This concert was recorded at All Saints’ Church Helmsley. The full programme is listed below, and the short clip above features the two Purcell songs, The Slow Train and Strauss’ Morgen!.

Rowan Pierce soprano
Christopher Glynn piano

Music for a While

Purcell

Music for a While
O Solitude

Schubert Im Haine
Schumann Du bist wie eine Blume
Mendelssohn Auf Flügeln des Gesanges
Strauss Ich wollt ein Strausslein binden
Grieg Zur Rosenzeit

Trad. Three folk songs

Ireland If there were dreams to sell
Murray I’ll walk beside you
Quilter Love’s Philosophy
Swann The Slow Train
Strauss Morgen!

The spellbinding soprano joins Christopher Glynn for a programme that ranges from Purcell’s great hymn to solitude to Strauss’s famous song of hope.

‘the exquisite Rowan Pierce’ (The Guardian)