Songs of the Earth

Mark Padmore (tenor) and Ella O’Neill (piano) with Julia Watson (reader)

According to the New York Times Mark Padmore CBE “does not so much sing this music as inhabit it”, summing up the great British tenor’s ability to nail the character and emotion in the music he sings. “It’s all about poetry and communication”. 

This unique collaboration with TV’s Casualty and Tales of the Unexpected star, Julia Watson blends masterpieces by the likes of Schubert, Mahler, Schumann, Vaughan Williams, Copland and Holst with poetry by Larkin, Gerald Manley Hopkins, Seamus Heaney, Edward Thomas, Wordsworth and WH Auden.