Songs for the Dead

Songs for the Dead staged a collection of extraordinary pieces of music all written as a response to death.

The promenade production featured Purcell’s Dido’s Lament Alfred Schnittke’s Piano Quintet; Elliot Carter’s String Quartet György Ligeti’s Homage to Hilding Rosenberg; Igor Stravinsky’s Elegy for Viola; Morton Feldman’s Only; Olivier Messiaen’s Pièce pour le Tombeau de Paul Dukas; and Paul Clark’s Feast During the Plague Suite