“Summer, Sun and Sonnets” August 10, 2022
PROGRAM:
from Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22 (1940) Benjamin Britten
5. XXXVIII: Rendete agli occhi miei, o fonte o fiume
(“Give back to my eyes, o fountains and rivers”)
6. XXXII: “S’un casto amor, s’una pietà superna”
(“If there is a chaste love, a heavenly pity”)
Morgan Manifacier, tenor
Corinne Penner, pianist
I poemi del sole (1914) Francesco Santoliquido
1. Un’ ora di sole
2. Riflessi
3. Nel giardino
4. Sole d’autunno
Bo Shimmin, tenor
Chris Fecteau, piano
Three songs Gabriel Fauré
1. Prison Op. 83, No. 1
2. Fleur jetée Op. 39. No. 2
3. L’absent Op. 5, No. 3
Jessica Bloch, soprano
Edward Forstman, piano
Romancillo Joaquin Rodrigo
Bo Shimmin, tenor
Chris Fecteau, piano
INTERMISSION
Tre sonetti di Petrarca Franz Liszt
‘Pace non trovo,’ sonetto 104
Ai Ra, tenor
Edward Forstman, pianist
Les nuits d’été H. 87 (1841) Hector Berlioz
1. Villanelle
2. Le spectre de la rose
3. Sur les lagunes
4. Absence
5. Au cimetière
6. L’île inconnue
Morgan Manifacier, tenor
Corinne Penner, pianist
From Cincos Canciones Negras Xavier Montsalvatge
4. Cancion de cuna para dormir un negrito
Bo Shimmin
Chris Fecteau, piano