City Music Foundation returns to The Wallace Collection for our 4th annual Summer Residency (22nd – 26th July). Featuring six CMF Artists, 2019 sees the residency expanded beyond the popular free lunchtime recitals to include a children’s concert, a performance for dementia sufferers, and an evening concert centered around Schubert’s ‘Trout Quintet’ with guest performer Sholto Kynoch.

2018 CMF Artist Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano) presents a song recital on theme of paradise with pianist Adam Cigman-Mark.

Garden Paradise

Alma Mahler (1879 – 1964)
In meines Vaters Garten

Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)
Ständchen
An eine Äolsharfe

Karl Horwitz (1884 – 1925)
Das Gartenfest

Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)
Im Garten am Seegestade

Clara Schumann (1819 – 1896)
Die stille Lotosblume

Paul Kletzki (1900 – 1973)
Der tote Park

Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)
Die Mainacht

Paradise Lost

Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)
Feldeinsamkeit

Rudi Stephan (1887 – 1915)
Heimat

Karl Horwitz (1884 – 1925)
Lied eines Knaben

Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)
O kühler Wald

Alban Berg (1885 – 1935)
Vier Gesange, Op. 2

Paradise Remembered

Clara Schumann (1819 – 1896)
Die gute Nacht, die ich sage dir

Karl Horwitz (1884 – 1925)
Abendstunde
Die Nacht
Herbst

Hailed as a “rather special mezzo” (MusicWeb International), Helen Charlston’s warm and distinctive tone has cemented her as a key performer in the next generation of British singers.

She received first prize in the 2018 Handel Singing Competition, was a finalist in the Hurn Court Opera Competition, and in the upcoming season she will make her debut with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic (Handel Messiah) and a return to Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra (Bach St Matthew Passion).

Other 2018-19 season highlights include performances as Kings Place, St John’s Smith Square, Halle Handel Festival, and York Early Music Festival. Her operatic roles include First Witch (Purcell Dido and Aeneas – Wigmore Hall), Olga (Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin), and Florence Pike (Britten Albert Herring). Helen has also created the roles of Anna (Tom Smail Blue Electric – Tête à Tête) and Dido (Rhiannon Randle Dido is Dead).