Song at Wolfson / Rowan Pierce: Schumann and Grieg
13 June 2019, 18:00
Concert
Linton Rd, Oxford OX2 6UD, UK
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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Watch Rowan singing Purcell with the Academy of Ancient Music:
Programme
Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907)
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 Rowan Pierce is a Rising Star of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and is a Harewood Artist at English National Opera. She has appeared regularly with ensembles including the Academy of Ancient Music, Gabrieli Consort, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Florilegium and Royal Northern Sinfonia. In 2017 she made her BBC Proms and Wigmore Hall debuts. Operatic roles have included Drusilla in L’incoronazione di Poppe... Read Full Biography
Sholto Kynoch
