63. French Fables: Jess Dandy & Sholto Kynoch
23 October 2019, 13:05 - 13:55
Lunchtime Recital
Holywell St
Oxford
OX1 3BN
Presented in association with the University of Birmingham
Contralto Jess Dandy, an Oxford Lieder Young Artist, is fast emerging as one of the most exciting young singers today. Her programme features settings of Baudelaire, including the world premiere of a new song by our Associate Composer, Cheryl Frances-Hoad. She and Sholto Kynoch also perform settings of the seventeenth-century poet and fabulist Jean de la Fontaine, with songs by Saint-Saëns, Offenbach and Gounod.
Watch Jess Dandy and Dylan Perez at last year's Young Artist Platform, performing Ravel:
Programme
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Henri Duparc (1848 - 1933)
L'invitation au voyage -
Tawnie Olson
Le Revenant -
Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924)
Hymne (Op. 7 no.2) - Chant d'automne (Op. 5 no.1)
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Louis Vierne (1870 - 1937)
Les Hiboux -
Cheryl Frances-Hoad (b. 1980)
Une Charogne - ~~~ Interval ~~~
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Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921)
La Cigale et la fourmi -
André Caplet (1878 - 1925)
Le corbeau et le renard from Trois Fables de Jean de la Fontaine - Le loup et l'agneau from Trois Fables de Jean de la Fontaine
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Jacques Offenbach (1819 - 1880)
Le corbeau et le renard from Six Fables de La Fontaine - La laitière et le pot au lait from Six Fables de La Fontaine
- La Cigale et la fourmi from Six Fables de La Fontaine
Jessica Dandy
Jessica Dandy
Contralto
Jess Dandy studied at Trinity College, Cambridge and Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she held a fellowship and graduated with distinction. She was the winner of the London Bach Society Singers Prize 2017 and the 2018 Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform. Jess is co-founder with mezzo-soprano, Joanna Harries, of the SongPath initiative, founded to promote walking and music-making in the context of mental health, by exploring the routes and roots of the local landscape. Her concert appearances have included Samson (Micah) w... Read Full Biography
Sholto Kynoch
Sholto Kynoch
Pianist
Sholto Kynoch is a sought-after pianist who specialises in chamber music and song accompaniment. In addition to a busy performance schedule and a fast-growing discography, he is the founder and director of the Oxford Lieder Festival, the UK’s most renowned song festival, which recently won a prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Award. In recent years he has appeared at London’s Wigmore Hall, the Palau de la Música in Barcelona, the Berliner Konzerthaus, the Victoria Concert Hall in Singapore, the Opéra de Lille... Read Full BiographyHave you also considered...
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