'Forever Child – Choral Music and Songs by Ronald Corp'

Saturday 29 September, 2007, 7.30 pm

Missa San Marco (Voces 8)
  Kyrie
  Gloria
  Sanctus
  Agnus Dei

I'll miss you (first performance) (Voces 8)

Woman's Constancy 

On Chloris

Overlooking the River Stour (Joan Rodgers)

To the City of London (Mark Stone)
Sonnet - Composed upon Westminster Bridge
London
London is a fine town

Forever Child (Voces 8)
  The Fly
  New Year's Chimes
  Where Go the Boats?
  A Boy's Song
  God be in my head
  The Swing
  On My First Son

Interval

A Good Night (Joan Rodgers)
An Hymn
The Soul

A Clear Midnight (first performance) (Marcus Farnsworth)

Dover Beach (Voces 8)

Before I was born, your love embraced me (Mark Wilde)
The Singers
Break, break, break

The Kiss (Catherine Hopper & Mark Wilde)
Inversnaid

The Divine Image (Catherine Hopper)
The Bath

Dhammapada (extract) (first performance) (Voces 8)

Voces 8
Joan Rodgers, soprano
Mark Stone, baritone
Marke Wilde, tenor
Marcus Farnsworth, baritone
Catherine Hopper, mezzo-soprano
Simon Lepper, piano

(Toward the Unknown Region was due to be sung by Gerard Collett, but he was indisposed)

Wigmore Hall
36 Wigmore Street
London W1U 2BP

The concert was presented in support of the Musicians Benevolent Fund

The concert included several works from the recently released Forever Child CD (above), including the Missa San Marco, Dover Beach and the title work.

The four London-themed songs later came to form the song-cycle Flower of Cities, together with three other settings of Byron, Dunbar and Wordsworth. Mark Stone recorded these on his The Songs of Ronald Corp disc (below) which contains two other songs from this concert, Tennyson's Break, break, break and Harry Graham's The Bath.