Over Hill, Over Dale: Manchester Chamber Choir
The Northern premiere of Ian Stephens’ choral song cycle Cecilia Speaks, to poems by Isabel Rogers. Also performed will be music by Britten, Elgar, Stanford and Vaughan Williams, and Elizabethan madrigals, conducted by Jonathan Lo.
Cecilia Speaks sets three poems: (1) Cecilia Speaks, (2) Telephone spell to rewind love, (3) Orsino’s dilemma