Morpheus

Morpheus, the shape-shifting Ancient Greek god of sleep and dreams, casts an enchanting spell over Hugh Cutting’s choice of songs and arias, centred around a new transcription of Oberon’s 'I know a bank' from Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the world première of Elena Langer’s specially commissioned Fabulous Beasts.

Geoffrey Burgon Lunar Beauty – ‘This Lunar Beauty’
Francesco Cavalli La Calisto – ‘Erme e solinghe cime’
Henry Purcell The Fairy Queen, Z629 – ‘One charming night’
Herbert Howells Goddess of Night
Reynaldo Hahn Le rossignol des lilas, L'énamourée, Le rossignol éperdu – ‘Les rêveries du Prince Églantine’
Benjamin Britten A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64 – ‘Welcome, wanderer!...I know a bank’
Franz Schubert Erlkönig, D328
Richard Rodney Bennett Songs before Sleep – ‘Baby, baby, naughty baby’
INTERVAL
Don McLean Vincent
Elena Langer Fabulous Beasts (world première)
Henry Purcell Amphitryon, or The Two Sosias, Z572 – Minuet, Hornpipe, Borry or Gavotte, Scotch Tune
Trad. She moved through the fair
Trad/English Sweet Nightingale
Henry Purcell Fantasia a 4 No. 7 in C minor, Z738
William Bolcom 12 Cabaret Songs – ‘Song of Black Max’
Kurt Weill One Touch of Venus – ‘Speak Low’
Piers Connor Kennedy Morpheus

Hugh Cutting countertenor
Refound Ensemble