Join us for an unmissable free gala afternoon concert with one of Britain's best-loved singers, Roderick Williams, and Grammy award-winning pianist Christopher Glynn! An English Winterreise Schubert's Winterreise is one of the most powerful and brilliant song cycles ever written. Here, it is interspersed with a sequence of songs by English composers including Vaughan Williams, Finzi, Quilter, Parry, Britten and Gurney, which mirror and illuminate Schubert's epic winter's journey. Programme Gute Nacht Good night The Vagabond Ralph Vaughan Williams (Stevenson) Die Wetterfahne The Weathervane Blow, blow, thou winter wind Roger Quilter (Shakespeare) Gefrorne Trnen Frozen tears Weep you no more Madeleine Dring (anon) Erstarrung Numbness At Middle-field Gate in February Gerald Finzi (Hardy) Der Lindenbaum The linden tree Linden Lea Ralph Vaughan Williams (Barnes) Wasserflut Torrent Tears, idle tears Frank Bridge (Tennyson) Auf dem Flusse On the stream Nightfall in winter Hubert Parry (Mitchell) Rckblick Backward glance On the Downs Ivor Gurney (Masefield) Irrlicht Will-o-the-wisp In the Minds Eye Gerald Finzi (Hardy) Rast Resting place Lights Out Ivor Gurney (Thomas) Frhlingstraum Springs dream A Song of Enchantment Ina Boyle (de la Mare) Einsamkeit Solitude The folly of being comforted Ivor Gurney (Yeats) INTERVAL - refreshments available Die Post The mail-coach Midnight on the Great Western Benjamin Britten (Hardy) Der greise Kopf The hoary head The Angel Roderick Williams (Blake) Die Krhe The crow Written on terrestrial things Judith Weir (Hardy) Letzte Hoffnung Last hope The too short time Gerald Finzi (Hardy) Im Dorfe In the village Come unto these yellow sands - Michael Tippett (Shakespeare) Der strmische Morgen The stormy morning The Wind and the Rain Elizabeth Maconchy (Shakespeare) Tuschung Illusion Echo - Doreen Carwithen (de la Mare) Der Wegweiser The signpost Whither must I wander? Ralph Vaughan Williams (Stevenson) Das Wirtshaus The inn In a churchyard Gerald Finzi (Hardy) Mut Courage The stormy evening Humphrey Proctor-Gregg (Stevenson) Die Nebensonnen The mock suns Waiting Both - Gerald Finzi (Hardy) Der Leiermann The hurdy-gurdy player Peace on Earth Errollyn Wallen (Wallen) Roderick Williams is one of the most sought-after baritones of his generation with a wide repertoire spanning baroque to contemporary. He enjoys relationships with all the major UK and European opera houses also performs regularly with leading conductors and orchestras throughout the UK, Europe, North America and Australia. Festival appearances include the BBC Proms, Edinburgh, Cheltenham, Aldeburgh and Melbourne. As a recitalist he is in demand around the world and appears regularly at venues including the Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw and Musikverein and at song festivals including Leeds Lieder, Oxford International Song and Ludlow English Song. Roderick Williams was awarded an OBE in June 2017 and was Artist in Residence with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra from 2020-22, Artist in Residence at the 2023 Aldeburgh Festival and Singer in Residence at Music in the Round. He was also one of the featured soloists at the coronation of King Charles III in 2023. As a composer he has had works premired at Wigmore Hall, the Barbican, the Purcell Room and on national radio. In 2016 he won Best Choral Composition at the British Composer Awards and from 2022/23 he holds the position of Composer in Association of the BBC Singers. Christopher Glynn is an award-winning pianist and accompanist, praised for his breathtaking sensitivity (Gramophone), irrepressible energy, wit and finesse (The Guardian), a perfect fusion of voice and piano (BBC Music Magazine) and as an inspired programmer (The Times). He is Artistic Director of the Ryedale Festival, programming around sixty events each year in beautiful and historic venues across North Yorkshire. Chris read music at New College, Oxford and studied piano with John Streets in France and Malcolm Martineau at the Royal Academy of Music, where he now teaches. He has made many CD recordings and is regularly heard on BBC Radio 3. An interest in bringing classical song to a wider audience led Chris to commission Jeremy Sams to create new English translations of Schuberts song cycles which have been recorded for Signum Records as well as Wolf Italian Songbook. Recent and future plans include recitals with Roderick Williams, Claire Booth and Ian Bostridge, further collaborations with Jeremy Sams (Schumann songs), CD recordings with Nicky Spence, Kathryn Rudge, Claire Booth, Roderick Williams and The Sixteen, performances at the Spitalfields, Lammermuir, Oxford Lieder, Leeds Lieder and Bath festivals, leading masterclasses for the Britten Pears School, a tour of Wolfs Italian Songbook, and embarking on a project with Rachel Podger to perform and record Mozart and Beethovens Violin Sonatas as well as many appearances at the Wigmore Hall and the Concertgebouw. +++PLEASE NOTE+++ Booking for this concert is strongly recommended. For concert and general enquiries, please email [email protected] or telephone Steven Goulden on 07743 448123.