Ellen Robertson, soprano, presents a Master of Musical Arts Degree Recital at Marquand Chapel.
An evening of Airs de cour, lute song, sacred music, and opera, with works by Ballard, Boyer, Lambert, Strozzi, Bach, and Tchaikovsky. Featuring Jeffrey Grossman, Tomoko Nakayama, Grant Herreid, and students from the Yale School of Music and the Juilliard School.
Free and open to the public.
Program:
Michel Lambert (1610-1696): Par mes chants tristes et touchants
Christophe Ballard (1641-1715): J’avois crû qu’en vous aimant
Jean Boyer (before 1600-1648): Sombres forests, noires vallées
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Ich habe genung, BWV 82a
Intermission
Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677): L’Astratto (Op. 8, No. 4)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893): Tatiana’s Letter Scene (from Eugene Onegin)