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
»Die Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg und Hohenems ist die Top-Adresse unter den Festivals für Liedgesang und Kammermusik.«
Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Switzerland