James Gilchrist with William Vann

Tickets: £21.50, 18 and under free

“James Gilchrist showed once again that he has few equals amongst tenors”. The master of English song performs settings by Quilter, Britten, Ivor Gurney and the mysterious Muriel Herbert. In the second half he and the pianist William Vann present Schumann’s timeless lieder masterpiece, Dichterliebe. If you normally tend to give song recitals a miss, try this one – it may completely change your mind.

Roger Quilter

Two Shakespeare Songs

O mistress mine

Fear no more the heat of the sun 

Muriel Herbert

Renouncement (Alice Meynell)

To Daffodils (George Herbert)

The Lake Isle of Innisfree (William B Yeats)

Ivor Gurney

Down by the Salley Gardens (William B Yeats)

Sleep (John Fletcher)

 Ivor Novello

Fly home little heart

We’ll gather lilacs

 Benjamin Britten

Winter Words

(eight poems by Thomas Hardy)

 — interval —

Robert Schumann

Dichterliebe

(16 poems by Heinrich Heine)