Ned Rorem's 90th birthday is celebrated on 23 October with soprano Gillian Keith, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston, tenor Nicholas Mulroy and baritone Ben McAteer performing Rorem's Evidence of Things Not Seen, his 1997 cycle of 36 songs to texts by 4 different authors.
On 30 October soprano Elizabeth Watts (winner of the 2007 Cardiff Singer of the World Song Prize) and baritone Ashley Riches (member of Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at Covent Garden) perform Britten's Pushkin setting, The Poet's Echo, Poulenc's Chansons Villageoises plus Schubert songs. The potent combination of Poulenc, Schubert and Britten re-occurs on 3 November when BBC New Generation Artists Ruby Hughes and tenor David Butt Philip (member of Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at Covent Garden) perform Poulenc's Fiancailles pour rire, Brittens Michelangelo Sonnets and A Charm of Lullabies, plus songs by Poulenc and Schubert.
Foster always includes an evening of comedy songs in his festival, an annual delight. This year Eleanor Meynell and Matthew Brook perform songs by Flanders and Swann, Noel Coward, Tom Lehrer and Gilber and Sullivan on 6 November.
The final concert in the festival, on 13 November, interleaves Britten's Thomas Hardy setting Winter Words with other settings of Hardy by Gerald Finzi to create a new cycle, Winter and Summer Words. The programme is completed with Poulenc's Le travail du Peintre and Reynaldo Hahn's rarely heard recitations for voice and piano, Portraits de Peintres, plus Britten's Auden settings. All sung by BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Robin Tritschler and Jeremy Huw Williams.
Elsewhere on this blog:
- WNO Tudor trilogy: Roberto Devereux
- WNO Tudor trilogy: Maria Stuarda
- WNO Tudor trilogy: Anna Bolena
- Win tickets to hear Roderick Williams in recital
- Planet Hugill in Hamburg: Sven Helbig and the Faure Quartett
- L'Orfeo at the Barbican with John Mark Ainsley and the Academy of Ancient Music
- An encounter with Alissa Firsova, composer/pianist/conductor
- Planet Hugill in Hamburg: La Traviata at Staatsoper Hamburg with Ailyn Perez
- Musique sacree - Marc-Antoine Charpentier - CD review
- Reader Offer - discount tickets for English Chamber Orchestra
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