Oxford Lieder at Fairlight Hall / Helen Charlston
10 May 2020, 11:00am 21 November 2024 - 9:07pm
The outstanding young mezzo Helen Charlston will perform Haydn's 'cantata' Arianna a Naxos, which explores the dramatic abandonment of the Cretan Princess Ariadne by Theseus, and was an immediate hit when it was written in 1789. Helen, a City Music Foundation Artist and Rising Star of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, also sings a selection of Brahms songs, including favourites 'Von ewiger Liebe' and 'Die Mainacht'. Her programme concludes with the six songs Op.13 of Clara Schumann: following the centenary celebrations of Clara Schumann in 2019, her place as a leading song composer is now firmly established and these are amongst her finest and most poignant songs.
Programme
- Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809)
- Arianna a Naxos (1790)
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- Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
- Von ewiger Liebe (1857) Op. 43 no.1
- Die Mainacht (1868) Op. 43 no.2
- Sonntag (Op. 47 no.3) from Fünf Lieder (Op. 47)
- Wie Melodien (1886) Op. 105 no.1 from Fünf Lieder (Op. 105)
- Ständchen (1885) Op. 106 no.1
- Salamander (1886) Op. 107 no.2
- Clara Schumann (1819 - 1896)
- Sechs Lieder (1844) Op. 13
