This Sceptered Isle British Song

Running time: around 1 hour and 45 minutes (including an interval) BRITTEN Phantasy Quartet (15’)BRITTEN / PURCELL She Loves and She Confesses Too (2’)BRITTEN / PURCELL Oh Solitude (6’)BRITTEN / PURCELL Bess of Bedlam (4’)MATTHEWS Seascapes (13’)KNUSSEN Whitman Settings - When I heard the learn’d Astronomer (3’)KNUSSEN Whitman Settings - A Noiseless patient Spider (3’) KNUSSEN Whitman Settings - The Dalliance of the Eagles (2’)KNUSSEN Whitman Settings - The Voice of the Rain (3’)WALTON Piano Quartet (30’) A celebration of British song from one of its finest exponents. Praised for her “radiant, rapturous, wonderfully nuanced performances” (The Scotsman), Claire Booth performs a selection of her best-loved music, from Britten’s stirring reimagining of Purcell songs to Colin Matthews’ evocative seascapes in celebration of the prolific composer’s 80th birthday.