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Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall
The School of Music
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
England
Programme
George Gershwin – Summertime
Aaron Copland – Nature, the gentlest mother
Samuel Barber – Sure on this shining night, Op.13 no.3
William Walton – Through gilded trellises
John Ireland – The Trellis
Ivor Gurney – The fields are full
Benjamin Britten – On This Island: Seascape
Gabriel Fauré – Nell, Op.19 no.1
Gabriel Fauré – La fée aux chansons, Op.27 no.2
Hector Berlioz – Les nuits d'été, Op.7: 1. Villanelle
Henri Duparc – Chanson triste
Claude Debussy – Apparition, L.57
Johannes Brahms – Sommerabend, Op.85 no.1
Richard Strauss – Four Last Songs: September
Richard Strauss – Die Drossel, TrV 49
Performers
Joseph Middleton – Piano
Lucy Crowe – soprano
Programme Note
We are delighted to once again collaborate with Leeds Lieder as part of this day filled with song. Lucy Crowe and Joseph Middleton perform a wonderful hour-long programme of favourites from the Lieder canon.
Born in Staffordshire, Lucy Crowe studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where she is a Fellow. She was made an OBE in the 2023 King's Birthday Honours. With repertoire ranging from Purcell, Handel and Mozart to Donizetti’s Adina, Verdi’s Gilda and Janacek’s Vixen, she has sung with opera companies throughout the world, including the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Glyndebourne Festival, English National Opera, the Teatro Real Madrid, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich, and the Metropolitan Opera, New York. Recent opera highlights include her debut at Dutch National Opera in the title role Rodelinda, Musetta La Boheme and Poppea Agrippina at the Royal Opera House, Susanna Le Nozze di Figaro at the Metropolitan Opera and Pamina Die Zauberflöte at the Liceu Barcelona.
Joseph Middleton is Director of Leeds Lieder, Musician-in-Residence at Pembroke College Cambridge and a Professor and Fellow at his alma mater, the Royal Academy of Music. In recent seasons he has appeared at London’s Wigmore Hall, Royal Opera House and Royal Festival Hall, the Vienna Konzerthaus, Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Muziekgebouw, Köln Philharmonie, Strasbourg, Frankfurt, Lille and Gothenburg Opera houses, Berlin Boulez Saal, Paris Musée d’Orsay, Zürich Tonhalle, deSingel Antwerp, Luxembourg Philharmonie, Bozar Brussels, Tokyo’s Oji Hall and New York’s Alice Tully Hall. He regularly appears at festivals in Aix-en-Provence, Aldeburgh, Edinburgh, Munich, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg and Hohenems, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Ravinia, Japan, San Francisco, Toronto and Vancouver as well as the BBC Proms.
