MARYAM WOCIAL: WHAT THE HEART REMEMBERS

Purcell If music be the food of love
Madeleine Dring It was a lover and his lass / Separation
Brahms Wie Melodien zieht es mir
Fauré Les Roses d’Ispahan / Nuit d’étoiles
Rachmaninov Do not sing to me
John Duke Heart! We will forget him!
Traditional She moved thro’ the fair
Britten The Salley Gardens
Mel Bonis Songe
Dominick Argento Parents (From the Diary of Virginia Woolf)
Strauss Die Georgine
Liza Lehman If no one ever marries me
Dvořák Songs my mother taught me / Take your bow

‘Heart! We will forget him!’, promises Emily Dickinson, as if the heart were something that could be reasoned with. Maryam Wocial and Audrey Hyland explore the tender space between remembering and forgetting, where love doesn’t so much vanish as change, living on in memory and in music.