Song at Wolfson / Rowan Pierce: Schumann and Grieg
13 June 2019, 18:00
Concert
Rowan Pierce gave a sensational performance at the 2016 Oxford Lieder Festival, alongside Malcolm Martineau, Dame Ann Murray and Sir Thomas Allen, and we’re delighted that she returns to close this season. She will sing Schumann’s great cycle Frauenliebe und –leben, ‘A woman’s life and love’, settings of the Franco-German poet and botanist Adelbert von Chamisso. She also includes Edvard Grieg’s six German songs. Grieg was a prolific song composer, primarily writing in Norwegian and Danish. These six songs represent his main foray into the German language, setting a range of poets including Heine, Goethe and Geibel, and they are a truly glorious collection of soaring melodies, exquisite piano parts and an emotional range from the devastatingly sad to the staggeringly elated.
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Programme
Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907)
Sechs Lieder (Six Songs) (Op. 48)
- 1. Gruss
- 2. Dereinst, Gedanke mein
- 3. Lauf der Welt
- 4. Die verschwiegene Nachtigall
- 5. Zur Rosenzeit
- 6. Ein Traum
Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
Frauenliebe und -leben (Op. 42)
Rowan Pierce
Rowan Pierce
Soprano
Yorkshire born soprano Rowan Pierce was awarded the President's Award by HRH Prince of Wales at the Royal College of Music in 2017. She won both the Song Prize and First Prize at the inaugural Grange Festival International Singing Competition in 2017, the first Schubert Society Singer Prize in 2014 and the Van Someren Godfery Prize at the RCM. She was a Britten Pears young artist, a Rising Star of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and a Harewood Artist at English National Opera. Rowan has appeared in concert throughou... Read Full Biography
Sholto Kynoch
