Music for low voices are featured in this wide-raging recital. Baritone Ian Rucker will perform music of Gustav Mahler and H. Leslie Adams’s Five Millay Songs. Bass-Baritone Christopher Humbert, Jr. will sing music by Cole Porter, Undine Smith Moore, and Georges Bizet’s “Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre”, from Carmen. And together they will perform, “Agony” from Stephen Sondheim’s musical Into the Woods. They will be joined on the piano by Michael Banwarth.
Baritone Ian Rucker, Bass-Baritone Christopher Humbert, Jr., and Pianist Michael Banwarth
Playlist
“Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre” from Carmen, by Georges Bizet
Christopher Humbert, Jr., bass-baritone; Michael Banwarth, piano
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, by Gustav Mahler
Ian Rucker, baritone; Michael Banwarth, piano
Quatre Poèmes d’après l’Intermezzo, by Guy Ropartz
Christopher Humbert, Jr., bass-baritone; Michael Banwarth, piano
Five Millay Songs, by H. Leslie Adams
1. Wild Swans
3. For You There Is No Song
4. The Return from Town
Ian Rucker, baritone; Michael Banwarth, piano
Lyric for Truelove, by Undine Smith Moore
Christopher Humbert, Jr., bass-baritone; Michael Banwarth, piano
“Were Thine That Special Face” from Kiss Me, Kate, by Cole Porter
Christopher Humbert, Jr., bass-baritone; Michael Banwarth, piano
“Agony” from Into the Woods, by Stephen Sondheim
Ian Rucker, baritone; Christopher Humbert, Jr., bass-baritone; Michael Banwarth, piano