Performers
Beth Taylor Mezzo-soprano
Hamish Brown Piano
Paul Whittaker OBE BSL Interpreter
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
Start time
1pm
End time
2pm
Duration
1 hour
Beth Taylor Mezzo-soprano
Hamish Brown Piano
Paul Whittaker OBE BSL Interpreter
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