Joan Rogers and Christopher Glynn

PLEASE NOTE THAT, DUE TO A BOOKING ERROR BEYOND OXFORD LIEDER'S CONTROL, THIS CONCERT WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE MADGALEN AUDITORIUM ON LONGWALL STREET AND NOT IN THE HOLYWELL MUSIC ROOM AS PREVIOUSLY ADVERTISED

Pre-concert talk at 3.15pm given by Dr Alexander Morrison (free entry)

Joan Rodgers is one of the UK’s best-loved sopranos. Since her debut as Pamina at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, she has worked with some of the most distinguished pianists, conductors and orchestras, performing at opera houses and concert halls around the world.

Together with pianist Christopher Glynn (past winner of the Kathleen Ferrier accompanist's prize and the Gerald Moore award) she presents a wonderful and varied programme, including a selection of Russian repertoire of which her interpretations have received particularly high acclaim. Wolf’s settings of the poet Eduard Mörike are sometimes said to represent the pinnacle of his song writing, with Wolf’s music perfectly conveying the far-ranging imagination of this poet who could one moment be witty and extremely humorous, and the next be reflective and deeply moving.

Please note change of programme (Fauré replaced by Grieg)

Recital supported by The Helena Oldacre Trust

Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903)

Settings of Eduard Mörike (1804 - 1875)

Nimmersatte Liebe

Im Frühling

Denk’ es, O Seele!

Lied vom Winde

Das verlassene Mägdlein

Verborgenheit

Elfenlied

Agnes

Er ist’s!

Eduard Grieg (1843 - 1907)

Six Songs, Op. 48

Gruss

Dereinst Gedanke mein

Lauf der Welt

Die verschwiegene Nachtigall

Zur Rosenzeit

Ein Traum

INTERVAL

Sergei Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)

Six Songs Op. 38

In my garden at night (Alexander Blok: 1880 - 1921)

To her (Andrei Bely: 1880 - 1934)

Daisies (Igor Severyanin: 1887 - 1941)

The rat catcher (Valery Bryusov: 1873 - 1924)

The dream (Fyodor Sologub: 1863 - 1927)

Ay! (Konstantin Bal'mont: 1867 - 1942)

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975)

Satires Op. 109 (Sasha Chorny)

To a critic

Spring awakening

Descendants

Misunderstanding

Kreuzer Sonata