Live/Online: Leeds Lieder Festival - Illuminated Music, Illuminating Songs
Part of the Leeds Lieder 2022 Festival
Add to my Calendar 29-04-2022 20:00 29-04-2022 22:00 36 Live/Online: Leeds Lieder Festival - Illuminated Music, Illuminating Songs Known for their thoughtful programming, Robin Tritschler and Christopher Glynn offer up a two-half recital that literally irradiates the song platform. Two great English men of theatre, Purcell and Britten, sit shoulder to shoulder and praise the act of singing and of experiencing music to illuminate the human condition. If music be the food of love, play on! Howard Assembly Room, Leeds DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Howard Assembly Room
46 New Briggate
Leeds
LS1 6NU
England
Programme
Benjamin Britten – Canticle 1, Op.40: My Beloved Is Mine
Benjamin Britten – On this island: 'Let the florid music praise'
Henry Purcell – Mad Bess (arr. Britten)
Henry Purcell – Pausanius, Z.585: 'Sweeter than Roses'
Henry Purcell – Turn then thine eyes (arr. Britten)
William Croft – A Hymn to Divine Musick (arr. Britten)
Henry Purcell – Music for a While
Henry Purcell – I attempt from love’s sickness (arr. Britten)
Henry Purcell – If Music be the Food of Love, Z.379 (arr. Britten)
Gabriel Fauré – Clair de lune, Op.46, no.2
~ Interval ~
Johannes Brahms – Mondenschein, Op.85 no.2
Johannes Brahms – Sommerabend, Op.85 no.1
Claude Debussy – Recueillement, L.64 no.1
Franz Schubert – Der Winterabend, D.938
Reynaldo Hahn – L’heure exquise
Liza Lehmann – Ah, Moon of my delight
Herbert Howells – Full Moon
Henry Mancini – Breakfast at Tiffany's: Moon River
Performers
Robin Tritschler – tenor
Christopher Glynn – Piano
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Programme Note
Known for their thoughtful programming, Robin Tritschler and Christopher Glynn offer up a two-half recital that literally irradiates the song platform. Two great English men of theatre, Purcell and Britten, sit shoulder to shoulder and praise the act of singing and of experiencing music to illuminate the human condition. If music be the food of love, play on!
