Sarah Connolly Song Recital
Dame Sarah Connolly mezzo soprano
Joseph Middleton piano
Schumann
6 Gedichte von N Lenau und Requiem Op. 90
Wolf
Auch kleine Dinge
Gesang Weylas
Nachtzauber
Kennst du das Land
Zigeuner Lied
-Interval-
Debussy
Chansons de Bilitis
Duparc
Extase
L’invitation au voyage
Chanson Triste
Au pays ou se fait
Britten
O Waly Walyephestia’s Lullaby
At the mid hour of night
Barber
Three Songs, Opus 10
Rain has fallen
Sleep now
I hear an army
Dame Sarah Connolly is quite simply one of the finest mezzos of her generation, winning many awards and accolades over her distinguished career. Equally at home on the opera stage and the recital hall, this concert offers a wide-ranging selection of German, French and English language songs by Schumann, Wolf, Debussy and Barber.
Sarah is accompanied on piano by Joseph Middleton, Director of Leeds Lieder, Musician-in-Residence at Pembroke College Cambridge and a Professor and Fellow at his alma mater, the Royal Academy of Music.
‘Connolly easily assumes the mantle of Janet Baker’ Gramophone
Sarah Connolly
Born in County Durham, Sarah Connolly studied piano and singing at the Royal College of Music, of which she is now a Fellow. She was made a DBE in the 2017 Birthday Honours, having previously been made a CBE in the 2010 New Year’s Honours. In 2011 she was honoured by the Incorporated Society of Musicians and presented with the Distinguished Musician Award. She is the recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s 2012 Singer Award. Sarah he has appeared in recital in London, New York, Boston, Paris, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, San Francisco, Atlanta, Stuttgart; as well as Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Edinburgh and Oxford Lieder Festivals. Committed to promoting new music, her world premiere performances include two re-discovered songs by Benjamin Britten (BBC Proms 2018) with Joseph Middleton; Sir john Tavener's Gnosis, (BBC Proms); songs by Mark Anthony Turnage, Sally Beamish and Dame Judith Weir, Jonathan Harvey.
Joseph Middleton
Joseph Middleton is Director of Leeds Lieder, Musician-in-Residence at Pembroke College Cambridge and a Professor and Fellow at his alma mater, the Royal Academy of Music. Joseph has appeared at London’s Wigmore Hall, Royal Opera House and Royal Festival Hall, the Vienna Konzerthaus, Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Muziekgebouw, Köln Philharmonie, Strasbourg, Frankfurt, Lille and Gothenburg Opera houses, Berlin Boulez Saal, Paris Musée d’Orsay, Zürich Tonhalle, deSingel Antwerp, Luxembourg Philharmonie, Bozar Brussels, Tokyo’s Oji Hall and New York’s Alice Tully Hall. He regularly appears at festivals in Aix-en-Provence, Aldeburgh, Edinburgh, Munich, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg and Hohenems, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Ravinia, Japan, San Francisco, Toronto and Vancouver as well as the BBC Proms.
