Song at Wolfson: Joanna Harries & Sholto Kynoch
20 January 2022, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
For the first concerts of 2022, we are delighted to welcome the mezzo-soprano Joanna Harries for a programme of Scandinavian and German song. She and Sholto Kynoch include Grieg's stunning, folk-infused cycle Haugtussa.
Joanna Harries is a 2021/22 Young Artist at the National Opera Studio in London. She was a choral scholar at the University of Cambridge and went on to train at the Royal Northern College of Music and the Alexander Gibson Opera Studio at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She is also co-founder of SongPath and led one of the wonderful SongPaths at the Botanic Garden at the 2021 Lieder Festival.
Programme
- Clara Schumann (1819 - 1896)
- Was weinst du, Blümlein (1853) Op. 23 no.1 from Sechs Lieder aus Jucunde
- Lorelei (1843)
- Ich stand in dunkeln Träumen (1844) Op. 13 no.1 from Sechs Lieder
- Walzer (1833)
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- Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907)
- Haugtussa (1895) Op. 67
- Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871 - 1927)
- Vid fönstret (1903) Op. 20 from Fem sånger till dikter av Bo Bergman (Five songs to poems by Bo Bergman)
- Till en ros (1895) Op. 8 no.4
- Jungfru blond och jungfru brunett, 'Miss Blonde and Miss Brunette' (1909) Op. 26 no.4 from Visor och stämningar, 'Songs and Moods'
- Agathe Backer Grøndahl (1847 - 1907)
- Den vildene fugl Op. 65 no.1
- Forsilde Op. 65 no.2
- Skjærer Op. 52 no.6
- Mot kveld (1899) Op.42 no.7
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Series
11 November 2021 | 5:00pm