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