Cuvilliés-Theater, Munich

17 November 2011

Bejun Mehta (counter tenor)
Julius Drake (piano)

„Down by the Salley Gardens“: English Songs from Henry Purcell to Ralph Vaughan Williams

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

Encore:
V. Hely-Hutchingson: Old mother Hubbard in the style of Händel

Soundbites

Prof. Dr. Michael Bordt, Klassik.com,18.11.2011

Christa Sigg,Abendzeitung,18.11.2011