Opening Night: A Serenade to Music
12 October 2018, 7:30pm 13 May 2024 - 1:35pm
Generously supported by Freeths Solicitors
A wonderful gala concert opens this year’s Festival. In the grand setting of Oxford's Town Hall, an exceptional team of four world-renowned soloists perform songs and ensembles by Schubert, Schumann, Saint-Saëns and others. Schola Cantorum of Oxford is Oxford’s leading chamber choir and we are delighted that they will join us to conclude the concert with Ralph Vaughan Williams’s extraordinary Serenade to Music, setting words from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, which famously reduced Rachmaninov to tears at its premiere.
Watch Artistic Director Sholto Kynoch introduce the gala concert:
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This concert is presented in association with Music at Oxford, promoters of prestigious orchestras, ensembles and soloists throughout the year. For details of their season see www.musicatoxford.com
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Programme
- Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
- An Silvia (1826) D891
- Der Tanz (1828) D826
- Auf Der Bruck „Auf Der Brücke“ (1825) D853
- Licht und Liebe (1816) D352
- Louis Spohr (1784 - 1859)
- Erlkönig (1855) Op. 154
- Carl Loewe (1796 - 1869)
- Erlkönig (1818) Op. 1 no.3
- Tränen und Lächeln (1820) Op. 4
- Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
- Zwei Venetianische Lieder I „Leis’ rudern hier!“ (1840) Op. 25 no.17 i–early iv 1840 from Myrthen
- Zwei Venetianische Lieder II „Wenn durch die Piazzetta“ (1840) Op. 25 no.18 i–early iv 1840 from Myrthen
- Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
- Des Liebsten Schwur (1877) Op. 69 no.4
- Liebestreu (1853) Op. 3 no.1 from Sechs Gesänge
- Es glänzt der Mond nieder (1863) Op. 31 1863 from Drei Quartette
- Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949)
- Heimliche Aufforderung (1894) Op. 27 no.3
- Morgen! (1894) Op. 27 no.4
~~~ Interval ~~~
- Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924)
- Les Djinns (1875) Op. 12
- L'absent (1871) Op. 5 no.3
- Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)
- Deux Romances (1891) L65
- Noël des enfants qui n'ont plus de maison (1915) L139
- Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orléans L99 1898-1908
- Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921)
- Violons dans le soir (1907)
- Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958)
- Serenade to Music (1938)
Artists
Series
12 October 2018 | 9:00am