RODERICK WILLIAMS, JULIUS DRAKE & TOBY JONES
Lied und Lyrik: William Shakespeare
© Theo Williams / Marco Borggreve / Seamus Ryan
Roderick Williams
Baritone
Julius Drake
Piano
Toby Jones
Recitation
Henry Purcell
If Music Be the Food of Love Z 379B
Robert Schumann
Schlusslied des Narren Op. 127/5 (from Fünf Lieder und Gesänge)
Jean Sibelius
Hallilá, uti storm och i regn (Hey, Ho, the Wind and the Rain) Op. 60/2
Joseph Haydn
She Never Told Her Love Hob. XXVIa:34
Jean Sibelius
Kom nu hit, död (Come Away, Death) Op. 60/1
Franz Schubert
An Silvia D 891
Madeleine Dring
Take, O Take Those Lips Away
Gerald Raphael Finzi
Fear No More the Heat o’ the Sun Op. 18 No. 4
Franz Schubert
Ständchen D 889 «Horch, horch! die Lerch»
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Orpheus with His Lute
Francis Poulenc
Fancy
Benjamin Britten
Fancie
Benjamin Britten
I Know a Bank (from A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
Roderick Williams
Sigh No More, Ladies
Ivor Gurney
Under the Greenwood Tree
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind Op. 31 No. 3
Claude Debussy
The Little Shepherd (from Children’s Corner)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Desdemona's Song Op. 31 No. 1
Hector Berlioz
La Mort d'Ophélie
Michael Tippett
Songs for Ariel
Joseph Vernon
When That I Was and a Tiny Little Boy
William Shakespeare
Selected Texts
Readings in English
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 Toby Jones returning to read Shakespeare’s original texts.
Approximate running time: 1h 40m with one intermission
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