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Leeds Lieder Festival | The Songmakers’ Almanac

Part of the Leeds Lieder Festival 2020

Add to my Calendar 18-04-2020 19:30 18-04-2020 21:30 36 Leeds Lieder Festival | The Songmakers’ Almanac The indefatigable Graham Johnson revolutionised the Lied recital with his Songmakers’ Almanac. A typically wide-ranging programme, tonight’s recital is based on the plot of Così fan tutte (and containing numerous Mozartian echoes), Johnson has devised a programme of Lieder, English songs and duets where the interactions between the Neapolitan sisters, and the manipulative Don Alfonso, progress along Da Ponte’s lines: Sisters in love – ‘Bella vita militar’ – Constancy – Weakening – Capitulation and Abandon – Reconciliation. ‘…young Soraya Mafi lights up the stage and pricks up the ears’Hugh Canning, The Sunday Times ‘Thomas has a ‘real’ bass voice: full of ringing right at the bottom; layers of colour that blend smoothly and thickly; sonorous roundness without heaviness’Opera Today on William Thomas at Wigmore Hall ‘That peerless song accompanist’The Daily Telegraph on Graham Johnson Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, Leeds DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall
The School of Music
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
England

Programme

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Cosi fan tutte: Overture
Gabriel Fauré – Tarentelle, Op.10 no.2
Camille Saint-Saëns – El desdichado
Benjamin Britten – Mother Comfort
Benjamin Britten – Under the Abject Willow
Hugo Wolf – Herz, verzage nicht geschwind (Spanisches Liederbuch)
Hugo Wolf – Trau’ nicht der Liebe (Spanisches Liederbuch)
Charles Gounod – Trust her not
Kurt Weill – One Touch: 'That's him'
Herman Darewski – Sister Susie
George W. Meyer – If he can fight like he can love
Johannes Brahms – Die Schwestern, Op.61 no.1
Irving Berlin – Sisters
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Cosi fan tutte: duet 'A guarda, sorella'
Cole Porter – Where is the life that late I led

Performers

Soraya Mafi – soprano
Anna Huntley – mezzo-soprano
William Thomas – Bass
Graham Johnson – piano

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Programme Note

The indefatigable Graham Johnson revolutionised the Lied recital with his Songmakers’ Almanac. A typically wide-ranging programme, tonight’s recital is based on the plot of Così fan tutte (and containing numerous Mozartian echoes), Johnson has devised a programme of Lieder, English songs and duets where the interactions between the Neapolitan sisters, and the manipulative Don Alfonso, progress along Da Ponte’s lines: Sisters in love – ‘Bella vita militar’ – Constancy – Weakening – Capitulation and Abandon – Reconciliation.

‘…young Soraya Mafi lights up the stage and pricks up the ears’
Hugh Canning, The Sunday Times

‘Thomas has a ‘real’ bass voice: full of ringing right at the bottom; layers of colour that blend smoothly and thickly; sonorous roundness without heaviness’
Opera Today on William Thomas at Wigmore Hall

‘That peerless song accompanist’
The Daily Telegraph on Graham Johnson

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