Dame Felicity Palmer & Simon Lepper: Purcell, Schumann,Tschaikowsky, Horovitz, Poulenc, Sondheim

09.07.2018 - 19:30 Uhr

Dame Felicity Palmer mezzo-soprano
Simon Lepper piano

Dame Felicity Palmer made her professional debut in 1971 and has since achieved stellar status as soprano and mezzo-soprano.

She and Simon Lepper build their programme around Lady Macbeth – a scena by Joseph Horovitz, a psychological portrait of Shakespeare’s terrifying, tragic character.

Programme to include:
Henry Purcell (c.1659-1695)
- Mad Bess
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
- 5 Lieder der Maria Stuart Op. 135
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
- None but the lonely heart Op. 6 No. 6
- Night Op. 73 No. 2
-.Why? Op. 6 No. 5

INTERVAL

Joseph Horovitz (b.1926)
- Lady Macbeth - a Scena
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
- Fiançailles pour rire
- Violon
- Mon cadavre est doux comme un gant
- La Souris
- Cinq poèmes de Max Jacob
- Berceuse
- Madeleine Dring (1923-1977)
- Song of a nightclub proprietress
- Janis Ian
- At Seventeen
Stephen Sondheim (b.1930)
- Follies
- Losing my Mind
- Could I leave you?

https://wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/dame-felicity-palmer-simon-lepper-201807091930