Peter Pears, Tenor

Programme

• Henry Purcell

  I attempt from love's sickness to fly (The indian queen Z 630) (1695)

  Not all my torments can your pity move Z 400 (1693)

  There's not a swain (Rule a Wife and Have a Wife Z 587) (1693)

  Thou wakeful Sheperd. A Morning Hymn Z 198 (1688)

• Franz Schubert

  Wohin? D 795/2 (Die schöne Müllerin) (1823)

  Der Neugierige D 795/6 (Die schöne Müllerin) (1823)

  Dass sie hier gewesen D 775 (1823 ?)

  Die Stadt D 957/11 (Schwanengesang, 2. Buch) (1828)

  Ständchen D 889 »Horch, horch! die Lerch« (1826)

• Intermission

• Benjamin Britten

  Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo op. 22 (1940)

  Early one morning (Folk Song Arrangements, Band 5, British Isles Nr. 4)

  The minstrel boy (Folk Song Arrangements, Band 4, Moore's Irish Melodies Nr. 4)

  How sweet the answer echo makes (Folk Song Arrangements, Band 4, Moore's Irish Melodies Nr. 3)

  The brisk young widow (Folk Song Arrangements, Band 5, British Isles Nr. 1)