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Roderick Williams
Part of the Three Choirs Festival Gloucester 2019
Add to my Calendar 01-08-2019 11:30 01-08-2019 13:30 36 Roderick Williams The ever-popular Roderick Williams returns to the festival with his longstanding accompanist Susie Allan in a programme that charts the diversity and passion of English song. From Somervell's pioneering Maud, which sparked a trend of melancholically dramatic lyrical narrative in Romantic song, to a new piece by Ian Venables, the heir of this long tradition of song. Cheltenham College, Cheltenham DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Cheltenham College
Bath Road
Cheltenham
Gloucestershire
GL53 7LD
England
Programme
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – English Lyrics
Kevin George Brown – Description of Spring
Ian Venables – What then?
Christopher Maxim – There is sweet Music
Bernadette Marmion – When you are old
Elaine Hugh-Jones – Eight O'Clock
Pamela Mellor – Winter's End
Ralph Vaughan Williams – The Splendour Falls
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Blackmwore by the Stour
Arthur Somervell – Maud
Performers
Roderick Williams – baritone
Susie Allan – piano
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Programme Note
The ever-popular Roderick Williams returns to the festival with his longstanding accompanist Susie Allan in a programme that charts the diversity and passion of English song. From Somervell's pioneering Maud, which sparked a trend of melancholically dramatic lyrical narrative in Romantic song, to a new piece by Ian Venables, the heir of this long tradition of song.
