Evening recital: “The Rebellious Recital”

Alice Coote mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake piano

Tickets: £25, £23 (unwaged/disabled)
FREE (U30/students)

The period of Classical Music was approximately between 1750 and 1820, so why are we still in the habit of using this incorrect, unhelpful and limiting label? Rebellious but hopefully relaxing too, this recital by Alice Coote and pianist Julius Drake takes joy in questioning what makes music ‘classic’? And how – despite genre stereotypes – all great music has something equally revealing to say… Reviewing this recital at Wigmore Hall, The Times commented, “There surely isn’t another singer who could have pulled it off.”

Edward Elgar
Speak, Music

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
An die Freude

George Frideric Handel
Quando mai, spietata sorte 

Richard Wagner
Schmerzen 

Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach
My thief 

Gabriel Fauré
Fleur jetée 

Kurt Weill
It never was you 

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
My genius, my angel, my friend 

Robert Schumann
Sitz ich allein 

Hugo Wolf
Denk’ es, o Seele 

David Bowie
Life on Mars?

Gustav Mahler
Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen 

Joni Mitchell
Borderline 

Leonard Bernstein
Somewhere 

Graham Peel
The Early Morning 

Francis Poulenc
Les chemins de l’amour

Reynaldo Hahn
L’heure exquise

Franz Schubert
Seligkeit

Thomas Arne
Where the bee sucks 

Liza Lehmann
Love, if you knew the light

Irving Berlin
You can have him 

Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel arr. J.S. Bach
Bist du bei mir

Jacques Brel
My death

John Lennon
Imagine 

Richard Strauss
Morgen!