Shakespeare in Song
24 October 2016, 7:30pm 27 July 2024 - 1:58am
Anne Sofie von Otter is one of the world's pre-eminent singers and it is a privilege to welcome her to the Lieder Festival for the first time. She is joined by pianist Julius Drake and leading British actor Simon Robson for an evening of Shakespeare settings and readings, as we part ways with Schumann for one day. Their programme includes readings from the sonnets, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream and other plays, with music from Purcell to Korngold via Schubert and Debussy. A truly unmissable evening.
Watch Anne Sofie von Otter performing Korngold's Shakespeare songs with Bengt Forsberg:
[youtube url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHT7WM2nsFk]
Festal supper will be available from 6:30pm every evening (except Thursday 20th). Enjoy a delicious hot main meal and side dish between the afternoon and evening recitals for just £11. Our food partners this year are the Vaults & Garden Café, The Oxford University Club, and St Stephen’s House. Please book by midnight the day before by clicking here.
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Programme
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Reading from Twelfth Night, Act 2 Scene 4
- Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695)
- If music be the food of love (1690) Z. 379
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Reading: Sonnet 128
- Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958)
- Orpheus with his lute from Three Songs from Shakespeare
- Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976)
- Fancie (1964)
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Reading from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 2 Scene 1
- Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
- An Silvia (1826) D891
- Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976)
- Welcome, wanderer … I know a bank
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Reading from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 2 Scene 2
- Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976)
- This is thy negligence
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Reading from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 5 Scene 1
- Erich Korngold (1897 - 1957)
- O Mistress Mine (1943) Op. 29 no.2 from Songs of the Clown
- Adieu, Good Man Devil (1943) Op. 29 no.3 from Songs of the Clown
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Reading from Hamlet, Act 3 Scene 2
- Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)
- The Little Shepherd (1906) L119 no.5 from Children’s Corner
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Reading from Hamlet, Act 3 Scene 1
- Reading from Hamlet, Act 4 Scene 7
- Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869)
- La mort d'Ophélie (1842) Op. 18 no.2
~~~ Interval ~~~
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Reading from Othello, Act 5 Scene 2
- Anon.
- Desdemona’s song
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Reading from Measure for Measure, Act 3 Scene 1
- Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957)
- Kom nu hit, död (1909) Op. 60 no.1
- Hållilå, uti storm och regn Op. 60 no.2
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Reading from Twelfth Night, Act 5 Scene 1
- Reading from The Tempest, Act 3 Scene 2
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- Michael Tippett (1905 - 1998)
- Come unto these yellow sands (1961) from Songs for Ariel
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Reading from The Tempest, Act 5 Scene 1
- Michael Tippett (1905 - 1998)
- Full fathom five (1961) from Songs for Ariel
- Where the bee sucks (1961) from Songs for Ariel
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Reading: Sonnet 43
- Rufus Wainwright (1973)
- Sonnet 43
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Reading: Sonnet 20
- Rufus Wainwright (1973)
- Sonnet 20
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Reading from The Merchant of Venice, Act 5 Scene 1
- Cole Porter (1891 - 1964)
- Brush up your Shakespeare
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