‘The Leeds Philharmonic Society is the senior choir in the city by date of foundation and by virtue of its continued and very distinguished programme sustained annually since 1870.’
Manchester Camerata and Leeds Philharmonic Chorus 2015
Press review Leeds Town Hall, 21st November 2015: Mozart’s Requiem Mass was incomplete at the time of his death in 1791. This sublime work is one of the miracles of classical music. Several composers, but mainly Franz Xavier Sussmayer, completed the Requiem in the years following Mozart’s death. The miracle is that whichever version we listen to,
Virtuoso finale to outstanding concert season
Press review: Leeds Town Hall, Saturday 30th May 2015: Walton, Belshazzar’s Feast: Leeds Philharmonic Chorus, Leeds Festival Chorus and BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Premiered in the Town Hall eighty-four years ago, Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast received a superb performance from the Leeds Philharmonic and Festival Choruses as the conclusion to an outstanding concert season. In a venue that is usually the graveyard
Bachtrack review 2015
Press review Leeds Town Hall, Saturday 30 May 2015 That the BBC Philharmonic opened their concert evening in Leeds with a curtain lifter such as the overture to Hector Berlioz’ opera Benvenuto Cellini (1834–37) was fitting in light of the spectacle that was to take place later. Simon Wright, musical director of Leeds Festival Choir, skillfully led
BBC Philharmonic, Leeds Philharmonic & Leeds Festival Chorus
Press review Leeds Town Hall, 30th May 2015 As the ‘finale’ concert to the wonderful Leeds International Orchestral Season, there is a sense of celebration and flourish. As the conductor and the eminent Peter Donohoe, after a sumptuous performance of Ravel’s Piano Concerto, sit down together to play the original piano duet version of Ravel’s Ma Mere
Choruses Are a Credit to the City
Letter Beethoven Symphony No 9 (Choral): May I, through the pages of the YEP, express my thanks and appreciation to both the Leeds Philharmonic Chorus and the Leeds Festival Chorus for their outstanding performance at the Leeds Town Hall last Saturday night. Along with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra their performance at the Beethoven Symphony No 9 (Choral)
Leeds Philharmonic Chorus and BBC Philharmonic
Press review Leeds Town Hall, 14th March 2015: Carl Orff, the composer of Carmina Burana, the centre piece of this concert, spent much of his working life teaching children. Fitting then, that this was a concert perfect for a young person’s first taste of orchestral and choral live music. What could be more accessible than Dukas Sorcerer’s