£20** (£18 for booking up to 14 days in advance) Free for students and under 16s.
**Special Schubert Series discount offer: Book all three Leeds concerts for £50

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

Mary Bevan soprano
Joseph Middleton piano

Both recent recipients of the coveted Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artist Awards, Mary Bevan and Joseph Middleton appear at Leeds Lieder following recitals together last season at Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw Amsterdam and the Musée d’Orsay Paris. Mary’s stellar season has also taken her to Carnegie Hall, Washington’s Kennedy Centre, Vienna’s Theater an den Wien, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg and London’s Royal Opera House. She read Anglo-Saxon Norse and Celtic at Cambridge before meeting Middleton at the Royal Academy of Music. Tonight’s programme looks to classical mythology for inspiration and includes Haydn’s great cantata Arianna a Naxos, which will sit alongside Italian songs by Schubert.

This concert will be preceded by a pre-concert talk at 6.30pm.by Dr George Kennaway.

PROGRAMME: Schubert, the Italian influence and antiquity

Haydn: Gebet zu Gott, Hob. XXVIa:17
Beethoven: An die Hoffnung, Op.94
Schubert: Didone abbandonata ‘Vedi quanto t’adoro’, D510

Schubert: Vier Canzonen D688
Non t’accostar all’ urna,
Guarda che bianca luna!
Da quel sembiante appresi
Mio ben ricordati

Schubert: Son fra l’onde d78

Mozart: Die ihr des unermesslichen Weltalls K619

Interval

Haydn: Arianna a naxos

Mozart: An Chloe K524
Mozart: Abendempfindung K523
Mozart: Als Luise die Briefe K520

Schubert: Die Götter Griechenlands D677
Schubert: Elysium D584

Listen here (from Leeds Lieder Festival 2016): Mary Bevan with Marcus Farnsworth 

Presented in partnership with Leeds University International Concert Series

Image © Victoria Cadisch