A New Dichterliebe: Wolfgang Holzmair & Matti Hirvonen
22 October 2016, 22:00
Recital
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
St Hilda's College,
Oxford
Wolfgang Holzmair makes a hugely welcome return to the Festival with a fascinating programme that explores Schumann's friends, contemporaries and followers through the supremely famous texts of Dichterliebe. He and Matti Hirvonen also include Heine settings by Scandinavian composers and Schumann himself.
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Programme
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Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847)
Neue Liebe (Op.19a no.4) from Six Songs -
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805 - 1847)
Warum sind denn die Rosen so blass (Op.1 no.3) -
Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847)
Gruß (Op.19a no.5) from Six Songs - Reiselied (Op.34 no.6)
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August Söderman (1832 - 1876)
Im wunderschönen Monat Mai -
Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791 - 1864)
Die Rose, die Lilie, die Taube -
Benedict Randhartinger (1802 - 1893)
Wenn ich deine Augen seh' -
Johanna Kinkel (1810 - 1858)
Der Kuß (Op.10 no.3) -
Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
Im Rhein, im schönen Strome (S272) -
Charles Ives (1874 - 1954)
Ich grolle nicht -
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805 - 1847)
Verlust (Op.9 no.10) -
Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907)
Hör' ich das Liedchen klingen (Op.39 no.9) -
Johann Hoven (1803 - 1883)
Eine alte Geschichte -
Robert Franz (1815 - 1892)
Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen (Op.11 no.2) -
Franz Lachner (1803 - 1890)
Mein Traum (Op.33 no.15) -
Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847)
Allnächtlich im Traume seh' ich dich (Op.posth. 86 no.4) -
Franz von Suppé (1819 - 1895)
Aus alten Märchen -
Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907)
Das alte Lied (Op.4 no.5) -
Andreas Hallén (1846 - 1925)
Die Bergstimme (Op.11 no.1) -
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (1867 - 1942)
Das goldne Kalb -
Agathe Backer-Gröndahl (1847 - 1907)
Der wunde Ritter (Op.4 no.5) -
Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907)
Abschied (Op.4 no.3) -
Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
Mein Wagen rollet langsam (Op.142 no.4) from Vier Gesänge -
Clara Schumann (1819 - 1896)
Sie liebten sich beide (Op.13 no.2) from Sechs Lieder Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
Tragödie (Op.64 no.3)
Wolfgang Holzmair
Wolfgang Holzmair
Baritone
Wolfgang Holzmair was born in Vöcklabruck, Austria, and studied at the Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Art with Hilde Rössel-Majdan (voice) and Erik Werba (lied). He has performed in recital throughout the world with regular appearances in London, Vienna, Lisbon, Amsterdam, New York, Washington, at the Risör Festival (Norway), BathMozart Festival and Oxford Lieder Festival (UK), Menuhin Festival (Switzerland), Bregenz Festival and Carinthian Summer Festival (Austria). Alongside his outstanding artistic relationship with... Read Full Biography
Matti Hirvonen
Matti Hirvonen
Pianist
Matti Hirvonen lives in Stockholm. His career as a song pianist began at the invitation of the famous soprano Elisabeth Söderström, and he now performs Lieder regularly with Nina Stemme, Hillevi Martinpelto, Miah persson, camilla Nylund, Katarina Karnéus, Angelika Kirschschlager, Anna Larsson, Iréne Theorin, Håkan Hagegård, Bo Skovhus, Andreas Schmidt, Peter Mattei, Wolfgang Holzmair among many others. A regular guest at European festivals including Edinburgh, Grafenegg, Aix-en Provence and Schleswig-Ho... 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...