Skip to main content

Leeds Lieder Festival: Lunchtime Recital: From The Distant Beloved

Category
Leeds Lieder Festival 2020
Date
Date
Saturday 18 April 2020, 1.00pm - 2.00pm
Location
Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall
Tickets
£15 | £13 (concessions) | Free (students and under 26s)

From The Distant Beloved

James Newby (baritone)
Joseph Middleton (piano)

Britten - I wonder as I wander | There’s none to soothe
Beethoven - Maigesang, Adelaide | An die ferne Geliebte
Schubert - Der Wanderer D489 | Der Wanderer D649 | Auf der Brücke D853 | Abendstern D806
Britten - At the mid-hour of night | The last rose of summer | Sail on, sail on

James Newby collected droves of new supporters when he stood in at the last minute to open last year’s Festival. The Ilkley Gazette commented upon Newby’s ‘lustrous dark baritone’ and praised his ‘remarkable insight’ and ‘genius for storytelling’ at what was a highlight of the 2019 Festival. BBC New Generation Artist, Newby, together with Middleton, offer a programme of wandering and romanticism before they tour the programme to Wigmore Hall, Vienna, Brussels, Budapest, Lisbon, Baden-Baden, Stockholm, Cologne, Amsterdam and Hamburg.

Newby has a winning platform manner and a glorious voice that will take him far

MusicOMH, Wigmore Hall recital with Joseph Middleton

Middleton... again demonstrates that he’s one of the most talented, intuitive collaborative pianists of his generation’

Classical Music Magazine