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Xuefei Yang
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Songs from Our Ancestors

Xuefei Yang guitar; Ian Bostridge tenor

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Date
Tue 16 Mar 2027, 1.00pm
Tickets
£20 (concessions £18)
Duration

This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval

Availability

Artists

  • Xuefei Yangguitar
  • Ian Bostridgetenor

Programme

  • John Dowland
    1563-1626
      • In darkness let me dwell
      • Come again, sweet love doth now invite
      • White as lilies was her face
      • My thoughts are wing’d with hopes
      • Flow, my tears
      • Plum Blossoms in Three Variations
        (solo guitar)
      • Schwanengesang D957
        :
      • Ständchen
      • Die Mainacht D194
      • Der König in Thule D367
      • An die Musik D547
      • White Snow in the Spring Sunlight
        (solo guitar)
      • Letters from Composers
        :
      • Schubert: to a friend
      • Chopin: to a friend

Overview

Songs from Our Ancestors is an original one-hour programme for tenor Ian Bostridge and guitarist Xuefei Yang that reflects the musical ancestry of the two performers. Drawing on the Western and Eastern traditions that have shaped their musical inheritance, the programme traces a journey across four centuries, bringing together songs by Dowland, Schubert, Argento and Britten with Chinese solo guitar interludes from corresponding historical periods. Culminating in Britten’s Songs from the Chinese, setting texts from the ancient Book of Songs, the programme offers a personal and imaginative exploration of cultural memory and the enduring power of words set to music.

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