Alice Coote has travelled from Northern England to operatic stages worldwide in no time at all. However, the lied repertoire has been central throughout her impressive career and she has long since given recitals at the largest venues in both Europe and the USA: Wigmore Hall (where she was the ’artist in residence’), BBC Proms, Concertgebouw, Vienna Konzerthaus, Lincoln Centre and Carnegie Hall, to mention but a few.

In Mogens Dahl Koncertsal, the mezzosoprano introduces what she calls ’22 songs you cannot live without’. It is a repertoire which, in addition to a great singer, also requires a great pianist and you can call Julius Drake just that; he has become well-known to the Mogens Dahl Koncertsal audience. Besides his extensive activities as a performer, the extraordinary pianist is today a professor at the London Royal Academy of Music.