Josep-Ramon Olivé / Ben-San Lau
06 March 2016, 20:00 - 21:45
Concert

Holywell St
Oxford
OX1 3BN

A recital given by the exceptional winners of the 2015 Young Artist Platform, including Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Ravel's Histoires Naturelles, as well as a selection of songs from Josep-Ramon Olivé's native Catalonia by Mompou and Morera i Viura.
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£5 student tickets are available on the door on a first come, first served basis.
Programme
Enric Morera i Viura (1865 - 1942)
Cançons de carrer
- 1. L’Oreneta
- 2. La Font
- 3. Estel del dematí
Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937)
Histoires naturelles
- 1. Le paon
- 2. Le grillon
- 3. Le cygne
- 4. Le martin-pêcheur
- 5. La pintade
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
Frederic Mompou (1893 - 1987)
Combat del somni
- ~~~ Interval ~~~

Josep-Ramon Olivé
Josep-Ramon Olivé
Baritone
Born in Barcelona in 1988, Josep-Ramon Olivé started his musical studies in the Escolania of Montserrat where apart from receiving both vocal and choral training he studied piano and cello. He finishes his bachelor’s degree on Choral Conducting (2010) and Singing (2012) in the ESMuC (Higher School of Music of Catalonia) with Josep Vila and Johan Duijck, and mezzo-soprano Mireia Pintó respectively. In 2014 he achieves a Singing Masters and in 2016 finishes the Opera Course both at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama ... Read Full Biography
Ben-San Lau
Ben-San Lau
pianist
Ben-San Lau was born in Manchester. He graduated from Cambridge with a first-class degree with distinction in Music, having been organ scholar at King’s College, and currently studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He has performed in concerts at the Het Concertgebouw, the Royal Albert Hall, and the Walton Estate in Ischia. He has collaborated on song projects with Eugene Asti and Graham Johnson, and recently made his debut at the Barbican Centre in a recital of songs by Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky. He has worked as a repet... Read Full BiographyFestival Passes
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