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Preceded at 3pm by a two hour “bring a song” session for amateur singers.

Performers

Katie Bray (mezzo-soprano), Jonathan Sells (baritone) and William Vann (piano)

Programme

In the year of the London Olympic Games, the final concert of the festival celebrate London in song. Walton’s A song for the Lord Mayor’s table appears alongside Ronald Copr’s Flower of cities, songs by Dring, Finzi, Head, Holst, Ives, Purcell, Shaw and Sondheim and Ireland’s London pieces for solo piano.

Tonight’s two singers have been taking singing competitions by storm: Katie Bray won first prizes in the prestigious Richard Lewis competition at the Royal Academy of Music in 2011 and Jonathan Sells took the Guildhall Rose Bowl, Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prizer and the Thelma King vocal award among other prizes.

Rollicum rorum Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)
On the way to Kew George Butterworth (1885-1916)
Lavender pond (Surrey commercial docks) Michael Head (1900-1976)
West London Charles Ives (1874-1954)
London Town Martin Shaw (1875-1958)

From London pieces John Ireland (1879-1962)
I. Chelsea reach

Songs for the Lord Mayor’s table William Walton (1902-1983)
The Lord Mayor’s table
Glide gently
Wapping old stairs
Holy Thursday
The contrast
Rhyme

INTERVAL

Flower of cities Ronald Corp (1951-)
To the city of London
The distant prospect
Sonnet (composed upon Westminster Bridge)
London
Glide gently
London is a fine town
To the city of London

From London pieces John Ireland
II. Soho forenoons
III. Ragamuffin

On the brow of Richmond Hill (arr. B. Britten) – Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Business girls – Madeleine Dring (1923-1977)
Dream City – Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
The worst pies in London – Stephen Sondheim (1930-)

A nightingale sang on Berkeley Square – Manning Sherwin (1902-1974)