FULL KATHLEEN’s SONGBOOK Leeds 2026 Ailish Tynan, Rachel Munro

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Kathleen's Songbook  
• Composer: various  
• Libretto: various  
• Venue & Opera Company: Howard Assembly Room, Leeds, UK  
• Recorded: April 18, 2026
• Type: Concert Live
• Singers: Ailish Tynan, Rachel Munro
• Conductor:   
• Orchestra: Joseph Middleton, Jia Ning Ng, PIANO  
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Leeds Song  
• Date Published: 2026  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  Tynan stepped in at short notice for this “rousing finale” after Dame Sarah Connolly had to withdraw due to illness. The performance, titled “Kathleen’s Songbook,” was a special tribute to Kathleen Evans BEM, the festival’s retiring Chair and former administrator

  Programme

  Rachel Munro soprano
  Jia Ning Ng piano

  Benjamin Britten
  Let the florid music praise (On This Island)

  George Crumb
  Three Early Songs

  Night
  Let It Be Forgotten
  Wind Elegy

  Ernesto Lecuona
  Maria La O (Romanza de María La O)

  Ailish Tynan soprano
  Joseph Middleton piano

  Edvard Grieg
  Gruss
  Dereinst, Gedanke mein
  Lauf der Welt
  Die verschwiegene Nachtigall
  Zur Rosenzeit
  Ein Traum

  Franz Schubert
  An die Musik
  Gretchen am Spinnrade
  Nacht und Träume
  Die junge Nonne

  Interval

  Henri Duparc
  L’invitation au voyage

  Reynaldo Hahn
  À Chloris

  Maurice Ravel
  Shéhérazade

  Frank Bridge
  Love went a-riding

  Herbert Hughes
  Marry me now!

  James Joyce arr. Edmund Pendleton
  Bid adieu

  Anon arr. Benjamin Britten
  The Last Rose of Summer

  Anon arr. Herbert Hughes
  Tigaree Torum Orum

   

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