I have seen the Last Rays

Saturday 27 June 2026, 3pm
St Edmund’s Church, Roundhay, Leeds

A rugged palette of songs wrapping texts written by Brontë, Blake and Goethe.

Programme:

Matthew OGLESBY — SING

John TAVENER — The Lamb

(text: William Blake)

Sir James MACMILLAN — The Gallant Weaver

Jaakko MÄNTYJÄRVI — Four Shakespeare Songs:

1. Come away, Death

2. Lullaby

3. Double double, toil and trouble

4. Full fathom five

Eric WHITACRE — Her Sacred Spirit Soars

INTERVAL

Mélanie BONIS — Adoro Te

Tõnu KÕRVITS — The Night is Darkening Round Me

(text: Emily Brontë)

Benjamin KIRK — The Little Boy Lost, The Little Boy Found

(text from William Blake)

Peter Maxwell DAVIES — Lullabye for Lucy

Aurélian HALLOPEAU — It will not shine again

(text: Emily Brontë)

Robert SCHUMANN — Talismane

(text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)