La Monnaie / De Munt LA MONNAIE / DE MUNT
Vocalissimo

Mark Padmore & Simon Lepper

Presentation
Recital
This is eloquent lieder singing driven by astute and sensitive attention to the texts.— The New York Times

Far from the hustle and bustle of the big opera business, Mark Padmore has built a career around carefully selected and crafted performances, which over the last four decades have evolved into veritable events. That certainly applies to this song recital, probably his last at La Monnaie. Accompanied by pianist Simon Lepper, the English tenor is presenting an inspired programme of Anglo-Saxon songs to texts by Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy and others, sensitively set to music by composers like Benjamin Britten, Samuel Barber, Gustav Holst and Charles Ives. On the other side of the Channel they are met by the mélodies of Gabriel Fauré and Reynaldo Hahn, each in musical settings of poems by Paul Verlaine. C’est l’heure exquise!

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Dates & tickets

Location

La Monnaie

Prices

Cat a - € 46 / Cat b - € 38
Cat c - € 24 / Cat d - € 10

Streaming

Broadcast on Musiq3
17.3.2022

Running time

2h (including one intermission)

Programme

Gabriel Fauré
From Cinq Mélodies de Venise:
- Mandoline
- En sourdine
La bonne chanson

Reynaldo Hahn
From Sept Chansons grises:
- Chanson d’automne
- Tous deux
- L’allée est sans fin
- En sourdine
- L’heure exquise  

Benjamin Britten
'Evening' and 'Night', extr. de This Way to the Tomb
Who are these Children?
At the mid hour of night, from Folk Song Arrangements: Moore's Irish Melodies

Samuel Barber
Bessie Bobtail

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Silent Noon, from The House of Life

Gerald Finzi
Channel Firing
Fear no more the Heat of the Sun

Charles Ives
The Housatonic at Stockbridge

Rebecca Clarke
The Seal Man

Michael Tippett
Full Fathom Five, from Songs for Ariel

Ivor Gurney
Sleep, from Five Elisabethan Songs

Gustav Holst
Betelgeuse

Dates & tickets

Dates

  • Mon 07 Feb 2022

    Time

    20:00

    Venue

    La Monnaie

    Infos

    CST required

Cast
Cast

TenoreMARK PADMORE
PianoSIMON LEPPER

ProductionLA MONNAIE / DE MUNT