Song at Wolfson / Rowan Pierce: Schumann and Grieg
13 June 2019, 6:00pm
Rowan Pierce gave a sensational performance at the 2016 Oxford Lieder Festival, alongside Malcolm Martineau, Dame Ann Murray and Sir Thomas Allen, and we’re delighted that she returns to close this season. She will sing Schumann’s great cycle Frauenliebe und –leben, ‘A woman’s life and love’, settings of the Franco-German poet and botanist Adelbert von Chamisso. She also includes Edvard Grieg’s six German songs. Grieg was a prolific song composer, primarily writing in Norwegian and Danish. These six songs represent his main foray into the German language, setting a range of poets including Heine, Goethe and Geibel, and they are a truly glorious collection of soaring melodies, exquisite piano parts and an emotional range from the devastatingly sad to the staggeringly elated.
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Watch Rowan singing Purcell with the Academy of Ancient Music:
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Programme
- Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
- Frauenliebe und -leben (1840) Op. 42 11–12.vii.1840
- Seit ich ihn gesehen
- Er, der Herrlichste von allen
- Ich kann’s nicht fassen, nicht glauben
- Du Ring an meinem Finger
- Helft mir, ihr Schwestern
- Süsser Freund, du blickest
- An meinem Herzen, an meiner Brust
- Nun hast du mir den ersten Schmerz getan
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- Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907)
- Sechs Lieder (Six Songs) (1884) Op. 48
