Event Durham

19:30, Concert Room, Department of Music

a panorama of new songs for winter

Rebecca Lea, soprano

Caroline Jaya-Ratnam, piano

Jamie W Hall:  Dust of Snow 
Errolyn Wallen: North 
Judith Weir: On White Meadows 
Jessica Dannheiser: Winter Fragments 
Eoghan Desmond: The Darkest Midnight 
Adam Gorb: Frost Fair 
Héloïse Werner: Winter Spell 
Martin Bussey: Twelfth Night 
Helen Neeves: Cradle Song 
Ben Nobuto: Sundowning 
Cheryl Frances-Hoad: The Core of Time 
James Weeks: Natural State 
Peter Foggitt: Villanelle: New Year's Eve 
Michael Betteridge: Snow Day 
Anita Datta: Seasonal Clothing
Sun Keting: The Nineteenth Night of December 
Cecilia McDowall: Christmas Eve at Sea 

The New Winter Songbook is a collection of twenty-one songs for voice and piano by a diverse range of living British composers, featuring contemporary musical settings and lyrical responses to the winter season. The songs were commissioned and recorded in 2025 and released as a double disc album in November of that year. Established British composers rub shoulders with up and coming new voices within this compelling, lyrical and highly engaging programme performed by soprano Rebecca Lea and pianist Caroline Jaya-Ratnam.

See more about the project at:

https://conviviumrecords.co.uk/product/the-new-winter-songbook/

https://www.rebeccalea.co.uk/new-winter-songbook.html