Bracket 1:

  • Henry Purcell (1659 -1695) “Evening Hymn” “Next Winter comes Slowly” from “The Fairy Queen”
  • Jacques Martin Hotteterre (1674-1763) – Prelude in f minor for solo flute

Bracket 2:

Christoph Graupner (1683 -1760) from his “Winter “Suite for harpsichord in f minor

  • Praeludium and fughetta
  • The Shivering Allemand

Bracket 3:

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) Concerto in g minor -“La Notte” Opus 10 No.2/RV 439

  1. Largo
  2. Fantasmi – presto
  3. Largo
  4. Presto
  5. Largo – Il Sonno
  6. Allegro

Bracket 4:

  • Traditional (11th to 14th – to 17 th century) “Lyke-Wake Durge
  • O’Carolan “Squire Wood’s Lamentation on the refusal of his Halfpence” ” Lord Galway’s Lamentation”
  • Pelham Humphryes (1647 – 1674) “Will thous forgive that Sin where I began?” – a setting of a John Donne poem.
  • Graupner Minuet in f minor from the Winter Suite
  • George Frederich Handel ( 1685 – 1759) -“Lascia ch’io piango” from “Rinaldo”

Bracket 5:

  • Robert Frost (1874-1963) “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
  • Mary Mageau (1934 -) “Winter’s Shadow” for harpsichord and windchimes.
  • Hotteterre – de Bousset ” Pourquoy doux Rossignols”  for solo flute.

Bracket 6:

Thomas Arne ( 1710- 1778)

  • When Icicles hang by the Wall”
  • Blow, blow thou Winter Wind”

Words in Winter is an annual literary and arts festival held in August each year in the Hepburn Shire and surrounding districts.