Jonathan Dove b. 1959 Ariel (1998) 1. Come unto these yellow sands 5:18 2. I boarded the King’s ship! 5:22 3. O,O,O 2:06 4. All hail, great master! 2:02 5. Is there more toil? 3:32 R. Murray Schafer b. 1933 6. Aria of the Princess (1981) 7:09 (Princess of the Stars) Hilary Tann b. 1947 Arachne: A dramatic song cycle for <strong>soprano</strong> solo with crotale (2002) 7. A Primer For Those Who Have Dealings 2:48 with the Gods 8. Arachne’s Boast 2:46 9. Athene’s Song 4:48 10. The Spider’s Valediction 3:42 José Evangelista b. 1943 Exercises de Style (1997) (selections) 11. Recit 1:06 12. Analyse logique 1:28 13. Négativités 1:10 14. Macaronique 1:53 15. Italianismes 1:31 16. Anglicismes 1:06 Gyorgy Kurtag b. 1926 Einige Sätze aus den Sudelbüchern Georg Christoph Lichtenbergs (1996) 17. Ein Mädchen... 0:18 18. Geständnis 0:33 19. Der gute Ton... 0:21 20. Gebet 0:13 21. Das Mädchen... 0:15 22. Koan 0:34 23. Alpenspitzen 0:30 24. Eine wichtige Bemerkung 0:46 25. ...an die aufgehende Sonne 0:22 Judith Weir b. 1954 King Harald’s Saga (1979) 26. Act One 4:36 27. Act Two 3:49 28. Act Three 4:14 29. Epilogue 1:28 Songs for Unaccompanied Voice by Living Composers It all began at the Dartington International Summer School of the Arts, where I heard an Australian singer perform Judith Weir’s King Harald’s Saga. I was fascinated by this intense narrative with so many characters; all sung by one person, but it was the strong statement of pacifism which necessitated my learning and singing it. One unaccompanied work led to another, and the immense span of riches for solo voice quickly became evident. The works collected here represent a small sample of this wealth. Written within the last thirty years by living composers from Wales, Scotland, England, Germany and Canada, each maintains a connection to the ancient art of storytelling and poetry; with texts from Shakespeare, Norwegian history, Ovid, Native Indian legend, aphorisms (5 th -6 th Century) and surrealist French poetry. Jonathan Dove, b. 1959, London, U.K. Few composers today have been embraced by the modern opera house as consistently and successfully as Jonathan Dove. His catalogue includes more than twenty diverse operatic works. Born in London to architect parents, as a child he played the piano, organ and viola. He studied composition with Robin Holloway at Cambridge and worked as a freelance accompanist, repetiteur, animateur and arranger. In 1987 he joined the music staff at Glyndebourne, where four of his community operas were created. Dove also wrote chamber re-orchestrations of Janacek’s The Cunning Little Vixen, Verdi’s Falstaff and Rossini’s La Cenerentola for the City of Birmingham Touring Opera, and a version for 18 players of Wagner’s complete Ring Cycle. Glyndebourne commissioned Flight, the airport comedy, garnering 13 productions to date in Europe, the USA and Australia, and a CD (Chandos). Dove’s commitment to community development through innovative musical projects is passionate. The Palace In The Sky (2000) brought together Turkish Saz players sideby-side with a Salvation Army Band, a community choir of elderly singers (Old Spice), children, and professional singers and instrumentalists. The Hackney Chronicles is for schoolchildren to perform and produce. Dove and his librettist Alasdair Middleton have adapted fairy tale sources such as The Enchanted Pig, Swanhunter, and The Adventures of Pinocchio to provide entertainments for children and adults. His Pinocchio has had more than 80 performances in the UK, Germany and the USA, and won a British Composer Award in 2008. In 1998 Dove was joint winner of the Christopher Whelen Award for his work in theatre music and opera, and received the Ivor Novello Award for Classical Music in 2008. Dove’s song-cycles include Five Am’rous Sighs, Ariel, All You Who Sleep Tonight, Out of Winter and All the Future Days. See also http:// www.edition-peters.com/composer/Dove-Jonathan ARIEL: Jonathan Dove From The Tempest: W. Shakespeare I. Ssshhh! Come unto these yellow sands, and then take hands. Ssshh! Curtsied when you have and kissed the wild waves whist, come! Come! Foot it featly here and there; And, sweet sprites, the burden bear. 1