Everything you've ever lived

Lotte Betts-Dean, a former Oxford Song Young Artist, won the 2024 RPS Young Artist of the Year. For this programme she is joined by the outstanding Greek guitarist Dimitris Soukaras, for a special programme celebrating the launch of their eclectic first duo album, everything you’ve ever lived, released on Delphian Records in September. Falling within our extended Schubert Weekend, the programme includes some Schubert songs particularly suited to guitar, reminding us that the composer himself played the instrument and accompanied himself in impromptu arrangements of his own songs. Beyond that, a terrific array of songs exploring ideas of nostalgia, childhood memory and the state between waking and sleep takes us from Ravel and Britten to Burt Bacharach and Sinead O’Connor.