7. Benjamin Appl & Thomas Dunford: The Songwriter
15 October 2022, 5:30pm - 6:45pm
Benjamin Appl and Thomas Dunford, two bright lights of the song world, present this brilliantly devised programme that takes us from John Dowland, via Bach and Schubert to Hahn and Fauré, and eventually to Rodgers and Hammerstein, McCartney and Clapton: an astonishing range of extraordinary song-writers across the ages.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
The venue for this event will be announced shortly and ticket holders will be updated by email.
All our seating is unreserved; please arrive in good time to take your seat. For groups of more than 10, please phone or email the box office to book your tickets.
The event duration is approximately 1 hour 10 minutes and there will be no interval.
TICKETS AND PASSES
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Watch Benjamin Appl perform with Sholto Kynoch at the 2020 Oxford Lieder Festival:
[youtube url=https://youtu.be/iLAyoR3nXag]
And a clip of Thomas Dunford, in recital with soprano Lea Desandre:
[youtube url=https://youtu.be/UlwY0t4IchI]
Programme
- John Dowland (1562 - 1626)
- Come again, sweet love doth now invite (1597)
- Semper Dowland, semper dolens (solo lute)
- I saw my lady weep (solo lute) (1600)
- Flow, my tears (1600)
- The King of Denmark's Galliard (1604)
- Can she excuse my wrongs?
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
- Prelude BMV 1007 from Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major
- Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
- Meeres Stille (1815) D216
- Frühlingsglaube D686
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
- Allemande BMV 1007 from Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major
- Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
- Nachtstück (1819) D672
- Der Leiermann (1827) from Winterreise
- Reynaldo Hahn (1873 - 1947)
- A Chloris (1960)
- L’heure exquise (1890) no.5 from 7 Chansons Grises
- Robert De Visée (1650 - 1725)
- Chaconne (instrumental) (1699)
- Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924)
- Les berceaux Op. 23 no.1 from Trois Mélodies
- Marin Marais (1656 - 1728)
- Les voix humaines
- André Messager (1853 - 1929)
- J'ai deux amants (1923) from L'amour masqué
- Richard Rodgers (1902 - 1979)
- Edelweiss (1959) from The Sound of Music
- Ralph McTell (1944)
- Streets of London (1969)
- Paul McCartney (1942)
- Blackbird (1968)
- Eric Clapton (1945)
- Tears in Heaven (1991)
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