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Samuel Hasselhorn makes an impressive first Oxford festival appearance with A Brahms Fantasy

21/10/2023 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom Oxford International Song Festival 2023 [2] – Brahms, Schubert, A Brahms Fantasy: Samuel Hasselhorn (baritone), Markus Hadulla (piano). Holywell Music Room, Oxford, 19.10.2023. (CR)

Samuel Hasselhorn (baritone) and Markus Hadulla (piano)

Bathed in Golden Light at the Oxford International Song Festival

18/10/2023 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom Oxford International Song Festival 2023 [1] – Loewe, Vaughan Williams, Williams, Haydn, Clarke, Bathed in Golden Light: Christine Rice (alto), Edward Kim (baritone), Timothy Ridout (viola), Julius Drake and Emily Hoh (pianists). Holywell Music Room, Oxford, 17.10.2023. (CR)

Christine Rice (alto) and Julius Drake (piano) at a Wigmore Hall concert

Updated: Oxford International Song Festival – 18 to 28 October 2023

18/08/202317/08/2023 by AUTHOR

Oxford International Song Festival (formerly Oxford Lieder Festival)

13 to 28 October 2023 Art:Song – Images, Words, Music

The UK’s largest festival of song celebrates its first festival under a new name with a fortnight featuring over 75 events.
World premieres include song cycles by FEDORA Opera Prize-winning British-Chinese composer Alex Ho (Oxford International Song Festival’s Associate Composer), Geoffrey Gordon, Mahdis Golzar Kashani, and Héloïse Werner, and a new work by Roxanna Panufnik co-commissioned with Presteigne Festival.
World-class singers and pianists, alongside emerging stars, take to the stage for evening song recitals, complemented by a wide-ranging series of events including lunchtime concerts, talks, tours, workshops, dance, masterclasses, and more.
With tickets starting at £5, several free events, £8 tickets for under-35s at every event, and a choice of discounts and concessionary rates, the Festival is accessible to all.

The cast of New Chamber Opera’s La Frascatana successfully highlight the opera’s levity and good spirits.

01/07/202301/07/2023 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom New Chamber Opera – Paisiello, La Frascatana (The Girl from Frascati): Soloists, The Band of Instruments / Steven Devine (conductor). New College, Oxford, 28.6.2023. (CR)

Paisiello at the clavichord, by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1791)

Oxford hears deliberate Mendelssohn, robust Mozart and Argerich’s muscular Beethoven

01/04/2023 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom Mendelssohn, Beethoven, and Mozart: Martha Argerich (piano), Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra / Marios Papadopoulos (conductor). Town Hall, Oxford, 31.3.2023. (CR)

András Schiff’s Oxford performance was consistently insightful and unflustered

05/06/202316/02/2023 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven: András Schiff (piano). Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford 15.2.2023. (CR)

Oxford Philharmonic’s anniversary celebrations continue with Brahms, Bruckner and more

30/12/202221/11/2022 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom Brahms, Mendelssohn, Jieun Lee and Bruckner: Jennifer Pike (violin), Lauren Fagan (soprano), Claudia Huckle (contralto), David Junghoon Kim (tenor) Simon Shibambu (bass), Choirs of Merton and The Queen’s Colleges, Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra / Marios Papadopoulos and Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey (conductors). Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford 17.11.2022. (CR)

Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra’s Bruckner Te Deum © Nicholas Posner

RVW’s An Oxford Elegy fittingly gets a 150th anniversary outing in the city of its public premiere

30/12/202217/11/2022 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom Vaughan Williams and Ian Venables: Petroc Trelawny (narrator), Choir of Merton College, Oxford Contemporary Sinfonia / Benjamin Nicholas (conductor). Merton College Chapel, Oxford 11.11.2022 (CR)

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