A German Requiem
28 October 2017, 16:30
Concert
Iffley Road,
Oxford,
OX4 1EH
- Schola Cantorum of Oxford (Choir)
- Suzanne Fischer (Soprano)
- Nicholas Mogg (Bass)
- Michael Pandya (Pianist)
- Keval Shah (Pianist)
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
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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
Schola Cantorum of Oxford
Suzanne Fischer
Suzanne Fischer
Soprano
Soprano Suzanne Fischer won the Förderpreis for most promising young-artist at Das Lied: International Song Competition 2015, the Pavarotti Prize at the 65th Viotti Competition, Italy, won 4th place at the International ARD Competition in Munich and won Oxford Lieder’s Young Artist Platform in 2016. In Summer 2016 she will return to Glyndebourne Opera, singing the solo of Elsie Suddaby in Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music conducted by Vladimir Jurowski with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Later in 2016 Suzanne wil... Read Full Biography
Nicholas Mogg
Nicholas Mogg
Bass
Winner of the 2017 Royal Over-Seas League Singers Section, Nicholas Mogg studies on the Opera Course at the Royal Academy of Music with Mark Wildman and Iain Ledingham. He is the recipient of the Baroness de Turckheim Award, the Thompson Family Charitable Trust Award, and the Norman Ayrton Scholarship. He is an Oxford Lieder Young Artist, a Britten-Pears Young Artist, a Park Lane Group Young Artist, a Live Music Now Artist, a Drake Calleja Scholar, a soloist for the RAM/Kohn Foundation Bach Cantata Series, and a member of the Academy’s... Read Full Biography
Michael Pandya
Michael Pandya
Pianist
Michael Pandya is a postgraduate student at the Royal Academy of Music, studying Piano Accompaniment under the tuition of Michael Dussek, James Baillieu and Ian Brown. He is generously supported by the Leverhulme Trust, Help Musicians UK and The Countess of Munster Musical Trust. At the Academy he performs regularly with both singers and instrumentalists, and has participated in public masterclasses with singers Sir Thomas Allen, Brindley Sherratt, Susan Bullock and Dennis O’Neill, and violinist Levon Chilingrian. This year he won the ... Read Full Biography
Keval Shah
Keval Shah
Pianist
Keval Shah performs extensively as a song accompanist and chamber musician. He was a Bateman Scholar and Pembroke Lieder Scholar at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he won all the major Music prizes, and graduated with double first-class honours in 2015. He now studies at the Royal Academy of Music, where his teachers are Michael Dussek, Audrey Hyland, and Malcolm Martineau. Keval’s recital schedule has taken him across the UK and Europe, including to the Oxford and Leeds Lieder Festivals, and the Danish National Centre of the Perfo... Read Full BiographyTickets
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