Wednesday 8 January 2025, 7.30pm
St Mary's Creative Space, Chester
English songs: Songs of Travel, A Shropshire Lad and more.
George ButterworthFrom a Shropshire Lad |
Songs of the Countryside
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Ralph Vaughan WilliamsSongs of Travel |
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Loveliest Of Trees When I Was One And Twenty Look Not In My Eyes Think No More, lad The Lads In Their Hundreds Is My Team Ploughing? |
Michael Head: Sweet Chance, That Led My Steps Abroad A Vagabond Song Tewkesbury Road Limehouse Reach John Ireland: When Lights Go Rolling Round The Sky Great Things Ralph Vaughan Williams: Linden Lea |
The Vagabond Let Beauty Awake The Roadside Fire Youth And Love In Dreams The Infinite Shining Heavens Whither Must I Wander Bright Is The Ring Of Words I Have Trod The Upward And The Downward Slope |
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Shropshire baritone Peter Edge is delighted to return to Chester Music Society, presenting a recital of Songs of the Countryside. Graduating from the Royal College of Music, London, with Distinction, Peter went on to become a principal artist enjoying seasons with English Touring Opera, Grange Festival Opera, Longborough Festival Opera and Opera North. In Autumn 2024, Peter joins the Royal Opera House, performing a lead role in Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti and A Quiet Place, marking both Peter’s and the opera’s debut at Covent Garden.
John Gough is a Tutor in Piano at Undergraduate and Post Graduate level at the
Royal Northern College of Music. He studied at RNCM on Associated Board
Scholarship and was first pianist to graduate with a First Class Honours Degree
and the Professional Perfomance Diploma with Distinction in the same year.
He won the John Ireland Centenary Piano Competition and has since broadcast
many of his works on BBC Radio. He has considerable experience in solo and
chamber music playing and more recently, song recitals.