Artists

Graham Johnson OBE (piano) with Manon Ogwen Parry (soprano), Hugo Brady (tenor) and Leeds Lieder Young Artist singers

Having engaged with Schubert’s music for over five decades as an internationally celebrated performer, scholar and author, Leeds Lieder patron, Graham Johnson offers unique insights into Schubert’s songs, building a vivid and detailed picture of this incomparable composer. “Schubert and Opera in the Home”, has as its central panel the great work from 1825, settings of Scott’s The Lady of the Lake, that was composed to rival Rossini’s highly successful La Donna del Lago. Schubert’s answer to Rossini’s work was to compose a cycle that encapsulated key moments of the epic poem. Consisting of five solo songs for three different characters (Ellen (including the famous Ave Maria), Norman and Malcolm) with the addition of two choral songs, no other Lied opus combines choral music with solos in quite this way. Joining Graham will be soprano Manon Ogwen Parry, tenor Hugo Brady and singers from this year’s cohort of Young Artists.