Poetry into Song: Benjamin Appl, Sholto Kynoch & Richard Wigmore
16 October 2015, 12:10
Concert
This event will be broadcast from Holywell Music Room

As part of our symposium on words and music, this recital, illustrated with introductions by Richard Wigmore, will highlight repertoire discussed during the day, including music by Schumann and Debussy.
Programme
Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)
3 Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
- 1. Soupir
- 2. Placet futile
- 3. Eventail
Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
Gesänge des Harfners (D478)
Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
Liederkreis (Op. 24)

Benjamin Appl
Benjamin Appl
Baritone
Hailed as ‘the most promising of today’s up-and-coming song recitalists’ (Financial Times), baritone Benjamin Appl is celebrated by audiences and critics alike for a voice that ‘belongs to the last of the old great masters of song’ with ‘an almost infinite range of colours’ (Suddeutsche Zeitung), ‘exacting attention to text’ (New York Times), and artistry that’s described as ‘unbearably moving’ (The Times). Named Gramophone Award Young Artist of the Year in 2016, Appl wa... 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. Recent recitals have taken him to Wigmore Hall, Heidelberger Frühling in Germany, the Zeist International Lied Festival in Holland, the LIFE Victoria festival and Palau de la Música in Barcelona, the Opéra de Lille, Kings Place in Lo... Read Full Biography
Richard Wigmore
Richard Wigmore
Speaker
Richard Wigmore read modern languages at Cambridge and studied music at the Guildhall School of Music and in Salzburg. After a career as a professional singer he now works as a writer, broadcaster and lecturer specialising in Romantic and Classical chamber music, and in Lieder. Richard writes for Gramophone, BBC Music Magazineand other journals, gives regular pre-concert talks, and has taught classes in the history and interpretation of Lieder at Birkbeck College, the Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall. He appears frequently on Radio 3... Read Full BiographyFestival Passes
This event is part of a series:
2015 Festival: Singing Words: poets and their songs
Singing Words: Poets and their Songs celebrates the glorious and varied poetry of song and emphasises this unique meeting of words and music. Following the triumph of last year’s ‘The Schubert Project’ and our recent Royal Philharmonic Society Award, we are pleased to present another stellar array of world-renowned artists in the heart of Oxford. Many of the programmes are bas...