40. Fairy Tales - Stanford to Sondheim: Kitty Whately & Simon Lepper
18 October 2019, 20:00 - 21:40
Concert
Holywell St
Oxford
OX1 3BN
Kitty Whately and Simon Lepper take us on a dramatic journey from ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ – Stanford’s thrilling setting of Keats – to Rebecca Clarke’s spine-chilling ‘The Seal Man’. They include songs by Samuel Barber, alongside a new work by American composer Juliana Hall and librettist Caitlin Vincent, before concluding with an effervescent group of songs by Stephen Sondheim from his fairy-tale musical Into the Woods.
Programme
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Jonathan Dove (b. 1959)
The Siren from All the Future Days -
Rebecca Clarke (1886 - 1979)
The Seal Man -
Judith Weir (b. 1954)
Song of the girl ravished away by the fairies in South Uist -
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852 - 1924)
La belle dame sans merci -
Herbert Howells (1892 - 1983)
King David -
Joseph Horovitz (b. 1926)
Lady Macbeth- A Scena - ~~~ Interval ~~~
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Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981)
St. Ita's Vision (Op. 29) from Hermit Songs - At Saint Patrick's Purgatory (Op. 29) from Hermit Songs
- The Crucifixion (Op. 29) from Hermit Songs
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Juliana Hall (b. 1958)
Godiva (Monodrama for Mezzo Soprano and Piano on a Libretto by Caitlin Vincent) -
Stephen Sondheim (b. 1930)
I read - Any moment / Moments in the woods from Into the Woods
- Children Will Listen
- On the steps of the palace from Into the Woods
Kitty Whately
Kitty Whately
Mezzo-soprano
Kitty Whately trained at Chetham’s School of Music, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and the Royal College of Music International Opera School. She won both the Kathleen Ferrier Award and the 59th Royal Overseas League Award in the same year, and was part of the prestigious Verbier Festival Academy where she appeared as Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro and in Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy. Kitty was a BBC New Generation Artist from 2013-15, during which time she recorded her debut solo album This Other Eden, made recordings w... Read Full Biography
Simon Lepper
Simon Lepper
Pianist
Simon read music at King’s College, Cambridge before studying piano accompaniment with Michael Dussek at the Royal Academy of Music and later with Ruben Lifschitz at the Fondation Royaumont. He is a currently professor of collaborative piano and a vocal repertoire coach at the Royal College of Music, London where he also in charge of the collaboarative piano course. Since 2003 he has been an official accompanist for the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition Performance highlights have included an invitation from the Wigmor... Read Full BiographyHave you also considered...
Festival Passes
This event is part of a series:
Tales of Beyond - Magic, Myths and Mortals
The 18th Oxford Lieder Festival will explore life, death, and the mysterious areas between and beyond. Sprites and nymphs cause mayhem and mischief, while legends abound from Greco-Roman sagas to the Lorelei and the Erlking. Storytelling with the Crick Crack Club, a ghost tour, a magic show and more all complement the myriad concerts, masterclasses and study events over a packed fortnight....