London Song Festival: Friends and Lovers - Benjamin Britten and W H Auden
Closing recital of the 2022 London Song Festival
The programme incorporates every available voice and piano song Britten and Auden wrote together;
On This Island, the Cabaret Songs and numerous individual songs including Fish in the unruffled lakes, Underneath the abject willow, Night covers up the rigid land, To lie flat on the back, When you’re feeling like expressing your affection, What’s in your mind, and The sun shines down, and selections from their other works including Ballad for Heroes, Hymn to St Cecilia, the Spring Symphony and the operetta Paul Bunyan.
The programme features an arrangement by Griffin Candey for speaker and piano of one of their first collaborations, Night Mail, commissioned for this concert by the London Song Festival.
Charlotte Bowden – soprano
Harry Grigg – tenor
Nigel Foster – piano
David Mildon – speaker
