The Pilgrimage of the Rose
26 October 2016, 19:30
Recital
Holywell St
Oxford
OX1 3BN
- Christina Gansch (Soprano)
- Bethan Langford (Mezzo-Soprano)
- Ben Johnson (Tenor)
- Mark Stone (Baritone)
- Robert Holl (Bass)
- Sholto Kynoch (Pianist)
Schumann's Der Rose Pilgerfahrt ('The Pilgrimage of the Rose') was an enormously popular work in its time. Schumann encountered Moritz Horn's fairytale in 1851 and quickly set it to music. Often thought of as a cantata with full orchestra, the original version was in fact written with piano accompaniment, heard tonight. An endearing narrative - whose players include a love-struck rose, a fairy queen, a grave digger and the handsome son of a forester - and magical music make this a very special occasion.
The title page of the first edition of Der Rose Pilgerfahrt:
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.
Programme
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Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
Frühlingsgrüsse - Einsamkeit (Op.90 no.5) from Sechs Gedichte und Requiem
- Meine Rose (Op.90 no.2) from Sechs Gedichte und Requiem
- Deklamation Schön Hedwig (Op.106)
- ~~~ Interval ~~~
Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
Der Rose Pilgerfahrt I (Op.112)
- 1. Die Frühlingslüfte bringen (Op.112)
- 2. Johannis war gekommen (Op.112)
- 3. Elfenreigen: Wir tanzen, wir tanzen (Op.112)
- 4. Und wie sie sangen (Op.112)
- 5. So sangen sie, da dammert's schon (Op.112)
- 6. Bin ein armes Waisenkind (Op.112)
- 7. Es war der Rose erster Schmerz! (Op.112)
- 8. Wie Blätter am Baum (Op.112)
- 9. Die letze Scholl' hinunter rollt (Op.112)
- 10. Gebet: Dank, Herr, dir dort im Sternenland (Op.112)
Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
Der Rose Pilgerfahrt II (Op.112)
- 11. Ins Haus des Totengräbers (Op.112)
- 12. Zwischen grünen Bäumen (Op.112)
- 13. Von dem Greis geleitet (Op.112)
- 14. Bald hat das neue Töchterlein (Op.112)
- 15. Bist du im Wald gewandelt (Op.112)
- 16. Im Wald, gelehnt am Stamme (Op.112)
- 17. Der Abendschlummer (Op.112)
- 18. O sel'ge Zeit (Op.112)
- 19. Wer kommt am Sonntagsmorgen (Op.112)
- 20. Ei Mühle, liebe Mühle (Op.112)
- 21. Was klingen denn die Hörner (Op.112)
- 22. Im Hause des Müllers (Op.112)
- 23. Und wie ein Jahr verronnen ist (Op.112)
- 24. Röslein! (Op.112)
Christina Gansch
Christina Gansch
Soprano
Austrian soprano Christina Gansch is the winner of the 2014 Kathleen Ferrier Award and is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music and the Mozarteum in Salzburg. She has participated in both the Salzburg Festival’s Young Singer Project and the Verbier Festival’s Solti Opera Project. She was a member of the Hamburgische Staatsoper’s ensemble in the 2016/17 season where her roles included Pamina in a new production of Die Zauberflöte, the title role in a new production of Handel’s Almira, Constance Dialogues de... Read Full Biography
Bethan Langford
Bethan Langford
Mezzo-Soprano
British Mezzo Soprano Bethan Langford is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the National Opera Studio, and this season joins Scottish Opera as an Emerging Artist. Whilst at the Guildhall, she was the recipient of the Susan Longfield prize for accomplished female singer, Paul Hamburger lieder prize and the Violette Szabo award for English Song. Bethan is a Samling Artist, a Les Azuriales Young Artist, a Yeoman of the Musicians' Company and an alumna of the Verbier Festival Academy. She made her Wigmore Hall recita... Read Full Biography
Ben Johnson
Ben Johnson
Tenor
Acclaimed tenor Ben Johnson represented England in BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2013 and won the Audience Prize. A former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist and 2008 winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Award, Johnson was formerly an English National Opera Harewood Artist and a Wigmore Hall Emerging Talent. Recent operatic highlights include Eisenstein Die Fledermaus and Don Ottavio Don Giovanni, both for Opera Holland Park, as well as a celebrated run as Alfredo La Traviata, Tamino Die Zauberflöte, and Nemorino L’elisir d’am... Read Full Biography
Mark Stone
Mark Stone
Baritone
“Mark Stone’s recital of songs by Quilter, Butterworth and Finzi was marked by his clarity of articulation and strong instinct for characterisation… The poignancy of Butterworth’s settings of A.E. Housman, as in ‘The Lads in their Hundreds’ came through. The moments when he could unleash the full operatic power of his voice were the most impressive.” Rian Evans, The Guardian Baritone Mark Stone was born in London and studied mathematics at King's College, Cambridge, and singing... Read Full Biography
Robert Holl
Robert Holl
Bass
Robert Holl was born in Rotterdam. In 1971 he won the First Prize at the International Vocal Competition in s’-Hertogenbosch, followed by studies with Hans Hotter in Munich. In 1972 he won the First Prize at the International Music Competition of the German Broadcasting Association (ARD) in Munich, which resulted in television and radio engagements and orchestral concerts. Between 1973 and 1975 he was a member of the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich. After numerous years as a sought-after concert singer and Lieder recitalist, in the 198... 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...