Wednesday 8 January 2025, 7.30pm

St Mary's Creative Space, Chester

 

English songs: Songs of Travel, A Shropshire Lad and more.

George Butterworth

From a Shropshire Lad

 

Songs of the Countryside

 

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Songs of Travel

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.