Helen Charlston & Sholto Kynoch

Performance
  • Date and time: Wednesday 25 March 2026, 7.30pm
  • Location: In-person only
    Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, Campus West, University of York (Map)
  • Admission: Tickets: £5 to £16, booking required

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Event details

Helen Charlston  mezzo-soprano
Sholto Kynoch  piano

Programme to include:
Monteverdi   Si dolce e'l tormento
Bach   Widerstehe doch der Sünde, BWV 54
Schubert   Die Mutter Erde, D. 788
Reynaldo Hahn   À Chloris
Schumann   Kerner Lieder, op. 35

Notes of Old

So often, we find ourselves struck by musical echoes between pieces separated by history, style or instrumentation. Nevertheless, we hear the connections and find ourselves drawn in by musical earworms replayed across history. This programme explores the unexpected ways in which works by Bach, Monteverdi and Charpentier resonate with songs by Schubert, Pauline Viardot and Anna Semple, celebrating music as a recurring motif in human experience.

Following a playlist-esque first half full of songs ruminating on love, our place in the world and music itself, the second half of this programme is dedicated to Schumann's extraordinary Kerner Lieder, which are also imbued with these ideas. Whether in joyful storms of lust or in the serenity of silent adoration, old melodies remain, heralding music as the ultimate partner in life.

'Charlston's voice is little short of miraculous …. Kynoch at the keyboard was not that of a mere accompanist but of a true collaborator' (Evening Standard)

Venue details

  • Wheelchair accessible

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