Roderick Williams, Baritone
Julius Drake, Piano

Programme:
William Shakespeare
Selected Poems and Texts
Reading in English

Settings by Haydn, Schubert, Chausson, Wolf, Sibelius, Vaughan Williams, Korngold, Porter, and Dring

One 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 an actor reading Shakespeare’s original texts.