ETERNAL SUMMER

Roderick Williams OBE, baritone
Julius Drake, piano

One of the UK’s greatest living baritones joins Julius Drake (‘collaborative pianist nonpareil’ – The New Yorker) for an evening of Shakespeare settings – in the very hall which witnessed the first performance of Twelfth Night.

In addition to the glorious array of songs, there will be readings by a leading actor from Twelfth Night, as well as Two Gentlemen of Verona, Measure for Measure, Cymbeline, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and more.

Purcell: If music be the food of love
Schumann: Schlusslied des Narren: Op 127 No 5
Sibelius: Hållilå, uti storm och I regn
Haydn: She never told her love
Sibelius: Kom nu hit, Död
Schubert: An Silvia
Dring: Take, oh take those lips away
Finzi: Fear no more the heat of the sun
Schubert: Horch, horch, die Lerch ( Ständchen D899)
Vaughan Williams: Orpheus and his lute (Henry VIII)
Poulenc: Fancie
Britten: Fancie
Britten: I know a bank
Wolf: Lied des transferierten Zettel

Interval

Roderick Williams: Sigh no more ladies
Gurney: Under the Greenwood Tree
Korngold: Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Debussy: The Little Shepherd (Children’s Corner)
Korngold: The Willow Song
Berlioz: La Mort d’Orphelie
Tippett: Songs for Ariel (The Tempest)
Cole Porter: Brush up your Shakespeare (Kiss Me Kate)

Approximately 2 hours in duration (including interval – during which complimentary refreshments are served).