Women on the Edge (Felicity Palmer & Simon Lepper)

7pm (free): Pre-concert talk
Roderick Swanston gives an introduction to the repertoire performed in tonight's concert

One of Britain's best-loved singers, Felicity Palmer makes her first appearance at the Festival in a programme exploring "women on the edge", socially, emotionally and physically! Joined by pianist Simon Lepper, they will perform songs by a wide range of composers, from Purcell to Schumann to Tchaikovsky to the gypsy songs of Brahms and Dvorak, to Sondheim and Broadway. The programme has already been performed on a number of times to great acclaim and this is sure to be a wonderful evening.

This concert is generously supported by The Helena Oldacre Trust

Programme:

• Henry Purcell:
  • Bess of Bedlam (Mad Song)
• Robert Schumann:
  • Maria Stuart Lieder (Op.37)
    • i. Abschied von Frankreich
    • ii. Nach der Geburt ihres Sohnes
    • iii. An die Königin Elisabeth
    • iv. Abschied von der Welt
    • v. Gebet
• Johannes Brahms:
  • Das Mädchenlied
  • Liebestreu
  • Da unten im Tale
  • Von ewiger Liebe

INTERVAL

• Piotr IlychTchaikovsky:
  • None but the lonely heart (Op. 6, no. 6)
  • Night (Op. 73, no. 2) 
  • Why (Op. 6, no. 5)
• Joseph Horovitz: Lady Macbeth
• Madeleine Dring: Song of the Nightclub Proprietress
• Janis Ian: At Seventeen
• Stephen Sondheim:
  • Could I leave you (Follies)
  • Losing my Mind (Follies)