CELEBRATING VALENTINE’S WITH
LOVE SONGS OLD & NEW
with Roderick Williams OBE, baritone &
Yi-heng Yang, piano
salomon series - february 19, 2023
2:00pm at town hall
Program:
Robert Schumann:
Widmung
Du bist wie eine Blume
Meine Rose
Dichterliebe Op. 48
Roger Quilter: 7 Elizabethan Lyrics
Clara Schumann: Liebst du um Schönheit
Fanny Mendelssohn: Nähe des Geliebten
Josephine Lang: Abschied
Robert Schumann: Er, der Herrlichste von allen
Caroline Shaw: how do I find you
Sally Beamish: Nightingale (from 4 Hafez Songs)
Cheryl Frances Hoad: The Pros and Cons
Gerald Finzi: I Said to Love
Benjamin Britten: Tell me the Truth about Love
BIO:
Roderick Williams OBE, baritone
Roderick Williams OBE is one of today’s most sought after baritones and is in constant demand on the concert platform and in recital, encompassing a repertoire from the baroque to world premieres. In 2016, in his native Britain, he won the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society’s Singer of the Year award. At the world’s leading opera houses, with the most prominent symphony orchestras, and in the major concert venues, Roderick Williams has been hailed for the beauty of his voice and his exquisite musicality.
Yi-Heng Yang, piano
Pianist Yi-heng Yang has been described as an “exquisite collaborator (Opera News), “suberbly adept (Gramophone)” and has been noted for her “remarkable expressivity and technique (Early Music Magazine).” Passionate about performing music of many eras and genres, she is also recognized as one of the leading fortepianists and early keyboardists of her generation.
Yi-heng is on the faculty of The Juilliard School, where she teaches piano, improvisation, and historical performance.