Audience review Leeds Philharmonic Chorus, St Anne’s Cathedral, Leeds, 20th February 2016: From Alan and Elisabeth Horsey: Please would you convey our thanks to the Leeds Philharmonic Choir for their wonderful singing of Rachmaninov’s marvellous All Night Liturgy at St .Anne’s Cathedral this evening. Phrasing, dynamic contrast, ensemble, balance all combined to achieve a performance of real commitment and

Press review Leeds Town Hall, 21st November 2015: This concert was like a long clean drink or fulsome meal. It was nourishing and satisfying. Splendente te, Deus is our starter, seemingly short and slightly inconsequential, but nevertheless pleasing. Bright, major key, a song of praise, the harmonic language is simple and the temperament young and optimistic. Certainly moments

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,

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

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

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