Matthew Rose

No anthology of voice and piano music would be complete without songs from the Anglo-Saxon world. Spanning centuries and styles—from Purcell to Britten, from Butterworth to Vaughan Williams—this program transcends time and place. Renowned English bass Matthew Rose brings these stories to life: the exhausted laborer in Job’s Curse, the charming Sally who smiles at another man, and the bittersweet Children’s Hour, that fleeting moment between night and dawn. History, too, finds its voice—whether in Ives’s In Flanders Fields, written as the United States entered World War I, or Sullivan’s The Lost Chord, one of the very first pieces ever recorded, played at Thomas Edison’s phonograph demonstration in London in 1888.