Templesong

26 April 2012
Middle Temple Hall, London

Iestyn Davies (counter tenor)
Robin Trischler (replacing Allan Clayton) (tenor)
Julius Drake (piano)

Purcell arr Britten: from Harmonia Sacra
Lord, What is Man?
In the black dismal dungeon of despair
Evening Hymn

Purcell arr Britten: from Orpheus Brittanicus
Lost is my Quiet
Sound the Trumpet

Britten:Winter Words
At Day-close in November
Midnight on the Great Western (or  The Journeying Boy)
Wagteil 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 the Boy with the Violin)
Before life and After

Schubert:
Der Jüngling am Bache [Erste Fassung] (Schiller) D30
Liebhaber in allen Gestalten (Goethe) D558
Frühlingsglaube (Uhland) D686
Wehmuth (Collin) D 772
Der Einsame (Lappe) D 800

Britten: Canticle 2, Abraham and Isaac

Encore:
Purcell arr Britten: Sound the Trumpet

Allan Clayton studied at St John’s College, Cambridge and at the Royal Academy of Music in London where he was the recipient of numerous awards, including an inaugural Sir Elton John Scholarship. Upon graduation he was awarded The Queen’s Commendation for Excellence, the RAM’s most prestigious prize, and two years later was appointed an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music. Allan was a BBC New Generation Artist from 2007-2009, the recipient of a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship in 2008, and the following year he was nominated for both the Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artist Award and the South Bank Show Breakthrough Award.
After graduating in Archaeology and Anthropology from Cambridge Iestyn Davies studied at the RAM. He has performed in operas for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Zürich Opera, the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, New York City Opera, English National Opera, Welsh National Opera and La Scala, Milan. In concert he has performed at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan with Dudamel, the Concertgebouw and Tonhalle with Koopman and appeared at the Barbican, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Lincoln Centre and at the BBC Proms. He is the recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s 2010 Young Artist of the Year prize.

This concert is generously supported by the Morris-Venables Charitable Foundation.