Past Concerts

A concert organised in conjunction with the London Branch of The Elgar Society to celebrate their 50th anniversary. This special occasion features a recital by the internationally acclaimed mezzo, Kathryn Rudge, alongside the multiple prize-winning accompanist and accomplished choral and operatic conductor, William Vann. This will include a selction of Elgar songs, including his Op.37 song cycle, Sea Pictures.

Wine and lunch will then be served, after which the wonderfully dynamic Navarra Quartet will be joined by Ukrainian pianist, Natacha Kudritskaya, to perform Elgar’s Piano Quintet in A minor, Op.84.

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