The 20th Oxford Lieder Festival: Nature's Songbook
8-23 October 2021 - In person with social distancing and live online
Join us this October as UK's biggest festival of song marks its 20th year with its most ambitious programme to date. This year's Festival features more than 100 events, both in-person with a socially distanced audience and livestreamed online, building on the success of two previous online festivals.
World-class singers and pianists, alongside emerging stars, take to the stage for song recitals, complemented by piano, chamber and choral works and several world premieres. An extensive series of Song Connections events forges links between music, poetry, nature, art, language and science, ensuring multiple access points to the world of song.
Streaming tickets start at just £3, with a full Festival streaming pass, providing online access to every event, offering exceptional value at £165. All events will be available to watch on demand shortly after broadcast and until 30 November.
'All song lovers should buy a pass for the Oxford Lieder Festival... varied, rewarding, engaging.'
The Observer, 2021
Friday 8th October
11:00 AM
01. James Rebanks, Jess Dandy and Martin Roscoe: A Cumbrian Idyll
- Gavin Plumley
- Jess Dandy
- Martin Roscoe
- James Rebanks
Last Few Tickets!
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08 Oct 2021 11:00 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
To start the Festival, we put a best-selling author-shepherd, a brilliant young singer and a world-renowned pianist in a room to talk about if and where landscape, music, lambing and poetry overlap. Each with roots in Cumbria, these three artists, in conversation with Gavin Plumley, ask and challenge what we mean by ‘pastoral’, and explore how a landscape has shaped their own c...
1:00 PM
02. Simon Bode & Simon Lepper: Die schöne Müllerin
- Simon Lepper
- Simon Bode
08 Oct 2021 13:00 | Saint John the Evangelist
We are delighted to welcome one of the most exciting singers to emerge in recent years, German tenor Simon Bode, for our first full recital of 2021. He and Simon Lepper perform Schubert's great song cycle Die schöne Müllerin. 1820s Vienna might have been a metropolis of the time but it was a small city by today’s standards and Franz Schubert could walk easily into the hil...
3:30 PM
03. Gurney's Gloucestershire
- Anna Cavaliero
- Kate Kennedy
- Natalie Burch
Last Few Tickets!
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08 Oct 2021 15:30 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
Ahead of the 5.45pm performance of To His Love, Kate Kennedy, author of the newly-published Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney, delves into the profound influence of the Gloucestershire landscape on the poetry and music of Ivor Gurney, with live performances illustrating her talk given by soprano Anna Cavaliero and pianist Natalie Burch. TRY BEFORE YOU BUY [youtube url=...
5:30 PM
04. Sarah Connolly & Julius Drake: Summer Nights (first performance)
- Julius Drake
- Sarah Connolly
- Gus Tredwell
- Charles Cunliffe
08 Oct 2021 17:30 | Saint John the Evangelist
All evening concerts this year are performed twice, at 5.30pm and 8.15pm. This 5.30pm performance will be in-person only. Please see Event 06 for information on the 8.15pm in-person and livestreamed performance. Star of The Last Night of the Proms and the world’s great stages, Dame Sarah Connolly’s Festival appearances are always eagerly anticipated. With the celebrated pi...
5:45 PM
05. Robert Murray & Robin Tritschler: To His Love
- Robert Murray
- Robin Tritschler
- Simon Over
08 Oct 2021 17:45 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
This dramatised recital brings the fascinating but troubled personality of poet and composer Ivor Gurney to life. Created by writer, broadcaster and Gurney biographer Kate Kennedy (see Event 3), To His Love poignantly illustrates the terrible effects of war and Gurney’s subsequent incarceration in an asylum and enforced separation from his beloved Gloucestershire. TRY BEFORE YOU BUY...
8:15 PM
06. Sarah Connolly & Julius Drake: Summer Nights (second performance)
- Julius Drake
- Sarah Connolly
- Gus Tredwell
- Charles Cunliffe
Some seating areas sold out
08 Oct 2021 20:15 | Saint John the Evangelist
All evening concerts this year are performed twice, at 5.30pm and 8.15pm. This 8.15pm performance is a repeat performance of Event 04. This performance will be in-person and livestreamed. Star of The Last Night of the Proms and the world’s great stages, Dame Sarah Connolly’s Festival appearances are always eagerly anticipated. With the celebrated pianist Julius Drake, s...Saturday 9th October
11:00 AM
07. Victor Sicard & Anna Cardona: Natural Histories
- Victor Sicard
- Anna Cardona
09 Oct 2021 11:00 | Saint John the Evangelist
This outstanding duo were Oxford Lieder’s first ever Young Artist Platform winners back in 2011. They have both enjoyed tremendous success since then and their recent CD of Ravel songs has been widely praised. Today, they include songs by Saint-Saëns, his student Gabriel Fauré, and Fauré’s student Maurice Ravel. The latter’s Histoires Naturelles (&...
1:30 PM
08. Celebrating Saint-Saëns
- Liam Bonthrone
- Flora Willson
- Jennifer Rushworth
- Bernadette Johns
- Benjamin Mead
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09 Oct 2021 13:30 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
1.30pm - 2.30pm - Part 1: Camille Saint-Saëns: A Life in Song 3pm - 4pm - Part 2: Saint-Saëns and the Musical World of the Salon Today we celebrate and explore the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns, who died 100 years ago this year (and whose 186th birthday would have fallen today). Although best known these days for his orchestral works, Saint-Saëns wrote ...
5:30 PM
09. Elizabeth Watts: Carnival of the Animals (first performance)
- Elizabeth Watts
- Jonathan Stone
- Jâms Coleman
- Felix Kemp
- Martin Sturfält
- Echor Chamber Orchestra
Chamber Music Early Evening Evening
09 Oct 2021 17:30 | Saint John the Evangelist
All evening concerts this year are performed twice, at 5.30pm and 8.15pm. This 5.30pm performance will be in-person only. Please see Event 11 for information on the 8.15pm in-person and livestreamed performance. Saint-Saëns was mortified that Carnival of the Animals became his best-known work, but there is no denying its perennial appeal. In tonight’s performance ...
5:45 PM
10. Fenella Humphreys & Martin Roscoe: Master & Pupil
- Martin Roscoe
- Fenella Humphreys
09 Oct 2021 17:45 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
The Festival has a strong strand of chamber music that complements the themes and songs of particular days. In this first chamber recital, we hear two dazzling violin sonatas by Saint-Saëns and his distinguished student Gabriel Fauré, performed by this exceptional duo. Both sonatas are passionate, profound and virtuosic, and although the master-pupil influence is audible, each inhab...
8:15 PM
11. Elizabeth Watts: Carnival of the Animals (second performance)
- Elizabeth Watts
- Jonathan Stone
- Jâms Coleman
- Felix Kemp
- Martin Sturfält
- Echor Chamber Orchestra
09 Oct 2021 20:15 | Saint John the Evangelist
All evening concerts this year are performed twice, at 5.30pm and 8.15pm. This 8.15pm performance is a repeat performance of Event 09. This performance will be in-person and livestreamed. Saint-Saëns was mortified that Carnival of the Animals became his best-known work, but there is no denying its perennial appeal. In tonight’s performance of this upliftin...
10:00 PM
12. Adèle Charvet & Anne Le Bozec: Mélodies on Tour
- Anne Le Bozec
- Adèle Charvet
09 Oct 2021 22:00 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
Concluding an astonishing day of French repertoire, we welcome the wonderful rising-star mezzo Adèle Charvet – who has already appeared as an acclaimed Mercédès in Carmen at the Royal Opera House – and well-known pianist Anne le Bozec for a programme that explores Saint-Saëns and his contemporaries, unusually setting texts in English, German and R...Sunday 10th October
11:00 AM
13. Ten Years of the Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform
- Alessandro Fisher
- Keval Shah
- Lotte Betts-Dean
- Siân Dicker
10 Oct 2021 11:00 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
The Oxford Lieder Young Artist Platform has identified and supported exceptional young singer-pianist duos since 2011. Four previous winners of the scheme join forces today to present a programme of Scandinavian song, curated by pianist Keval Shah who is now Lecturer of Lieder at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. Evoking the dramatic natural world of the Nordic countries, this concert starts a ...
1:30 PM
14. Celebrating Stenhammar
- Leah Broad
- Daniel Grimley
- Martin Sturfält
- Agnes Auer
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10 Oct 2021 13:30 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
1.30pm-2.30pm - Swedish Song: Broadening Horizons 3pm-4pm - Stenhammar: A Swedish Voice The Swedish composer Wilhelm Stenhammar, born 150 years ago, was one of the finest song composers of his generation and would surely be mentioned in the same breath as his more famous contemporaries if Swedish-language song was better known. To introduce this two-part event, Leah Broad, Daniel Grimley ...
5:30 PM
15. Songs and Moods (first performance)
- Sholto Kynoch
- Camilla Tilling
- Agnes Auer
- Jakob Högström
10 Oct 2021 17:30 | Saint John the Evangelist
All evening concerts this year are performed twice, at 5.30pm and 8.15pm. This 5.30pm performance will be in-person only. Please see Event 17 for information on the 8.15pm in-person and livestreamed performance. PLEASE NOTE: Roderick Williams has regretfully had to withdraw from this concert. We are delighted that the acclaimed Swedish baritone Jakob Högström will ta...
5:45 PM
16. A Swedish Sensation
- Lotte Betts-Dean
- Stenhammar Quartet
10 Oct 2021 17:45 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
The Stenhammar Quartet is one of Sweden’s leading ensembles, with a particularly strong reputation for performing Scandinavian chamber music. There are no better exponents of the string quartets of Wilhelm Stenhammar, which are counted among the composer’s finest works. Today they perform his magnificent fourth quartet. It was completed in 1907 and dedicated to Jean Sibelius, and it...
8:15 PM
17. Songs and Moods (second performance)
- Sholto Kynoch
- Camilla Tilling
- Agnes Auer
- Jakob Högström
10 Oct 2021 20:15 | Saint John the Evangelist
All evening concerts this year are performed twice, at 5.30pm and 8.15pm. This 8.15pm performance is a repeat performance of Event 15. This performance will be in-person and livestreamed. PLEASE NOTE: Roderick Williams has regretfully had to withdraw from this concert. We are delighted that the acclaimed Swedish baritone Jakob Högström will take his place. The programme r...
10:00 PM
18. Maria Forsström & Matti Hirvonen: Stenhammar's Contemporaries
- Maria Forsström
- Matti Hirvonen
10 Oct 2021 22:00 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
Concluding our day focussed on Wilhelm Stenhammar, we welcome back these two exceptional Swedish artists, who gave one of the most memorably dramatic recitals the Festival has ever seen in 2019. They perform Stenhammar alongside another great Swedish song composer, Ture Rangström, and their compatriot Wilhelm Peterson-Berger with whom Stenhammar often found himself at loggerheads! TRY...Monday 11th October
10:30 AM
19. SongPath at the Botanic Garden
- Jess Dandy
- Helen Charlston
- Kevin Loh
Sold Out - Waiting List Only
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11 Oct 2021 10:30 | Oxford Botanic Garden
Please note this event has a limited capacity of 30 places. There will be a similar SongPath event later in the week, led by Joanna Harries. See Event 43. These events do not qualify for our multi-buy discount and are not included in our Festival passes. SongPath is a fantastic initiative designed to provide participants with nourishing ways of connecting through w...
1:00 PM
20. Poèmes pour Mi
- Marie-Laure Garnier
- Célia Oneto Bensaid
11 Oct 2021 13:00 | Saint John the Evangelist
This French duo gave a sensational recital at the 2019 Lieder Festival, under the banner of the prestigious Académie Orsay-Royaumont. We welcome them back for a special programme that centres on Messiaen’s Poèmes pour Mi, an extraordinary cycle of nine songs, paraphrasing texts from the New Testament and dedicated to his wife Claire Delbos. TRY BEFORE YOU BUY Marie-L...
3:15 PM
21. Nature's Musicians
- Laura Tunbridge
- Claire Ward
- Guy Murgatroyd
- John Krebs
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11 Oct 2021 15:15 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
Eminent ornithologist John Krebs explains how birdsong is primarily a tool of communication, asking why something so apparently functional should also be so beautiful. He is joined by Laura Tunbridge, Fellow in Music at St Catherine’s College, for a discussion about the appearances of birdsong in poetry and music. Two exciting young musicians illustrate this with music by Messiaen, Debuss...
5:30 PM
22. Ian Bostridge & Imogen Cooper: Over Silent Lands (first performance)
- Imogen Cooper
- Ian Bostridge
- Siân Dicker
- Krystal Tunnicliffe
11 Oct 2021 17:30 | Saint John the Evangelist
All evening concerts this year are performed twice, at 5.30pm and 8.15pm. This 5.30pm performance will be in-person only. Please see Event 24 for information on the 8.15pm in-person and livestreamed performance. Ian Bostridge and Dame Imogen Cooper perform a glorious programme of Beethoven and Schumann. They perform An die ferne Geliebte (‘To the Distant Beloved’...
5:45 PM
23. French Connections
- Kaëlig Boché
- Elenora Pertz
11 Oct 2021 17:45 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
This concert is presented in association with the Académie Orsay-Royaumont, a leading training programme in France for exceptional young duos. The multi prize-winning French tenor Kaëlig Boché and Italian-American pianist Elenora Pertz are already making great waves, and today they bring a colourful programme of songs by Saint-Saëns, Poulenc and Zemlinsky. TRY ...
8:15 PM
24. Ian Bostridge & Imogen Cooper: Over Silent Lands (second performance)
- Imogen Cooper
- Ian Bostridge
- Siân Dicker
- Krystal Tunnicliffe
11 Oct 2021 20:15 | Saint John the Evangelist
All evening concerts this year are performed twice, at 5.30pm and 8.15pm. This 8.15pm performance is a repeat performance of Event 22. This performance will be in-person and livestreamed. Ian Bostridge and Dame Imogen Cooper perform a glorious programme of Beethoven and Schumann. They perform An die ferne Geliebte (‘To the Distant Beloved’), often cited a...Tuesday 12th October
11:00 AM
25a. Wandering Winter Poets: Heine & Müller
- Malachy Frame
- Joanna Neilly
- Satoshi Kubo
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12 Oct 2021 11:00 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
This event is in two parts. One ticket give you access to both parts. 25a: 11am - 12pm, Wandering Winter Poets: Heine & Müller 25b: 3.15pm - 4.15pm, The Wanderer Click here for details about part 2 (event 25b). “I am vain enough to think that one day, when we are both gone, my name will be mentioned alongside yours.” Thus wrote Heinrich Hei...
1:00 PM
26. Konstantin Krimmel: Heine, Schumann & Brahms
- Marcelo Amaral
- Konstantin Krimmel
12 Oct 2021 13:00 | Saint John the Evangelist
Konstantin Krimmel is one of today’s most exciting young baritones and was recently appointed a BBC New Generation Artist. With pianist Marcelo Amaral, he performs Schumann’s Liederkreis Op.24, an exquisite collection of settings of Heinrich Heine that follows on from this morning’s Song Connections event. A wonderful group of Brahms songs include further Heine ...
3:15 PM
25b. The Wanderer
- Malachy Frame
- Joanna Neilly
- Satoshi Kubo
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12 Oct 2021 15:15 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
This event is in two parts. One ticket gives you access to both parts. 25a: 11am - 12pm, Wandering Winter Poets: Heine & Müller 25b: 3.15pm - 4.15pm, The Wanderer Please see 25a: Wandering Winter Poets: Heine & Müller for ticket information Joanna Neilly continues to explore some of the key features of German romanticism: in t...
5:30 PM
27. Dietrich Henschel: Schubert: Songs of the Sea (first performance)
- Sholto Kynoch
- Dietrich Henschel
- Lucy Colquhoun
- Polly Leech
12 Oct 2021 17:30 | Saint John the Evangelist
All evening concerts this year are performed twice, at 5.30pm and 8.15pm. Schubert: Songs of the Sea and Schubert: Winterreise follow a slightly different pattern to the other repeated performances during the festival. This 5.30pm performance will be in-person only. Please see Event 35 for information on the in-person and livestreamed performance THE FOLLOWING DAY at 8....
5:45 PM
28. Pavel Kolesnikov & Samson Tsoy: Schubert Fantasie
- Samson Tsoy
- Pavel Koleniskov
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12 Oct 2021 17:45 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
Both renowned in their own rights as soloists, Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy are also an exceptional duo whose early lockdown recital at Wigmore Hall was described in The Guardian as having a ‘quietly electrifying intimacy’ in a 5-star review. Today, they play an all-Schubert programme, including the most famous of all his piano duets, the Fantasie in F minor. ...
8:15 PM
29. Katherine Broderick & Kathryn Stott: Schubert: Winterreise (first performance)
- Katherine Broderick
- Kathryn Stott
12 Oct 2021 20:15 | Saint John the Evangelist
All evening concerts this year are performed twice, at 5.30pm and 8.15pm. Schubert: Winterreise and Schubert: Songs of the Sea follow a slightly different pattern to the other repeated performances during the festival. This 8.15pm performance will be in-person and livestreamed . Please see Event 33 for information on the in-person only performance THE FOLLOWING DA...
10:00 PM
30. Isolation Songbook
- Helen Charlston
- Alexander Soares
- Michael Craddock
12 Oct 2021 22:00 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
Song Futures is Oxford Lieder’s programme to perform and commission new music. This year we have a dedicated series of eight late-night Song Futures concerts, Tuesdays to Fridays in both weeks of the Festival. They are by no means the only performances of music by living composers in the Festival, nor are they exclusively contemporary music in all cases, but new music is their strong focu...Wednesday 13th October
11:00 AM
31a. The Brilliant Abyss (part 1)
- Katy Hamilton
- Harriet Burns
- Cole Knutson
- Helen Scales
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13 Oct 2021 11:00 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
This event is in two parts. One ticket gives you acccess to both parts. 31a: 11am - 12pm, The Brilliant Abyss part 1 31b: 3.15pm - 4.15pm, The Brilliant Abyss part 2 Click here for details about part 2 (event 25b). In this fascinating two-part Song Connections event, Katy Hamilton explores perceptions of the ocean depths in poetry and song alongside the reality of...
1:00 PM
32. Catriona Morison & Malcolm Martineau: Brahms, Grieg, Schumann & Lang
- Malcolm Martineau
- Catriona Morison
13 Oct 2021 13:00 | Saint John the Evangelist
Catriona Morison shot to fame as winner of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition in 2017. We welcome her to the Festival with internationally-renowned pianist Malcolm Martineau. They include Grieg’s wonderful six setting of German texts, Op.48, which retain a strong Nordic influence and conclude with the ecstatic ‘Ein Traum’ (‘A Dream’). Alongside this ar...
3:15 PM
31b. The Brilliant Abyss (part 2)
- Katy Hamilton
- Harriet Burns
- Cole Knutson
- Helen Scales
- Laurence Crane
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13 Oct 2021 15:15 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
This event is in two parts; one ticket covers both sessions. 31a: 11am - 12pm, The Brilliant Abyss part 1 31b: 3.15pm - 4.15pm, The Brilliant Abyss part 2 Please see 31a: The Beautiful Abyss part 1 for ticket information For the second part of today’s Song Connections event, Katy Hamilton and Helen Scales are joined by composer Laurence Crane...
5:30 PM
33. Katherine Broderick & Kathryn Stott: Schubert: Winterreise (second performance)
- Katherine Broderick
- Kathryn Stott
13 Oct 2021 17:30 | Saint John the Evangelist
All evening concerts this year are performed twice, at 5.30pm and 8.15pm. Schubert: Winterreise and Schubert: Songs of the Sea follow a slightly different pattern to the other repeated performances during the festival. This 5.30pm performance will be in-person only. Please see Event 29 for information on the in-person and livestreamed performance THE DAY BEFORE&nbs...
5:45 PM
34. Lotte Betts-Dean & Armida Quartet: Madame ma bonne soeur
- Lotte Betts-Dean
- Armida Quartet
Chamber Music Song Futures Rush Hour
13 Oct 2021 17:45 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
We are thrilled to present the world premiere of a co-commissioned new work for quartet and voice by Brett Dean, one of the most sought-after composers today. Brett Dean’s opera Hamlet, premiered at Glyndebourne in 2017, was a sensation, described by The Sunday Times as ‘the operatic event of the year’. This new piece, Madame ma bonne soeur, draws on texts ...
8:15 PM
35. Dietrich Henschel: Schubert: Songs of the Sea (second performance)
- Sholto Kynoch
- Dietrich Henschel
- Lucy Colquhoun
- Polly Leech
13 Oct 2021 20:15 | Saint John the Evangelist
All evening concerts this year are performed twice, at 5.30pm and 8.15pm. Schubert: Songs of the Sea and Schubert: Winterreise follow a slightly different pattern to the other repeated performances during the festival. This 8.15pm performance will be in-person and live streamed. Please see Event 27 for information on the in-person only performance T...
10:00 PM
36. Juliet Fraser & Mark Knoop: Natural World
- Mark Knoop
- Juliet Fraser
13 Oct 2021 22:00 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
Eighty years ago, in 1941, American marine biologist Rachel Carson published the first book in what grew to become her Sea Trilogy. Struck by Carson's distinctive voice, which endures as a beautifully poetic yet urgent clarion call in defence of the natural world, soprano Juliet Fraser launched 'The Carson Commissions'. This programme presents two brand-new works, receiving their UK...Thursday 14th October
11:00 AM
37a. Kerner, Keats and the Physician Poet
- Natasha Loges
- Dafydd Jones
- Avishka Edirisinghe
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14 Oct 2021 11:00 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
This event is in two parts; one ticket covers both parts. 37a: 11am - 12pm, Kerner, Keats and the Physician Poet 37b: 3.15pm - 4.15pm, The Original (anti-) Vaxxers Click here for details about part 2 (event 37b). Today’s two-part Song Connections event is led by Natasha Loges and presented in association with the Royal College of Music. Natasha explores where m...
1:00 PM
38. The Physician Poet - Schumann's Kerner Lieder
- Sholto Kynoch
- Martin Häßler
14 Oct 2021 13:00 | Saint John the Evangelist
Schumann’s Kerner Lieder sets a remarkable cycle of nature-infused poems that are among Schumann’s most personal and affecting songs, written towards the end of his 1840 outpouring of song. The doctor-poet Kerner (see Event 40) writes of his pleasure in the rain and wind of a stormy night, his ‘Wanderlust’, his longing for forests and woods, and he surely ...
3:15 PM
37b. The Original (Anti-) Vaxxers
- Natasha Loges
- Avishka Edirisinghe
- Esme Bronwen-Smith
- Andrew Pollard
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14 Oct 2021 15:15 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
This event is in two parts; one ticket covers both parts. 37a: 11am - 12pm, Kerner, Keats and the Physician Poet 37b: 3.15pm - 4.15pm, The Original (anti-) Vaxxers See 37a: Kerner, Keats and the Physician Poet for ticket information. The use of words and music to persuade people of the safety and efficacy of vaccines is not a solely modern phenomenon. Edward Jenner &...
5:30 PM
39. Dorothea Röschmann & Malcolm Martineau: Frauenliebe und -leben (first performance)
- Malcolm Martineau
- Dorothea Röschmann
- Ana Manastireanu
- Annabel Kennedy
14 Oct 2021 17:30 | Saint John the Evangelist
All evening concerts this year are performed twice, at 5.30pm and 8.15pm. This 5.30pm performance will be in-person only. Please see Event 41 for information on the 8.15pm in-person and livestreamed performance. PLEASE NOTE: This evening's Emerging Artist, Ted Black, has regretfully had to withdraw from this concert due to illness. We are grateful to mezzo-soprano Annabel Kennedy fo...
5:45 PM
40. Dutch Connections
- Raoul Steffani
- Lucie Horsch
14 Oct 2021 17:45 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
This concert is presented in association with the Internationaal Lied Festival Zeist in the Netherlands, one of our international partners with whom we exchange Young Artists. Their Festival will include a recital given by winners of our Young Artist Platform, and today we welcome a young baritone and pianist from them. Raoul Steffani already has a burgeoning reputation as an exc...
8:15 PM
41. Dorothea Röschmann & Malcolm Martineau: Frauenliebe und -leben (second performance)
- Malcolm Martineau
- Dorothea Röschmann
- Ana Manastireanu
- Annabel Kennedy
14 Oct 2021 20:15 | Saint John the Evangelist
All evening concerts this year are performed twice, at 5.30pm and 8.15pm. This 8.15pm performance is a repeat performance of Event 39. This performance will be in-person and livestreamed. PLEASE NOTE: This evening's Emerging Artist, Ted Black, has regretfully had to withdraw from this concert due to illness. We are grateful to mezzo-soprano Annabel Kennedy for stepping in ...
10:00 PM
42. Brief Encounter
- Fleur Barron
- Natalie Burch
- Dominic Sedgwick
14 Oct 2021 22:00 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
Tonight’s Song Futures recital features the first of a number of works heard this year by our Associate Composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad. Her One Life Stand, performed tonight by mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron, was written in 2011 as a companion piece to Schumann’s Frauenliebe (see Event 39). It sets texts by Sophie Hannah that ‘portray a modern woman’s loves and life’ and...Friday 15th October
10:30 AM
43. SongPath at the Botanic Garden
- Anna Cavaliero
- Kevin Loh
- Joanna Harries
Sold Out - Waiting List Only
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15 Oct 2021 10:30 | Oxford Botanic Garden
Please note this event has a limited capacity of 30 places. There will be a similar SongPath event earlier in the week, led by Jess Dandy. See Event 19. These events do not qualify for our multi-buy discount and are not included in our Festival passes. SongPath is a fantastic initiative designed to provide participants with nourishing ways of connecting throug...
1:00 PM
44. Thomas Oliemans & Malcolm Martineau: Dichterliebe
- Malcolm Martineau
- Thomas Oliemans
15 Oct 2021 13:00 | Saint John the Evangelist
Schumann’s Dichterliebe (‘Poet’s love’) is one of the towering glories of the song repertoire. Heinrich Heine’s bittersweet poetry inspired sixteen extraordinary songs, individually perfect and further elevated in Schumann’s pioneering advancement of the song cycle. It is sung today by the Dutch baritone Thomas Oliemans, with Malcolm Martineau, and they also ...
3:15 PM
45. Flower Songs
- Richard Stokes
- Aron Goldin
- Rachel Ridout
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15 Oct 2021 15:15 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
PLEASE NOTE: Magnus Walker has regretfully had to withdraw from this event. We are grateful to soprano Rachel Ridout for stepping in at short notice. The programme remains unchanged. Richard Stokes, author of The Book of Lieder, examines Heinrich Heine’s poem ‘Du bist wie eine Blume’ (‘You are like a flower’) and four texts by Goethe, digging below the surf...
5:30 PM
46. Carolyn Sampson: Fleurs (first performance)
- Joseph Middleton
- Lana Bode
- Carolyn Sampson
- Shakira Tsindos
15 Oct 2021 17:30 | Saint John the Evangelist
All evening concerts this year are performed twice, at 5.30pm and 8.15pm. This 5.30pm performance will be in-person only. Please see Event 48 for information on the 8.15pm in-person and livestreamed performance. Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton bring a floral sparkle to the Festival with highlights from their hugely well-received CD ‘Fleurs’. This glorious collection o...
5:45 PM
47. Spanish Connections
- Helena Ressurreição
- Esta Lecha
15 Oct 2021 17:45 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
This is the last of our international partnership concerts, presented in association with the LIFE Victoria Festival in Barcelona. Portuguese mezzo-soprano Helena Ressurreição and Catalan pianist Ester Lecha include Manuel de Falla’s famous ‘Seven Spanish Folksongs’ alongside music by the notable Catalan composer Eduard Toldrà and the Spanish-French compos...
8:15 PM
48. Carolyn Sampson: Fleurs (second performance)
- Joseph Middleton
- Lana Bode
- Carolyn Sampson
- Shakira Tsindos
15 Oct 2021 20:15 | Saint John the Evangelist
All evening concerts this year are performed twice, at 5.30pm and 8.15pm. This 8.15pm performance is a repeat performance of Event 46. This performance will be in-person and livestreamed. Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton bring a floral sparkle to the Festival with highlights from their hugely well-received CD ‘Fleurs’. This glorious collection of flower-related songs includ...
10:00 PM
49. Rowan Hellier: wom3n
- Sholto Kynoch
- Rowan Hellier
15 Oct 2021 22:00 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
Our first week of Song Futures recitals concludes with the work of three women composers: Judith Weir, the first female Master of the Queen’s Music; trailblazing Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth; and the exciting young composer and founder of Multi-Story Orchestra, Kate Whitley. Tonight we premiere a newly-commissioned work by Kate Whitley, setting a text by Hollie McNish, winner of t...Saturday 16th October
11:00 AM
50. Songs of Love and Justice
- Deirdre Brenner
- Joshua Stewart
16 Oct 2021 11:00 | Saint John the Evangelist
A wonderful programme of songs by African-American composers begins our weekend celebrating the multi-faceted riches of American song. The distinguished American tenor Joshua Stewart, who recently toured the UK and Europe with the CBSO and Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla as tenor soloist in Tippett’s A Child of our Time, and compatriot pianist Deirdre Brenner – making a welcome return to the F...
1:30 PM
51. Harry T Burleigh
- Jean E. Snyder
- Louise Toppin
- Ann Sears
- Alan Williams
Study Event Song Connections - study events
16 Oct 2021 13:30 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
Harry T Burleigh was one of the most influential figures in the history of American song: an African American composer and singer whose works were performed far and wide and helped shape the sound of American music. Burleigh was hugely well-known as a singer (he travelled extensively in Europe and the UK, singing for King Edward VII and visiting Oxford) and he wrote songs that were widely ...
5:30 PM
52. Benjamin Appl: Crosscurrents (first performance)
- Sholto Kynoch
- Benjamin Appl
- Ellie Neate
- Thomas Eeckhout
Early Evening Evening Song Futures
16 Oct 2021 17:30 | Saint John the Evangelist
All evening concerts this year are performed twice, at 5.30pm and 8.15pm. This 5.30pm performance will be in-person only. Please see Event 54 for information on the 8.15pm in-person and livestreamed performance. Benjamin Appl explores repertoire inspired by or written in the USA, but by composers who were not themselves American: Korngold, Dvorák, Weill, Schoenberg, and...
5:45 PM
53. Dover Beach
- Matthew Rose
- The Albion Quartet
Sold Out - Livestream Only
16 Oct 2021 17:45 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
Dover Beach is one of the great works for voice and string quartet. It is an early work of the American composer Samuel Barber, setting the English poet Matthew Arnold. Barber looked back on Dover Beach throughout his life with affection, considering it one of his few early works that displayed real maturity. It is played this evening by the dazzling Albion Quartet with eminent bass Matthew Ros...
8:15 PM
54. Benjamin Appl: Crosscurrents (second performance)
- Sholto Kynoch
- Benjamin Appl
- Ellie Neate
- Thomas Eeckhout
16 Oct 2021 20:15 | Saint John the Evangelist
All evening concerts this year are performed twice, at 5.30pm and 8.15pm. This 8.15pm performance is a repeat performance of Event 52. This performance will be in-person and livestreamed. Benjamin Appl explores repertoire inspired by or written in the USA, but by composers who were not themselves American: Korngold, Dvorák, Weill, Schoenberg, and the Anglo-American Rebecca C...
10:00 PM
55. In search of Youkali
- William Vann
- Katie Bray
16 Oct 2021 22:00 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
As a Jewish composer in Germany, Kurt Weill was forced to flee his home in the 1930s, relocate to Paris, and then move to America. With their programme ‘In Search of Youkali’, Katie Bray and William Vann chart his life through his enduringly popular songs, as he travelled the world in the hope of discovering a place of artistic and personal freedom. TRY BEFORE YOU BUY [youtu...Sunday 17th October
11:00 AM
56. Ferrier Winners Recital: An American Pilgrimage
- Keval Shah
- Theodore Platt
17 Oct 2021 11:00 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
Samuel Barber’s Hermit Songs sit at the centre of this programme. Arguably his best-known cycle of songs, they are, in Barber’s own words, ‘settings of anonymous Irish texts of the eighth to thirteenth centuries written by monks and scholars, often on the margins of manuscripts they were copying or illuminating.’ Around that, Theodore Platt – a prize winner at the ...
1:30 PM
57. Talk: A Route of Evanescence
- Erica McAlpine
Pre-concert Talks Study Event Song Connections - study events
17 Oct 2021 13:30 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
This event is a pre-concert talk which will be streamed online for free. Watch this conversation live at 13:30, or afterwards on demand. The livestream will be available to view on this page (no ticket required). Please refresh this page at 13:30 to view the livestream. For in-person audiences, this event is only available if you have purchased a ticket for Event 58: Settings of Em...
2:45 PM
58. Emily Dickinson's Nature Songbook
- Nadine Benjamin
- Nicole Panizza
Last Few Tickets!
17 Oct 2021 14:45 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
Ahead of this event there is a free pre-concert talk for ticket holders. Click here for more details. Nadine Benjamin and Nicole Panizza released their CD of Emily Dickinson settings, ‘Emergence’, in 2019 to great acclaim. The focal point of today’s programme, as on that recording, is Aaron Copland’s Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson, written in 1949/50. These ri...
5:30 PM
59. Kitty Whately: Into the Woods (first performance)
- Anna Tilbrook
- Kitty Whately
- Neil Balfour
17 Oct 2021 17:30 | Saint John the Evangelist
All evening concerts this year are performed twice, at 5.30pm and 8.15pm. This 5.30pm performance will be in-person only. Please see Event 61 for information on the 8.15pm in-person and livestreamed performance. We regret to announce that Nicky Spence has withdrawn from this concert. Kitty Whately has expanded her programme, and we'll also hear more from Neil Balfo...
5:45 PM
60. Contrasts
- Tim Horton
- Julian Bliss
- Alexander Sitkovestsky
17 Oct 2021 17:45 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
This stellar trio of musicians perform Béla Bártok’s effervescent Contrasts, written in 1938 and commissioned by the legendary jazz clarinettist Benny Goodman. They also include music by the toweringly influential American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, and Antonín Dvořák, who spent nearly four years in New York, where he wrote some of his best-...
8:15 PM
61. Kitty Whately: Into the Woods (second performance)
- Anna Tilbrook
- Kitty Whately
- Neil Balfour
17 Oct 2021 20:15 | Saint John the Evangelist
All evening concerts this year are performed twice, at 5.30pm and 8.15pm. This 8.15pm performance is a repeat performance of Event 59. This performance will be in-person and livestreamed. We regret to announce that Nicky Spence has withdrawn from this concert. Kitty Whately has expanded her programme, and we'll also hear more from Neil Balfour, our 'Emerging Artist&...Monday 18th October
10:00 AM
62. Mastercourse: Day One, Session One - Jacqueline du Pré Music Building & Holywell Music Room
- Joan Rodgers
- Anna Tilbrook
18 Oct 2021 10:00 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
[vimeo id=622532058] Sixteen exceptional musicians at the outset of their careers are in residence for the second week of the Festival, working intensively to hone their skills as song performers. They study each day with the renowned soprano Joan Rodgers and a different guest tutor, building up to their showcase concert on the closing day (see Event 102). Sessions are op...
12:00 PM
63. Composer Conversation
- Tom Coult
Pre-concert Talks Song Futures Song Connections - study events
18 Oct 2021 12:00 | Saint John the Evangelist
This event is a pre-concert talk which will be streamed online for free. Watch this conversation live at 12:00, or afterwards on demand. The livestream will be available to view on this page (no ticket required). Please refresh this page at 12:00 to view the livestream. For in-person audiences, this event is only available if you have pu...
1:00 PM
64. Clippings and Fragments
- Anna Dennis
- John Reid
18 Oct 2021 13:00 | Saint John the Evangelist
Ahead of this event there is a free pre-concert talk for ticket holders. Click here for more details. Presented in partnership with the Bodleian Libraries, Anna Dennis and John Reid give the world premiere of a new work by Tom Coult. Written during Tom’s Albi Rosenthal Visiting Fellowship, the work is inspired by the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera in the Bodliean. As a c...
2:30 PM
65. Mastercourse: Day One, Session Two - Jacqueline du Pré Music Building & Holywell Music Room
- Anna Tilbrook
18 Oct 2021 14:30 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
[vimeo id=622534890] Sixteen exceptional musicians at the outset of their careers are in residence for the second week of the Festival, working intensively to hone their skills as song performers. They study each day with the renowned soprano Joan Rodgers and a different guest tutor, building up to their showcase concert on the closing day (see Event 102). Sessions are open to the ...
5:30 PM
66. Christoph Prégardien: Studies and Improvisations (first performance)
- Christoph Prégardien
- Ana Manastireanu
- Katy Thomson
- Michael Gees
18 Oct 2021 17:30 | Saint John the Evangelist
All evening concerts this year are performed twice, at 5.30pm and 8.15pm. This 5.30pm performance will be in-person only. Please see Event 68 for information on the 8.15pm in-person and livestreamed performance. Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder were written in 1857/8 while the composer was working on Tristan und Isolde, and two of the songs are directly labelled...
5:45 PM
67. Inventions
- Adam Swayne
Chamber Music Song Futures Rush Hour
18 Oct 2021 17:45 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
Adam Swayne is a pianist and composer, acclaimed in particular for his interpretations of contemporary works, both as a soloist and a member of Riot Ensemble. He gives today’s second world premiere of a work by composer Tom Coult, his Gymnopédies, written during the 2020 lockdown. Adam also plays Tom Coult’s dazzling Inventions. To complete the programme he per...
8:15 PM
68. Christoph Prégardien: Studies and Improvisations (second performance)
- Christoph Prégardien
- Ana Manastireanu
- Katy Thomson
- Michael Gees
18 Oct 2021 20:15 | Saint John the Evangelist
All evening concerts this year are performed twice, at 5.30pm and 8.15pm. This 8.15pm performance is a repeat performance of Event 66. This performance will be in-person and livestreamed. Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder were written in 1857/8 while the composer was working on Tristan und Isolde, and two of the songs are directly labelled ‘studies’ for th...Tuesday 19th October
10:00 AM
69. Mastercourse: Day Two, Session One - Jacqueline du Pré Music Building & Holywell Music Room
- Julius Drake
- Joan Rodgers
19 Oct 2021 10:00 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
Our mastercourse sessions are available to attend in person and online. This morning Julius Drake leads the session at the Holywell Music Room. Joan Rodgers will lead the session at the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building. Joan Rodger's session will be available to stream online from this page for free and NOT accessed through our Digital Concert Hall. SCROLL DOWN THIS PAGE T...
12:00 PM
70. Birdsong
- Lucy Lapwing
Pre-concert Talks Study Event Song Connections - study events
19 Oct 2021 12:00 | Saint John the Evangelist
This event is a pre-concert talk which will be streamed online for free. Watch this conversation live at 12:00, or afterwards on demand. The livestream will be will be available to stream online from this page for free and NOT accessed through our Digital Concert Hall. SCROLL DOWN THIS PAGE TO VIEW THE LIVESTREAM. Please refresh this page at 12:00 to view the livestream...
1:00 PM
71. Ailish Tynan: Hark, Hark! The Lark
- Libby Burgess
- Ailish Tynan
- Ian Wilson
19 Oct 2021 13:00 | Saint John the Evangelist
Ahead of this event there is a free pre-concert talk for ticket holders. Click here for more details. This uplifting programme based on birdsong is full of surprises! The wonderful soprano Ailish Tynan sings songs by Schubert, Grieg, Handel, Judith Weir and others, with pianist Libby Burgess. Between groups of songs, recorder player Ian Wilson, a renowned soloist and chamber musician, punc...
2:30 PM
72. Mastercourse: Day Two, Session Two - Jacqueline du Pré Music Building & Holywell Music Room
- Julius Drake
- Joan Rodgers
19 Oct 2021 14:30 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
Our mastercourse sessions are available to attend in person and online. This afternoon Joan Rodgers leads the session at the Holywell Music Room. Julius Drake will lead the session at the Jacqueline du Pré Building. Julius Drake's session will be available to stream online from this page for free and NOT accessed through our Digital Concert Hall.&nb...
5:45 PM
74. VENUE AND ARTIST CHANGE On the River
- James Gilchrist
- Jocelyn Freeman
- Ben Goldsheider
Chamber Music Song Futures Rush Hour
19 Oct 2021 17:45 | Saint John the Evangelist
Please note: This event has changed venue and will now be held at St John the Evangelist, Iffley Road. Stuart Jackson has regretfully had to withdraw from this recital. We are very grateful to the renowned tenor James Gilchrist for stepping in at short notice. Schubert’s ‘Auf dem Strom’ (‘On the River’) is written for the unusual combination ...
8:15 PM
75. Ilker Arcayürek: The Path of Life
- Simon Lepper
- Ilker Arcayürek
19 Oct 2021 20:15 | Saint John the Evangelist
The Turkish-Austrian tenor Ilker Arcayürek has recently released his second disc of Schubert songs with the pianist Simon Lepper, both of which have been widely acclaimed. Tonight’s programme includes a wonderful selection from the second of these recordings, The Path of Life. A wide range of songs invoke the composer’s philosophical approach to life, where happiness is often t...
10:00 PM
76. The Hermes Experiment: I Find Planets
- Hermes Experiment
Chamber Music Late Night Song Futures
19 Oct 2021 22:00 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
The Hermes Experiment make a welcome return after their sensational performance in last year’s Festival. With their unique, rich sound-world of voice, clarinet, harp and double bass, the ensemble performs works by Nicola LeFanu, Errollyn Wallen, Eleanor Alberga and others. They include a new work by Tom Coult (see Event 64), I Find Planets, with an unusual text based on the Twitterbot &ls...Wednesday 20th October
10:00 AM
77. Mastercourse: Day Three, Session One - Jacqueline du Pré Music Building & Holywell Music Room
- Joan Rodgers
- Jan Philip Schulze
20 Oct 2021 10:00 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
Our mastercourse sessions are available to attend in person and online. This morning Jan Philip Schulze leads the session at the Holywell Music Room. Joan Rodgers will lead the session at the Jacqueline du Pré Building. Joan Rodger's session will be available to stream online from this page for free and NOT accessed through our Digital Concert ...
12:00 PM
78. Composer Conversation
- Cheryl Frances-Hoad
Study Event Song Futures Song Connections - study events
20 Oct 2021 12:00 | Saint John the Evangelist
This event is a pre-concert talk which will be streamed online for free. Watch this conversation live at 12:00, or afterwards on demand. The livestream will be will be available to stream online from this page for free and NOT accessed through our Digital Concert Hall. SCROLL DOWN THIS PAGE TO VIEW THE LIVESTREAM. For in-person audiences, this event is only available if you have ...
1:00 PM
79. Everything Grows Extravagantly
- Marcus Farnsworth
- Libby Burgess
20 Oct 2021 13:00 | Saint John the Evangelist
Ahead of this event there is a free pre-concert talk for ticket holders. Click here for more details. We are thrilled to present Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s new song cycle, Everything Grows Extravagantly. The cycle is a co-commission between Oxford Lieder and the Oxford Botanic Garden in celebration of our 20th anniversary and the Garden’s 400th, and sets specially-written texts by p...
2:30 PM
80. Mastercourse: Day Three, Session Two - Jacqueline du Pré Music Building & Holywell Music Room
- Joan Rodgers
- Jan Philip Schulze
20 Oct 2021 14:30 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
Our mastercourse sessions are available to attend in person and online. This afternoon Joan Rodgers leads the session at the Holywell Music Room. Jan Philip Schulze will lead the session at the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building. Jan Philip Schulze's session will be available to stream online from this page for free and NOT accessed through ...
5:30 PM
81. Gweneth Ann Rand: Four Last Songs (first performance)
- Simon Lepper
- Gweneth Ann Rand
- George Ireland
- Jessica Cale
20 Oct 2021 17:30 | Saint John the Evangelist
All evening concerts this year are performed twice, at 5.30pm and 8.15pm. This 5.30pm performance will be in-person only. Please see Event 83 for information on the 8.15pm in-person and livestreamed performance. We welcome back Gweneth Ann Rand and Simon Lepper, whose 2019 Festival performance of Messiaen’s Harawi was described in The Observer as ‘technically brilliant,...
5:45 PM
82. Barcarolle
- Charles Owen
20 Oct 2021 17:45 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
Pianist Charles Owen has been described by Gramophone Magazine as ‘one of the finest pianists of his generation’, and this year he celebrates his 50th birthday with a series of concerts and recordings. His programme today includes Chopin’s Barcarolle, inspired by the songs of Venetian gondoliers, Schumann's Arabesque, and selections from Liszt’s&n...
8:15 PM
83. Gweneth Ann Rand: Four Last Songs (second performance)
- Simon Lepper
- Gweneth Ann Rand
- George Ireland
- Jessica Cale
20 Oct 2021 20:15 | Saint John the Evangelist
All evening concerts this year are performed twice, at 5.30pm and 8.15pm. This 8.15pm performance is a repeat performance of Event 81. This performance will be in-person and livestreamed. We welcome back Gweneth Ann Rand and Simon Lepper, whose 2019 Festival performance of Messiaen’s Harawi was described in The Observer as ‘technically brilliant, verbally agile and express...
10:00 PM
84. dream.risk.sing
- Lana Bode
- Samantha Crawford
20 Oct 2021 22:00 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
dream.risk.sing is a brilliantly conceived programme that elevates the voices of modern women, telling stories that are not traditionally related in song. It includes the world premiere of a new song cycle by composer Charlotte Bray and poet Nicki Jackowska, Crossing Faultlines, exploring women’s professional experiences of mentorship, discrimination and ambition. The concert also fe...Thursday 21st October
10:00 AM
85. Mastercourse: Day Four, Session One
- Joan Rodgers
21 Oct 2021 10:00 | Holywell Music Room
Today's mastercourse sessions are only available in person and not online. Both sessions are led by Joan Rodgers. Sixteen exceptional musicians at the outset of their careers are in residence for the second week of the Festival, working intensively to hone their skills as song performers. They study each day with the renowned soprano Joan Rodgers and a different guest ...
12:00 PM
86. Mahler's Huts
- Gavin Plumley
Pre-concert Talks Study Event Song Connections - study events
21 Oct 2021 12:00 | Saint John the Evangelist
This event is a pre-concert talk which will be streamed online for free. Watch this conversation live at 12:00, or afterwards on demand. The livestream will be available to view on this page for free (no ticket required) and NOT accessed through our Digital Concert Hall. SCROLL DOWN THIS PAGE TO VIEW THE LIVESTREAM. For in-person audiences, this event is only available if yo...
1:00 PM
87. Nature's Songbook
- Sholto Kynoch
- Marta Fontanals-Simmons
21 Oct 2021 13:00 | Saint John the Evangelist
Ahead of this event there is a free pre-concert talk for ticket holders. Click here for more details. Regretfully, Anna Stéphany has withdrawn from this recital. We are grateful to the wonderful mezzo-soprano Marta Fontanals-Simmons for stepping in at short notice. Together with Sholto Kynoch, Marta peforms Mahler's Rückert-Lieder, his glorious settings of...
2:30 PM
88. Mastercourse: Day Four, Session Two
- Joan Rodgers
21 Oct 2021 14:30 | Holywell Music Room
Today's mastercourse sessions are only available in person and not online. Both sessions are led by Joan Rodgers. Sixteen exceptional musicians at the outset of their careers are in residence for the second week of the Festival, working intensively to hone their skills as song performers. They study each day with the renowned soprano Joan Rodgers and a different guest tutor...
5:30 PM
89. Karthäuser/Loges/Asti: A Schumanniade (first performance)
- Eugene Asti
- Stephan Loges
- Sophie Karthäuser
- Natalie Burch
- James Way
21 Oct 2021 17:30 | Saint John the Evangelist
All evening concerts this year are performed twice, at 5.30pm and 8.15pm. This 5.30pm performance will be in-person only. Please see Event 91 for information on the 8.15pm in-person and livestreamed performance. A top trio of artists perform songs and duets by Robert and Clara Schumann. The centrepiece of the programme is Robert Schumann’s Kerner Lieder, ...
6:15 PM
90. Choral Evensong at Merton College
- Oxford Choir of Merton College
- Benjamin Nicholas
- Cheryl Frances-Hoad
21 Oct 2021 18:15 | Merton College Chapel
[youtube url=https://youtu.be/LF1oIK1SpRA] As part of their regular contributions to worship, the Choir of Merton College sing Choral Evensong, including a new set of Preces and Responses by Oxford Lieder’s Associate Composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad. Cheryl is also a Visiting Research Fellow at Merton College. Please note that this is a religious service, not a concert. Subj...
8:15 PM
91. Karthäuser/Loges/Asti: A Schumanniade (second performance)
- Eugene Asti
- Stephan Loges
- Sophie Karthäuser
- Natalie Burch
- James Way
21 Oct 2021 20:15 | Saint John the Evangelist
All evening concerts this year are performed twice, at 5.30pm and 8.15pm. This 8.15pm performance is a repeat performance of Event 89. This performance will be in-person and livestreamed. A top trio of artists perform songs and duets by Robert and Clara Schumann. The centrepiece of the programme is Robert Schumann’s Kerner Lieder, shared between both singers. ...
10:00 PM
92. Dirty Minds
- Olivia Vermeulen
- Jan Philip Schulze
21 Oct 2021 22:00 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
The ‘wonderfully luminous and captivating’ mezzo Olivia Vermeulen and distinguished pianist Jan Philip Schulze write of their Dirty Minds programme: ‘The topic: eroticism, lust, sex, power and violence, prostitution and murder, and all areas in the high-voltage field in between, set to music, complex and extremely topical… The fact that erotic abysses, desires...Friday 22nd October
10:00 AM
93. Mastercourse: Day Five, Session One - Jacqueline du Pré Music Building & Holywell Music Room
22 Oct 2021 10:00 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
Our mastercourse sessions are available to attend in person and online. Today Sholto Kynoch leads both sessions at the Holywell Music Room. Joan Rodgers will lead both sessions at the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building. Joan Rodger's morning session will be available to stream online from this page for free and NOT accessed through our Digital Co...
12:00 PM
94. Talk: Baudelaire at 200
- Helen Abbott
Pre-concert Talks Study Event Song Connections - study events
22 Oct 2021 12:00 | Saint John the Evangelist
This event is a pre-concert talk which will be streamed online for free. Watch this conversation live at 12:00, or afterwards on demand. The livestream will be available to stream online from this page for free and NOT accessed through our Digital Concert Hall. SCROLL DOWN THIS PAGE TO VIEW THE LIVESTREAM. Please refresh this page at 12:00 to view the livestream. For in...
1:00 PM
95. Baudelaire in Song
- Michael Dussek
- Ashley Riches
- Sophie Bevan
22 Oct 2021 13:00 | Saint John the Evangelist
Regretfully Mary Bevan has had to withdraw from this recital. We are delighted that Sophie Bevan will take her place for a programme that remains largely as previously advertised. Charles Baudelaire, born 200 years ago this year, was one of the most influential French poets, though perhaps not as prevalent in the song repertoire as might be expected. Today, we add to the canon of Baudel...
2:30 PM
96. Mastercourse: Day Five, Session Two - Jacqueline du Pré Music Building & Holywell Music Room
22 Oct 2021 14:30 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
Our mastercourse sessions are available to attend in person and online. Today Sholto Kynoch leads both sessions at the Holywell Music Room. Joan Rodgers will lead both sessions at the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building. Joan Rodger's afternoon session will be available to stream online from this page for free and NOT accessed through our Digital ...
5:30 PM
97. Robin Tritschler: To the Distant Beloved (first performance)
- Roger Vignoles
- Robin Tritschler
- Dylan Perez
- Olivia Boen
22 Oct 2021 17:30 | Saint John the Evangelist
All evening concerts this year are performed twice, at 5.30pm and 8.15pm. This 5.30pm performance will be in-person only. Please see Event 99 for information on the 8.15pm in-person and livestreamed performance. Gramophone Magazine wrote last year of Robin Tritschler’s performance of Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte (‘To the distant belov...
5:45 PM
98. James Gilchrist: After the Voices
- James Gilchrist
- Eric McElroy
22 Oct 2021 17:45 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
This is the last of a number of events this week presented in partnership with Merton College. Eric McElroy is a doctoral candidate at Merton, and is a prize-winning pianist and widely-performed composer. He is joined by the renowned tenor James Gilchrist to perform his own work: After the Voices: Six Poems of W.S. Merwin and the world premiere of a new commission, setting Alice Oswal...
8:15 PM
99. Robin Tritschler: To the Distant Beloved (second performance)
- Roger Vignoles
- Robin Tritschler
- Dylan Perez
- Olivia Boen
22 Oct 2021 20:15 | Saint John the Evangelist
All evening concerts this year are performed twice, at 5.30pm and 8.15pm. This 8.15pm performance is a repeat performance of Event 97. This performance will be in-person and livestreamed. Gramophone Magazine wrote last year of Robin Tritschler’s performance of Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte (‘To the distant beloved’) that ‘he com...
10:00 PM
100. Roderick Williams & Tom Randle: Singing Composers
- Sholto Kynoch
- Roderick Williams
- Tom Randle
22 Oct 2021 22:00 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
Is this a world first? Two exceptional singers who are also widely admired composers perform a programme entirely of their own and each other’s music. This concert includes several world premiere performances and a number of duets. A thrilling way to draw our Late-Night Song Futures series to a close. TRY BEFORE YOU BUY Roderick perfoming Ireland at the Leeds Lieder Festival ...Saturday 23rd October
11:00 AM
101. Jonathan Dove: The Passing of the Year
- Oxford Choir of the Queen’s College
- Ted Black
- Jonathan Dove
Lunchtime Sacred music Song Futures
23 Oct 2021 11:00 | Saint John the Evangelist
Regretfully, Nicky Spence has withdrawn from this performance. We are grateful to Ted Black for stepping in at short notice. The programme is unchanged. Jonathan Dove is one of today’s most celebrated composers and we are delighted not only to present a concert entirely of his music, but also to welcome him as the pianist for this concert. He will be joined by the tenor Ted Black for a...
2:00 PM
102. Mastercourse Recital
23 Oct 2021 14:00 | Jacqueline du Pré Music Building
The sixteen students who have been studying intensively across this week present their final concert, with a programme that is selected and introduced by course leader Joan Rodgers. This concert is always a highlight of the Festival. Those who have followed the students across the week will enjoy seeing their progress and in-depth learning. Equally, those who hear them for the first time will b...
5:30 PM
103. Christopher Maltman: Songs of Travel (first performance)
- Christopher Maltman
- Audrey Saint-Gil
- Ella Taylor
- Ella O'Neill
23 Oct 2021 17:30 | Saint John the Evangelist
All evening concerts this year are performed twice, at 5.30pm and 8.15pm. This 5.30pm performance will be in-person only. Please see Event 104 for information on the 8.15pm in-person and livestreamed performance. The 20th Oxford Lieder Festival draws to a close with music by Schubert and Vaughan Williams performed by renowned baritone Christopher Maltman and the fast-rising ...
8:15 PM
104. Christopher Maltman: Songs of Travel (second performance)
- Christopher Maltman
- Audrey Saint-Gil
- Ella Taylor
- Ella O'Neill
23 Oct 2021 20:15 | Saint John the Evangelist
All evening concerts this year are performed twice, at 5.30pm and 8.15pm. This 8.15pm performance is a repeat performance of Event 103. This performance will be in-person and livestreamed. The 20th Oxford Lieder Festival draws to a close with music by Schubert and Vaughan Williams performed by renowned baritone Christopher Maltman and the fast-rising pianist-conductor Audrey Sain...
11:00 PM
105. WILLKOMMEN, BIENVENUE, WELCOME (Available soon)
- Lotte Betts-Dean
- Joseph Havlat
23 Oct 2021 23:00 | Various
A tantalising exploration of the Berlin music scene in the 1920s and 1930s, as perceived through the eyes of Stephen Spender, Virginia Woolf, WH Auden and others. Presented with the collaboration of the Bodleian Libraries and the Literaturhaus in Berlin, this film builds on the summer 2021 exhibition Happy in Berlin? (Berlin and Oxford), curated by Stefano Evangelista. It includes music b...
11:05 PM
106. SONG FUTURES: TOM COULT (Available soon)
23 Oct 2021 23:05 | Various
Co-commissioned and supported by the Bodleian Libraries, this film offers a remarkable insight into the creative process of a composer, and into one of the world’s most important libraries. Tom Coult shares his experience of being an Albi Rosenthal Fellow at the Bodleian and the inspirations for his song cycle, Wholesome Counsels, that will be premiered at the Festival (see Event 64). ...
11:10 PM
107. SONG FUTURES: CHERYL FRANCES-HOAD (Available soon)
23 Oct 2021 23:10 | Various
This film explores the creation of Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s major new song cycle, Everything Grows Extravagantly, co-commissioned with the Oxford Botanic Garden (see Event 79). Cheryl provides insight into her collaboration with poet Kate Wakeling, her time as an Oxford Lieder composer, and her role as a Visiting Research Fellow at Merton College. For our audience at home, we are deli...Friday 5th November
7:30 PM
Oxford Lieder at Rye Creative Centre: James Atkinson & Sholto Kynoch
- Sholto Kynoch
- James Atkinson
05 Nov 2021 19:30 | Rye Creative Centre
Our Song at Wolfson series, in collaboration with Fairlight Hall and Rye Creative Centre, resumes with the outstanding young baritone James Atkinson. At the Spring Weekend in February 2021, The Times wrote of James: ‘This young man is still in his final year at the Royal College of Music, but so confident was his stage manner and command of Schubert’s music&...Sunday 7th November
11:00 AM
Oxford Lieder at Fairlight Hall: James Atkinson & Sholto Kynoch
- Sholto Kynoch
- James Atkinson
07 Nov 2021 11:00 | Fairlight Hall
Our Song at Wolfson series, in collaboration with Fairlight Hall and Rye Creative Centre, resumes with the outstanding young baritone James Atkinson. At the Spring Weekend in February 2021, The Times wrote of James: ‘This young man is still in his final year at the Royal College of Music, but so confident was his stage manner and command of Schubert’s music&...Thursday 11th November
6:00 PM
Song at Wolfson: James Atkinson & Sholto Kynoch (first performance)
- Sholto Kynoch
- James Atkinson
11 Nov 2021 18:00 | Wolfson College
Our Song at Wolfson series, in collaboration with Fairlight Hall and Rye Creative Centre, resumes with the outstanding young baritone James Atkinson. At the Spring Weekend in February 2021, The Times wrote of James: ‘This young man is still in his final year at the Royal College of Music, but so confident was his stage manner and command of Schubert’s music&...
8:00 PM
Song at Wolfson: James Atkinson & Sholto Kynoch (second performance)
- Sholto Kynoch
- James Atkinson
11 Nov 2021 20:00 | Wolfson College
Our Song at Wolfson series, in collaboration with Fairlight Hall and Rye Creative Centre, resumes with the outstanding young baritone James Atkinson. At the Spring Weekend in February 2021, The Times wrote of James: ‘This young man is still in his final year at the Royal College of Music, but so confident was his stage manner and command of Schubert’s music… th...