Summer Music in City Churches - Invitation to Journey: Rachel Nicholls and Michael Dussek
Summer Music in City Churches - Invitation to Journey: Rachel Nicholls and Michael Dussek at St Giles Cripplegate Church, London
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About the show
Internationally acclaimed soprano Rachel Nicholls takes us on a journey in song, across the channel, from the City of London to the landscapes of France.
Accompanied by outstanding pianist Michael Dussek, the concert features a beguiling programme of French and English song.
From Walton’s song cycle celebrating the City of London to Poulenc’s romantic portrait of Parisian life, Duparc’s idealised vision of France through the poetry of Charles Baudelaire to Debussy’s impressionistic interpretation of the French landscape, it’s a concert not to be missed.
WALTON A Song for the Lord Mayor’s Table
DUPARC L’invitation au Voyage
POULENC Hyde Park, Montparnasse
DEBUSSY Ariettes Oubliées
POULENC Les chemins de l’amour
Rachel Nicholls, soprano
Michael Dussek, piano
Doors open half an hour before the concert starts. There will be an interval of 20 mins.
Featuring - Rachel Nicholls
Rachel Nicholls is now widely recognised as one of the most exciting dramatic sopranos of her generation. Her astonishing performances as Brünnhilde in the universally critically acclaimed Ring Cycles at the 2013 Longborough Festival catapulted her to international recognition as a force to be reckoned with in opera’s heavyweight soprano roles.
Michael Dussek
Michael Dussek specialises in chamber music and song accompaniment. For more than thirty years he has been privileged to perform in the world's major concert halls with internationally acclaimed artists such as violinists Cho-Liang Lin, Anne Akiko Meyers, Antje Weithaas and Xue Wei, cellist Ofra Harnoy and singers Bernarda Fink, Stephan Loges, Christopher Maltman, Ian Partridge, Joan Rodgers and Vassily Savenko.
He has also collaborated with the Bridge, Chilingirian, Coull and Dante String Quartets.
'Mr Dussek’s lovely accompaniment achieved a balance of shining precision' (The Daily Telegraph).