Programme to include:
Richard Mills: Songlines of the Heart’s Desire
Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch (selection)
and songs by Schumann and Brahms

Acclaimed baritone Roderick Williams and star of the opera stage and concert platform Joan Rodgers perform a programme of duets and solo songs accompanied by Roger Vignoles.

In his cycle Songlines of the Heart’s Desire, Australian composer Richard Mills has set stories telling of journeys of hearts and minds, by poets from across time and around the world – an anonymous 4th century Chinese poet, Bengali Rabindranath Tagore, American Kenneth Patchen, French-Tunisian Amina Said and Australians John Shaw Neilsen and Judith Wright.

Songlines of the Heart’s Desire: ‘exceptional ... a major lyrical song cycle of great beauty about love suspended within a timeless now’ (The Age)

www.eif.co.uk/rodgers

Supported by the VIctorian Government through Arts Victoria, Australia

Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes approximately
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