PATRICK LERESCHE

Die Schumann Sonate - Take 3

Die Schumann Sonate - between Genius and Madness - is a musical play about the composer's last two years spent in the mental assylum in Endenich. The trailer uses footage from the live performance at TAK Theater Liechtenstein on the 21st February 2015.

Die Schumann Sonata - Take 2

Live excerpts from the second version of the production on the 11.11.2012 in Luzern, Switzerland. Simon Gfeller: Acting/Voice, Rachel Wieser: Violin, Patrick Leresche: Piano, Accoustic Sound Design: Adam Nicholas

Die Schumann Sonata - Take 1

The first version of the project was part of my final exam at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2011. Alex Knox: Acting/Voice, Seila Tamissola: Violin, Patrick Leresche: Piano, Chris Bartholomew: Sound Design, Jay Jones: Lighting.
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Beginning of "Longing"

Middle Section of "Longing"

"Were I a Smile" from "Love"

Beginning of the 3rd movement ("Madness") out of "The Schumann Sonata"

Frau Fuchs

This short movie was made back in the year 2005 by a friend of mine, Simon Nagel, who was at the time studying film at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich. Frau Fuchs is lonely until one day...

Lads in Their Hundreds

The war musical Lads in Their Hundreds starts off at the beginning of the First World War, when young Lads leave their families behind to go to war fighting for their country. The women stay at home waiting and knitting while the soldiers fight in the trenches. Other than showing that war is pure horror for everybody involved, the show also creates connections to what was going on in the Iraq and Afghanistan war and makes the thematic very up to date. Director Iain Burnside has not only used some well known songs out of Butterworth's A Shropshire Lad, but has also included some musical theatre numbers and the welsh hymn All through The Night.

All through the Night" (Welsh folk tune)

Torture scene (Music by E.Rushton)

"Is he an Aussie, is he, Lizzie"

Patrick Leresche 2014