40. Schubert: Schwanengesang: Christoph Prégardien & Michael Gees
17 October 2020, 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Christoph Prégardien’s appearances at the Festival are always memorable highlights. For the first time this year, he appears with the brilliant German pianist, composer and improviser Michael Gees, with whom he has a long-standing partnership and many acclaimed recordings.
They pivot from our earlier focus on Beethoven – with a performance of one of his most popular songs, Adelaide – to Schubert. At the age of 18, Schubert set Schiller’s thrilling epic ballad Die Burgschaft (‘The Pledge’). It is a model of exciting storytelling and the most popular of Schubert’s early large-scale songs. They then perform Schwanengesang, the collection of Schubert’s last songs: settings of Heine and Rellstab. These songs are the pinnacle of Schubert’s achievements and we could not hope for a more perfect way to draw this year’s Festival to a close.
EMERGING ARTIST: Harriet Burns, accompanied by Ian Tindale
This concert will be streamed completely live from the Holywell Music Room. Shortly afterwards, it will also be available to watch again (using the same ticket and link) until 1 November 2020. Click here for further information on how tickets will work this year.
After a short break at the end of the concert, there will be a Q&A with the artists. Please email any questions you have during the interval or at the end of the concert (songconnections@oxfordlieder.co.uk) or post them on social media (#OLF2020), and the artists will answer as many as time allows.
Programme
- Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
- Verklärung (1813) D59
- Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903)
- Anakreons Grab (1889) no.29 from Goethe-Lieder
- Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
- Ellens Gesang II (1825) D838 from Sieben Gesänge aus Walter Scotts ‘Fräulein vom See’
- Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903)
- In dem Schatten meiner Locken (1890) no.12 from Spanisches Liederbuch: Weltliche Lieder
- Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
- Die Männer sind méchant! (1828) from Vier Refrainlieder
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- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
- Adelaide (1795) Op. 46
- Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
- Abschied D957g from Schwanengesang
- Ständchen D957d from Schwanengesang
- Liebesbotschaft D957a from Schwanengesang
- Im Walde „Waldesnacht“ (1820) D708
- In der Ferne D957f from Schwanengesang
- Aufenthalt D957e from Schwanengesang
- Kriegers Ahnung D957b from Schwanengesang
- Dass sie hier gewesen (1823) D775
- Frühlingssehnsucht D957c from Schwanengesang
- Die Bürgschaft (1815) D246
- Das Fischermädchen D957j from Schwanengesang
- Am Meer D957l from Schwanengesang
- Die Stadt D957k from Schwanengesang
- Der Doppelgänger D957m from Schwanengesang
- Ihr Bild D957i from Schwanengesang
- Der Atlas D957h from Schwanengesang
- Die Taubenpost (1828) D965a from Schwanengesang
~~~ Interval ~~~
Encore
Artists
Series
10 October 2020 | 10:00am