“People often ask me why I always seem so cheerful” says Roderick Williams. “And I just say, why shouldn’t I be? I’m singing wonderful music”. With Williams, a recital is more than just a selection of beautifully-sung miniatures. It’s a journey, and today Williams and legendary song pianist Roger Vignoles cross nations and centuries to explore a landscape of the imagination – from the English coastline of Benjamin Britten to the heights of Schubert’s Austrian alps.

Programme:

Hearing Pictures
Schubert: Selection of early lieder (see website for full details)
Debussy: De Grêve from Proses Lyriques
Head: The Estuary
Keel: Trade Winds
Britten: Seascape from On this Island
Ives: From ‘The Swimmers’
Poulenc: Le Travail du Peintre
Schubert: Wandrers Nachtlied II D.768 (Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh); Auf dem Wasser zu singen D.774

£5 – £25