JAMES NEWBY baritone
SIMON LEPPER piano
A ROYAL RECITAL
James Newby returns to NNMF with pianist Simon Lepper in a wide ranging and inventive programme built around kings and queens called A Royal Recital, made up of songs by Schubert, Schumann, Elgar, Purcell and others.
This season James will sing the title role in Eugene Onegin at the Staatsoper, Hannover, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Garsington Opera and will give a recital in the Mahler Festival at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
FULL PROGRAMME
Schubert - Der Sänger
Wolf - Königlich Gebet
Mahler - Rheinlegendchen
Liszt - König von Thule
Britten - Le Roi s’en va-t’en Chasse
Poulenc - La Reine de Coeur
Saint-Saens - Le pas d’armes du Roi Jean
Schumann - Gedichte die Königin Maria Stuart
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Schumann - Ballade des Harfners
Purcell - Music for a while
Mozart - Ridente la calma
Haydn - Die zu späte Ankunft der Mutter
Elgar - Was it some Golden Star?
Madeleine Dring - Mélisande, the far away princess
Cornelius - Die Könige
Heggie - The Haughty Snail-King
Beethoven – Flohlied
Worseley Charles - The Green-eyed Dragon
