Saturday 21st March

7.30pm, Brunswick Methodist Church, Swansea

Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone),

Nigel Foster (piano)

Henry Purcell: Let the dreadful engines of eternal will (from The Comical History of Don Quixote), text by Thomas d'Urfey, arr. Michael Tippett

1. Let the dreadful engines
2. Can nothing warm me?
3. Ah, where are now those flow'ry groves
4. When a woman love pretends

George Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad, text by A E Housman

1. Loveliest Of Trees
2. When I Was One And Twenty
3. Look Not In My Eyes
4. Think No More Lad
5. The Lads In Their Hundreds
6. Is My Team Ploughing?

Alun Hoddinott: Paradwys Mai, Op. 143 no. 1

1. Y Pin
2. Difiau Dyrchafael
3. Mai 1972

Christopher Weeks: Autumn (first performance)

1. Autumn Day – Rainer Maria Rilke
2. And the Days Are Not Full Enough – Ezra Pound
3. The Chrysanthemums in the Eastern Garden – Po Chü-i
4. From Juan Fang the Hermit on an Autumn Day, Thirty Bundles of Winter Onions – Tu Fu
5. End of Autumn – Rainer Maria Rilke

Josef Haydn: Welsh Folk Song Arrangements

1. Codiad yr Hedydd (The Rising of the Lark)
2. Ar Hyd y Nos (All Through the Night)
3. Nos Galan (New Year's Eve)