Social DistanSong
27th March - 4th April 2020
In these strange and unsettling times, we're delighted to present our much-reduced virtual spring festival in place of Spring Song. From 27 March to 4 April, we'll be bringing you exclusive content to enjoy from the artists and speakers who were due to take part. Artistic Director, Sholto Kynoch, tells us more about what's coming up in the video below...
Saturday 28th March 2020
10:00 AM
Social DistanSong Day One: Ailish Tynan, James Baillieu, Helen Abbott & Natasha Loges
28 Mar 2020 10:00 | Various
Welcome everyone! Our impromptu 'Social Distansong' festival starts here. We have a number of offerings today: Helen Abbott and Natasha Loges give adapted versions of their talks that were due to take place as part of the 'Poetry Making Song' study day; Ailish Tynan and James Baillieu have remotely recorded a Grieg song from their programme plus a special encore; and Ailish has ...Sunday 29th March 2020
8:00 AM
Social DistanSong Day Two: Christina Gansch and Sholto Kynoch
29 Mar 2020 08:00 | Various
Welcome to Day Two of Social DistanSong. Today would have been the start of our residential Mastercourse, led by Joan Rodgers, so we're linking below to a couple of clips of Joan giving masterclasses. Later in the week we'll be posting a video directly from Joan, so watch out for that. Looking to what would have been the evening concert given by Christina Gansch and Sholto Kynoch, we ha...Monday 30th March 2020
12:00 PM
Social DistanSong Day Three: Dorottya Láng & Julius Drake
30 Mar 2020 12:00 | Various
It's day three of Social DistanSong. Today we would have welcomed the wonderful Hungarian mezzo-soprano Dorottya Láng, with pianist Julius Drake. From Hertfordshire and Budapest, they have a video chat on Zoom with Sholto Kynoch, covering aspects of the programme they would have performed tonight, Fauré's metronome markings, and Julius's tarte tatin... Dorottya and Jul...Tuesday 31st March 2020
10:00 AM
Social DistanSong Day Four: Klemens Sander & Sholto Kynoch
31 Mar 2020 10:00 | Various
We're already at day four of Social DistanSong, our way of staying in touch and engaged during our cancelled Spring Song period. Last year, the Austrian baritone Klemens Sander stepped in at short notice to give a memorably excellent performance of Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin (see below), and it's a particular shame that his planned recital this year shou...Wednesday 1st April 2020
10:00 AM
Social DistanSong Day Five: Lotte Betts-Dean & Ensemble x.y
01 Apr 2020 10:00 | Various
It's day five of 'Social DistanSong', tracking what would have been our new Spring Song festival. Helen Abbott has sent us an adapted version of her talk, 'What's the Stress? Finding your Feet with French poetry,' and in place of her work with the Mastercourse students, she's had a fascinating chat with soprano Mary Bevan and pianist Joseph Middleton, talking ab...Thursday 2nd April 2020
10:00 AM
Social DistanSong Day Six: Benjamin Appl & Simon Lepper
02 Apr 2020 10:00 | Various
Social DistanSong continues, and on this sixth day of Spring Song we would have welcomed the baritone Benjamin Appl and pianist Simon Lepper. Ben and Simon have remotely recorded a wonderful Wolf song for us, and Ben also did a short interview for us with Katy Hamilton. Simon introduces and performs the last song of Vaughan Williams's Songs of Travel as a piano solo, and both arti...Friday 3rd April 2020
10:00 AM
Social DistanSong Day Seven: Robin Tritschler & Graham Johnson
03 Apr 2020 10:00 | Various
On the penultimate day of Spring Song, we were looking forward to welcoming Robin Tritschler and Graham Johnson for a recital pairing Schubert and Beethoven. We're grateful to Graham for giving us an insight into the programme they would have performed, and to Robin for putting together a detailed playlist, with listening notes, for you to enjoy recordings of the complete programme. We...Saturday 4th April 2020
10:00 AM
Social DistanSong Day Eight: Joan Rodgers plus Live Q&A at 5pm
04 Apr 2020 10:00 | Various
It's the last day of Social DistanSong! We know that nothing can replace the experience of live music - and how we all look forward to enjoying that again! - but we also hope that you've enjoyed what we've been able to send you over the week. At 5pm today, Oxford Lieder's Artistic Director, Sholto Kynoch, will do a live Q&A. This will be via YouTube, and you'll be able t...