Artists

We are sorry to announce that Alice Coote is indisposed and unable to perform her recital at the Leeds Song Festival this Friday evening, 11 April. We are delighted to announce that Beth Taylor has stepped in to give this recital in her place, performing a new programme of works by Mahler, Piaf, Schumann, Ivor Novello, Liza Lehmann, concluding with a performance of Elgar’s Sea Pictures.

Lauded by The Guardian for her “dark and focused” voice, “sensational coloratura” and “spectacular singing” and by The Times for her “fierce, indeed terrifying, cane-swishing” characterisations, Beth Taylor is one of today’s most electrifying young mezzo-sopranos.

Programme

George Frederick Handel 1685 – 1759
Ombra mai fu

Gustav Mahler 1860 – 1911
Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?

Franz Schubert 1797 – 1828
Seligkeit

Gustav Mahler
Es sungen drei Engel

Gabriel Fauré 1845 – 1924
Les berceaux

Gustav Mahler
Das irdische Leben

Traditional Scottish arr. Liza Lehmann
Annie Laurie

Gustav Mahler
Urlicht

Robert Schumann 1810 -56
Himmel und Erde

Gustav Mahler
Rheinlegendchen

Ivor Novello 1893 – 1951
My Dearest Dear

Gustav Mahler
Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen

Reynaldo Hahn 1874 – 1947
L’heure exquise

Edward Elgar 1857 – 1934
Sea Pictures
Sea Slumber Song
In Haven
Sabbath Morning at Sea
Where Corals Lie
The Swimmer