Sanctuary

Nicholas Phan, tenor & Jake Heggie, piano
Recorded on July 2, 2020

When Nicholas Phan contacted me to ask about doing a special video concert for SFP, it was pure serendipity. We had just begun putting together ideas for our online Sanctuary series, and I was delighted to be able to include this beautiful and profound program. The collaboration between Nick and Jake Heggie made it even more special. From the prescient observations of Emily Dickinson, as set by Jake Heggie, to the bittersweet humor of Leonard Bernstein, this meditation on our times fits the moment perfectly, while looking ahead towards better days.

Program

TIME
Songs which touch on the subject of time—how it can be fleeting, feel suspended, how finite our time is, etc. Also, a meditation on this moment of paused performances.

I.
CHARLES IVES
Memories
 A. Very Pleasant
 B.Rather Sad


JOHN DOWLAND
Time Stands Still

II.
ERNEST CHAUSSON
Le temps des lilas

LILI BOULANGER
Les lilas qui avaient fleuri from Clairères dans le ciel

GABRIEL FAURÉ
Mandoline

III.
NED ROREM
Early in the Morning

R. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Silent Noon

IV.
NADIA BOULANGER
Heures ternes

LILI BOULANGER
Attente

HOWARD SWANSON
I Will Lie Down in Autumn

V.
JAKE HEGGIE
By the Spring, at Sunset from Of Laughter and Farewell
The Sun Kept Setting from How Well I Knew the Light


VI.
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
If It’s Ever Spring Again
Before Life and After
from Winter Words


GERALD FINZI
In Years Defaced from Til Earth Outwears

VII.
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Some Other Time from On the Town

Produced, engineered and mastered by Matt Carr

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