Roderick Williams and Joseph Middleton: baritone and piano at Howard Assembly Room, Leeds on Thursday 20th April 2023

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Roderick Williams and Joseph Middleton

baritone and piano

Part of the Leeds Lieder Spring 2023 Season

Add to my Calendar 20-04-2023 19:30 20-04-2023 21:30 36 Roderick Williams and Joseph Middleton Roderick Williams returns to the Howard Assembly Room following last year’s spellbinding performance of Winter Journey (Winterreise) to perform another of Jeremy Sams’ wonderfully communicative English translations of Schubert song cycles. Franz Schubert’s pioneering The Fair Maid of the Mill (Die schöne Müllerin) influenced composers up to, including and beyond Mahler. A set of 20 songs for voice and piano, based on poems by Wilhelm Müller and completed in 1823, it tells the story of a young journeyman who meets and falls in love with a miller’s daughter and whose passion leads to jealousy and despair. “Roderick Williams’ softly burnished baritone proves itself a nimble, fleet and liquid instrument that calls approvingly to mind Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in his youth.”— Classical Ear Presented in partnership with Opera North. Howard Assembly Room, Leeds DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Howard Assembly Room
46 New Briggate
Leeds
LS1 6NU
England

Thursday 20th April 2023
7:30 PM

Programme

Franz Schubert – Die Schöne Müllerin, D.795

Performers

Roderick Williams – baritone
Joseph Middleton – piano

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Programme Note

Roderick Williams returns to the Howard Assembly Room following last year’s spellbinding performance of Winter Journey (Winterreise) to perform another of Jeremy Sams’ wonderfully communicative English translations of Schubert song cycles.

Franz Schubert’s pioneering The Fair Maid of the Mill (Die schöne Müllerin) influenced composers up to, including and beyond Mahler. A set of 20 songs for voice and piano, based on poems by Wilhelm Müller and completed in 1823, it tells the story of a young journeyman who meets and falls in love with a miller’s daughter and whose passion leads to jealousy and despair.

“Roderick Williams’ softly burnished baritone proves itself a nimble, fleet and liquid instrument that calls approvingly to mind Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in his youth.”
— Classical Ear

Presented in partnership with Opera North.

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