If you love Schubert’s Winterreise you’re in for a treat at the end of April. Roddy has reimagined the ever-popular songs cycle with ‘An English Song Winterreise’ at Lighthouse, Poole. The performance uses 24 of Schubert’s original songs as inspiration, with Roddy handpicking the English songs himself.
During the concert you can expect music from Vaughan Williams The Vagabond, Linden Lea, Whither Must I Wander, Madeleine Dring’s Weep You No More and Ina Boyle’s A Song of Enchantment to name but a few. Roddy said, “the selection of English songs will be a mix of the old and the new and I’ll hope to introduce people to some songs they might not have heard before.”
And to close the season Roddy joins four other singers to perform Tippett’s A Child of our Time alongside Chief Conductor Mark Wigglesworth [13 May]. The oratorio was an emotional response to the events that led to the ‘Kristallnacht’ pogrom of November 1938 and Tippett uses the spiritual as a contemporary equivalent to the Lutheran chorale of the Bach settings.
Of the piece Roddy said, “it is great music” and went on to explain that “the resonance of a boy being chewed up by the machine of war was an image that Tippett used to create an immediate political response to events going on in Europe at the time.”
Roddy won’t just be bringing music to the concert hall though. He’ll be travelling beyond too as he joins our Participate team for projects working alongside schoolchildren later in the year too…watch this space!
See Roddy perform a recital on Wednesday 29 April [this performance is also available to view as a Digital Concert]. Then join him for Tippett’s A Child of our Time on Wednesday 13 May.