Eternal Summer
Roderick Williams OBE (baritone)
Julius Drake (piano)
Toby Jones (actor)
One of the UK’s greatest living baritones joins Julius Drake ('collaborative pianist nonpareil' - The New Yorker) for an evening of Shakespeare settings – in the very hall which witnessed the first performance of Twelfth Night.
In addition to the glorious array of songs, Toby Jones reads from Twelfth Night, as well as Two Gentlemen of Verona, Measure for Measure, Cymbeline, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and more.
Purcell: If music be the food of love
Schumann: Schlusslied des Narren: Op 127 No 5
Sibelius: Hållilå, uti storm och I regn
Haydn: She never told her love
Sibelius: Kom nu hit, Död
Schubert: An Silvia
Dring: Take, oh take those lips away
Finzi: Fear no more the heat of the sun
Schubert: Horch, horch, die Lerch ( Ständchen D899)
Vaughan Williams: Orpheus and his lute (Henry VIII)
Interval
Poulenc: Fancie
Britten: Fancie
Britten: I know a bank
Roderick Williams: Sigh no more ladies
Gurney: Under the Greenwood Tree
Korngold: Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Debussy: The Little Shepherd (Children’s Corner)
Korngold: The Willow Song
Berlioz: La Mort d’Orphelie
Tippett: Songs for Ariel (The Tempest)
Approximately 2 hours in duration (including interval - during which complimentary refreshments are served).
"Williams told the tale beautifully – he is a raconteur in Lied par excellence"
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