Love Notes: I’ll Sing Yours If You’ll Play Mine

When two composers join forces on stage, anything is possible! Baritone Michael Lampard and pianist Ross Fiddes perform each other’s song cycles, along with music of Bach, Beethoven, Verdi and Cole Porter.

Program
Beethoven – “An die ferne Geliebte” (“To the Distant Beloved”, Op. 98) (probably the very first song cycle)
Lampard – So Young and Fair (texts by James Joyce) – Sydney premiere
Verdi – Arias – “Di Provenza” (La Traviata), Alzati! Eritu (Un Ballo in Maschera)
Interval
Fiddes – Love Stories (texts by John Shaw Neilson) – Sydney premiere
Bach – Contrapunctus IV (from The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080)
Cole Porter – Songs – “Begin The Beguine”, ”In the Still of the Night”, “I’ve Got You Under My Skin”, “I Concentrate On You”, “So In Love”, “The Tale of the Oyster”