Autumn/Winter 2026 Brochure

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THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT. TICKETS ARE NO LONGER AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE VIA THIS WEBSITE OR OVER THE PHONE. WE DO NOT EXPECT ANY TICKETS TO BE AVAILABLE ON THE DOOR. THANK YOU.

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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

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