A Wedding Gift: Joan Rodgers, Dietrich Henschel & Sholto Kynoch
17 October 2016, 19:30
Recital
Holywell St
Oxford
OX1 3BN
Eminent German baritone, and renowned interpreter of song, Dietrich Henschel is joined by distinguished soprano Joan Rodgers for a complete performance of Myrthen, Robert Schumann's wedding gift to his bride Clara. Written in the miraculous year of 1840, it contains many of his most enduringly popular songs.
Festal supper will be available from 6:30pm every evening (except Thursday 20th). Enjoy a delicious hot main meal and side dish between the afternoon and evening recitals for just £11. Our food partners this year are the Vaults & Garden Café, The Oxford University Club, and St Stephen’s House. Please book by midnight the day before by clicking here.
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Programme
Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
Drei Gedichte von Emanuel Geibel (Op.30)
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Clara Schumann (1819 - 1896)
Volkslied - Der Abendstern
- Walzer
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Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
Sonntag (Op.79 no.6) from Lieder-Album für die Jugend - Die Waise (Op.79 no.14) from Lieder-Album für die Jugend
- Weihnachtslied (Op.79 no.16) from Lieder-Album für die Jugend
- Das Glück (Op.79 no.15) from Lieder-Album für die Jugend
- Die Schwalben (Op.79 no.20) from Lieder-Album für die Jugend
- ~~~ Interval ~~~
Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
Myrthen (Op.25)
- 1. Widmung
- 2. Freisinn
- 3. Der Nussbaum
- 4. Jemand
- 5. Lieder aus dem Schenkenbuch im Divan I „Sitz ich allein“
- 6. Lieder aus dem Schenkenbuch im Divan II „Setze mir nicht, du Grobain“
- 7. Die Lotosblume
- 8. Talismane
- 9. Lied der Suleika
- 10. Die Hochländer-Witwe
- 11. Lied der Braut I „Mutter, Mutter! Glaube nicht“
- 12. Lied der Braut II „Lass mich ihm am Busen hangen“
- 13. Hochländers Abschied
- 14. Hochländisches Wiegenlied
- 15. Aus den „Hebräischen Gesängen“
- 16. Rätsel
- 17. Zwei Venetianische Lieder I „Leis’ rudern hier!“
- 18. Zwei Venetianische Lieder II „Wenn durch die Piazzetta“
- 19. Hauptmanns Weib
- 20. Weit, weit
- 21. Was will die einsame Träne?
- 22. Niemand
- 23. Im Westen
- 24. Du bist wie eine Blume
- 25. Aus den „Östlichen Rosen“
- 26. Zum Schluss
Joan Rodgers
Joan Rodgers
Soprano
Internationally renowned, Joan Rodgers is equally established in opera, concert, and as a recitalist. She has appeared in concert with conductors including Solti, Barenboim, Mehta, Harnoncourt, Mackerras, Ashkenazy, Salonen and Rattle and is a regular guest at the BBC Proms. Operatic engagements have included engagements at the Royal Opera House, English National Opera, Opera North and Glyndebourne in Britain, Paris, Munich, Brussels, Amsterdam and Vienna in Europe, and the Metropolitan Opera, New York. Joan Rodgers has also appeared in r... Read Full Biography
Dietrich Henschel
Dietrich Henschel
Baritone
German Baritone Dietrich Henschel’s repertoire extends from the beginning of baroque opera to modern day avant-garde. He debuted at the Biennale für modernes Musiktheater in Munich with the title role in Michaels Reverdy´s opera Le Precepteur. In his first and only permanent engagement, at the opera in Kiel, he performed classics such as Papageno, the Count in Nozze de Figaro, Pelleas in Debussy’s Pelleas et Melisande, Monteverdi´s Orfeo and Henze´s Prinz von Homburg. Henschel´s international career b... 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 BiographyThis event is part of a series:
The Schumann Project
The Schumann Project: 14-29 October 2016 The fifteenth Oxford Lieder Festival will be the Schumann Project, a unique survey of Schumann's complete songs. The Schumann Project will explore Schumann's life and times, his friends and contemporaries, his influences and his legacies, and his literary and artistic interests. This two-week feast of song will feature Oxford Lieder's trad...