Summer English Song on 5 June

21 apr fb eventMy next recital at St Paul’s Knightsbridge is with baritone Paul Sheehan and two composers, Stephen Dickinson and Rob Keeley. We will be performing familiar songs by Peter Warlock (three Shakespeare settings) and Gerald Finzi (the song-cycle, To a Poet), which we have paired with works by our composer-pianists. Stephen Dickinson’s What Have You In Your Heart? sets seven poems from AE Housman’s A Shropshire Lad, and Rob Keeley’s Five Stevie Smith Songs offer a strongly contrasted style, both poetically and musically.

Sunday 5 June, 2.30pm, St Paul’s Knightsbridge.
Tickets are £10 (£5 concessions) on the door.

The full programme is as follows:

It was a lover and his lass (duet) – Vaughan Williams

Three Shakespeare Songs – Warlock
Sigh No More Ladies
Take, O Take Those Lips Away
Pretty Ring Time

Five Stevie Smith Songs – Keeley
Avondale
La Gretchen de nos jours
Le singe qui swing
Tender only to one
Will ever?

What Have You In Your Heart? – Dickinson
When I Was One And Twenty
Loveliest Of Trees
Is My Team Ploughing
Oh, When I Was In Love With You
White In The Moon
From Far, From Eve And Morning
If Truth In Hearts That Perish

To a Poet – Finzi
To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence
On parent knees
Intrada
The Birthnight
June on Castle Hill
Ode on the Rejection of St Cecilia

Our Revels Now Are Ended (duet) – Dickinson