Roderick Williams & Andrew West

Elgar - Sea Pictures
Fauré – Mirages
Vaughan Williams – Willow Wood
Charlotte Bray – World Premiere, commissioned by Oxford Lieder with generous support from the PRS for Music Foundation: WOMEN MAKE MUSIC and trufflehunter.
 

7pm: Pre-concert talk given by Gavin Plumley (free)

Roderick Williams is always a favourite of Oxford Lieder audiences as well as on stages the world over. As well as being a world-class singer, he is also a composer and has a long-proven commitment to new work, so we could not ask for a better exponent of contemporary music for this evening’s premiere. Charlotte Bray is a very exciting young British composer and our first-ever Composer in Residence. Several of her works are being performed this week, and tonight we hear a major new song cycle, commissioned by Oxford Lieder. Joined by the wonderful pianist Andrew West, Roderick Williams also performs some of Fauré’s most enchanting songs, and a rarely-heard cycle of songs by Vaughan Williams.

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This concert is generously sponsored by Coutts.

PROGRAMME:

Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Mirages                                                 Renée de Brimont (n.d)
        Cygne sur l’eau
        Reflets dans l’eau
        Jardin nocturne
        Danseuse

John Ireland (1879-1962)
    Santa Chiara                                    Arthur Symons (1865-1945)

Henri Duparc (1848-1933)
    L’invitation au Voyage                    Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)
    La Vie Antérieure                            Baudelaire

Ireland
    Youth’s Spring Tribute                    Dante Gabrielle Rossetti (1828-1882)


Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Willow Wood                                         Rosetti


I N T E R V A L




Charlotte Bray (1982 - )
    Sonnets and Love Songs                Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)       
        Lullaby
        A Temple
        Hidden
        Mirrored Faces
        Silent Streams
        Far Blue Skies


Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
    Sea Pictures
        Sea Slumber-Song                    Roden Noel (1834-1894)
        In Haven (Capri)                         Caroline Alice Elgar (1848-1920)
        Sabbath Morning at Sea           Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
        Where Corals Lie                       Richard Garnett (1835-1906)
        The Swimmer                             Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-1870)