Katharine Broderick soprano & Joseph Middleton piano

Clothworkers’ Centenary Concert Hall, University of Leeds

16th March, 7.30pm

£20 (£18 for booking up to 14 days in advance). Free for students and under 16s

Booking: Online (no surcharges) at concerts.leeds.ac.uk or on 0113 343 2584

Well-known to Leeds audiences through her singing at Opera North, particularly as a Wagnerian soprano, Katherine Broderick brings her blazing voice and musical intelligence to Leeds Lieder’s final Strauss Series recital. Performing alongside regular collaborator Joseph Middleton, she will give a rare performance of the towering Four Last Songs in their version with piano. Earlier in the recital they perform a Strauss masterpiece, Befreit, and honour the Shakespeare anniversary by offering the haunting Ophelia Lieder. As with the recitals earlier in the series, Strauss’s songs are put into historical context by placing his works alongside that of his contemporaries. Here heady Romanticism meets the dawn of a new compositional language as we explore early, tonal works by Schoenberg, and the Seven Early Songs of Berg: Viennese composition at its most decadent.

Programme

Richard Strauss 1864-1949

Befreit
Wiegenliedchen
Am Ufer
Leises Lied
Die sieben Siegel
Freundliche Vision

Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951

Erwartung
Schenk mir deinen goldenen Kamm
Erhebung
Waldsonne

Strauss

Kling!
Winterweihe
Waldseligkeit
Frühlingsfeier

Interval

Strauss

Lieder der Ophelia
Wie erkenn’ ich mein Treulieb?
Guten Morgen, ‘s ist Sankt Valentinstag
Sie trugen ihn auf der Bahre bloss

Alban Berg 1885-1935

Sieben frühe Lieder
Nacht
Schilflied
Die Nachtigall
Traumgekrönt
Im Zimmer
Liebesode
Sommertage

Strauss

Vier Letzte Lieder
Frühling
September
Beim Schlafengehen
Im Abendrot