Oliver Davis Music
Example Recital Programmes:
John Ireland Recital:
I Have Twelve Oxen
5 Songs of a Wayfarer
I. 'Memory'
II. 'When Daffodils Begin to Peer'
III. 'English May'
IV. 'I Was Not Sorrowful'
V. 'I Will Walk on the Earth
If there where dreams to sell
Love is a Sickness full of Woes
Great Things
2 Songs of a Great War
I. 'Blind'
II. 'The Cost'
The Bells of San Marie
3 Songs (1918)
I. 'The Adoration'
II. 'The Rat'
III. 'Rest'
Hope the Hornblower
2 Songs to Poems by Rupert Brooke
I. 'The Soldier'
II. 'Blow Out, Your Bugles
Spring Sorrow
Sea Fever
(45 min Recital Programme)
Oratorio Recital:
J.S Bach - ‘Christmas Oratorio’ - ‘Grosser Herr’
J.S Bach - ‘Mass in B Minor’ - ‘Et in Spiritum Sanctum’
J.S Bach - St Matthew Passion - 'Mache dich, mein Herze, rein'
J.S Bach - St. John passion - 'Eilt ihr angefochtnen Seelen'
Mendelssohn - ’St Paulus’ - 'Gott sei mir gnädig'
Mendelssohn - ‘Elijah’ - ‘Lord God of Abraham’
Mendelssohn - ‘Elijah’ - ‘Is not his word like a fire’
Mendelssohn - ‘Elijah’ - ‘It is Enough!’
Interval (20 min)
Handel - ‘Messiah’ - ‘Thus saith the Lord’ and ‘But who may abide’
Handel - ‘Messiah’ - ‘Why do the nations’
Handel - ‘Messiah’ - ‘Behold’ and ‘The Trumpets shall sound’
Handel - ‘Alexandra’s Feast’ - 'Revenge, Timotheus Cries’
(1h 30min Recital Programme)
Lunchtime Recital Example 1
J S Bach - Cantata No.66 - 'Es bricht das Grab'
Handel - Messiah - 'The Trumpet Shall Sound'
Rossini - l barbiere di Siviglia: 'A un dottor della mia sorte'
Massenet - Hérodiade - 'Vision fugitive'
Mahler - Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Finzi - Earth and Air and Rain - No.8. 'The Clock of the Years'
Ravel - Histoires naturelles- V. 'La Pintade'
(45 min Recital Programme)
Lunchtime Recital Example 2
Scarlatti - 'Consolati e Spera!'
J.S Bach - St. John passion - 'Eilt ihr angefochtnen Seelen'
Mendelssohn - Elijah - ‘Is not his word’
Schubert - Winterrise: 5. Der Lindenbaum
Handel - Messiah - ‘Why do the nations’
Korngold- Die Tote Stadt - 'Mein Sehnen mein Varhnen'
Ireland - 'Great Things'
Rossini - Barber of Seville - 'Largo un Factotum'
(30 min Recital Programme)