In Music and Words: Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams

An evening recital of songs and piano music by Holst and Vaughan Williams, including a rediscovered song and a reading from Vaughan Williams' 1953 Morley lecture.

Soprano Mariana Suri and pianist Dimitris Karydis perform songs and piano music by Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams on themes of love, nature, family, loss and contemplation. The programme includes Holst's My True Love Hath My Heart, Margrete's Cradle-Song and Song of the Woods, and Vaughan Williams' The Lake in the Mountains, Hearts' Haven and Silent Noon. A highlight is Before the Mirror, a Vaughan Williams song rediscovered in Morley College's archives, receiving its first public performance since rediscovery 125 years after it was written. The performance also features a reading from Vaughan Williams' 1953 Morley lecture about his close friend Holst, Morley's Director of Music from 1907 to 1924.