Oxford Lieder on Radio 3 In Concert
01 October 2020, 19:30 - 31 October 2020, 12:00
Concert
TUNE IN at 7.30pm on Thursday 1 October, and for 30 days afterwards. As a curtain-raiser to the main Festival, Artistic Director Sholto Kynoch and several Festival artists perform live at BBC Maida Vale studios. The programme includes Ashley Riches in Schumann's great song-cycle, Dichterliebe, songs featuring (and about) the violin by Hugo Wolf, Rebecca Clarke and Saint-Saëns performed by Caitlin Hulcup and Jonathan Stone, and freshly-minted songs from leading contemporary ensemble, The Hermes Experiment.
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The Hermes Experiment will give a concert in Christ Church Cathedral on Tuesday 13 October at 10pm. BOOK TICKETS
Caitlin Hulcup, Jonathan Stone and Sholto Kynoch will perform their programme of works for voice, violin and piano on Monday 12 October at 5.30pm. BOOK TICKETS
Ashley Riches will appear at the Festival, performing Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin on Friday 16 October at 1pm. BOOK TICKETS
All concerts will be streamed fully live, but will also be available to watch again until 1 November. Festival Passes (available to buy via the sidebar of this page) offer great value, allowing access to all Festival events until 1 November for just £90 (£2.25 per event).
Programme
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Barbara Strozzi, arr. Werner
Tradimento -
Soosan Lolavar
Mâh Didam -
Rebecca Clarke (1886 - 1979)
The Tailor and His Mouse (from Old English Songs) -
Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976)
At the railway station, Upway - 'The convict and the boy with the violin' (Op. 53 no.7) from Winter Words -
Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903)
Das Ständchen (no.4) from Gedichte von Joseph von Eichendorff - Der Musikant (no.2) from Gedichte von Joseph von Eichendorff
- Wie lange schon war immer mein Verlangen (no.11) from Italienisches Liederbuch
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Louis Spohr (1784 - 1859)
Der Spielmann und seine Geige -
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921)
Violons dans le soir - Danse macabre
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Emily Hall (b. 1978)
I am happy living simply -
Freya Waley-Cohen (b. 1989)
Oyster -
Errolyn Wallen
Gun gun gun -
Emily Hall (b. 1978)
The end of the ending Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
Dichterliebe (Op. 48)
- 1. Im wunderschönen Monat Mai
- 2. Aus meinen Tränen sprießen
- 3. Die Rose, die Lilie, die Taube, die Sonne
- 4. Wenn ich in deine Augen seh
- 5. Ich will meine Seele tauchen
- 6. Im Rhein, im heiligen Strome
- 7. Ich grolle nicht
- 8. Und wüßten's die Blumen, die kleinen
- 9. Das ist ein Flöten und Geigen
- 10. Hör' ich das Liedchen klingen
- 11. Ein Jüngling liebt ein Mädchen
- 12. Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen
- 13. Ich hab' im Traum geweinet
- 14. Allnächtlich im Traume
- 15. Aus alten Märchen
- 16. Die alten, bösen Lieder
The Hermes Experiment
The Hermes Experiment
Ensemble
Winners of the Royal Over-Seas League Mixed Ensemble Competition 2019, Tunnell Trust Awards 2017, Nonclassical’s Battle of the Bands 2014, Making Music Selected Artists 2019/20 and Park Lane Group Young Artists 2015/16, The Hermes Experiment is a contemporary quartet made up of harp, clarinet, voice and double bass. Capitalising on their deliberately idiosyncratic combination of instruments, the ensemble regularly commissions new works, as well as creating their own innovative arrangements and venturing into live free improvisation. Th... Read Full Biography
Ashley Riches
Ashley Riches
Baritone
British bass-baritone Ashley Riches read English at the University of Cambridge where he was a member of the King’s College Choir under Stephen Cleobury. He went on to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and is rapidly emerging as one of today’s finest young singers. A former Jette Parker Young Artist, his roles for the Royal Opera House include Morales Carmen, Mandarin Turandot, Baron Douphol La Traviata and Officer Les Dialogues des Carmelites. For the English National Opera, Ashley has sung Escamillo Carmen, Co... Read Full Biography
Caitlin Hulcup
Caitlin Hulcup
Mezzo soprano
Caitlin Hulcup has appeared at leading opera houses internationally, including the Wiener Staatsoper, Berliner Staatsoper, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, Teatro Real Madrid, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, La Monnaie, Theater an der Wien, Bolshoi Theatre and Palau de les Arts Valencia. Concert highlights include performances at the BBC Proms, and with the Wiener Akademie, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Academy... Read Full Biography
Jonathan Stone
Jonathan Stone
Violinist
British violinist Jonathan Stone is an internationally acclaimed chamber musician, soloist, concertmaster and director. As soloist and chamber musician, highlights of this season include appearances at the Larzac, North Norfolk, Battle, Ironstone and Marryat Players chamber music festivals, as well as the Oxford Lieder Festival. In May 2019, he appears as a guest artist with the Nash Ensemble to record Fanny Mendelssohn’s string quartet, and in January 2020 he returns to Wigmore Hall as violinist of the Phoenix Piano Trio. Jonath... Read Full Biography
Sholto Kynoch
Sholto Kynoch
Pianist
Sholto Kynoch is a sought-after pianist who specialises in song and chamber music. He is the founder and Artistic Director of the Oxford Lieder Festival, which won a prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Award in 2015, cited for its ‘breadth, depth and audacity’ of programming. In July 2018, Sholto was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in the RAM Honours. Recent recitals have taken him to Wigmore Hall, Heidelberger Frühling in Germany, the Zeist International Lied Festival in Holland, the LIFE Victoria festi... Read Full BiographyThis event is part of a series:
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