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Details

Silk Hall - Radley College
Kennington Road
Abingdon
Oxfordshire
OX14 2HR
England

Programme

Henry Purcell – If music be the food of love, Z.379 (arr. Tippett)
Thomas Augustine Arne – On a day, alack the day
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – O mistress mine
Edward German – Orpheus with his lute
Ivor Gurney – Come away, Death
Roger Quilter – Come away, Death
Charles Villiers Stanford – The rain it raineth every day
Eric Coates – Sigh no more, ladies
Henry Balfour Gardiner – Winter
John Ireland – When daffodils begin to peer
Michael Tippett – Songs for Ariel
Benjamin Britten – Fancie
Madeleine Dring – Crabbed age and youth

Performers

Richard Edgar Wilson – tenor
David Owen Norris – piano

Other concerts in this Series (+)

BBC Concert Orchestra

Music of the Realm

Shakespeare in Song

English Symphony Orchestra

Richard Jenkinson and Benjamin Frith

City of London Choir

Kathryn Rudge and James Baillieu

Jaguar Land Rover Band

Bath Philharmonia

Programme Note

A second recital, as part of The English Music Festival, celebrating Shakespeare through colourful and characteristic settings of his songs by a variety of British composers.

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