A Poet’s Love
Robert Schumann: Dichterliebe op. 48
Elena Langer: Landscape for Three People
Thomas Mann: Tonio Kröger
and songs by Johanna Kinkel (Bonn, 1810 - London, 1858)
Sir Thomas Allen (Narrator)
Anna Dennis (Soprano)
Hugh Cutting (Countertenor)
James Atkinson (Baritone)
Sholto Kynoch (Pianist)
Meghan Cassidy (Viola)
Kristina Blauman (Cellist)
Caroline Taylor (Soprano)
George Ireland (Pianist)
Programme
~~~ Emerging Artists ~~~
Johanna Kinkel (1810 - 1858)
Nachtlied (Op. 7 no.1) from 6 Lieder
Wunsch (Op. 7 no.2) from 6 Lieder
Die Lorelei (Op. 7 no.4) from 6 Lieder
Du nah'st! (Op. 15 no.2) from 6 Lieder
Stürmisch wandern (Op. 18 no.6) from 6 Lieder
~~~ Principal Artists ~~~
Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
Dichterliebe (Op. 48)
1. Im wunderschönen Monat Mai
2. Aus meinen Tränen sprießen
3. Die Rose, die Lilie, die Taube, die Sonne
4. Wenn ich in deine Augen seh
5. Ich will meine Seele tauchen
6. Im Rhein, im heiligen Strome
7. Ich grolle nicht
8. Und wüßten's die Blumen, die kleinen
9. Das ist ein Flöten und Geigen
10. Hör' ich das Liedchen klingen
11. Ein Jüngling liebt ein Mädchen
12. Am leuchtenden Sommermorgen
13. Ich hab' im Traum geweinet
14. Allnächtlich im Traume
15. Aus alten Märchen
16. Die alten, bösen Lieder
Elena Langer (b. 1974)
Landscape with Three People
1. Landscape with Three People
2. First Love Scene
3. Train Love Poem
4. Distance
5. His Return
6. Stop It
7. Distance
8. I Hear You
„Presented in partnership with BeethovenFest Bonn
2022 is the 75th anniversary of the twinning of the cities of Oxford and Bonn and so this is an especially apt moment to launch a new international partnership with the BeethovenFest Bonn. Their Artistic Director, Steven Walter, devised this tantalising programme that will be performed at both festivals, blending poets’ differing perspectives of life and love through a reading of Thomas Mann’s short story Tonio Kröger, interspersed with Schumann’s Dichterliebe and Elena Langer’s Landscape for Three People.
We are thrilled to welcome our Patron, Sir Thomas Allen, to read, alongside the sensational soprano Anna Dennis, Kathleen Ferrier Awards-winner Hugh Cutting, and outstanding young baritone James Atkinson. The world-renowned oboist Nicholas Daniel performs alongside three superb string players and harpsichordist Richard Gowers for Elena Langer's brilliantly engaging cycle.
Our Emerging Artist slot, with soprano Caroline Taylor and pianist George Ireland, includes songs by the Bonn-born Romantic composer Johanna Kinkel.“
Cf.
https://www.oxfordlieder.co.uk/event/1473 
