Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden
9 November 2011
Bejun Mehta (counter tenor)
Julius Drake (piano)
Henry Purcell:
Music for a while
Lord, what is man?
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Linden Lea
Herbert Howells: King David
Roger Quilter:
Come Away, Death ((3 Shakespeare songs, Op. 6)
O Mistress Mine! (3 Shakespeare songs, Op. 6)
Blow, Blow, thou Winter Wind (3 Shakespeare songs, Op. 6)
Gerald Finzi : At middle-field Gate in February
Herbert Howells : The Widow Bird
Berkeley : The Horseman
Howells : The Little Lost Boy
Stanford : La belle Dame sans merci
—INTERVAL—
Purcell :
Strike the viol
Since from my dear
Olinda from the shades unseen
Gurney : Down by the Salley Gardens
Vaughan Williams :
Silent Noon
Bright is the Ring of Words (from Songs of Travel)
Quilter : It was a lover and his lass
Finzi: The Sigh
Warlock : The Lover’s Maze
Quilter : Take, o take those lips away
Warlock : Jillian of Berry
Finzi : Since we loved
Quilter : Heigh ho, the wind and the rain