ConcertPulseRODERICK WILLIAMS, JULIUS DRAKE & TOBY JONES
Date & Time
Thu, Dec 5, 2024, 19:30One of the greatest poets of all time, William Shakespeare is at the center of the season’s first Lied und Lyrik program. Roderick Williams and Julius Drake trace the Bard’s musical heritage in English, German, and French settings from three centuries, with Toby Jones returning to read Shakespeare’s original texts.
Keywords: Baroque, Vocal Music
Musicians
| Williams Roderick | Bariton |
| Drake Julius | Piano |
| Jones Toby | Recitation |
Program
| If Music Be the Food of Love Z 379B | Henry Purcell |
| Schlusslied des Narren Op. 127/5 (from Fünf Lieder und Gesänge) | Robert Schumann |
| Hallilá, uti storm och i regn (Hey, Ho, the Wind and the Rain) Op. 60/2 | Jean Sibelius |
| She Never Told Her Love Hob. XXVIa:34 | Joseph Haydn |
| Kom nu hit, död (Come Away, Death) Op. 60/1 | Jean Sibelius |
| An Silvia D 891 | Franz Schubert |
| Take, O Take Those Lips Away | Madeleine Dring |
| Fear No More the Heat o’ the Sun Op. 18 No. 4 | Gerald Raphael Finzi |
| Ständchen D 889 «Horch, horch! die Lerch» | Franz Schubert |
| Orpheus with His Lute | Ralph Vaughan Williams |
| Fancy | Francis Poulenc |
| Fancie | Benjamin Britten |
| I Know a Bank (from A Midsummer Night’s Dream) | Benjamin Britten |
| Sigh No More, Ladies | Roderick Williams |
| Under the Greenwood Tree | Ivor Gurney |
| Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind Op. 31 No. 3 | Erich Korngold |
| The Little Shepherd (from Children’s Corner) | Claude Debussy |
| Desdemona's Song Op. 31 No. 1 | Erich Korngold |
| La Mort d'Ophélie | Hector Berlioz |
| Songs for Ariel | Michael Tippett |
| When That I Was and a Tiny Little Boy | Joseph Vernon |
| Selected Texts | William Shakespeare |