A German Requiem
28 October 2017, 16:30
Concert
Iffley Road,
Oxford,
OX4 1EH
Brahms’s own arrangement of Ein deutsches Requiem, for piano four-hands accompaniment, is performed by one of Oxford’s leading chamber choirs as All Souls’ Day approaches, a recent and extremely popular tradition- in-the-making at the Festival.
Programme
Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
Ein deutsches Requiem (Op. 45)
- 1. Selig sind, die da leid tragen
- 2. Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie Gras
- 3. Herr, lehre doch mich, daß ein Ende mit mir haben muß
- 4. Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen, Herr Zebaoth
- 5. Ihr habt nut Traurigkeit
- 6. Denn wir haben hie keine bleibende Statt
- 7. Selig sind die Toten, die in dem Herren sterben
Suzanne Fischer
Suzanne Fischer
Soprano
A Britten-Pears Young Artist, Suzanne Fischer won the Förderpreis at Das Lied in 2015, the Pavarotti Prize at the 65th Viotti Competition, Italy, and represented Oxford Lieder Festival throughout 16/17 giving recitals for their Young Artist Platform. Other season highlights included Berta Il Barbiere di Siviglia at Cuvilliés Theater in Munich and Elsie Suddaby in Ralph Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Jurowski. Suzanne also sang Schumann’s Mignon settings with b... Read Full Biography
Nicholas Mogg
Nicholas Mogg
Bass
Nicholas Mogg recently graduated from the Opera Course at the Royal Academy of Music. He is an Oxford Lieder Young Artist, a Britten-Pears Young Artist, a Park Lane Group Young Artist, and a Drake Calleja Scholar. Nicholas won the 2017 Royal Over-Seas League Singers’ Prize and the Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks Award. Nicholas is grateful for the support of the Robert Easton Award, Drake Calleja Trust, Help Musicians UK Sybil Tutton Award, and the Countess of Munster Musical Trust. He read music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he was a ... Read Full Biography
Michael Pandya
Michael Pandya
Pianist
Michael Pandya is a versatile young pianist specialising in song and chamber music. He has appeared in performance alongside Graham Johnson, Jonathan Lemalu, Robin Tritschler, Eamonn Dougan, and his recital schedule has taken him across the UK and into both Europe and the USA. He recently won the 2018 Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform with duo partner Harriet Burns as well as the Help Musicians UK Accompanist Prize at the 2018 Kathleen Ferrier Awards. Michael has received numerous other prizes including the Paul Hamburger Prize, Brenda ... Read Full Biography
Keval Shah
Keval Shah
Pianist
Praised by The Observer for his ‘exceptional… deft and responsive’ playing, the young British-Indian pianist Keval Shah performs extensively as a song accompanist and chamber musician, with a recital schedule taking him across the UK and Europe. He has given recitals at the Wigmore Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, and St John’s, Smith Square, as well as appearing at many of Europe’s leading music festivals, including the Aldeburgh, Leeds Lieder, and Oxford Lieder festivals, and at the Heidelberger Frühling.... Read Full BiographyHave you also considered...
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This event is part of a series:
The Last of the Romantics - Mahler and fin-de-siècle Vienna
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 - ...