In Heaven
17 October 2025, 9:45pm - 10:45pm
Unfortunately Olivia Vermeulen is unwell and has had to withdraw from this concert, so we have taken the difficult decision to cancel. We wish Olivia a speedy recovery and look forward to welcoming her at a future Festival.
Olivia Vermeulen and Jan Philip Schulze bring us another of their extraordinarily ingenious programmes. Where next after their earthbound ‘Dirty Minds’ and the black humour of ‘Hello Darkness’? The only way is up, and ‘In Heaven’ transports us to the celestial realm with music from Schubert to Bowie. Few artists are able to move with such ease between genres, and the result is a programme that is both profound and effervescent.
Programme
- George Crumb (1929 - 2022)
- I. The Night in Silence Under Many a Star (1979) from Apparition
- Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
- Feldeinsamkeit (1879) Op. 86 no.2 from Sechs Lieder
- Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990)
- Why Do They Shut Me Out of Heaven? (1950) from Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson
- Ana Sokolovic (1968)
- Sur une étoile
- Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903)
- Im Frühling (1888) no.13 from Mörike-Lieder
- David Bowie (1947 - 2016)
- Life On Mars (1973)
- Olivier Messiaen (1908 - 1992)
- Katchikatchi les étoiles (1945) from Harawi (Chant d'amour et de mort)
- Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921)
- Tournoiement (Songe d'opium) (1872)
- Augusta Holmès (1847 - 1903)
- Le Vin
- Grace Slick (1939)
- White Rabbit (1967)
- Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
- Abendstern (1824) D806
- Der Wanderer an den Mond (1826) D870
- Arnold Schoenberg (1874 - 1951)
- Mondestrunken (1912) Op. 21 no.1 from Pierrot Lunaire
- Rebecca Clarke (1886 - 1979)
- Lethe (1941)
- Shel Silverstein (1930 - 1999)
- The Ballad of Lucy Jordan (1974)
- Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911)
- Um Mitternacht (1901) from Rückert-Lieder
