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A Viennese Quartet Party
String Quartets by Mozart, Haydn, Dittersdorf and Vanhal, with an entertaining script based on the Reminiscences of Michael Kelly presented by Alistair McGowan
Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall
University of Leeds, Leeds
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – String Quartet no.14 in G major, K.387
Joseph Haydn – String Quartet no.32 in C major 'The Bird', Op.33 no.3, Hob III:39
Johann Baptist Vanhal – String Quartet in E flat major
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf – String Quartet no.6 in A major
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Leeds Baroque present A Portraite of Jean-Phillipe Rameau
Choral and Orchestral Music by Handel and Bach's greatest French contemporary.
Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall
University of Leeds, Leeds
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Jean-Philippe Rameau – Les fêtes de Ramire
Jean-Philippe Rameau – Les Indes galantes
Jean-Philippe Rameau – Dardanus
Jean-Philippe Rameau – Castor et Pollux
Jean-Philippe Rameau – Pigmalion
Plus 1 more...Performers
Nicholas Sales – tenor
Peter Holman MBE – director / harpsichord
Graham Sadler – Speaker
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Henry Purcell's The Fairy Queen
Leeds Baroque Choir & Orchestra is a period instrument performance group directed by Peter Holman
Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall
University of Leeds, Leeds
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Sir Thomas Allen and Joseph Middleton
Ancient and Modern
Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall
University of Leeds, Leeds
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Ludwig van Beethoven – Adelaide, Op.46
Ludwig van Beethoven – La Partenza, WoO 124
Felix Mendelssohn – Venetian Gondola-song, Op.30 no.6
Charles Ives – The Things our Fathers Loved
Peter Warlock – My own Country
Plus 18 more...Performers
Sir Thomas Allen – baritone
Joseph Middleton – piano
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A Venetian Vespers
Not the usual Mantuan Vespers of 1610
Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall
University of Leeds, Leeds
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Claudio Monteverdi – Beatus vir, SV 268
Claudio Monteverdi – Confitebor secondo
Claudio Monteverdi – Laudate Pueri primo
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Olivier Messiaen – Poèmes pour Mi
Richard Strauss – Four Last Songs, TrV 296
Performers
Siobhan Stagg – soprano
Joseph Middleton – piano
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George Frideric Handel – Zadok the Priest, HWV 258
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – I Was Glad
Ralph Vaughan Williams – O Taste and See
Herbert Howells – Behold, O God our defender
William Walton – Coronation Te Deum
Performers
Richard Gowers – organ
Anna Lapwood – Conductor
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Henry Purcell – O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z.406
Franz Schubert – Einsamkeit, D.620
Jonathan Dove – Under Alter'd Skies
Samuel Barber – Hermit Songs, Op.29
Performers
James Gilchrist – tenor
Anna Tilbrook – piano
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Benjamin Britten – I wonder as I wander
Benjamin Britten – There’s none to soothe
Ludwig van Beethoven – Adelaide, Op.46
Ludwig van Beethoven – An die ferne Geliebte, Op.98
Franz Schubert – Der Wanderer, D.489
Plus 4 more...Performers
Joseph Middleton – piano
James Newby – baritone
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Cosi fan tutte: Overture
Cole Porter – Where is the life that late I led
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Cosi fan tutte: duet 'A guarda, sorella'
Irving Berlin – Sisters
Johannes Brahms – Die Schwestern, Op.61 no.1
Plus 10 more...Performers
Anna Huntley – mezzo-soprano
Soraya Mafi – soprano
William Thomas – Bass
Graham Johnson – piano
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Performers
Iain Burnside – piano
Jennifer Johnston – mezzo-soprano
Victoria Newlyn – actress
Dean Robinson – bass-baritone
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Leeds Lieder Festival | Carolyn Sampson, Roderick Williams and Joseph Middleton
He Sings, She Sings, They Sing: Gender Bending in Lieder
Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall
University of Leeds, Leeds
Festival
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Various – Audience requests; song selections from composers
Performers
Roderick Williams – baritone
Carolyn Sampson – soprano
Joseph Middleton – piano
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Masterpieces from Baroque Spain
Colourful sacred music for divided choirs and instruments
Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall
University of Leeds, Leeds
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Francisco Valls – Lauda Sion salvatorem
Francisco Valls – Missa Scala Aretina
Francisco Valls – Suscipe verbum
Francisco Valls – Diffusa est gratia (Fuga in unisonus, 12o tono)
Francisco Valls – Dulce lignum
Plus 7 more...Performers
Peter Holman MBE – Artistic Director
Asuka Sumi – Leader
Francis Gush – counter tenor
Sarah Ridy – baroque harp
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J.S. Bach - Great Festive Cantatas
Cantatas Nos 29,34 and 146
Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall
University of Leeds, Leeds
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach – Tönet, ihr Pauken! Erschallet, Trompeten! (cantata), BWV 214
Johann Sebastian Bach – Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal in das Reich Gottes eingehen, BW 146
~ Interval ~
Johann Sebastian Bach – Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir, BWV 29
Johann Sebastian Bach – O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe (cantata), BWV 34
Performers
Lawrence Zazzo – counter tenor
Peter Holman MBE – director / harpsichord
Michael Solomon Williams – tenor
Asuka Sumi – Leader
Imogen Creedy – soprano
Callum Anderson – organ
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Jennifer Johnston and Joseph Middleton
mezzo-soprano and piano
Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall
University of Leeds, Leeds
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Jonathan Dove – My love is mine
Benjamin Britten – Canticle 1, Op.40: My Beloved Is Mine
Benjamin Britten – The Birds
Benjamin Britten – I wonder as I wander
Benjamin Britten – At the mid hour of night
Plus 17 more...Performers
Jennifer Johnston – mezzo-soprano
Joseph Middleton – piano
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Gabriel Fauré – Piano Trio in D minor, Op.120
Johannes Brahms – Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op.114
Ludwig van Beethoven – Trio in E flat, Op.38
~ Interval ~
Performers
Ariel Lanyi – piano
Maciej Kulakowski – cello
Jonathan Leibovitz – clarinet
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Joseph Houston – piano
Lucy Railton – cello
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Ludwig van Beethoven – Horn Sonata, Op.17
Richard Uttley – Aufschwung
York Bowen – Horn Sonata in E flat major, Op.101
Performers
Richard Uttley – piano
Ben Goldscheider – French horn
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Gustav Mahler – Rückert-Lieder: Um Mitternacht (At Midnight)
Gustav Mahler – Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Johanna Müller-Hermann – Wie eine Vollmondnacht
Alma Mahler – Laue Sommernacht
Joseph Marx – Der Ton
Plus 6 more...Performers
Florian Störtz – bass-baritone
Mark Rogers – piano
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George Gershwin – Summertime
Aaron Copland – Nature, the gentlest mother
Samuel Barber – Sure on this shining night, Op.13 no.3
William Walton – Through gilded trellises
John Ireland – The Trellis
Plus 10 more...Performers
Lucy Crowe – soprano
Joseph Middleton – piano