Love and marriage, music and poetry: centuries of song from Baroque to jazz, from one of the country’s leading tenors.

Love in all its forms and with all its foibles is explored across this delightfully eclectic programme. Fauré’s La bonne chanson opens the programme, in a luminous arrangement for voice and string quartet. Its expressions of love range from trembling passion to ecstasy to quiet reverence. We also hear from a wide variety of musical voices on the subject of love and marriage – from Purcell, Schubert and Richard Strauss to Noël Coward, Tom Lehrer and Victoria Wood.

Scottish poetry finds responses from Ravel, Britten and Schumann, while Poulenc and John Dankworth cast their musical eye on Shakespeare.

The wonderful Piatti Quartet and eminent pianist Julius Drake join Nicky Spence in this dazzling and beautifully curated celebration of song.

Piatti Quartet:
Michael Trainor violin 
Emily Holland violin 
Miguel Sobrinho viola 
Jessie Ann Richardson cello

Nicky Spence tenor
Julius Drake piano