United Kingdom Butterworth, Vaughan Williams & Brahms: Mary Bevan (soprano), David Stout (baritone), Rowan Atkinson (narrator), The Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra / Owen Rees (conductor). Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford 11.11.2018. (CR)
Oxford
Oliemans has Dramatic Characterisation and Consistent Musical Presence
United Kingdom Oxford Lieder Festival’s The Grand Tour [2] – Brahms & Schumann: Thomas Oliemans (baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano). Holywell Music Room, Oxford, 25.10.2018. (CR)
Strongly Characterised and Involving Music-Making from Louise Alder and Stef van Herten
United Kingdom Oxford Lieder Festival’s The Grand Tour [1] – Gounod, Debussy, Schumann, Richard Strauss, Kreutzer, Lachner, Puccini, Verdi and Donizetti: Louise Alder (soprano), Stef van Herten (horn), Sholto Kynoch (piano). Holywell Music Room, Oxford 15.10.2018. (CR)
Oxford Chamber Music Festival October 2018
World-renowned Oxford Chamber Music Festival heading in exciting new directions
ELEMENTS
October 3 – 7 October
Philip Pullman ‘The festival is a national treasure’
NCO’s Rare Haydn Opera is an Enchanting Oxford Evening
United Kingdom Haydn: Soloists of New Chamber Opera and The Band of Instruments / Steven Devine (conductor/harpsichord), New College, Oxford, 4.7.2018. (CR)
(c) Michael Burden
Stephen Hough’s Accomplished Performances of Debussy, Chopin, and Beethoven
United Kingdom International Piano Series – Debussy, Chopin, Beethoven: Stephen Hough (piano), St. John the Evangelist Church, Oxford, 17.3.2018. (CR)
Newly Discovered Song by Alma Mahler to be Performed in Oxford and Newbury
Kokoschka’s Doll and The Art of Love, incorporating Einsamer Gang will be performed in Oxford and Newbury
It is well known that in addition to the fourteen songs by Alma Mahler published in her lifetime, several dozen more – perhaps as many as one hundred – were written and have been lost or destroyed. One of those ‘lost’ songs, Einsamer Gang (Lonely Walk), has recently been discovered and will be given its UK premiere performances by Rozanna Madylus and Counterpoise at the Wagner 1900 conference in Oxford (April) and at the Newbury Spring Festival (May).
Ashkenazy and the OPO offer a triptych of Russian compositions
United Kingdom Nimrod Borenstein, Shostakovich and Rachmaninov: Natalia Lomeiko (violinist), Oxford Philharmonic /Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor), Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, 9.12.2017. (CR)