Details
Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall
The School of Music
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
England
Programme
Samuel Barber – Hermit Songs, Op.29
Jonathan Dove – Under Alter'd Skies
Franz Schubert – Einsamkeit, D.620
Henry Purcell – O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z.406
Performers
James Gilchrist – Tenor
Anna Tilbrook – piano
Other concerts in this Series (+)
Programme Note
Gilchrist and Tilbrook, particularly noted as outstanding exponents of Schubert and English song, have enjoyed a fruitful collaboration for well over 20 years, with many award-winning recordings to their name. Tonight’s programme is typically wide-ranging and includes Schubert’s ambitious Einsamkeit. Jonathan Dove’s Under alter’ d skies, which was commissioned by Wigmore Hall, receives its Leeds Lieder première, while Barber’s witty, stark and virtuosic cycle, his settings of translations of medieval Gaelic or Latin poems attributed to Irish saints and holy persons, rounds off the evening.
‘James Gilchrist showed once again that he has few equals amongst tenors with a beautifully expressive performance’
MusicOHM, Leeds Lieder Gala Wigmore Hall
‘Anna Tilbrook is an outstanding accompanist: discreet when necessary, but also able to make the simplest phrase or chordal progression tell without a touch of exaggeration’
BBC Music Magazine