Performers: 

• Ben Markovic, piano 
• Daisy Livesey, soprano

Director of Music at St Mary’s Barnes, Benjamin Markovic is joined by soprano Daisy Livesey for a richly coloured programme spanning late-Romantic to early modernist song. They begin with Berg’s Seven Early Songs, written between 1905–08, where luxurious post-Romantic harmony meets the emerging language of the Second Viennese School. Debussy’s Ariettes oubliées, his atmospheric Verlaine settings, offer shimmering nuance and emotional delicacy. Interwoven throughout are Britten’s folk-song arrangements, reimagining traditional melodies with clarity and expressive wit. Ben also performs Moeran’s Two Legends for solo piano, evocative miniatures shaped by modal inflections and pastoral lyricism.

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