James Gilchrist & Anna Tilbrook

7pm (free): Pre-concert talk given by Ian Partridge

Songs by Purcell, Ravel, Schubert, Bernstein and Britten

James Gilchrist and Anna Tilbrook’s performances for the Oxford Lieder Festival are always sell-out events, and tonight is sure to be no exception.  They present a selection of Purcell, Ravel and Schubert alongside Bernstein’s humorous cycle La bonne Cuisine and Britten’s Winter Words, his unique and haunting settings of Thomas Hardy.

Book tickets for this recital.
 

PROGRAMME

Henry Purcell (arr. Britten & Tippett)

Music for a while

If Music be the food of Love

Solitude
 

French folksongs, arr. Britten

La noël passé
e
Voici le printemps qui passe

La belle est au jardin d’amour
 

Maurice Ravel

Histoires naturelles

Le Paon

Le Grillon

Le Cygne

Le Martin-Pêcheur

La Pintade
 

Leonard Bernstein

La Bonne Cuisine

Plum Pudding

Queues de boeuf

Tavouk Guenksis

Civet à toute vitesse

INTERVAL

Franz Schubert

Four Spring songs

Im Frühling

Frühlingssehnsucht

Frühlingsglaube              

Ganymed
 

Benjamin Britten

Winter Words

At dayclose in November

Midnight on the Great Western (or The Journeying Boy)

Wagtail and Baby (A Satire)

The Little Old Table

The Choirmaster's Burial (or The Tenor Man's Story)

Proud Songsters (Thrushes, Finches and Nightingales)

At the Railway Station, Upway (or The Convict and Boy with the Violin)

Before Life and After