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Heart's Haven

Andrew Hamilton & Iain Burnside

Part of the Ludlow English Song Weekend 2025

Add to my Calendar 11-04-2025 19:30 11-04-2025 21:30 36 Heart's Haven The opening recital of this year's Ludlow English Song Weekend, a three day celebration of art song in English in the beautiful town of Ludlow in the Shropshire Hills. Book for one of our concerts, or immerse yourself in a weekend of music with discussions, films and masterclasses. For details of the full festival programme visit the Ludlow English Song Weekend website. British baritone and rising star Andrew Hamilton returns to the UK from Munich and the ensemble of the Bayerische Staatsoper, for a very international recital programme with the festival's Artistic Director, pianist and broadcaster Iain Burnside. Alongside the familiar presence of Vaughan Williams, Schubert, Schumann and Mendelssohn make rare appearances at Ludlow English Song Weekend, performed in masterly, witty singing translations by Jeremy Sams. To these German Lieder, all sharing a Venetian theme, we add songs by Reynaldo Hahn, a French composer born in Venezuela and three atmospheric ‘Songs of Venice’ by Michael Head, written in 1974 for Dame Janet Baker, who is joining us at this year’s festival. Cole Porter rounds off a cosmopolitan evening. “Andrew Hamilton found an astonishing wealth of expression.” Online Merkur"Pretty much ideal." BBC Music Magazine on Iain Burnside Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Ludlow DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Ludlow Assembly Rooms
Mill Street
Ludlow
Shropshire
SY8 1AZ
England

Programme

Ralph Vaughan Williams – The House of Life: Love-sight
Ralph Vaughan Williams – The House of Life: Heart's Haven
Ralph Vaughan Williams – 4 Poems by Fredegond Shove: The Watermill
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Silent Noon
Archie John – This Lonely Hill (World Premiere)
Michael Head – Three Songs of Venice
Franz Schubert – Gondelfahrer, D.808
Robert Schumann – 2 Venetian Lieder, Op.25 no.17 & 18
Felix Mendelssohn – Venetian Gondola-song, Op.30 no.6
Reynaldo Hahn – Che pecà
Reynaldo Hahn – La Barcheta
Franz Schubert – Il Modo di Prender Moglie, D.902
Cole Porter – Where is the life that late I led

Performers

Andrew Hamilton – baritone
Iain Burnside – piano

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Programme Note

The opening recital of this year's Ludlow English Song Weekend, a three day celebration of art song in English in the beautiful town of Ludlow in the Shropshire Hills. Book for one of our concerts, or immerse yourself in a weekend of music with discussions, films and masterclasses. For details of the full festival programme visit the Ludlow English Song Weekend website.

British baritone and rising star Andrew Hamilton returns to the UK from Munich and the ensemble of the Bayerische Staatsoper, for a very international recital programme with the festival's Artistic Director, pianist and broadcaster Iain Burnside. Alongside the familiar presence of Vaughan Williams, Schubert, Schumann and Mendelssohn make rare appearances at Ludlow English Song Weekend, performed in masterly, witty singing translations by Jeremy Sams. To these German Lieder, all sharing a Venetian theme, we add songs by Reynaldo Hahn, a French composer born in Venezuela and three atmospheric ‘Songs of Venice’ by Michael Head, written in 1974 for Dame Janet Baker, who is joining us at this year’s festival. Cole Porter rounds off a cosmopolitan evening.

“Andrew Hamilton found an astonishing wealth of expression.” Online Merkur
"Pretty much ideal." BBC Music Magazine on Iain Burnside

Andrew Hamilton, Iain Burnside

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