Schubert Song Series III

Schubert Song Series III

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
£20 – on the door
Free – students and under 16s