Japan and South Korea Tour
Oji Hall, Tokyo
13 November, 2008
Ian Bostridge (tenor)
Julius Drake (piano)
See below for youtube clips of this concert
Benjamin Britten: Who are these children? Op. 84
Benjamin Britten: Winter Words Op. 52 (Thomas Hardy)
At Day-close in November
Midnight on the Great Western (or The Journeying Boy)
Wagtail and Baby (A Satire)
The little old Table
The Choirmaster’s Burial (or The Tenor Man’s Story)
Proud Songsters (Thrushes, Finches and Nightingales)
At the Railway Station, Upway (or The Convict and Boy with the Violin)
Before Life and after
Noel Coward:
I travel alone
Twentieth century blues
If you could only come with me
Parisian Pierrot
Kurt Weil: Four Walt Whitman songs
1) Beat! Beat! Drums!
2) Oh Captain! My Captain!
3) Come up from the Fields, Father
4) Dirge for Two Veterans
Kurt Weil: From “The Threepenny Opera”
Ballad of Mack the Knife
Solomon Song
Ballad of the Easy Life
Cole Porter:
Night and Day
Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye
Encore
Benjamin Britten: From Winter Words Op. 52
At the railway station, Upway