London Song Festival
The London Song Festival is in its fifth year and is an annual event focused entirely to promoting the song repertoire. The 2012 festival will be devoted to English song. It features a series of song recitals and concerts featuring major artists alongside the best young talent from the UK and overseas.
Concert 1
Wednesday 31st October: English and American Comedy Songs with Laura Wolk-Lewanowicz (soprano).
Concert 2
Wednesday 7th November: Distant and Mystical Lands: Songs of the Imagination and of Dreams with Maire Flavin (soprano) and Roderick Williams (baritone). Programme includes John Ireland's Land of Lost Content, rare Celtic songs by Arnold Bax, Songs from the Chinese by Granville Bantock and music by Finzi, Duparc, Kurt Weill, Berlioz and Amy Woodforde-Finden.
Concert 3
Wednesday 14th November: The Vasnier Songbook with Anna Devin (soprano) and Gillian Keith (soprano). A performance of Debussy's complete Vasnier Songbook, including some unpublished material from the Bibliotheque National in Paris and the Library of Congress in Washington. Debussy wrote these songs for the married soprano Marie-Blanche Vasnier with whom he enjoyed an affair from 1880 to 1887.
Concert 4
Wednesday 21st November: Delius and his World with Yvonne Kenny (soprano). Programme of songs by Delius in the context of his friends and contemporaries including Grieg, Debussy, Brahms, Bax, Quilter and C W Orr.
Concert 5
Friday 23rd November: A Celebration of John Ireland (d. 1962) and Samuel Coleridge-Tayloer (d. 1912) with Sylvie Bedouelle (mezzo-soprano) and Andrew Glover (tenor) Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was an Anglo-African composer who died aged 37 having fought racism, found fame as the composer of Hiawatha's Wedding Feast and since sunk into unjustified neglect. John Ireland is one of England's most characteristic composers of Song.
Concert 6
Wednesday 28th November: Songs of Travel and Nightfall with BBC New Generation Artist Ruby Hughes (soprano) and Jonathan McGovern (baritone). Programme includes Debussy Cinq Poemes de Baudelaire, John Ireland Songs of a Wayfarer, Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, and songs by Schubert.
Wednesday 31st October: English and American Comedy Songs with Laura Wolk-Lewanowicz (soprano).
Concert 2
Wednesday 7th November: Distant and Mystical Lands: Songs of the Imagination and of Dreams with Maire Flavin (soprano) and Roderick Williams (baritone). Programme includes John Ireland's Land of Lost Content, rare Celtic songs by Arnold Bax, Songs from the Chinese by Granville Bantock and music by Finzi, Duparc, Kurt Weill, Berlioz and Amy Woodforde-Finden.
Concert 3
Wednesday 14th November: The Vasnier Songbook with Anna Devin (soprano) and Gillian Keith (soprano). A performance of Debussy's complete Vasnier Songbook, including some unpublished material from the Bibliotheque National in Paris and the Library of Congress in Washington. Debussy wrote these songs for the married soprano Marie-Blanche Vasnier with whom he enjoyed an affair from 1880 to 1887.
Concert 4
Wednesday 21st November: Delius and his World with Yvonne Kenny (soprano). Programme of songs by Delius in the context of his friends and contemporaries including Grieg, Debussy, Brahms, Bax, Quilter and C W Orr.
Concert 5
Friday 23rd November: A Celebration of John Ireland (d. 1962) and Samuel Coleridge-Tayloer (d. 1912) with Sylvie Bedouelle (mezzo-soprano) and Andrew Glover (tenor) Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was an Anglo-African composer who died aged 37 having fought racism, found fame as the composer of Hiawatha's Wedding Feast and since sunk into unjustified neglect. John Ireland is one of England's most characteristic composers of Song.
Concert 6
Wednesday 28th November: Songs of Travel and Nightfall with BBC New Generation Artist Ruby Hughes (soprano) and Jonathan McGovern (baritone). Programme includes Debussy Cinq Poemes de Baudelaire, John Ireland Songs of a Wayfarer, Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, and songs by Schubert.
St Pauls Church, Covent Garden, London, WC2E8NA
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