FULL The White Peacock Life and Songs of Charles Griffes London 2020 Rebecca Leggett

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: The White Peacock Life and Songs of Charles Griffes  
• Composer: Griffes Charles   
• Libretto: various  
• Venue & Opera Company: HINDE STREET METHODIST CHURCH, London, UK  
• Recorded: November 23, 2020
• Type: Concert Live
• Singers: Rebecca Leggett
• Conductor:   
• Orchestra: Nigel Foster, PIANO  
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: London Song Festival  
• Date Published: 2020  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, gensubs  

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

Charles Tomlinson Griffes (US: /ˈɡrɪfəs/ GRIFF-fiss; September 17, 1884 – April 8, 1920) was an American composer for piano, chamber ensembles and voice. His initial works are influenced by German Romanticism, but after he relinquished the German style, his later works make him the most famous American representative of musical Impressionism, along with Charles Martin Loeffler. He was fascinated by the exotic, mysterious sound of the French Impressionists, and was compositionally much influenced by them while he was in Europe. He also studied the work of contemporary Russian composers such as Scriabin, whose influence is also apparent in his use of synthetic scales.

PROGRAM LEAFLET
Song 1 – Si mes vers avaient des ailes (Victor Hugo, 1802-1885)
Song 2 – Wohl lag ich einst in Gram und Schmerz (Emmanuel Geibel, 1815-1884) from Five German Songs
Song 3 – Nacht liegt auf den fremden Wegen (Heinrich Heine, 1797-1856) from Five German Songs
Song 4 – Könnt’ich mit dir dort oben gehn (Julius Mosen, 1803-1867)
Song 5 – The half-ring moon (John Tabb, 1845-1909)
Song 6 – La fuite de la lune (Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900) from Tone Images Op 3
Song 7 – La mer (Oscar Wilde) from Four Impressions
Song 8 – Phantoms (John Tabb)
Song 9 – The White Peacock from Roman Sketches Op 7 (piano solo)
Song 10 – Les ballons (Oscar Wilde)
Song 11 – Come, Love, across the sunlit land (Clinton Scollard, 1860-1932) from Two Rondels Op 4
SHORT BREAK
Song 12 – Phantoms (Arturo Giovannitti, 1884-1959) from Three Poems Op 9
Song 13 – Waikiki (Rupert Brooke, 1887-1915) from Three Poems op 9
Song 14 – The Old Temple (Chang Wen-Chang, Tang Dynasty, c. 8
th/9th century BC) from Five poems of
Ancient China and Japan Op 10
Song 15 – Kinanti (traditional Sundanese) from Three Javanese Songs
Song 16 – Lament of Ian the Proud from Three Poems of Fiona MacLeod (William Sharp AKA Fiona
MacLeod, 1855-1905) Op 11
Song 17 – The Sorrow of Mydath from Two Poems by John Masefield (John Masefield, 1878-1967)
Song 18 – Come, Love, across the sunlit land (Clinton Scollard) from Two Rondels Op 4 (Reprise)

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