Andante & Variations
27 October 2016, 17:30
Recital
This event will be broadcast from Holywell Music Room

A rare chance to hear Schumann's stunning Andante and Variations for horn, two cellos and two pianos, as well as the Adagio and Allegro for horn and piano and songs for voice and cello.
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
Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
Adagio and Allegro (Op. 70)
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Robert Schumann, arranged Mats Lidström
Romance in F sharp major (Op. 28 no.2) - Widmung (Op. 25 no.1)
Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
Tragödie (Op. 64 no.3)
Ferdinand Hiller (1811 - 1885)
Tragödie (Op. 157)
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Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
Andante and Variations (WoO 10)

Mark Stone
Mark Stone
Baritone
Baritone Mark Stone was born in London and studied Mathematics at King's College, Cambridge, and singing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In 1998 he was awarded the Decca Prize at the Kathleen Ferrier Awards. Recent operatic engagements include his first foray into Wagner roles last season with acclaimed role debuts as Gunther in Götterdämmerung at the Grand Théâtre de Genève and Alberich Das Rheingold at the Longborough Festival. He also sang Papageno Die Zauberflöte with the Welsh Natio... Read Full Biography
Richard Watkins
Richard Watkins
Horn
Richard Watkins was Principal Horn of the Philharmonia Orchestra for 12 years. He is currently a member of the Nash Ensemble and a founder member of London Winds. He has appeared at many of the world’s most prestigious venues and worked with conductors such as Giulini, Sawallisch, Salonen, Slatkin, Sinopoli, Rozhdestvensky, Petrenko, Davis and Elder. He has an extensive discography and his forthcoming releases include a disc for NMC of works written for Watkins, a Wigmore Live Disc of the Britten Canticles with Mark Padmore, Britten&rs... Read Full Biography
Mats Lidström
Mats Lidström
Cello
As an international soloist and chamber musician, Mats Lidström has gained a reputation for performances of great insight and virtuosity. He has been a member of the Royal Academy of Music since 1993, currently attached to Oxford University through his solo cello position with the Oxford Philharmonic&Soloists. Mats has recorded as a soloist and chamber musician for EMI, DECCA, BIS, Deutsche Grammophon and Hyperion. His compositions include Rigoletto Fantasy for cello and orchestra, Suite Tintin for cello and piano, and Marche Triomp... Read Full Biography
Tamsy Kaner
Tamsy Kaner
Cello
Tamsy Kaner studied the cello at Guildhall school of music & drama with Leonard Stehn, a student of Leonard Rose. After initially working in the theatre, Tamsy has combined a career of orchestral playing (member of RSNO,RPO,BBCSO -sub principal) with teaching and chamber music concerts (London Festival of chamber music). Working with the orchestras' education & outreach programs (in Brasil, Japan and the UK) inspired Tamsy to set up her own creative workshops with two colleagues (Sigrun Saeversdottir-Griffiths & Cath Haggo) f... Read Full Biography
Bengt Forsberg
Bengt Forsberg
Pianist
Bengt Forsberg studied at the Gothenburg School of Music and Musicology, where he first majored in organ, whereafter, in 1978, he received his diploma as piano soloist. Although he often appears as soloist with major symphony orchestras in Sweden and Scandinavia, much of his renown is focused on his work as a chamber musician, both in Sweden and abroad – as soloist as well as together with other prominent instrumentalists, such as cellists Mats Lidström and Andreas Brantelid and violinist Nils-Erik Sparf. His collaboration with... Read Full Biography
Sholto Kynoch
Sholto Kynoch
Pianist
Sholto Kynoch is a sought-after pianist who specialises in song and chamber music. He is the founder and Artistic Director of the Oxford Lieder Festival, which won a prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Award in 2015, cited for its ‘breadth, depth and audacity’ of programming. Recent recitals have taken him to Wigmore Hall, Heidelberger Frühling in Germany, the Zeist International Lied Festival in Holland, the LIFE Victoria festival and Palau de la Música in Barcelona, the Opéra de Lille, Kings Place in Lo... Read Full BiographyFestival Passes
This 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...