Ian Bostridge Tenor
Julius Drake Piano
Ian Bostridge Tenor
Julius Drake Piano
Programme
HENRY PURCELL (1659–1695)
Music for a while (Dryden)*
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685–1750)
Gedenke doch, mein Geist, zurücke°
Kommt, Seelen, dieser Tag°
Liebster Herr Jesu°
Komm süßer Tod°
Bist du bei mir°
JOSEPH HAYDN (1732–1809)
Content (unknown)
Sailor's song (Hunter)
She never told her love (Shakespeare)
The wanderer (Hunter)
Fidelity (Hunter)
– Intermission –
HENRY PURCELL
In vain, Lesbia, do you beseech me (Herbert)°
BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1913–1976)
Four songs from »Who are these Children«
(Soutar), op 84
Nightmare
Slaughter
Who are these children?
The children
KURT WEILL (1900–1950)
Four songs on poems by Walt Whitman
Beat! beat! drums!
Oh captain! my captain!
Come up from the fields, father
Dirge for two veterans
* arranged by Michael Tippett
° arranged by Benjamin Britten
Encores:
KURT WEILL
Ballade vom angenehmen Leben
HENRY PURCELL
Music for a while (Dryden)*
Artists
»One of the most successful and distinguished classical music festival in the world now for almost 50 years, this Austrian Alpine festival presents Lieder recitals and chamber music concerts revolving around the great Viennese composer and his contemporaries.«
Gramophone, Großbritannien