The vast depths of the sea. The infinite expanse of the heavens.

In Luminescence’s third instalment of SoloSeries, soprano Veronica Milroy joins harpist Rowan Phemister to perform music that explores the endless possibilities of the unknown.

Program

Andrew FORD | Little Star

Per NØRGÅRD | Fons Laetitiae

Loreena McKENNITT | Stolen Child

TRAD. | My Lagan Love

Miriam HYDE | Tone Poems of the Sea

I Calm Shore at Morning

II Sails at Noon

III A Chill Wind Scatters the Foam

IV Deep Lies an Ancient Wreck

VI Sunset

TRAD. | She Moved Thru the Fair

Loreena McKENNITT | Moon Cradle

Lisa KNAPP | Shipping Song

Don McLEAN arr. Patrick BAKER | Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)

Der Doppelgänger is the second instalment of Luminescence Chamber Singers' SoloSeries.

Be it a ghostly apparition, a shadow-self, or alter-ego, artists have long been fascinated with the doppelgänger. From the ancient Egyptians ‘ka’ to the ‘fetch’ of 18th and 19th Century Celtic literature, encountering your own mysterious look-alike was often taken as bad omen - a frightening harbinger of death or disease.  The doppelgänger evokes the uncanny, and estranges us from ourselves.

In Der Doppelgänger, Jack Stephens and Ronan Apcar present German Lieder by Schubert, Strauss, and Wolf that explores our many selves: the reflection in the mirror you do not recognise, who we become when we are in love, or when we stand face to face with death. Identities curated, distorted, or ever changing - these are all doppelgängers of sorts.

ARTISTS

JACK STEPHENS bass

RONAN APCAR piano

PROGRAMME

Der Wanderer D 489 | Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828)

Zueignung Op. 10 | Richard Strauss (1864 – 1949)

Erlkönig Op. 1 D 328 | Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828)

Song Without Words Op. 62 No. 3 | Felix Mendelssohn (1809 – 1847)

Verborgenheit | Hugo Wolf (1860 – 1903)

Denn es gehet dem Menschen Op. 121 No. 1 | Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)

Siegfried’s Funeral March from Götterdämmerung | Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883) arr. Ferruccio Busoni (1866 – 1924)

Der Doppelgänger D957 | Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828)

Fear no more the heat o’ the sun Op. 18 | Gerald Finzi (1901 – 1956)