaro Deh vieni, non tardar Un moto di gioja |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
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