Ruby Hughes soprano

Natalie Clein cello

Julius Drake piano

 

Bach arr. Britten Four Spiritual Songs (Geistiche Lieder)
Kodály Sonatina for cello and piano
Tavener Akhmatova Songs
Weir On the Palmy Beach
Schubert Auf dem Strom
Ravel Kaddish
Bloch Three Scenes from Jewish Life
Chabrier L’Invitation au voyage
Viardot Les Étoiles
Berlioz La Captive
Brahms Two Songs

 

Three of Britain’s most charismatic performers, soprano Ruby Hughes, cellist Natalie Clein and pianist Julius Drake, come together for an eclectic and inspiring programme of solos, duos and trios by Bach, Schubert, Ravel, Tavener and Judith Weir. Amongst them is the opportunity to hear Weir’s On the Palmy Beach, composed especially for tonight’s artists and setting a selection of poems with inimitable wit and humanity. The programme also includes, Sir John Tavener’s Akhmatova Songs, covering every extreme of emotion in his austerely beautiful setting of these Russian poems.

 

This concert is generously supported by the Temple Song Underwriters and