A Life in Song
10 October 2025, 5:15pm - 6:15pm
Tenor Sebastian Hill and pianist-composer Will Harmer take us on a journey through life. Music from Schubert to Gurney reflects youthful ardour, growing maturity, and finally wise reflection. Within this richly varied selection of songs, we also hear the first of this year’s world premieres: a new work by Will Harmer, commissioned by Oxford International Song Festival.
Programme
- Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
- Heidenröslein (1815) D257
- Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (1805 - 1847)
- Mailied (1824) Op. 52 21.iv–13.v.1849
- Clara Schumann (1819 - 1896)
- Liebst du um Schönheit (1840) Op. 37 no.4 (Op.12 no.2) from Zwölf Gedichte aus „Liebesfrühling“
- Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
- Der Fischer D225
- Henri Duparc (1848 - 1933)
- Chanson triste (1868)
- Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
- Geheimnis ‘An Franz Schubert’ (1816) D491
- Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953)
- Now sleeps the crimson petal (1904) Op. 3 no.2
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- Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
- Träumerei from Kinderszenen
- Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893)
- Chanson de printemps (1860)
- William Harmer (2000)
- Wild Nights
- Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903)
- Jägerlied no.4 from Mörike-Lieder
- Der Tambour (1888) No.5 from Mörike-Lieder
- Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
- Der Blumen Schmerz (1821) D731
- César Franck (1822 - 1890)
- Nocturne
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- Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
- Fischerweise (1826) D881
- Gerald Finzi (1901 - 1956)
- In years defaced (1936) Op. 19a no.2 from Till Earth Outwears
- Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953)
- I will go with my father a‑ploughing
- William Harmer (2000)
- Canción de Jinete
- Gerald Finzi (1901 - 1956)
- On parent knees from To a poet
- Carl Loewe (1796 - 1869)
- Lynceus der Thürmer, auf Fausts Sternwarte singend (Faust II) I (1832) Op. 9 Book VIII no.3
