26 Nov 1984
Works performed:
Schubert: Cantata 'Sanger, der von Herzen singet'; Purcell: Sound the Trumpet; Haydn: Sailor's Song; Dibdin: Tom Bowling; arr. Pears: Soldier, soldier won't you marry me?; Grainger: Shallow Brown; Moeran: In youth is pleasure; Holst: Betelgeuse; Pears: Take, O, take those lips away; Britten: Old Abram Brown; arr. Britten: The Ash Grove; Britten: Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac; Bridge: Isobel; Ireland: My true love hath my heart; Britten: Now the Great Bear and Pleiades; Britten: The Lute Songs of the Earl of Essex; Britten: Sonetto XXXVIII; Britten: La belle est au jardin d'amour; Britten: Calypso; Britten: The Choirmaster's Burial; Britten: The Phaedrus monologue; Schubert: Abschied von der Erde
Venue:
Wigmore Hall, London
Performers:
Sarah Walker (mezzo-soprano); Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor); Richard Jackson (baritone); Marilyn Dale (soprano); Graham Johnson (piano)
Further information:
Part of The Songmakers' Almanac Season 1984/5 at Wigmore Hall. A series of six song recitals devised by Graham Johnson. 'Such the Tenor Man Told' was an homage in song and spoken word to Peter Pears, one of the greatest English singers of our time. 2 copies.
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Archive
https://www.bpacatalogue.org/archive/PG-1984-1126
