Connolly, Middleton, Leeds Lieder online review – epic voyage on a luxury vessel. Lavish late-Romantic seascapes with a first-rate crew. “Connolly has lately made ‘Sea Pictures’ her own after its years in the velvet grip of Yorkshire’s own Janet Baker” 
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A terrific weekend of song in Leeds mixing mature artists with talent young singers
Leeds Lieder, artistic director Joseph Middleton, continued it Spring season of song with a weekend of recitals (24 & 25 April 2021) from Leeds Town Hall featuring Fleur Barron, Ashok Klouda, Joseph Middleton, Michael Mofidian, Jâms Coleman, Gerald Finley, Julius Drake, Benson Wilson, Ella O’Neill, Julia Mariko Smith, Christopher Pulleyn, and Dame Sarah Connolly, with Michael Mofidian, Julia Mariko Smith, and Christopher Pulleyn Being Momentum Artists, in a series of wide-ranging programmes which took in Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin, Chausson and Elgar’s explorations of the sea, programmes inspired by a Hong Kong childhood and by Anzac Day along with much else besides.
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A magical marriage of Occident and Orient: Fleur Barron at Leeds Lieder. ‘Dreams, Homeland and Childhood’ was an apt title for Fleur Barron’s Leeds Lieder Festival recital with pianist Joseph Middleton.  Born in Northern Ireland, to a British father and Singaporean mother, Barron grew up in the Far East and this programme was in some sense a ‘homage’ to her Asian heritage, interweaving songs by contemporary Asian composers with those of Brahms, Mussorgsky and Borodin.
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Leeds Lieder online audiences taken on an emotional big dipper.
CANADIAN bass-baritone Gerald Finley and British pianist Julius Drake have been feted at major concert venues around the world for over two decades.
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