IN the heat of a scorching summer, York virtuosi tenor Christopher O'Gorman and pianist Kate Ledger perform Winter Words and New Songs at the Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate, York, on Saturday.
This York Late Music concert promises a refreshing evening of reflective and witty song, led off by Jonathan Dove's cycle Out Of Winter.
Elisabeth Lutyens raided the "i" section of the Oxford Book of English Verse's Index of First Lines for the mischievously entitled The Egocentric, while Sadie Harrison's humorous Easter Zunday gives a musical setting to a William Barnes poem written in Dorset dialect.
Two world premieres follow: the Late Music commission of James Cave's setting of York poet Shash Trevett's In Your Old Age and Late Music administrator Steve Crowther's setting of the late York writer Helen Cadbury's Forever, Now.
The closing piece, Benjamin Britten's 1953 cycle of poems by Thomas Hardy, Winter Words, echoes Dove's Out Of Winter, which sets words written in response to those of Hardy by tenor Robert Tear.
Saturday's 7.30pm concert will be preceded by a 6.45pm talk by composer James Cave, accompanied by a complimentary glass of wine or juice. Tickets cost £10, concessions £8, students £3, online at latemusic.org/ or on the door.
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