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18 An Italian Songbook with Roderick Williams

Part of the Ryedale Festival Summer 2019

Add to my Calendar 16-07-2019 20:00 16-07-2019 22:00 36 18 An Italian Songbook with Roderick Williams For his final masterpiece, Hugo Wolf looked south – to Italy – and produced a collection of tiny jewel-like songs that paint a kaleidoscopic portrait of village life. The men and women of his Italian Songbook fall in and out of love, with squabbles and petty jealousies heard alongside serenades and love songs of great beauty. Darker undercurrents also occasionally emerge in a songbook that Wolf filled with humour and charm, sarcasm and tenderness, delight and despair. Like Mozart, Wolf creates characters that are astonishingly precise, vivid and detailed, but also somehow universal. And his tiny scenes of village life paint a bigger picture too: a whole world of human frailty, passion and pain. Roderick Williams heads a hand-picked cast of top British singers in a new staged English version of his Italian Songbook, created by Jeremy Sams and Christopher Glynn. Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, York DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall
University of York
York
YO10 5DD
England

Programme

Roderick Williams – Italian Songbook

Performers

Roderick Williams – baritone
Rowan Pierce – soprano
Katie Bray – mezzo-soprano
Nicky Spence – baritone
James Newby – baritone
Christopher Glynn – piano
Jeremy Sams – Director
Louise Shephard – Director

Other concerts in this Festival ▼

32 Orchestra of Opera North

34 Carducci Quartet

40 Bach’s Angels – Solomon’s Knot

42 A Purcell Pageant

10 Flora Curzon

23 echo Choir

Jess Gillam in Recital

Programme Note

For his final masterpiece, Hugo Wolf looked south – to Italy – and produced a collection of tiny jewel-like songs that paint a kaleidoscopic portrait of village life. The men and women of his Italian Songbook fall in and out of love, with squabbles and petty jealousies heard alongside serenades and love songs of great beauty. Darker undercurrents also occasionally emerge in a songbook that Wolf filled with humour and charm, sarcasm and tenderness, delight and despair. Like Mozart, Wolf creates characters that are astonishingly precise, vivid and detailed, but also somehow universal. And his tiny scenes of village life paint a bigger picture too: a whole world of human frailty, passion and pain. Roderick Williams heads a hand-picked cast of top British singers in a new staged English version of his Italian Songbook, created by Jeremy Sams and Christopher Glynn.

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