James Gilchrist & Anna Tilbrook

JAMES GILCHRIST (tenor)

ANNA TILBROOK (piano)

Henry Purcell (1659-95) Songs

Music for a while
If music be the food of love
Sweeter than roses

Benjamin Britten (1913–76) Arrangements of Folksongs

The Sally Gardens

At the mid hour of night

How sweet the answer

Waly Waly

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)

Songs of Travel (Robert Louis Stevenson)

The Vagabond

Let Beauty Awake

The Roadside Fire

Youth and Love

In Dreams

The Infinite Shining Heavens

Whither Must I Wander

Bright Is the Ring of Words

I Have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope

INTERVAL

 

Felix Mendelssohn (1809–47) Songs

Auf Flügeln des Gesanges (Heine)

Nachtlied (Eichendorff)

Schlaflose Angen Leuchte (Byron, tr Mendelssohn)

Keine von der Erde Schönen (Byron, tr Mendelssohn)
 

Robert Schumann (1810 – 56)

Liederkreis op 24 (Heine)

Morgens steh' ich auf

Es treibt mich hin

Ich wandelte unter den Bäumen

Lieb' Liebchen

Schöne Wiege meine Leiden

Warte, warte, wilder Schiffsmann

Berg und Burgen schau'n herunter

Anfangs wollt' ich fast verzagen

Mit Myrthen und Rosen

 

Our celebrity recital features one of the finest British tenors with his regular pianist (for 20 years!). James Gilchrist’s repertoire ranges from Evangelist in Bach’s Passions through Romantic repertoire to English song, and contemporary works. Anna Tilbrook’s skilful pianism has accompanied many singers and instrumentalists.

In a typically diverse programme, they showcase English Song & German Lieder, starting with some of Purcell’s most noted songs, followed by Britten’s fine folksong arrangements. Songs of Travel by Vaughan Williams, to nine poems by RL Stevenson, is evocative, capturing many contrasting moods. Mendelssohn shows typical fluency and scope in these four songs. The recital ends with the nine Heine settings of Schumann’s Opus 24 Liederkreis, a cycle in which both texts and music are closely inter-related, with powerful impact.