Shakespeare in Song April 23, 2016

2016 marks the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare, universally acknowledged as one of the world’s greatest poets. IFC is delighted to perform an all-Shakespeare program on the actual anniversary day. Over the centuries, the response by composers to Shakespeare’s texts has been enormously varied. To misquote the Bard, “If music be the food of love, sing on!”

The programme showcases a wide range of music with composers from contemporary to the present day including Shakespeare Songs by William Matthias, Songs and Sonnets by George Shearing, and a stunning lament for women’s voices by Ernest Chausson taken from Much Ado About Nothing.

Peking University Hall
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Bob Chilcott
The Isle is Full of Noises

William Schuman
Orpheus with his lute

Ernest Chausson
Chant Funèbre

Thomas Morley
It was a lover and his lass

Benjamin Cooke
Hark, hark, the lark

William Matthias
Shakespeare Songs

INTERVAL

Zoltán Kodály
An ode for music

R. Vaughan Williams
Three Shakespeare songs

George Shearing
Songs and sonnets from Shakespeare