This year’s Showcase brings together all the strands of our work in a glorious evening of song, celebrating the art of music and its power to change lives.

With Samling Artists
Nardus Williams soprano
Cláudia Ribas mezzo-soprano
Euan McDonald tenor
Felix Gygli baritone
Jonathan Ware pıano
Alfred Fardell piano

Guest artist Eliott Berdugo clarinet

And, representing Samling Academy, Tia Radix-Callixte, Lauren Bagge, Benedict Munden and Fabian Tindale Geere

Programme

Franz Schubert, Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D965

Music for a While, Oedipus, King of Thebes Henry Purcell / Benjamin Britten

Possente spirto L’OrfeoClaudio Monteverdi

Andersen Lieder, Op.40 Robert Schumann
Märzveilchen | Muttertraum | Der Soldat
Der Spielmann | Verratene Liebe

Franz Schubert, Ständchen D921

Antonín Dvořák, from Gypsy Songs, Op. 55
My song sounds with love | Songs my mother taught me
Give the hawk a cage

Enrique Granados, La maja y el ruiseñor Goyescas

Ralph Vaughan Williams, Serenade to Music

The programme also includes a selection of poetry on the theme of music