This year’s Showcase brings together all the strands of our work with Samling Artists and singers from our Samling Academy programme performing together. We are also delighted that actor Adrian Lester CBE will be joining them on stage to read poems by writers including Andrew Marvell, Walter de la Mare, Seamus Heaney and Carol Ann Duffy, threading together a programme that reflects in song and words the power of music 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

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

Claudio Monteverdi, Possente spirto L’Orfeo 

Robert Schumann,  Andersen Lieder, Op.40
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

Image: Fireplace medallion of Orpheus and the animals by Louis Reid Deuchars, Lorimer Dining Room, Marchmont House.
Photo ©️ Andrew Montgomery/Marchmont House