Concert starts at 3pm
Kitty Whately mezzo-soprano
William Vann piano
Following her successes in the Kathleen Ferrier Awards and the Royal Over-Seas League Competition, the British mezzo has won ever greater prominence on the operatic stage and concert platform. Her programme draws attention to Vaughan Williams’s pupils and also includes his own major cycle (1903) setting poems by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Anon
The Willow Song
(arranged by Ralph Vaughan Williams)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Take, O take those lips away
When icicles hang by the wall
Orpheus with his Lute
Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994)
Ophelia’s Song
4 Shakespeare Songs:
Come away, death
King Stephen
Madeleine Dring (1923-1977)
Take, O Take Those Lips Away
It was a Lover
Grace Williams (1906-1977)
The Lament of the Border Widow
Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979)
Down by the Salley Gardens
The Seal Man
Ralph Vaughan Williams
The House of Life