Baroque centred collaboration with fabulous HIP group, Ensemble Hespiri, celebrated singer Harriet Burns and Richard.

https://ryeartsfestival.org.uk

Ensemble Hesperi presents a programme of music by Venetian Baroque composers, inspired by Canaletto’s Two Views of Venice, which hang in the Great Gallery of the Wallace Collection. The programme is framed by impassioned tenor arias by Venice’s most famous musical name, Vivaldi, and Europe’s great musical traveller, Handel, whose opera Rodrigo was premiered in Venice. The beginnings of the Baroque in Venice itself are brought to life through works by Monteverdi and Castello, both of whom worked at the celebrated church of St Mark, which takes centre stage in Canaletto’s scenes. The virtuosic concerto, La Tempesta di Mare, depicting a storm at sea, alongside the fiery harpsichord toccata by Venetian maestro Picchi, remind the listener of the perils of life in a city surrounded by water. Other highlights include a violin sonata, likely written by Vivaldi for Anna Maria, one of his talented students at the Ospedale della Pieta, and a sparkling divertimento by Anna Bon di Venezia, who attended the school as a fee-paying student after Vivaldi’s death. The libretto of the final aria from Handel’s Alcina was influenced by a previous Italian production, reaffirming his lifelong affinity with the ever-popular Italian style. 

https://www.wallacecollection.org/art/collection/collection-highlights/two-views-venice

Richard conducts Farnborough sixth forms chamber choir and strings for a concert in the epic Wind Tunnel project. With the Chapel Choir of RHUL.

Tenor Solos for Fleet Choral Society

Britten’s Winter Words

Ades’s Three Mazurkas

And

Quilter’s Seven Elizabethan Lyrics

£10. Bar available.

The Song and the Story: Innocence and Experience

An exploration of William Blake’s influential poetry collection Songs of Innocence and Experience, as set by Vaughan Williams in his song cycle for voice and oboe.

Tenor Richard Robbins

Soprano Hilary Cronin

Oboist Lydia Griffiths

This delectable programme from St Martin’s Voices explores the theme of love in chamber works for voices and piano. From the whirlwind charms of Brahms’ Liebeslieder waltzes to Stephen Hough’s broad celebration of love of all kinds in Other Love Songs, these delightful pieces portray the full range of contrasting emotions associated with romance.

Programme

Johannes Brahms – Liebeslieder-Waltzer Op. 52
Ralph Vaughan Williams – It was a lover and his lass, Dirge for Fidele
Pauline Viardot García – La beauté, Rêverie, Les bohémiennes
Stephen Hough – Other Love Songs

Soprano Hilary Cronin

Alto Helen Stanley

Tenor Richard Robbins

Bass Michael Lafferty

Richard appears as Toad of Toad Hall in John Rutter’s version of Wind and The Willows.

Richard sings with The Hanover Band in Bach's masterpiece, St. John Passion in St Nicholas Church, Arundel. Andrew Authur conducts.

Tickets and info here: http://thehanoverband.com/concert/js-bach-st-john-passion-arundel17/

Richard will be singing the tenor solos in Mozart's Requiem at St. Andrew's Garrison Church in Aldershot for Farnborough Sixth Form College where Richard teaches singing.

Tickets available here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/FDEKHH

Working with young people across Leeds, Richard will be working on a school based project with storyteller Jo Blake Cave and accompanist Philip Voldman on what Lieder is, culminating in a big performance at Leeds Town Hall on the 23rd March at 1130am.

Tickets and further information on the project can be found here: http://leedslieder.org.uk/whats-on/cool-lieder-3/