Artists
- Ben Johnsontenor
- James Baillieupiano
- Date
- Wed 08 Apr 2015, 7.30pm
- Duration
- This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
- Availability
Programme
- Paolo Tosti1846-1916
- Malinconia
- Hubert Parry1848-1918
- English Lyrics, Second Set:
- No longer mourn for me when I am dead
- Charles Villiers Stanford1852-1924
- A Sheaf of Songs from Leinster Op. 140:
- A soft day
- Edward Elgar1857-1934
- Pleading Op. 48
- Is she not passing fair?
- Ottorino Respighi1879-1936
- Nevicata
- Pioggia
- Nebbie
Interval
- Arthur Sullivan1842-1900
- The Lost Chord
- Eric Coates1886-1957
- I heard you singing
- Betty and Johnny
- Michael Head1900-1976
- Songs of the Countryside:
- Money, O!
- The little road to Bethlehem
- The Stuttering Lovers(arranged by Herbert Hughes)
- Amy Woodforde-Finden1860-1919
- Kashmiri Song
- Till I Wake
- Liza Lehmann1862-1918
- Four Cautionary Tales and a Moral:
- Henry King (Who chewed little bits of string and was early cut off in dreadful agonies)
- If I built a world for you
- Eric Coates1886-1957
- Tell me where is fancy bred?
- Rise up and reach the stars
Encore
- Thomas Dunhill1877-1946
- The Cloths of Heaven
- Ralph Vaughan Williams1872-1958
- Orpheus with his Lute
Overview
Winner of the 2013 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Audience Prize, Ben Johnson is one of the finest young British singers. Already held in high regard by audiences and critics alike for his song-singing ability, he boasts ‘impeccable phrasing and subtle control and colouring’ (Guardian).
‘Ben Johnson has a fine, bold Italianate voice which … amply justifies his already amassed honours’ Gramophone