Leeds Lieder: Schubert Song Series III

A BBC New Generation Artist, bass-baritone Ashley Riches read English at Cambridge University before studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and as a Jette Parker Young Artist at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Recent appearances have included with the Berlin Philharmonic/Sir John Eliot Gardiner, the Philharmonia Orchestra/Esa-Pekka Salonen, the Orchestra of the Age Of Enlightenment and at Wigmore Hall. increasingly recognised as a superb young singer, he appears on Graham Johnson's complete Poulenc Songs for Hyperion. To draw our Schubert series to a close he performs the great non-cycle, Schubert's Schwanengesang alongside what many label the genre's first song-cycle, Beethoven's hymn to a distant beloved.