Songs by Schumann, Korngold and Dove
26 February 2026, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Swiss baritone Felix Gygli has been a member of the prestigious International Opera Studio of the Zurich Opera House, and is already an acclaimed recitalist. In 2023, he won both First Prize at the Kathleen Ferrier Awards and the Lied Prize at the Queen Sonja Competition in Oslo. For this concert, he brings a programme of Shakespeare settings by Korngold, Quilter and Rautavaara, alongside Jonathan Dove's Three Tennyson Songs and Schumann's Liederkreis op.24.
Programme
- Geoffrey Bush (1920 - 1998)
- It was a lover and his lass (1956)
- Erich Korngold (1897 - 1957)
- Come away, death (1943) Op. 29 no.1 from Songs of the Clown
- O Mistress Mine (1943) Op. 29 no.2 from Songs of the Clown
- Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928 - 2016)
- Shall I compare thee to Summer’s Day?
- Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953)
- Take, O take those lips away (1886)
- Blow, blow thou winter wind (1905) Op. 6 from Three Shakespeare Songs (First Set)
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- Jonathan Dove (1959)
- Three Tennyson Songs
