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Travel the country thro’ and thro’

Sophie Rennert mezzo soprano
Graham Johnson  piano

Franz Schubert 1797-1828
Der Wanderer an den Mond (Siedl) D 970
Der Flug der Zeit (Széchény) D 515
Wiegenlied “Wie sich der Äuglein” (Seidl) D 867
Versunken (Goethe) D 715
Der Winterabend (Leitner) D 938
Die Gebüsche (Schlegel) D 646
Rastlose Liebe (Goethe) D 138

Benjamin Britten 1913-76
A Charm of Lullabies op. 41
A Cradle Song (Blake)
The Highland Balou (Burns)
Sephestia’s Lullaby (Greene)
A Charm (Randolph)
The Nurse’s Song (Philip)

Interval

Gabriel Fauré 1845-1924
Cinque Mélodies de Venise (Verlaine_ op. 58
Mandoline
En sourdine
Green
À Clymène
C’est l’extase

Franz Schubert
Nachtstück (Mayrhofer) D 672
Nachthymne (Novalis) D 687
Ins stille Land (Salis) D 403
Der Wanderer (Schlegel) D 649
Der Zwerg (M v Collin) D 771
Auflösung (Mayrhofer) D 807

Tonight’s singer, young Austrian mezzo-soprano Sophie Rennert, appears at Leeds Lieder by invitation of our Patron, Graham Johnson. She has already thrilled song audiences at the Schubertiade Hohenems, the Vienna Konzerthaus and Vienna Musikverein and it is our great honour to present what will be her UK recital début. A regular at the Salzburg Festival, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and a guest artist with the Vienna Philharmonic, Mozarteum Orchestra and Bruckner Orchestra Linz she looks forward to her début at the Bayreuth Festival this season. Graham Johnson needs no introduction to Leeds Lieder audiences. A worldwide authority on song, his formidable intellect, encyclopedic knowledge of the repertoire and deep emotional responses to the poetry he is performing make him a remarkable performer. We are thrilled to welcome them to Leeds Lieder.

Supported by the Friends of Leeds Lieder

Mezzo Sophie Rennert is already the finished article, flawless and very moving David Nice

That peerless song accompanist. Daily Telegraph on Graham Johnson


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