James Gilchrist, tenor, & Anna Tilbrook, piano - St Andrew's Church

Programme:
George Butterworth - A Shropshire lad (poems by A. E. Housman)

* Loveliest of Trees
* When I Was One-and-Twenty
* Look Not In My eyes
* Think No More, Lad
* The Lads in Their Hundreds
* Is My Team Ploughing?

Ivor Gurney - Songs

* Sleep (J. Fletcher)
* In Flanders (F. W. Harvey)
* All night under the moon (W. W. Gibson)
* The Salley Gardens (W. B. Yeats)
* By a Bierside (J. Masefield)

John Ireland - Two Songs (poems by Rupert Brooke)

* The Soldier
* Blow Out, You Bugles

Interval

George Butterworth - Love blows as the Wind Blows (poems by W. E. Henley)

* In the Year That's Come and Gone
* Life in Her Creaking Shoes
* Fill a Glass with Golden Wine
* On the Way to Kew

Vaughan Williams - Songs of Travel (poems by R. L. Stephenson)

* The Vagabond
* Let Beauty Awake
* The Roadside Fire
* Youth and Love
* In Dreams
* The Infinite Shining Heavens
* Whither Must I Wander
* Bright Is the Ring of Words
* I Have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope

Tenor James Gilchrist began his working life as a doctor, turning to a full-time music career in 1996. His extensive concert repertoire has seen him perform in major concert halls throughout the world with renowned conductors including Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Roger Norrington, Bernard Labadie, Harry Christophers, Harry Bicket, Masaaki Suzuki and Richard Hickox.

A master of English music, he has performed Brittens Church Parables in St Petersburg, in London and at the Aldeburgh Festival, Nocturne with the NHK Symphony in Tokyo and War Requiem with the San Francisco Symphony and the National Youth Orchestra of Germany.

Recent highlights have included the role of Rev. Adams in Deborah Warners award-winning production of Brittens Peter Grimes at the Teatro Real in Madrid and for his company debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as well as with Bergen Philharmonic cond. Edward Gardner at the Edinburgh International Festival, the Royal Festival Hall, Grieghallen and Den Norske Opera.

Anna Tilbrook has been a regular artist at all the major concert halls and festivals since her debut at the Wigmore Hall in 1999 and frequently broadcasts for Radio 3.

She has collaborated with many leading singers and instrumentalists including Lucy Crowe, James Gilchrist, Ian Bostridge, Mary Bevan, Sophie Bevan, Barbara Hannigan, Sir John Tomlinson, Sir Willard White, Nicholas Daniel, Michael Collins, Natalie Clein, Philip Dukes, Jack Liebeck, Chloe Hanslip, Emily Sun, Guy Johnston, Laura van der Heijden, Jess Gilliam and the Fitzwilliam, Carducci, Sacconi, Elias, Navarra and Barbirolli string quartets.She has also accompanied Jos Carreras, Angela Gheorghiu and Bryn Terfel in televised concerts.

Full details at https://www.wensleydaleconcertseries.co.uk/