Through the looking-glass
12 October 2026, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
This stellar duo are alumni of our Young Artist Programme (2022–23), and we have been proud to watch their careers flourish since then. Today they give the world premiere of a song cycle by composer John Webb (who also has a strong link to Oxford Song as the inspirational leader of our Schools Project workshops), The Walrus and the Carpenter, which explores the corrupting nature of power. Songs by Schumann, Nadia Boulanger, Lillie Harris, Kurt Weill and others tell tales of kings, queens, frogs and oysters...
Programme
- Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
- Erlkönig (1815) D328
- Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
- Belsatzar (1840) Op. 57 7.ii.1840
- Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart (1852) Op. 135 xii.1852
- Clara Schumann (1819 - 1896)
- Lorelei (1843)
- John Webb (1969)
- The Walrus and the Carpenter
- Nadia Boulanger (1887 - 1979)
- Versailles
- Kurt Weill (1900 - 1950)
- Complainte de la Seine from Trois Chansons
- Le Roi d’aquitaine
- Erik Satie (1866 - 1925)
- Trois mélodies de 1916 (1916)
- Lillie Harris (1994)
- Kind regards
