EVENING RECITAL: Louise Alder & Joseph Middleton

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‘Rest, rest my soul’ Songs of longing, love and lust

Louise Alder soprano
Joseph Middleton piano

Programme:

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

Waldseligkeit
Ständchen
Breit über mein Haupt
Das Rosenband
Heimliche Aufforderung
Meinem Kinde

Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947)

Fêtes galantes
Si mes vers
Le printemps
L’heure exquise

Franz Liszt (1811-86)

Three Petrarch Sonnets
Pace non trovo
Benedetto sia’il giorno
I’vidi in terra anglica costume

INTERVAL

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

Ariettes oubliées

C’est l’extase langoureuse
Il pleure dans mon coeur
L’ombre des arbres
Chevaux de bois
Green
Spleen

Benjamin Britten (1913-76)

On this Island
Let the florid music praise!
Now the leaves are falling fast
Seascape
Nocturne
As it is, plenty

This recital is being recorded by BBC Radio 3 for deferred broadcast on April 24 at 7.30pm

Louise Alder’s most recent season saw her reach the finals of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2017, win the Dame Joan Sutherland Audience Prize, and the Young Singer Award at the International Opera Awards 2017. She gave a triumphant recital for Leeds Lieder’s Strauss Survey. Her début recital CD with Joseph Middleton has been met with universal acclaim including Sunday Times Disc of the Week and Editor’s Choice in both Classical Music Magazine and Gramophone Magazine.

‘…radiant, silver-flecked-with-gold tone, long-breathed phrases and exquisitely floated high notes’ Hugh Canning, The Sunday Times on Louise Alder

‘…one of the most talented, intuitive collaborative pianists of his generation’. Classical Music Magazine on Joseph Middleton.

Tickets: Area A £25, £23 (conc) / Area B £20, £18 (conc) / £5 (U26/students)

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