Richard Strauss Song Series III

In association with the Kathleen Ferrier Awards

The Autumn Years and the Four Last Songs

Katherine Broderick (soprano)

Joseph Middleton (piano)

Late songs by Strauss and early songs by Berg and Schoenberg

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

Arnold Schoenberg 1874-1951 - Brettl Lieder

Strauss - Lieder der Ophelia

Alban Berg 1885-1935 - Sieben frühe Lieder

Strauss - Vier Letzte Lieder

Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music, University of Leeds
Tickets: £20 / £18 (advance purchase discount*) / Free (students and under 16s)

*advance purchase discount applies to tickets bought up to 14 days prior to the concert taking place.

Katherine Broderick and Joseph Middleton will be running a workshop for singers, open to all to attend, the evening before this concert. Details here.