Leicester International Music Festival

Wednesday 16th June 2004  7.30pm
New Walk Museum

Mark Padmore (tenor)
Julius Drake (piano)
James Boyd (viola)
Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
Michael Cox (flute)

Thea Musgrave: Narcissus
Benjamin Britten: Lachrymae
Thea Musgrave: Niobe
Franz Schubert: Variations on Trockne Blumen
Franz Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin

Leicester International Music Festival website

Trockne Blumen is the title of one of the songs central to Schubert’s delightful Die Schöne Müllerin cycle. Schubert expanded on the theme in variations for flute and piano and here it is alongside the original song, performed by wonderful tenor Mark Padmore. Britten’s expressive Lachrymae for viola and piano is performed between two Musgrave items inspired by Greek legend.

Pre-concert talk 6.45-7.15pm
John Florance chats with Ensemble musicians and Thea Musgrave. Free to ticket holders.