Roderick Williams, baritone - Julius Drake, piano - Charlotte Blake Alston, narrator - Cristina Garcia Martin - visual artist
British baritone Roderick Williams’s “rich, burnished” voice imbues “myriad colorful nuances” (New York Times) in this recital with peerless collaborative pianist Julius Drake. Enhancing the duo’s performance of Brahms’s song cycle Die schöne Magelone are drawings by Amsterdam-based illustrator Cristina Garcia Martin and narration by internationally acclaimed storyteller Charlotte Blake Alston.
Beethoven An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98
Brahms Die schöne Magelone, Op. 33