Mendelssohn: The Gildas String Quartet & Raphaela Papadakis
20 October 2016, 15:45
Recital
Beaumont Street,
Oxford
The Gildas String Quartet and soprano Raphaela Papadakis return for Aribert Reimann's captivating scoring of songs by Felix Mendelssohn for string quartet and voice.
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Programme
Aribert Reimann / Felix Mendelssohn, arranged Aribert Reimann
... oder soll es Tod bedeuten? ...
- 1. Leise zieht durch mein Gemüt
- 2. Intermezzo I
- 3. Der Herbstwind rüttelt die Bäume
- 4. Intermezzo II
- 5. Über die Berge scheint schon die Sonne
- 6. Intermezzo III
- 7. Auf Flügeln des Gesanges
- 8. Intermezzo IV
- 9. Was will die einsame Träne (Strophe 1 & 2)
- 10. In dem Mondenschein im Walde
- 11. Was will die einsame Träne (Strophe 3)
- 12. Intermezzo V
- 13. Allnächtlich im Traume
- 14. Mein Liebchen, wir sassen beisammen
- 15. Intermezzo VI
- 16. Warum sind denn die Rosen so blass
Gildas Quartet
Gildas Quartet
Quartet
Raphaela Papadakis
Raphaela Papadakis
Soprano
Award winning British soprano Raphaela Papadakis made her professional operatic début at Garsington Opera in 2014, which was singled out by the Financial Times as the “most attractive solo performance” of the show. She went on to cover the Nymph in Michael Boyd’s critically and commercially acclaimed production of Monteverdi’s Orfeo for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. An avid lover of contemporary music, Raphaela recently had the privilege of creating the role of the disfigured trainee geisha Kikuyo in Ni... 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...