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Middle Temple Hall
£45 £35 £25 £20 £15 £5
Julius Drake & Friends
Roderick Williams baritone
Mark Padmore tenor
Rory Kinnear reader
Julius Drake piano
Songs of the Sea
Songs of the Sea
Including works by: Brahms, Eliot, Fauré, Hardy, Haydn, Lear, Schubert, Kipling and Tennyson.
Acclaimed singers Mark Padmore and Roderick Williams are joined by celebrated actor Rory Kinnear for a programme of music and readings inspired by the sea- an uncompromising and volatile force of nature that has inspired countless artists over the centuries.
A glass of wine during the interval is included in the ticket price.
This concert is generously sponsored by Fountain Court Chambers.
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Full Programme:
Robert Frost - Neither Out Far Nor In Deep
John Ireland - Sea Fever
Lawrence Durrell - Water Music (p134)
Joseph Haydn - Sailor’s Song
Charles Villiers Stanford - Drake’s Drum
Thomas Hardy - The Convergence of the Twain
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Gabriel Faure - Au Cimetiere
TS Eliot - Dry Salvages
Gabriel Faure - Les Berceaux
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Felix Mendelssohn - Wasserfahrt
Rudyard Kipling - The Sea and the Hills (p93)
Franz Schubert - Der Schiffer D536
Franz Schubert - Auf dem Wasser zu singen
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Franz Schubert - Meeres Stille
Alfred, Lord Tennyson - The Kraken (p58)
Johannes Brahms - Meerfahrt
Johannes Brahms - Die Meere
Hugo Wolf - Seemans Abschied
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Emily Dickinson - Wild nights- wild nights
Edward Elgar - Where Coral lies (from Sea Pictures)
Charles Causley - Able Seaman Hodge Remembers Ceylon (p137)
arr Benjamin Britten - Tom Bowling
arr Benjamin Britten - Sail on, sail on
Edward Lear - The Jumblies
Hely Hutchinson - The Owl and the Pussycat