Here are a couple of examples of programmes which I have devised. The Scottish Programme was performed at the European Festival of Lieder in Warsaw in 2009 with mezzo-soprano, Catherine King, (“Song” from Peacocks with a Hundred Eyes). “Alma Mahler and her World” is a simpler version of “Art Sung III – Reality” with a narrative linking the songs together.
Scottish Programme
| Sir John B. McEwan | Three Songs (Text by Verlaine) Song of autumn The wood’s aglow Soleils Couchants |
| John McLeod | Peacocks with a hundred eyes (Text by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Christina Rossetti) Song – Remember – Echo – A Birthday |
| Claire Liddell | Five Orkney Scenes (Text by George Mackay Brown) Old fisherman with guitar Country Girl Beachcomber Fisherman’s Bride Roads |
| Francis George Scott | The Eemis Stane Crowdieknowe (Text by Hugh MacDiarmid) The Wee Man (Translated from the Auvergnat by Willa Muir) Ay, waukin, O The Discreet Hint My luve is like a red,red rose Rattlin’, Roarin’ Willie (Text by Robert Burns) |
Alma Mahler and her World
| Alma Schindler-Mahler | Bei dir is es traut Ich wandle unter Blumen In meines Vaters Garten |
| Alexander Zemlinsky | Entbietung Op 7, nr 2 Irmelin Rose Op 7, nr 4 Sonntag Op 7, nr 5 |
| Richard Wagner | from the Wesendock Lieder Im Treibhaus Schmerzen |
| Gustav Mahler | Lob des hohen Verstands Liebst du um Schönheit |
| Alma Schindler-Mahler | Der Erkennende Waldseligkeit Hymne |