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Reviews2024-03-25T15:09:25+00:00

‘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.’

Simon Lindley

Brahms, Ein Deutsches Requiem

Press quote ...this concert marked David Hill’s first appearance as ‘the Phils’ music director; a post he occupies concurrently with the music directorships of the Bach Choir and St John’s College Cambridge. The members of his Leeds Choir are going to have a very fruitful relationship with their new conductor. This was abundantly clear to those of

Mahler, Resurrection Symphony

Press quote ...the best sounds of all emerged from the choirs the Leeds and Sheffield Philharmonic Choruses singing with that soft, comforting tone... The Times Published April 2005

Elgar, The Dream of Gerontius

Press quote The chorus [created] the tingle factor, launching into the Chorus of Demons with suitable venom and pulling out all the stops as they came to that moment of crowning glory in Praise to the Holiest in the Height. Yorkshire Post Published March 2004

Beethoven, Missa Solemnis

Press quote The Leeds chorus made a most impressive sound, exemplary in attack and quality of diction. The strain on sopranos is notorious in this work, but here they stuck to their task and were unstinting in the fortissimo passages. Yorkshire Post Published November 2003

Berlioz, Te Deum

Press quote This performance contained power and introspection... a meaningful performance, full of integrity. The Guardian Published September 2003

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