Roderick Williams with Christopher Glynn

Roderick Williams is one of the country’s best-loved baritones. In this programme, he and Christopher Glynn present a sequence of 24 English songs, each reflecting a song in Schubert’s Winterreise, a unique musical journey through an English winter. Composers include Vaughan Williams, Finzi, Britten, Bridge and Roddy himself.

Repertoire:

An English Song Winterreise 

Vaughan Williams – The Vagabond

Quilter – Blow, blow, thou winter wind

Madeleine Dring – Weep you no more

Finzi – At Middle-field Gate in February

Vaughan Williams – Linden Lea

Bridge – Tears, idle tears

Parry –  Nightfall in winter

Gurney – On the Downs

Finzi – In the Mind’s Eye      

Gurney – Lights Out

Ina Boyle – A Song of Enchantment

Gurney – The folly of being comforted

Interval 

Britten – Midnight on the Great Western

Roderick Williams – The Angel    

Judith Weir – Written on terrestrial things

Finzi – The too short time      

Tippett – Come unto these yellow sands

Elizabeth Maconchy – The Wind and the Rain  

Doreen Carwithen – Echo

Vaughan Williams – Whither must I wander?            

Finzi – In a churchyard  

Humphrey Proctor-Gregg – The stormy evening

Finzi – Waiting Both

Errollyn Wallen – Peace on Earth