Oxford Lieder at Rye Creative Centre: Olivia Boen & Sholto Kynoch
14 May 2022, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
We are delighted to return to Rye Creative Centre and welcome soprano Olivia Boen, with pianist Sholto Kynoch, for a programme of songs that owes its origins to Salzburg's famous Café Bazar. The Café Bazar was an extraordinary meeting place for creative intellectuals in the 1920s and was the launchpad for the International Society of Contemporary Music one hundred years ago. Today's programme features music by some of the most important composers in ISCM's early days: Debussy, Strauss, Ethel Smyth, Manuel de Falla and others.
Olivia is an award-winning graduate of the Opera Course at the Guildhall where she was a finalist in the 2021 Gold Medal competition at the Barbican. She also gave one of the 2021 Oxford Lieder Festival's 'Emerging Artist' slots.
Programme
- Ethel Smyth (1858 - 1944)
- Nachtreiter Op. 4 no.4
- Alban Berg (1885 - 1935)
- Die Nachtigall (1907) from Sieben frühe Lieder
- Karol Szymanowski (1882 - 1937)
- Der verliebte Ostwind Op. 24 no.5 from The Love Songs of Hafiz
- Ethel Smyth (1858 - 1944)
- Possession from Three Songs
- Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949)
- An die Nacht (1918) Op. 68 no.1 from Sechs Lieder
- Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)
- Le balcon (1888) from Cinq Poèmes de Baudelaire
- Le jet d'eau (1889) from Cinq Poèmes de Baudelaire
- La mort des amants (1887) from Cinq Poèmes de Baudelaire
- Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963)
- Les chemins de l'amour (1940) FP 106
- Manuel de Falla (1876 - 1946)
- Siete canciones populares Españolas (1914)
