Schubert Song Series III

Saturday 3 March, 7:30pm                          

Ashley Riches (bass-baritone) Joseph Middleton (piano)

Beethoven - An die Ferne Geliebte

Schubert - Rellstab settings from Schwanengesang
Liebesbotschaft
Kriegers Ahnung
Frühlingssehnsucht
Ständchen
Aufenthalt
In der Ferne
Abschied

INTERVAL

Schubert - Heine and Seidl settings from Schwanengesang
Der Atlas
Ihr Bild. Langsam
Das Fischermädchen
Die Stadt
Am Meer
Der Doppelgänger
Die Taubenpost

In partnership with Leeds Lieder

A BBC New Generation Artist, bass-baritone Ashley Riches read English at Cambridge University, before studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and as a Jette Parker Young Artist at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Recent appearances have included with the Berlin Philharmonic/Sir John Eliot Gardiner, the Philharmonia Orchestra/Esa-Pekka Salonen, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and at Wigmore Hall. Increasingly recognised as a superb song singer, he appears on Graham Johnson’s complete Poulenc Songs for Hyperion. To draw our Schubert series to a close he performs the great non-cycle, Schubert’s Schwanengesang alongside what many label the genre’s first song-cycle, Beethoven’s hymn to a distant beloved.

6:30pm: Pre-concert talk by Dr Clive McClelland

Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music, University of Leeds

Tickets: £18 - advance
£20 - on the door
Free - students and under 16s