She­pherd Leppard

Schubert wasn’t wrong: aside from tending to their flocks, shepherds spend a lot of time sitting on a rock on their own, making music, and maybe a pretty shepherdess drops by … sun goes down, moon comes up, midges are ignored – and then an unexpected end to Respighi’s “Il Tramonto”: delightful, surprising, shocking…?

PROGRAMME:
Sigismund Neukomm: String Quartet: “Une fete de Village en Suisse”
Franz Schubert: “The Shepherd on the Rock” for high voice, clarinet and piano
Jean Francaix: “L’heure du berger” for brass quintet and piano
Igor Stravinsky: Pastorale for violin and four brass
Ottorino Respighi: Il Tramonto for voice and string quartet