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Selections from Songs for Peter Pears

Robin Tritschler tenor; Malcolm Martineau piano; Philip Higham cello

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Date
Fri 04 Dec 2026, 1.00pm
Tickets
£20
+£4 booking fee per transaction
Duration

This concert will be approximately 1 hour in duration, without an interval

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Artists

  • Robin Tritschlertenor
  • Malcolm Martineaupiano
  • Philip Highamcello

Programme

  • Geoffrey Bush
    1920-1988
      • Songs of the Zodiac
        :
      • No. 2 Aries The Ram
      • No. 5 Gemini The Twins
      • No. 11 Taurus The Bull
      • No. 3 Cancer The Crab
      • 5 Housman Songs Op. 14 No. 3
        :
      • He would not stay for me
      • Look not in my eyes
      • Because I liked you better
      • Songs of the Zodiac
        :
      • No. 6 Leo The Lion
      • No. 12 Virgo The Virgin
      • No. 7 Libra The Scales
      • No. 10 Scorpio The Scorpion
      • Songs of the Zodiac
        :
      • No. 9 Sagittarius The Archer
      • No. 4 Capricorn The Goat
      • No. 1 Aquarius The Water Carrier
      • No. 8 Pisces The Fish

Overview

Peter Pears, who died 40 years ago, was a regular presence at Wigmore Hall where, in 1942, he and his partner Benjamin Britten gave the world première of the Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo. Robin Tritschler and Malcolm Martineau’s tribute concert includes the dozen Songs of the Zodiac which Geoffrey Bush composed in memory of the great English tenor and the emotionally incendiary music of Richard Rodney Bennett’s Tom O’Bedlam’s Song, written for Pears and Malcolm Martineau’s aunt, the cellist Joan Dickson.

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