Opera National du Rhin, Strasbourg
16 December 2011
Bejun Mehta (counter tenor)
Julius Drake (piano)
PURCELL : Music for a while
PURCELL : Lord, what is man?
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS : Linden Lea
HOWELLS : King David
QUILTER : Come Away, Death ((3 Shakespeare songs, Op. 6)
QUILTER : O Mistress Mine! (3 Shakespeare songs, Op. 6)
QUILTER : Blow, Blow, thou Winter Wind (3 Shakespeare songs, Op. 6)
FINZI : At middle-field Gate in February
HOWELLS : The Widow Bird
BERKELEY : The Horseman
HOWELLS : The Little Lost Boy
STANFORD : La belle Dame sans merci
—INTERVAL—
PURCELL : Strike the viol
PURCELL : Since from my dear
PURCELL : Olinda from the shades unseen
GURNEY : Down by the Salley Gardens
WILLIAMS : Silent Noon
WILLIAMS : 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