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This is eloquent lieder singing driven by astute and sensitive attention to the texts.— The New York Times
Far from the hustle and bustle of the big opera business, Mark Padmore has built a career around carefully selected and crafted performances, which over the last four decades have evolved into veritable events. That certainly applies to this song recital, probably his last at La Monnaie. Accompanied by pianist Simon Lepper, the English tenor is presenting an inspired programme of Anglo-Saxon songs to texts by Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy and others, sensitively set to music by composers like Benjamin Britten, Samuel Barber, Gustav Holst and Charles Ives. On the other side of the Channel they are met by the mélodies of Gabriel Fauré and Reynaldo Hahn, each in musical settings of poems by Paul Verlaine. C’est l’heure exquise!
Cat a - € 46 / Cat b - € 38
Cat c - € 24 / Cat d - € 10
Broadcast on Musiq3
17.3.2022
2h (including one intermission)
Programme
Gabriel Fauré
From Cinq Mélodies de Venise:
- Mandoline
- En sourdine
La bonne chanson
Reynaldo Hahn
From Sept Chansons grises:
- Chanson d’automne
- Tous deux
- L’allée est sans fin
- En sourdine
- L’heure exquise
Benjamin Britten
'Evening' and 'Night', extr. de This Way to the Tomb
Who are these Children?
At the mid hour of night, from Folk Song Arrangements: Moore's Irish Melodies
Samuel Barber
Bessie Bobtail
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Silent Noon, from The House of Life
Gerald Finzi
Channel Firing
Fear no more the Heat of the Sun
Charles Ives
The Housatonic at Stockbridge
Rebecca Clarke
The Seal Man
Michael Tippett
Full Fathom Five, from Songs for Ariel
Ivor Gurney
Sleep, from Five Elisabethan Songs
Gustav Holst
Betelgeuse
20:00
CST required
TenoreMARK PADMORE
PianoSIMON LEPPER
ProductionLA MONNAIE / DE MUNT