2018 Spring Weekend of Song
9th - 11th March 2018
The 2018 Spring Weekend of Song is a mid-year mini Festival, full of great music and events and with much of the special atmosphere of the main Festival. Three world-class evening recitals are surrounded and complemented by the audition recitals for the Oxford Lieder Young Artist Programme, study events and masterclasses.
Friday 9th March
10:30 AM
Composition Workshop with the Faculty of Music
09 Mar 2018 10:30 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
We are pleased once again to present a composition workshop in association with the Music Faculty at the University of Oxford. Soprano Raphaela Papadakis, with Sholto Kynoch, will perform six new works by student composers. The works are then discussed with the students, with feedback from Professors Martyn Harry and Robert Saxton, as well as from the performers. This free event offers an illum...
2:00 PM
Brahms and Beyond
09 Mar 2018 14:00 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
In collaboration with TORCH and the Oxford Song Network, this promises to be a fascinating afternoon of talks by Natasha Loges, Laura Tunbridge, Sophie Fuller and Jennifer Ronyak. Inspired by Natasha Loges's new book, Brahms and His Poets (Boydell, 2017), as well as celebrating the hundredth anniversary of women's suffrage and falling just one day after International Women's Day, th...
5:30 PM
Spring Weekend Dinner at Cuttlefish
09 Mar 2018 17:30 | CuttleFish
We are delighed to partner with Cuttlefish, a seafood bar and grill, for an early-evening dinner offer that allows you to enjoy a leisurely and good-value meal between the afternoon and evening events. Cuttlefish is on St Clement's, just a short walk from the Jacqueline du Pré Building: visit their website for full details. 2 courses cost just £14.50: see below for the spe...
7:30 PM
Stephan Loges & Eugene Asti: Brahms songs
09 Mar 2018 19:30 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
After his thrilling Mahler performance on the last night of the 2017 Oxford Lieder Festival, we are delighted to welcome back bass-baritone Stephan Loges, with renowned pianist Eugene Asti, for an evening of songs by Johannes Brahms. These glorious works will be introduced by Natasha Loges, whose new book Brahms and his Poets has just been released. Brahms’s astonishing melodic gifts...Saturday 10th March
11:00 AM
The Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform
10 Mar 2018 11:00 | Holywell Music Room
The Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform attracts the very brightest new talent and this is a thrilling day as six exceptional duos give 45-minute recitals, aspiring to be Oxford Lieder’s new ‘ambassadors for song’. The two winning duos are offered recitals in the main Lieder Festival in October, as well as sponsored recitals in music clubs, societies and festivals around the c...
6:30 PM
Spring Weekend Dinner at the Vaults
10 Mar 2018 18:30 | The Vaults and Garden Café
A special supper is arranged that allows time to take in the afternoon events and evening recital and enjoying a hot meal in a sociable environment in between. We are delighted to partner once again with the Vaults, who have been a popular choice at the Festival for those wishing to enjoy all the various events on offer and still have time for a good meal!
8:00 PM
Maria Forsström & Sholto Kynoch
10 Mar 2018 20:00 | Holywell Music Room
Please note that Katharina Ruckgaber is unwell and has regretfully had to withdraw from this concert. We are very grateful to Maria Forsström for stepping in at short notice. Swedish mezzo-soprano Maria Forsström is well-known to Oxford Lieder audiences, most recently appearing in the 2017 Festival, when she gave a stunning recital of songs by Sibelius and Mahler’s Kindertote...Sunday 11th March
11:00 AM
Young Artist Platform Masterclass
11 Mar 2018 11:00 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
Masterclass given by Stephan Loges and Eugene Asti The six duos who took part in the Young Artist Platform auditions now have a masterclass with Stephan Loges and Eugene Asti, a chance for detailed feedback for them and an intriguing insight for members of the public. There will be a break for lunch and you are welcome to come and go from the classes.
4:45 PM
Social music-making in Schubert's Vienna
11 Mar 2018 16:45 | Studio, Magdalen College School
Ahead of this evening’s ‘Schubertiade’, Natasha Loges introduces the backdrop of social music making in Schubert’s circle and Vienna more widely. Much of Schubert's music was written to perform in the company of his friends, from jovial drinking songs to profound masterpieces, but was this purely characteristic of Schubert's nature, or was it the only outlet reli...
5:45 PM
Spring Weekend Dinner at Cuttlefish
11 Mar 2018 17:45 | CuttleFish
We are delighed to partner with Cuttlefish, a seafood bar and grill, for an early-evening dinner offer that allows you to enjoy a leisurely and good-value meal between the afternoon and evening events. Cuttlefish is on St Clement's, just a short walk from the Jacqueline du Pré Building: visit their website for full details. 2 courses cost just £14.50: see below f...
7:30 PM
A Schubertiade
Last Few Tickets!
11 Mar 2018 19:30 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
Some of Schubert's great masterpieces are rarely heard thanks only to the unusual forces required: often quartets of male or female voices. Tonight, a team of eight outstanding singers, including voices well known to Oxford Lieder audiences, join Oxford Lieder’s artistic director, Sholto Kynoch, for an evening of convivial music making that includes many of these works, as w...