Mikhail Timoshenko baritone; Elitsa Desseva piano

Don Quixote – Despite and Still

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Mikhail Timoshenko baritone
Elitsa Desseva piano

Wigmore Hall/Independent Opera Song Competition Winner's Recital

Having won the Wigmore Hall/Independent Opera Song Competition in September 2019, the Russian baritone returns with the Bulgarian pianist, his regular duo partner, for a programme that focuses on the knightly hero of Cervantes’s classic novel, and also mixes Rachmaninov with two leading American composers of song.

Ned Rorem (b.1923)
- - Poems of Walt Whitman
    - To you
- Code of Honor
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
- - Don Quichotte à Dulcinée
- à Dulcinée
Sergey Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
- - She is as lovely as the noon Op. 14 No. 9
  - Sing not to me, beautiful maiden Op. 4 No. 4
  - In the silence of the secret night Op. 4 No. 3
- Never to Meet
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
- - Despite and Still Op. 41
    - Solitary Hotel
Ned Rorem
- - Poems of Walt Whitman
    - O you whom I often and silently come
Samuel Barber
- - Despite and Still Op. 41
    - My Lizard
- The Holy Fool
Ned Rorem
- - Poems of Walt Whitman
    - As Adam early in the morning
Samuel Barber
- - Despite and Still Op. 41
    - In the Wilderness
Ned Rorem
- - Poems of Walt Whitman
    - Gliding o'er all
- The Impossible Dream
Sergey Rachmaninov
- - Oh thou, my field Op. 4 No. 5
  - The Dream Op. 8 No. 5
  - Fragment from Musset Op. 21 No. 6
- Between Madness and Sanity
Samuel Barber
- - Despite and Still Op. 41
    - A Last Song: A last song, and a very last
    - Despite and Still
Ned Rorem
- - Poems of Walt Whitman
    - Look down, fair moon
- Legacy
Jacques Ibert (1890-1962)
- - 4 Chansons de Don Quichotte
Encore
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
- - Old American Songs I
    - The Boatmen's Dance