PROGRAMME

Roger Quilter                                       My life’s delight from Seven Elizabethan Lyrics

Roger Quilter                                       Five Shakespeare Songs                                               

                                                                        1. Fear no more the heat o’ the sun

                                                                        2. Under the Greenwood tree

                                                                        3. It was a lover and his lass

                                                                        4. Take, o take those lips away

                                                                        5. Hey, ho, the wind and the rain

Franz Schubert                                     Du bist die Ruh                                                

Franz Schubert                                     Suleika I                                                                      

Richard Strauss                                     Morgen! from Op. 27, 4 Lieder                        

Robert Schumann                                 Widmung from Op. 25, Myrthen                       

Lerner and Loewe                                I could have danced all night from My Fair Lady

Rogers and Hammerstein II                   If I loved you from Carousel                                        

Rogers and Hammerstein II                   Mister Snow from Carousel                                         

Ivor Novello                                        We’ll gather lilacs from Perchance to Dream                

Johann Strauss II                                  My dear Marquis from Die Fledermaus

BIOGRAPHIES

Caroline Taylor graduated with Distinction from the Royal Northern College of Music. She is delighted to be a Concordia Foundation Artist, with whom she recently made her solo recital debut at St Martin in the Fields. This summer, Caroline is an Emerging Artist at Longborough Festival Opera, performing Chocholka and covering Vixen Sharp-Ears in The Cunning Little Vixen.

British pianist Guy Murgatroyd enjoys a reputation as one of a leading generation of adaptable pianists, at home as a soloist, song pianist and répétiteur. Initial studies were with scholarship at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, following which he graduated from the Royal Academy of Music with a Master of Arts (Distinction). Guy is the Musical Director for independent company Opera Rogue.