Curated Projects
Temple Song
Artistic Director
“Middle Temple Hall, the setting for a first-rate concert series, is one of those London spaces that would make a tourist swoon. With its suits of armour and coats-of-arms it seems the perfect setting for stirring songs of martial derring-do. “
Ivan Hewitt, The Daily Telegraph 2015
Over the last few years, since the inauguration of Temple Song in 2006, I have performed in the glorious Middle Temple Hall with an array of the best singers in the world, most of them discovering the hall for the first time.
Olaf Bär, Thomas Allen, Felicity Lott, Christoph Pregardien, Ian Bostridge, Simon Keenlyside, Sergei Leiferkus, Gerald Finley, Willard White, Robert Holl, Danielle De Niese, Ann Sofie Von Otter – they all say it is one of the very best acoustics for song they know, a wonderful place to sing.
Julius Drake
Artistic Director Temple Song
March 25th 2020
Four Last Songs
Lucy Crowe, soprano
Julius Drake, piano
One of the UK’s most popular and talented sopranos joins Julius Drake for a performance of Schumann, Berg and Strauss’ sublime, Four Last Songs.
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May 20th 2020
Seven Ages
Mark Padmore, tenor
Roderick Williams, baritone
Rory Kinnear, reader
Julius Drake, piano
A return to Middle Temple Hall by the starry trio of Mark Padmore, Roderick Williams, Rory Kinnear after the tremendous success of their 2015 programme with Julius Drake, The Sea. Seven Ages will include glorious music and words by among others, Shakespeare, Schubert, Donne, Vaughan Williams, Yeats, Fauré, Milne, Britten, Wordsworth and Schumann.
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July 2nd 2020
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde
Alice Coote, mezzo
Stuart Jackson, tenor
Julius Drake, piano
Mahler’s valedictory masterpiece is performed by one of todays great mezzos and an outstanding young tenor in it’s original version for two voices and piano.
The Concertgebouw Amsterdam Mahler Celebrations in May 2020
The Mahler Songs in five concerts
Can one really grasp the whole of Mahler’s output without knowing his songs? Not only do they extensively appear in the first four symphonies, often known as ‘Wunderhorn symphonies’; they also encapsulate the fundamental principles of his reading of the world.
Concert 1 May 10 2020
- Julius Drake, piano
- Fleur Barron, mezz
- James Newby, baritone
Drei Frühe Lieder (1880)
Im Lenz
Maitanz im Grünen
Winterlied
Lieder und Gesänge (1880/81)
Frühlingsmorgen
Errinerung
Hans und Grete
Serenade aus Don Juan
Phantasie aus Don Juan
Lied eines fahrenden Gesellen (1883-85)
Lieder nach Texten von Friedrich Rückert (1901-2)
Concert 2 May 12 2020
- Julius Drake, piano
- Barbara Kozelj, mezzo
- Milan Siljanov, bass baritone
Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Lieder, Humoresken und Balladen
(1892-98)
Der Schildwache Nachtlied (duet)
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Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht S
Trost im Unglück B
Rheinlegendchen S
Verlorne Muh (duet)
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Das himmlisches Leben S
Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt B
Lob des hohen Verstands B
“Es sungen drei Engel S
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Lied eines Verfolgten im Turm (duet)
Das irdisches Leben S
Revelge B
Der Tambourg’sell B
Urlicht S
Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen (duet)
Concert 3 May 14 2020
- Julius Drake, piano
- Catriona Morison, mezzo
- Julien van Mellaerts, baritone
Lieder und Gesänge aus Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1887/89)
Um schlimme Kinder artig zu machen
Ich ging mit Lust
Aus! Aus!
Starke Einbildungskraft
Zu Strassburg auf der Schanz
Ablösung im Sommer
Scheiden und Meiden
Nicht wiedersehen!
Selbsgefühl
Kindentotenlieder (1901-4)
Concert 4 May 16 2020
- Julius Drake, piano
- Feride Buyukdenktas, mezzo
- Stuart Jackson, tenor
Das Lied von der Erde (1907-9)
for tenor, mezzo and piano
Concert 5 17 May 2020
- Julius Drake, piano
- Sophie Rennert, mezzo
- Ashley Riches, baritone
The Songs of Alma Mahler, Friends and Lovers
The songs of Alma Mahler written in Vienna at the turn of the century, with music by Alexander von Zemlinsky, Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg.
Beethoven Series at New York’s 92nd St Y
Of all Beethoven’s extraordinary achievements the birth of the song cycle, with his masterpiece ‘An die ferne Geliebte’ in 1816, is often overlooked. These five recitals in a survey of the genre place Beethoven’s ground breaking work alongside song cycles by five of his greatest successors.
October 22 2019
- Julius Drake, piano
- Christoph Prégardien, tenor
Beethoven and Schubert
Beethoven Adelaide; Wonne der Wehmut;
Neue Liebe, neues Leben;
Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte
Schubert Schwanengesang
January 22 2020
- Julius Drake, piano
- Roderick Williams, baritone
- Reader to be announced
Beethoven and Brahms
Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte
Brahms Die Schöne Magelone
February 13 2020
- Julius Drake, piano
- Sasha Cooke, mezzo
Beethoven and Schumann
Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte
Schumann Frauenliebe und Leben op 42
Schumann Kerner Lieder op 35
February 19 2020
- Julius Drake, piano
- Amanda Majeski, soprano
- Philippe Sly, bass-baritone
Beethoven and Wolf
Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte
Wolf Alte Weisen (Keller)
Wolf Italienisches Liederbuch
March 18 2020
- Julius Drake, piano
- Alice Coote, mezzo
- Eric Owens, baritone
Beethoven and Mahler
Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte
Mahler Rückert Lieder
Mahler Des Knaben Wunderhorn