United Kingdom Oxford Lieder Festival 2019 [5] – various composers: Carolyn Sampson (soprano) Joseph Middleton (piano), and others. Oxford various venues, 12 to 26.10.2019. (RD)
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A persuasive recital by Dorothea Röschmann at the Oxford Lieder Festival
Oxford Lieder Festival 2019 [3] – Mendelssohn, Wolf, Mahler, Schumann & Wagner: Dorothea Röschmann (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano). St John the Evangelist Church, Oxford 25.10.2019. (CR)
Roderick Williams charts an emotional trajectory in Schubert’s Winter Journey
United Kingdom Oxford Lieder Festival 2019 [2] – Ross Griffey & Schubert, Tales of the Beyond: Nicholas Mogg and Roderick Williams (baritones), Christopher Glynn (piano). St John the Evangelist Church, Oxford, 21.10.2019. (CR)
Thomas Oliemans’s brilliance lifts The Day of the Dead at the Oxford Lieder Festival
United Kingdom Oxford Lieder Festival 2019 [1] – Tippett, Finzi, Schubert, Brahms, Mussorgsky, Fauré: Soloists invited by Sholto Kynoch (artistic director). Holywell Cemetery & Holywell Music Room, Oxford, 15.10 2019. (CP)
The 18th Oxford Lieder Festival from 11 to 26 October 2019
OXFORD LIEDER FESTIVAL 2019
Tales of Beyond – Magic, Myths and Mortals
The 18th Oxford Lieder Festival (11 – 26 October 2019) inhabits a world of storytelling and fairy tales, from Norse legend to the Brothers Grimm, from the Grim Reaper to Greek myth. Concerts, talks and study days will explore life, death and the mysterious areas between and beyond, with other events including live magic, a film screening, a ghost trail and more.
Handelian Pastoral Pleasures in Oxford
United Kingdom Handel, Il pastor fido: Soloists of New Chamber Opera, The Band of Instruments / Steven Devine (conductor/harpsichord), New College, Oxford, 3.7.2019. (CR)
Louise Farrenc’s Third Symphony Given a Life-Enhancing Performance in Oxford
United Kingdom Beethoven, Farrenc: Yefim Bronfman (piano), Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra / Marios Papadopoulos (conductor), Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, 30.4.2019. (CC)
