Verdant

New green, verdant growth has an innocence and naivity about it, much like the trusting lack of guile we view in a child, so unripe in judgement. My aim was to present a recital that calls on images of innocent beauty, fertile nature and the promise of renewal. Please select from the following repertoire:

John Bull
The King’s Hunt

Francois Couperin
Le Rossignol

Louis Daquin
Le Coucou

Rameau
Le Tambourin

Debussy
L’isle joyeuse

Tchaikovsky
The Seasons

Bartok
Out of Doors Suite

Leo Ornstein
A Morning in the Woods
To a Grecian Urn

John Cage
In a Landscape

Aaron Copland
Resting place on the Hill

Graham Fitkin
Cone Gatherers

William Bolcom
Garden of Eden

Percy Grainger
Sussex Mummers’ Christmas Carol
One more day my John (Sea chanty)
Irish Tune from County Derry
Shepherd’s Hey
Beautiful Fresh Flower
Molly on the Shore
My Robin is to the Greenwood Gone
Country Gardens

Frederic Rzewski
A walk in the woods
Back to Earth
Flood