Texts & Translations – click here to download.

Please note that this recital will run without an interval.

Véronique Gens soprano
Susan Manoff piano

Tickets:
£28
£25 (unwaged/disabled)
FREE (U30/students)
Part of the Evening Recitals Pass. Find out more about our new Festival Passes here.

Charles Gounod
Où voulez-vous aller?
Viens, les gazons sont verts

Edmond de Polignac
Lamento

Ernest Chausson
La chanson bien douce
Les papillons

Reynaldo Hahn
Le rossignol des lilas
Séraphine
Infidélité
Les cygnes
Aimons-nous

Gabriel Fauré
Le papillon et la fleur
Les roses d’Ispahan

Henri Duparc
Invitation au voyage
Chanson triste

Hahn
Nèére
Lydé
Tyndaris
Le printemps

Following a recent Wigmore Hall recital, ‘The Guardian’ wrote that ‘Véronique Gens is one of today’s great interpreters of French song, an artist deeply committed to the re-evaluation of her chosen repertory in performances of unforced sincerity and immediacy… Her singing is characterised by great tonal warmth, a total absence of overt histrionics, and a telling but understated way with words: we’re always conscious of the beauty of the language as well as the music… Gens’s pianist, her regular recital partner, was Susan Manoff, wonderfully alert to the constantly shifting relationship between singer and accompanist… The performance was perfection, and its austere beauty took one’s breath away.’ In what will be a rare UK appearance, it is a real thrill to welcome Gens and Manoff to give their Leeds Lieder débuts.

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