Nonsense Songs

Conor Prendiville, Tenor
​​​​​​​Dearbhla Collins, Pianist 

Kelli-Ann Masterson, Soprano
Gemma Ní Bhriain, Mezzo Soprano
Gyula Nagy, Baritone 

Songs of the Clown – Eric Korngold
The Road Goes Ever On – Donald Swann
Interval
Four Cautionary Tales and One Moral – Liza Lehmann
Nonsense Songs - Liza Lehmann

‘Nonsense Songs’ sees works from some of fantasy’s greatest authors presented through song. Hear the words of JRR Tolkein set by Donald Swann in his cycle The Road Goes Ever On, and Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland as the text for Lehmann’s Nonsense Songs. Korngold’s Songs of the Clown draws on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, and Lehmann sets the darkly humorous Four Cautionary Tales and One Moral from Hilaire Belloc, the English writer who would go on to inspire children’s authors such as Roald Dahl. 

This playful song recital will be performed by tenor Conor Prendiville and pianist Dearbhla Collins, and joined by some of Ireland’s finest singers.

Presented by Conor Prendiville 
Sponsored by John Schlesinger and Margaret Rowe