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2023-10-26 06:37:00
Stories in music in Oxford: visual inspirations from the Mendelssohn siblings, William Blake in song & image, vivid story-telling from Wolf & Mörike
[…] own images, and in the evening we had the vivid story-telling of baritone Thomas Oliemans and pianist Hans Eijsackers in a selection of Wolf's Mörike-Lieder.The day had begun with a Show and Tell at The Weston Library, looking at Mendelssohn-related manuscripts in the collection including the stunning Schilflied, a song manuscript intricately illustrated in watercolour by Mendelssohn himself. Confession time, I didn't manage to attend this. But the lunchtime concert followed on from this with The Mendelssohns at the Holywell Music Room with soprano Harriet Burns, tenor Alessandro Fisher and pianist Eugene Asti in a programme of songs by Felix and Fanny, from their very first surviving songs to their last, with seven of the songs having manuscripts housed in the Bodleian. The centre-piece of the programme was Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel's Five Songs, Op. 10 which included her last composition and Felix Mendelssohn's Six Songs, Op. 71, published after his death and including two songs written […]
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2023-10-22 05:00:06
The week in classical: Under the Little Red Moon; Helen Charlston & Sholto Kynoch; Rigoletto – review
Half Moon theatre, London; Holywell Music Room, Oxford; Royal Opera House, LondonAn ‘opera for tinies’ captivates its target audience; the mezzo of the moment dazzles at Oxford’s renamed song festival; and Oliver Mears’s #MeToo Verdi still resonates“Please, can we go again?” asked my three-year-old grandson after absorbing
2022-07-20 13:23:00
21st Birthday: Oxford Lieder Festival comes of age with a celebration of Friendship in Song
This Autumn, Oxford Lieder Festival celebrates its 21st birthday with a fortnight of song (from 14 to 29 October 2022) under the banner Friendship in Song: An Intimate Art. The focus of the festival is of song-making as a social art, from gatherings round the piano to salons to composers writing for friends. Mark Padmore will be artist in residence, giving an all-Schubert recital, performing lute songs, giving a lecture on Britten's poets, being in conversation with Kate Kennedy as well as leading the festival's Mastercourse with young singers.Holywell Music RoomBaritone Thomas Oliemans will be giving a performance of Winterreise, accompanying himself on the piano, and there will be appearances from Dame Sarah Connolly, Christoph Prégardien, Kate Royal, Carolyn Sampson, Camilla Tilling, Dorothea Röschmann, Roderick Williams, Birgid Steinberger, Thomas Oliemans, Claire Booth, Benjamin Appl, Christopher Purves, James Gilchrist, Iestyn Davies, Christine Rice, Werner Güra, Sarah Wegener and Julian Prégardien. But it is with the themed events […]
2022-04-02 08:47:20
A tradition of excellence in danger of being eroded: the Continuo Foundation started simply as an idea to support the UK's period instrument groups
[…] ahead and with fundraising, people are motivated to reach a goal when they see the potential impact. The foundation is reacting to the current environment all the time, reacting to what is happening. Groups still need support into 2023, then they plan to look ahead more with plenty of ideas to get music around including festivals and supporting students. Supported by a Continuo Foundation grant: Instruments of Time and Truth concert at Holywell Music Room, Oxford in January 2022 (Photo Continuo Foundation) What is most important are the musicians in the UK's thriving period performance scene. The 2021 grants involved over 500 different musicians (350 instrumentalists, 150 vocalists) and the foundation will continue to track this. The musicians are so full of knowledge, Tina comments that she has never been to a concert where she didn't learn something. And small groups travel easily, so the foundation […]
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