Event listing: Opening Concert: Songs of the Sea | Leeds Conservatoire: The Venue | Fri 1 Apr 2016 at 19:30

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Leeds Conservatoire: The Venue3 Quarry Hill, Leeds, Yorkshire and the Humber, LS2 7PD, United Kingdom

Dates/times in London time zone

Programme

Ireland, John (1879-1962)	Sea Fever
Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)	Sailor´s song Hob XXVIa:31
Stanford, Charles Villiers (1852-1924)	Drake's Drum
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)	Au cimetière, Op.15 no.2
Fauré, Gabriel (1845-1924)	Les Berceaux, Op.23 no.1
Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847)	Wasserfahrt, Op.50 no.4
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)	Der Schiffer (Im Winde, im Sturme) (Mayrhofer), D.536
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)	Auf dem Wasser zu singen (Stolberg), D.774
Schubert, Franz (1797-1828)	Meeres Stille (Goethe), D.215a
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)	Meerfahrt, Op.96 no.4
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)	Die Meere (The Sea), Op.20 no.3
Wolf, Hugo (1860-1903)	Eichendorff-Lieder, no. 17: Seemans Abschied
Elgar, Sir Edward (1857-1934)	Sea Pictures, Op.37: Where corals lie
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)	Song Arrangement: Tom Bowling
Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)	Sail on, sail on
Hely-Hutchinson, Victor (1901-1947)	The Owl and the Pussycat
Traditional	Shenandoah

Performers

See Au cimetière, Op.15 no.2 in

Richard Wilcocks, 1st April

Songs of the Sea, the opening concert of the Leeds Lieder Festival, leaves the audience in a happy and buoyant mood.

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