Wednesday 14 May 2025
6pm
Milton Court Concert Hall
Songs at Six: Blue
led by Dr Bretton Brown
Maud Niklas soprano
Mengyixuan Qi soprano
Kayla Raschke soprano
Eva Stone-Barney mezzo-soprano
Maria Inês Reis mezzo-soprano
Ana Laura Gentile Marquitti piano
Berniya Hamie piano
Enxi Lai piano
Maxime Trechsel piano
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Milton Court
Eating is not permitted in the auditorium. Drinks are allowed inside the auditorium in polycarbonates.
Filming or recording of the performance is not permitted.
Latecomers will be able to enter the auditorium at a suitable break in the performance.
Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Founded in 1880 by the City of London Corporation
Chair of the Board of Governors
The Hon. Emily Benn
Principal
Professor Jonathan Vaughan
Vice-Principal & Director of Music
Armin Zanner
Programme
I. TITIAN BLUE
Alan Louis Smith ‘Lapis lazuli’ from Windows: Five Songs of Love
Maurice Ravel ‘Chanson épique’ from Don Quichotte à Dulcinée
Georges Bizet Pastel
Cecilia Livingston ‘Paula Modersohn-Becker’ from Breath Alone
Francis Poulenc ‘Paul Klee’ from Le travail du peintre
Bretton Brown Colour
Lori Laitman ‘Blue Iris’ from Early Snow
Mengyixuan Qi soprano
Kayla Raschke soprano
Eva Stone-Barney mezzo-soprano
Maria Inês Reis mezzo-soprano
Ana Laura Gentile Marquitti piano
Maxime Trechsel piano
II. NEW BLUE
Gabriel Fauré ‘Paradis’ from La Chanson d’Ève, Op 95
Alanis Morissette Ablaze
Ned Rorem I am Rose
Johannes Brahms Dein blaues Auge
Nagayo Moto-ori Aoi me no ningyō
Kosaku Yamada Aoki fushido-o ware kazaru
Robert Schumann ‘Er ist’s’ from Album für die Jugend, Op 79
Undine Smith Moore Love, let the wind cry…how I adore thee
Richard Strauss Traum durch die Dämmerung
Maud Niklas soprano
Kayla Raschke soprano
Mengyixuan Qi soprano
Eva Stone-Barney mezzo-soprano
Maria Inês Reis mezzo-soprano
Maxime Trechsel piano
Enxi Lai piano
III. SAD BLUE
Ottorino Respighi ‘Crepuscolo’ from Deità silvane, P107
Henri Duparc Le manoir de Rosemonde
Federico Mompou ‘Fes me la vida transparent’ from Combat del somni
Claude Debussy ‘Spleen’ from Ariettes oubliées, L63
Lili Boulanger ‘Vous m’avez regardé avec toute votre âme’ from Clairières dans le ciel
Joni Mitchell Blue
Francis Poulenc Bleuet, FP102
Mengyixuan Qi soprano
Eva Stone-Barney mezzo-soprano
Maud Niklas soprano
Kayla Raschke soprano
Maria Inês Reis mezzo-soprano
Berniya Hamie piano
Forthcoming Events
16 May 2025
Silk Street Lecture Recital Room
Lana Bode leads this concert of performances from the Voiceworks Contemporary Song project, presented by fourth-year postgraduate singers.
19 May 2025
Milton Court Concert Hall
Leading new-music vocal ensemble EXAUDI returns to Guildhall for its much-anticipated annual festival of new works for voices, EXPOSURE.
20 May 2025
Milton Court Concert Hall
Led by Eugene Asti, this celebratory Liederabend commemorates the 150th anniversaries of two lesser-known poets, Georg Friedrich Daumer and Johann Gabriel Seidl.
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