To mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, Pegasus presented a programme of music and poetry written during the war and in response to it. The programme was performed in one of London’s most beautiful churches. See the bottom of this page for a link to the printed programme.
Matthew Altham: Director
David Goudge: Reader
Programme:
Alan Seeger – I Have a Rendezvous with Death
Gustav Holst – Nunc Dimittis
Ivor Gurney – First Time In
Max Reger – Nachtlied
Maurice Ravel – Trois Beaux Oiseaux
Douglas Guest – For the Fallen
Edmund Blunden – Concert Party: Busseboom
Isaac Rosenberg – Returning, We Hear the Larks
Walford Davies – A Short Requiem
Readings from Colver letters
Sergei Rachmaninoff – from Vespers:
Blagoslovi dushe moya gospoda
Nyne otpushchaeshi
Siegfried Sassoon – Everyone Sang
Ivor Gurney:
Psalm 23
Since I Believe in God the Father Almighty (1925)
Wilfrid Owen – Disabled
The Dying Soldier (arr. Nigel Short)
Mahler – Ich Bin der Welt (arr. Clytus Gottwald)
George Dyson – To Music
Audience feedback: “Wonderfully programmed, very thoughtful and thought-provoking”, “very moving” and “an absolute joy”