Louise Winter - mezzo soprano
Mary Gifford Brown - speaker
Nigel Foster - piano
A celebration of the life and work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) and Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907)
Programme includes songs by Edward Elgar, Dominick Argento, Frank Bridge, Roger Quilter, Charles Hubert Parry and John Ireland.
Concert 2 - Thursday November 10th 2011
Anna Leese - soprano
Benedict Nelson - baritone
Nigel Foster - piano
Settings of the English Romantic Poets; Keats, Shelley, Blake, Wordsworth and Lord Byron.
Programme includes songs and duets by Roger Quilter, Benjamin Britten, Peter Warlock, William Walton, Frederick Delius, Charles Stanford and Betty Roe.
Concert 3 - Thursday November 17th 2011
Roderick Williams - baritone
Nigel Foster - piano
Settings of A E Housman and Thomas Hardy.
Programme includes songs by Gerald Finzi, Gustav Holst, George Butterworth, Ivor Gurney and Arnold Bax.
Concert 4 - Thursday November 24th 2011
Marcus Farnsworth - baritone
Iestyn Morris - counter-tenor
Nigel Foster - piano
Settings of Jacobean poets including Robert Herrick, John Donne and Ben Jonson.
Programme includes songs by Roger Quilter, Geoffrey Bush, Peter Warlock, Ivor Gurney, Gerald Finzi, Frank Bridge and Lennox Berkeley. This concert will also feature the premiere of a new duet by the outstanding prize-winning young composer Raymond Yiu.
Concert 5 - Wednesday November 30th 2011
Laura Casey - soprano
David Stout - baritone
Nigel Foster - piano
A programme of English comedy songs by Flanders and Swann, Noel Coward, Jeremy Nicholas, Betty Roe and others.
All concerts take place in the church of St George Hanover Square, London W1 and begin at 7.30pm
Tickets are now on sale from www.quaytickets.com
link: http://quay.it/londonsongfestival
