Beth Taylor and Hamish Brown – Lunchtime Recital

Thursday 15 April 2027

Leeds Song Festival

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Rising star Beth Taylor, “one of today’s most electrifying young mezzo-sopranos” (The Times), joins pianist and Leeds Song Young Artist Programme alumnus Hamish Brown in a recital that comes to Leeds from its debut at the Edinburgh International Festival. Their Edinburgh performance was praised for turning “the conventional song recital into a gripping piece of drama” (The Arts Desk).

Shaped by the sea, myth, memory and the shifting boundaries between the human and natural worlds, the programme travels through more than a century of music. Here, the sea becomes both landscape and metaphor — alluring, mysterious, turbulent and dangerous — in a captivating journey through song.

This concert will be signed by British Sign Language interpreter Paul Whittaker

Price

£15
Plus £1.50 booking fee

Unwaged/disabled £5
Plus £1.50 booking fee

Venue
  • Howard Assembly Room

Start time
1pm

End time
2pm

Duration
1 hour

Performers

Beth Taylor Mezzo-soprano
Hamish Brown Piano
Paul Whittaker OBE BSL Interpreter

Programme

Traditional Orkney folksong arr. Biles-Liddell The Grey Selkie o’ Sule Skerry
Cameron Biles-Liddell The Breakers
Dame Ethel Smyth Three Moods of the Sea

Connie Converse
Excerpts from The Cassandra Cycle
Cassandra’s Entrance
Under a Lullaby
Vanity of Vanities

Stuart Macrae Medusa
Rebecca Clarke The Seal Man

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