may
05may19:30Middle Hall Brucknerhaus Linz with Mark Padmore19:30 Brucknerhaus Linz
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Mark Padmore, tenor Julius Drake, piano Clara Schumann // 1819–1896 Auswahl aus: Sechs Lieder op. 13 // 1842 Nr. 1 »Ich stand in dunklen Träumen« Nr. 2 »Sie liebten sich Beide« Nr. 4 »Der Mond kommt
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Mark Padmore, tenor
Julius Drake, piano
Clara Schumann // 1819–1896
Auswahl aus: Sechs Lieder op. 13 // 1842
Nr. 1 »Ich stand in dunklen Träumen«
Nr. 2 »Sie liebten sich Beide«
Nr. 4 »Der Mond kommt still gegangen«
»Liebst du um Schönheit« op. 12, Nr. 4
Lorelei // 1843
Robert Schumann // 1810–1856
Auswahl aus: Fünf Lieder op. 40 ›Andersen-Lieder‹ // 1940
Nr. 1 Märzveilchen
Nr. 2 Muttertraum
Nr. 3 Der Soldat
Nr. 4 Der Spielmann
Rebecca Clarke // 1886–1979
Tiger, Tiger // 1929
Lethe // 1941
Eight O’Clock // 1927
The Seal Man // 1921–22
// Pause //
Benjamin Britten // 1913–1976
Sechs Hölderlin‑Fragmente op. 61 // 1958
Winter Words op. 52 // 1953
Time
(Tuesday) 19:30
Location
Brucknerhaus Linz
Untere Donaulände 7, 4010 Linz, Austria
10mayalldaySomerset Song Prize(All Day: sunday)
Time
All Day (Sunday)
12may19:30Temple Music, London with Beth Taylor and Sarah Connolly19:30 Middle Temple Church
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Beth Taylor, mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano Julius Drake, piano Programme TBC
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Beth Taylor, mezzo-soprano
Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake, piano
Programme TBC
Time
(Tuesday) 19:30
Location
Middle Temple Church
Middle Temple Lane, London EC4Y 1AF
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Dame Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano Julius Drake, piano Brahms, Schumann, Debussy, Duparc, Mahler and Mozart Holy Trinity Guildford, 7.30pm
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Dame Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake, piano
Brahms, Schumann, Debussy, Duparc, Mahler and Mozart
Holy Trinity Guildford, 7.30pm
Time
All Day (Friday)
Location
Holy Trinity Guildford
20may18:30Fundación Juan March, Madrid with Elisabeth Leonskaja18:30 Fundacion Juan March
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Elisabeth Leonskaja, piano Julius Drake, piano In the history of piano four hands described in this series, Franz Schubert holds a central position: he was the one who brought about the profound
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Elisabeth Leonskaja, piano
Julius Drake, piano
In the history of piano four hands described in this series, Franz Schubert holds a central position: he was the one who brought about the profound change in status that occurred in the transition from the 18th to the 19th century. It shifted from being a domestic and bourgeois entertainment genre to one with a much more ambitious expressive substance and formal structure, which would decisively influence its subsequent development.
Time
(Wednesday) 18:30
Location
Fundacion Juan March
Calle de Castelló, 77, 28006 Madrid, Spain
22may19:30International Liedfestival Zeist, Netherlands with Nicky Spence19:30
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Nicky Spence, tenor Julius Drake, piano
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Nicky Spence, tenor
Julius Drake, piano
Time
(Friday) 19:30
26may20:30Schloss Elmau, Krün, Germany with Gerald Finley20:30 Schloss Elmau
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Gerald Finley, baritone Julius Drake, piano The Canadian bass-baritone Gerald Finley is one of the most significant singers of our time. He is equally at home in recital and on the world’s
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Gerald Finley, baritone
Julius Drake, piano
The Canadian bass-baritone Gerald Finley is one of the most significant singers of our time. He is equally at home in recital and on the world’s great opera stages, from the Metropolitan Opera to the Salzburg Festival. He is joined by the brilliant pianist Julius Drake, a world-class artist in his own right who frequently collaborates with greats such as Ian Bostridge. For anyone who appreciates the art of song, this performance is an essential experience.
Schumann: “Dichterliebe”
Lieder by Grieg & Barber
Time
(Tuesday) 20:30
Location
Schloss Elmau
In Elmau 2, 82493 Krün, Germany
29may20:00Oriel College, Oxford with Dame Sarah Connolly20:00 Oriel College
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Dame Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano Julius Drake, piano Full programme to be announced. Sarah Connolly was made a DBE in the 2017 Birthday Honours, having previously been awarded a CBE in the 2010
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Dame Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake, piano
Full programme to be announced.
Sarah Connolly was made a DBE in the 2017 Birthday Honours, having previously been awarded a CBE in the 2010 New Year’s Honours. In 2020 she was made an Honorary Member of the Royal Philharmonic Society in recognition of her outstanding services to music. She has sung at the Aldeburgh, Edinburgh, Lucerne, Salzburg and Tanglewood festivals and the BBC Proms where, in 2009, she was a soloist at the Last Night. Opera engagements have taken her around the world from The Metropolitan Opera to the Royal Opera House, the Paris Opera, La Scala Milan, the Vienna and Munich State Operas and the Bayreuth, Glyndebourne and Aix-en-Provence Festivals.
The pianist Julius Drake lives in London and enjoys an international reputation as one of the finest instrumentalists in his field, collaborating with many of the world’s leading artists, both in recital and on disc. Recent concerts include a recital at La Scala, Milan with Ludovic Tézier; return visits to the Boulez Saal Berlin for the series ‘Lied und Lyrik’; a recital tour in the USA with Ian Bostridge; the complete Mahler songs in five recitals in the Mahler Festival at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam; return visits to the Chamber Music Festivals of Santa Fe, Leeds and Oxford; concets in Berlin and the Aldeburgh Festival with Andrè Schuen; piano duet recitals with Elisabeth Leonskaja including at the Schubertiade Festival; recitals in the USA and Europe with Fleur Barron, Mercedes Gancedo, Christoph Prégardien, Julia Kleiter, Roderick Williams.
Time
(Friday) 20:00
Location
Oriel College
Oxford
june
01jun20:00Palau de la Música Catalana With Julia Kleiter20:00 Palau de la Musica Catalana
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Julia Kleiter, soprano Julius Drake, piano Robert Schumann Liederkreis, op. 39 Franz Liszt Enfant, si j'étais roi, S.283/b Comment, disaient-ils, S. 276/b S'il est un charmant gazon, S. 284/b Oh! quand je dors, S. 282/b Ërich Wolfgang Korngold Unvergänglichkeit Richard Wagner Wesendonck-Lieder
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Julia Kleiter, soprano
Julius Drake, piano
Robert Schumann
Liederkreis, op. 39
Franz Liszt
Enfant, si j’étais roi, S.283/b
Comment, disaient-ils, S. 276/b
S’il est un charmant gazon, S. 284/b
Oh! quand je dors, S. 282/b
Ërich Wolfgang Korngold
Unvergänglichkeit
Richard Wagner
Wesendonck-Lieder
Time
(Monday) 20:00
Location
Palau de la Musica Catalana
C/ Palau de la Música, 4-6, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
19jun19:30Beethoven-haus, Bonn with Katherina Konradi19:30 Beethoven Haus Bonn
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Katharina Konradi, soprano Julius Drake, piano Ludwig van Beethoven, Lieder Franz Schubert, Lieder Franz Liszt, Lieder
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Katharina Konradi, soprano
Julius Drake, piano
Ludwig van Beethoven, Lieder
Franz Schubert, Lieder
Franz Liszt, Lieder
Time
(Friday) 19:30
Location
Beethoven Haus Bonn
Bonngasse 22-24, 53111 Bonn
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Christoph Prégardien, tenor Julius Drake, piano Programme FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797–1828) „Winterreise“ Lieder cycle on poems by Wilhelm Müller, D 911 Gute Nacht Die Wetterfahne Gefrorne Tränen Erstarrung Der Lindenbaum Wasserflut Auf dem Flusse Rückblick Irrlicht Rast Frühlingstraum Einsamkeit Die Post Der greise Kopf Die Krähe Letzte Hoffnung Im Dorfe Der stürmische Morgen Täuschung Der Wegweiser Das
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Christoph Prégardien, tenor
Julius Drake, piano
Programme
FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797–1828)
„Winterreise“
Lieder cycle on poems by Wilhelm Müller, D 911
Gute Nacht
Die Wetterfahne
Gefrorne Tränen
Erstarrung
Der Lindenbaum
Wasserflut
Auf dem Flusse
Rückblick
Irrlicht
Rast
Frühlingstraum
Einsamkeit
Die Post
Der greise Kopf
Die Krähe
Letzte Hoffnung
Im Dorfe
Der stürmische Morgen
Täuschung
Der Wegweiser
Das Wirtshaus
Mut
Die Nebensonnen
Der Leiermann
Time
(Monday) 20:00
Location
Schubertiade - Angelika-Kauffmann-Saal – Schwarzenberg
Hof 454 6867
24jun11:00Rhine Piano Festival, Bonn with Emily Sierra11:00 Beethoven Haus Bonn
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Emily Sierra, mezzo-soprano Julius Drake, piano The Piano in Song Beethoven changed the course of music in so many ways but one of his lesser known achievements was writing in 1814/15 the first
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Emily Sierra, mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake, piano
The Piano in Song
Beethoven changed the course of music in so many ways but one of his lesser known achievements was writing in 1814/15 the first continuous ‘song cycle’. An die ferne Geliebte (To the distant Beloved) is a set of six songs to poems of Alois Jeitteles. Together they tell a story of yearning and hope and the songs, instead of being separate entities, are linked by the piano part into a musical whole.
After Beethoven’s cycle the flood gates were opened, most famously with Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin (1824) and Winterreise (1828), Schumann’s great cycles of 1840 (Dichterliebe, Liederkreis, Frauenliebe und Leben), Brahms’ Die Schöne Magelone (1865) and the great cycles of Mahler in the early 20th century.
Time
(Wednesday) 11:00
Location
Beethoven Haus Bonn
Bonngasse 22-24, 53111 Bonn
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Piatti Quartet Nicky Spence tenor Julius Drake piano Fauré: La bonne chanson (23’) Purcell, Britten, Schubert, Ravel, Richard Strauss, Tom Lehrer, Noël Coward, Libby Larsen, Victoria Wood: Selected songs (50’)
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Piatti Quartet
Nicky Spence tenor
Julius Drake piano
Fauré:
La bonne chanson (23’)
Purcell, Britten, Schubert, Ravel, Richard Strauss, Tom Lehrer, Noël Coward, Libby Larsen, Victoria Wood:
Selected songs (50’)
Time
(Saturday) 15:00
Location
Britten Studio, Snape Maltings
28junalldayRheinvokal Festival, Hessen with Fleur Barron(All Day: sunday)
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Fleur Barron, mezzo-soprano Julius Drake piano Programme TBA
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Fleur Barron, mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake piano
Programme TBA
Time
All Day (Sunday)
july
05jul11:30Gütersloh Theater, Gütersloh with Kieran Carrel11:30
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Kieran Carrel, Tenor Julius Drake piano On the occasion of the 100th birthday of Hans Werner Henze Kieran Carrel (tenor), Julius Drake (piano) A very special matinee concludes this season of "Fokus Lied": The
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Kieran Carrel, Tenor
Julius Drake piano
On the occasion of the 100th birthday of Hans Werner Henze
Kieran Carrel (tenor), Julius Drake (piano)
A very special matinee concludes this season of “Fokus Lied”: The German-British tenor Kieran Carrel, who grew up in Gütersloh, is celebrated at festivals and is now an ensemble member of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, pays tribute to the song works of the great Gütersloh composer Hans Werner Henze on the occasion of his 100th birthday on July 1, 2026.
His piano partner is Julius Drake, not only one of the most renowned lieder pianists in the world for many decades, but also the premiere pianist of Henze’s “Songs from Arabic”. The two artists want to surprise us with which selection of songs from the “classical” repertoire they will complement Henze’s works.
Time
(Sunday) 11:30
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Pierre Derhet, tenor Maxime Melnik, tenor Julius Drake, piano Sophie Daneman, staging Melodies by Vaughan Williams, Britten, Bernstein, Weill Two artists who are complete opposites take the same road: that of the journey towards the
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Pierre Derhet, tenor
Maxime Melnik, tenor
Julius Drake, piano
Sophie Daneman, staging
Melodies by Vaughan Williams, Britten, Bernstein, Weill
Two artists who are complete opposites take the same road: that of the journey towards the unknown. From the English tradition, carried by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Britten, Ivor Gurney and Roger Quilter, to the more eclectic repertoires that extend their echoes, their worlds intersect, confront each other and end up in dialogue.
At the heart of the program, Songs of Travel, Ralph Vaughan Williams’ emblematic cycle on poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, becomes the point of convergence of these trajectories. A real initiatory journey unfolds: an inner journey where wandering, memory and the quest for oneself are mixed.
Carried by the complicity of Pierre Derhet and Maxime Melnik — associate artists of the Festivals de Wallonie 2026 — this show comes to life under the fingers of pianist Julius Drake, a major figure in international vocal accompaniment, guest of the greatest stages and partner of many renowned singers. Sophie Daneman’s staging brings a sensitive dimension and a narrative thread.
In resonance with the theme “Travels” of the 2026 season, this program explores the multiple paths—geographical, poetic, and interior—that shape all existence.
Time
(Tuesday) 19:30
Location
Grand Manège - Namur Concert Hall
13julalldayFranz Schubert Institute Baden bei Wien, Masterclass(All Day: monday)
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Katherina Konradi, soprano Julius Drake piano Programme TBA
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Katherina Konradi, soprano
Julius Drake piano
Programme TBA
Time
All Day (Monday)
14julalldayFranz Schubert Institute Baden bei Wien, Masterclass(All Day: tuesday)
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Katherina Konradi, soprano Julius Drake piano Programme TBA
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Katherina Konradi, soprano
Julius Drake piano
Programme TBA
Time
All Day (Tuesday)
15julalldayFranz Schubert Institute Baden bei Wien, Masterclass(All Day: wednesday)
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Katherina Konradi, soprano Julius Drake piano Programme TBA
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Katherina Konradi, soprano
Julius Drake piano
Programme TBA
Time
All Day (Wednesday)
17jul19:00Festival Aix-en-Provence, Provence with Ailyn Perez19:00
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Ailyn Perez, soprano Julius Drake piano RICHARD STRAUSS ROBERT SCHUMANN JOAQUÍN TURINA XAVIER MONTSALVATGE Celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic, American soprano Ailyn Pérez makes her eagerly awaited debut at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, in the
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Ailyn Perez, soprano
Julius Drake piano
RICHARD STRAUSS
ROBERT SCHUMANN
JOAQUÍN TURINA
XAVIER MONTSALVATGE
Celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic, American soprano Ailyn Pérez makes her eagerly awaited debut at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, in the friendly and intimate setting of the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud. Renowned for her stage portrayals of the most beautiful heroines of Mozart, Verdi, Gounod, and Puccini, Ailyn Pérez will make her first appearance before the Aix-en-Provence audience with a recital, a daunting exercise that lays bare the artist and her emotions in a sort of osmosis with the audience. A debut of rare sincerity, with British pianist Julius Drake as her accomplice.
Time
(Friday) 19:00
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Pierre Derhet, tenor Maxime Melnik, tenor Julius Drake, piano Sophie Daneman, staging Melodies by Vaughan Williams, Britten, Bernstein, Weill Two artists who are complete opposites take the same road: that of the journey towards the
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Pierre Derhet, tenor
Maxime Melnik, tenor
Julius Drake, piano
Sophie Daneman, staging
Melodies by Vaughan Williams, Britten, Bernstein, Weill
Two artists who are complete opposites take the same road: that of the journey towards the unknown. From the English tradition, carried by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Britten, Ivor Gurney and Roger Quilter, to the more eclectic repertoires that extend their echoes, their worlds intersect, confront each other and end up in dialogue.
At the heart of the program, Songs of Travel, Ralph Vaughan Williams’ emblematic cycle on poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, becomes the point of convergence of these trajectories. A real initiatory journey unfolds: an inner journey where wandering, memory and the quest for oneself are mixed.
Carried by the complicity of Pierre Derhet and Maxime Melnik — associate artists of the Festivals de Wallonie 2026 — this show comes to life under the fingers of pianist Julius Drake, a major figure in international vocal accompaniment, guest of the greatest stages and partner of many renowned singers. Sophie Daneman’s staging brings a sensitive dimension and a narrative thread.
In resonance with the theme “Travels” of the 2026 season, this program explores the multiple paths—geographical, poetic, and interior—that shape all existence.
Time
(Sunday) 15:00
Location
Église Saint-Nicolas
20jul19:00Bayerische Festspiel-Liederabend, Munich with Ludovic Tézier19:00 Prinzregententheater
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Ludovic Tézier, bass Julius Drake, piano Richard Wagner (1813 –1883) Wesendonck-Lieder Henri Duparc (1848–1933) Ausgewählte Lieder
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Ludovic Tézier, bass
Julius Drake, piano
Richard Wagner (1813 –1883)
Wesendonck-Lieder
Henri Duparc (1848–1933)
Ausgewählte Lieder
Time
(Monday) 19:00
Location
Prinzregententheater
Prinzregentenpl. 12, 81675 München, Germany
september
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Ian Bostridge, tenor Julius Drake, piano Victoria Trauttmansdorff, recitation Friedrich Rückert: Selected Poems (Reading in German) Songs by Clara and Robert Schumann
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Ian Bostridge, tenor
Julius Drake, piano
Victoria Trauttmansdorff, recitation
Friedrich Rückert: Selected Poems (Reading in German)
Songs by Clara and Robert Schumann
Time
(Thursday) 19:30
Location
Haydn Hall
Haydn Hall
26sep20:15Grote Zanger Musikgebouw, Amsterdam with Ian Bostridge20:15 Muziekgebouw
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Ian Bostridge, tenor Julius Drake, piano Schubert, Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake. More recommendation is not really necessary. Or it must be that the pair juxtapose Schubert songs with those of Hugo Wolf,
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Ian Bostridge, tenor
Julius Drake, piano
Schubert, Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake. More recommendation is not really necessary. Or it must be that the pair juxtapose Schubert songs with those of Hugo Wolf, two complete opposites – Wolf is sometimes called the Wagner of the Song – that reinforce each other. And who together show all aspects of the art of song 19th century. A recital to enjoy Schubert and fall in love with Wolf’s songs.
“Julius Drake and Ian Bostridge are a unit,” the music magazine Luister once simply stated with a recording of Schubert songs. Actually, that’s all there is to it. After about fifteen hundred concerts together, the singer and pianist are fully attuned to each other and dare to take risks. The latter in particular contributes to the fact that every recital is a new adventure. P
Program:
Hugo Wolf:
Harfenspieler I-III
Grenzen der Menschheit
Prometheus
Ganymed
Der Rattenfänger
Wandrers Nachtlied
Franz Schubert:
An den Mond
Ganymed
Wandrers Nachtlied I
Gesänge des Harfners I-III
Wandrers Nachtlied II
Der Musensohn
An die Entfernte
Am Flusse
Willkommen und Abschied
An den Mond D296
Time
(Saturday) 20:15
Location
Muziekgebouw
Piet Heinkade 1 Amsterdam, 1019BR Nederland