The Landscape of Exile
14 October 2024, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Composers fleeing risk and persecution have often had mixed emotions about their adopted cities. Schoenberg and Korngold thrived in the US but yearned for Vienna. Rachmaninov made his fortune there but never felt settled. Closer to home, Egon Wellesz arrived in the UK in 1938, and eventually settled in Oxford, as a fellow of Lincoln College, where this afternoon’s event takes place, overlooked by his portrait. Katy Hamilton explores what exile meant to this wide range of composers in a talk illustrated by performances from former Oxford Song Young Artists Katy Thomson and Rustam Khanmurzin.
Programme
- Hanns Eisler (1898 - 1962)
- 3. An den kleinen Radioapparat from Hollywooder Liederbuch (Holywood Songbook)
- 13. Ostersonntag from Hollywooder Liederbuch (Holywood Songbook)
- Arnold Schoenberg (1874 - 1951)
- Der Mai tritt ein mit Freuden from Four folksongs
- Erich Korngold (1897 - 1957)
- Was du mir bist? Op. 22 no.1 from Drei Lieder
- Sergei Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)
- Siren', 'Lilacs' (1902) Op. 21 no.5 from Twelve Romances
- Son, 'A Dream' (1893) Op. 8 no.5
- Hilda Loewe-Flatte (Henry Love) (1895 - 1976)
- Das alte Lied
- Ruth Schonthal (1924 - 2006)
- Weisse Seelen from Eight Rilke Settings
- Kurt Weill (1900 - 1950)
- Lonely House from Street Scene
- Egon Wellesz (1885 - 1974)
- Ah! Fading Joy from On Time
