Ciara Hendrick & Sholto Kynoch
05 March 2017, 17:45 - 18:45
Recital
The Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Wolfson College, Linton Rd, Oxford, OX2 6UD, UK
Ciara Hendrick makes a welcome return to Oxford Lieder in a programme that includes Schumann's ever-popular Frauenliebe und -leben and Britten's A Charm of Lullabies. The programme will also include a short group of new songs by outstanding young composers and poets: one chosen from the composers' workshop that opens the Spring Weekend, and two songs written in poet-composer collaboration following a series of workshops with Roderick Williams at last year's Oxford Festival of the Arts.
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Programme
Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976)
A Charm of Lullabies (Op. 41)
- 1. A Cradle Song
- 2. A Highland Balou
- 3. Sephestia's Lullaby
- 4. A Charm
- 5. The Nurse's Song
Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
49 Deutsche Volkslieder (WoO 33)
- . Erlaube mir, feins Mädchen
- . So wünsch ich ihr ein gute Nacht
- . Maria ging aus wandern
- . Da unten im Tale
- . All' mein Gedanken
- . Es steht ein' Lind'
- . Wie komm' ich denn zur Tür herein
- . Feinsliebchen, du sollst mir nicht barfuss gehn
- . Mein Mädel hat einen Rosenmund
- . Die Sonne scheint nicht mehr
- . In stiller Nacht
- 8. Ach, englische schäferin
- 10. Es ritt ein Ritter
- 15. Schwesterlein, schwesterlein, wann gehn wir
- 28. Es reit ein Herr und auch sein Knecht
- 31. Dort in den Weiden
- 33. Och Moder, ich well en Ding han!
Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
Frauenliebe und -leben (Op.42)
Ciara Hendrick
Ciara Hendrick
Mezzo-soprano
Ciara Hendrick studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Strasbourg Opera Studio. Recent engagements include Fortuna/Valetto in The Coronation of Poppea, Opera North (c. Laurence Cummings), La Messaggera in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo in Venice with I Fagiolini, Aréthuse in Charpentier’s Actéon with the Early Opera Company and Bach’s B Minor Mass at St John’s, Smith Square. Recording credits include Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Dunedin Consort (due for release 2016), the role o... 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:
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