Jennifer Johnston and Joseph Middleton: mezzo-soprano and piano at Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, Leeds on Friday 10th February 2023

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Jennifer Johnston and Joseph Middleton

mezzo-soprano and piano

Part of the Leeds Lieder Spring 2023 Season

Add to my Calendar 10-02-2023 19:30 10-02-2023 21:30 36 Jennifer Johnston and Joseph Middleton “It packs a hefty emotional punch,” so wrote the BBC Music Magazine when reviewing Jennifer Johnston and Joseph Middleton’s world première recording of Frances-Hoad’s One Life Stand. It is a decade since Johnston and Middleton gave the first performance of this cycle at Opera North, during Cheryl’s tenure as Cultural Fellow in Operatic Composition at the University of Leeds, and it is one of the few contemporary cycles that has bedded itself into the song canon, heard frequently in concert halls and at festivals since its inception. Using texts by Sophie Hannah, it is a response to Schumann’s 1840 cycle Frauenliebe und-Leben. The rest of the programme draws a thread through English and American song, including a homage to Rorem, who died in November 2022. Jennifer Johnston is well known to Leeds Lieder audiences as having ‘one of the most generous and beautiful voices in the business’. She regularly appears at the BBC Proms and opera houses including La Scala Milan, and Munich, where a recent recording of Korngold with legendary tenor Jonas Kauffman won her Gramophone Award’s ‘Recording of the Year 2022’. Like Joseph Middleton, she has won a coveted Royal Philharmonic Award. Presented in partnership with the University of Leeds. Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, Leeds DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall
The School of Music
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
England

Friday 10th February 2023
7:30 PM

Programme

Jonathan Dove – My love is mine
Benjamin Britten – Canticle 1, Op.40: My Beloved Is Mine
Benjamin Britten – The Birds
Benjamin Britten – I wonder as I wander
Benjamin Britten – At the mid hour of night
Benjamin Britten – Folk Song Arrangements, vol. 4 'Moore’s Irish Melodies': The last rose of summer
Benjamin Britten – O Waly Waly
Cheryl Frances-Hoad – Two Shakespeare Songs
Joseph Horovitz – Lady Macbeth
~ Interval ~
Ned Rorem – Look down fair moon
Ned Rorem – I will always love you
Ned Rorem – Jeanie with the light brown hair
Ned Rorem – Ferry me across the water
Ned Rorem – Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening
Samuel Barber – The desire for hermitage, Op.29 no.10
Samuel Barber – St Ita’s Vision, Op.29 no.3
Samuel Barber – A green lowland of pianos, Op.45 no.2
Samuel Barber – The Monk and his Cat, Op.29 no.8
Samuel Barber – Sure on this shining night, Op.13 no.3
Samuel Barber – Solitary Hotel, Op.41 no.4
Cheryl Frances-Hoad – One Life Stand

Performers

Jennifer Johnston – mezzo-soprano
Joseph Middleton – piano

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Programme Note

“It packs a hefty emotional punch,” so wrote the BBC Music Magazine when reviewing Jennifer Johnston and Joseph Middleton’s world première recording of Frances-Hoad’s One Life Stand. It is a decade since Johnston and Middleton gave the first performance of this cycle at Opera North, during Cheryl’s tenure as Cultural Fellow in Operatic Composition at the University of Leeds, and it is one of the few contemporary cycles that has bedded itself into the song canon, heard frequently in concert halls and at festivals since its inception. Using texts by Sophie Hannah, it is a response to Schumann’s 1840 cycle Frauenliebe und-Leben. The rest of the programme draws a thread through English and American song, including a homage to Rorem, who died in November 2022. Jennifer Johnston is well known to Leeds Lieder audiences as having ‘one of the most generous and beautiful voices in the business’. She regularly appears at the BBC Proms and opera houses including La Scala Milan, and Munich, where a recent recording of Korngold with legendary tenor Jonas Kauffman won her Gramophone Award’s ‘Recording of the Year 2022’. Like Joseph Middleton, she has won a coveted Royal Philharmonic Award.

Presented in partnership with the University of Leeds.

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