The Romantic Traveller
Live from the top of the St Pancras Clock Tower
with bass baritone Jack Sandison and pianist Sanches Perez
Join us for a wonderful musical journey through love, longing and adventure, from Vaughan Williams, Mozart and Strauss to Tchaikovsky and Duparc.
Exploring the many faces of romance, the programme moves from the solitary wanderer to the dreamer, lover and storyteller.
The afternoon concludes with timeless songs from the golden age of musical theatre, bringing warmth, nostalgia and enduring charm.
Programme
II. Let Beauty Awake — Songs of Travel — Ralph Vaughan Williams
Se vuol ballare— Le nozze di Figaro — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Deh vieni alla finestra — Don Giovanni — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ruhe, meine Seele! — Vier Lieder, Op. 27 — Richard Strauss
Litanei auf das Fest Aller Seelen— Gesänge des Harfners, D. 478 — Franz Schubert
I. Chanson romanesque— Don Quichotte à Dulcinée — Maurice Ravel
Phidylé — Mélodies — Henri Duparc
Fear No More the Heat o’ the Sun — Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18 — Gerald Finzi
The Floral Dance — Katie Moss
Vous qui faites l’endormie— Faust — Charles Gounod
Vecchia zimarra— La bohème — Giacomo Puccini
I. Chanson romanesque— Don Quichotte à Dulcinée — Maurice Ravel
None but the Lonely Heart— Six Romances, Op. 6 — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
This Nearly Was Mine — South Pacific — Richard Rodgers
How to Handle a Woman— Camelot — Frederick Loewe
If Ever I Would Leave You— Camelot — Frederick Loewe
Every Time We Say Goodbye — Seven Lively Arts — Cole Porter