Across Borders: Ben Johnson & James Baillieu
25 October 2017, 13:10
Lunchtime Recital
Holywell St
Oxford
OX1 3BN
These two superb artists, both stars of the new generation, perform early songs by Mahler and explore contemporaneous developments in English song through Elgar, Parry and others, who fell under many of the same influences while finding their own different and individual voices.
Programme
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Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911)
Serenade aus Don Juan (no.4) from Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit - Phantasie aus Don Juan (no.5) from Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit
- Zu Strassburg auf der Schantz (no.10) from Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit
- Starke Einbildungskraft (no.9) from Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit
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Hubert Parry (1848 - 1918)
No longer mourn for me when I am dead - Farewell! thou art too dear for my posessing from Four Sonnets by William Shakespeare
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Edward Elgar (1857 - 1934)
Speak, music! (Op. 41) - Pleading (Op. 48)
- Is She Not Passing Fair?
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Amy Woodforde-Finden (1860 - 1919)
Kashmiri Song - Till I wake
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Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958)
Linden Lea - Silent Noon from The House of Life
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Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953)
It was a lover and his lass (Op. 23 no. 3) - Go Lovely Rose (Op.24 no.3)
- Fair House of Joy (Op.12 no.7)
Ben Johnson
Ben Johnson
Tenor
Acclaimed tenor Ben Johnson represented England in BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2013 and won the Audience Prize. Johnson is a former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, 2008 winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Award, 2011 Wigmore Hall Emerging Talent, and a 2013-2015 English National Opera Harewood Artist. Highlights of the 2018/19 season included performances as Tamino Die Zauberflöte with Welsh National Opera and as Don Basilio in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro with The Grange Festival, in addition to a new production of Britten&r... Read Full Biography
James Baillieu
James Baillieu
Pianist
Described by The Daily Telegraph as ‘in a class of his own’ James Baillieu has been the prize-winner of the Wigmore Hall Song Competition, Das Lied International Song Competition, Kathleen Ferrier and Richard Tauber Competitions. He was selected for representation by Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) in 2010 and in 2012 received a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship and a Geoffrey Parsons Memorial Trust Award. In 2016 he was shortlisted for the Royal Philharmonic Society Outstanding Young Artist Award. Born in South Africa, J... Read Full BiographyHave you also considered...
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Please click here to view the full Festival brochure. Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century was a vibrant melting pot for music and the arts. Whirling waltzes sat alongside gargantuan symphonies. The height of romanticism had been reached but was nearly exhausted and on the brink of a whole new musical language. Tradition - with Brahms a holder of the torch - ...