For this New Sounds, we’ll listen to songs with a twilight feel – that is, evening songs.  We’ll hear songs, both old and new - by Henry Purcell along with songs by Leonard Cohen and Nick Drake-  featuring baroque harp, Swedish Nickelharpa, and viola da gamba on a record called “If Grief Could Wait.”  The project is a collaboration between baroque harpist Giovanna Pessi and the Swedish singer Susanna Wallumrød.  

Also, we’ll listen to songs from the Dowland Project, some modern approaches to works by Purcell’s contemporary, John Dowland, featuring John Potter from the Hilliard Ensemble.  Plus, we’ll hear a setting by Arvo Pärt of the Robert Burns poem, “My Heart’s in the Highlands,” and a song from Joanna Newsom.  All that, and more. 

PROGRAM # 3298 Evening Songs, (First aired on 2/3/2012)