Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome...
13 October 2025, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
The brilliant and versatile soprano Claire Booth, winner of the 2025 RPS Singer Award, makes a welcome return to the Festival for a programme of cabaret and cabaret-inspired songs, ranging from Gershwin to Thomas Adès. She is joined by acclaimed pianist Jâms Coleman, a former Oxford Song Young Artist who now works with many leading singers and instrumentalists. Their programme received a rapturous welcome at Wigmore Hall last year, and promises a glittering start to this week’s lunchtime series.
Programme
- Charles Ives (1874 - 1954)
- Very Pleasant from Memories
- Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963)
- Banalités (1940) FP 107
- John Woolrich (1954)
- Stendhal's Observation (2008)
- Arnold Schoenberg (1874 - 1951)
- Der genügsame Liebhaber (1901) from Brettl-Lieder (Cabaret Songs)
- Galathea (1901) from Brettl-Lieder (Cabaret Songs)
- Zoë Martlew (1968)
- Proprietress from Hôtel Babylon
- Chef from Hôtel Babylon
- Beautician from Hôtel Babylon
- Hierophant from Hôtel Babylon
- Cashier from Hôtel Babylon
- Lover from Hôtel Babylon
- George Gershwin arr. Earl Wild (1898 - 1937)
- Somebody Loves Me (1924)
- Embraceable You (1930)
- Kurt Weill (1900 - 1950)
- Nannas Lied (1929)
- Der Abschiedsbrief
- Thomas Adès (1971)
- Life Story (1993) Op. 8
- Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963)
- La dame de Monte Carlo (1961) FP 180
