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Oxford Lieder Festival: Simon Bode & Simon Lepper: Die schöne Müllerin

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Part of the Oxford Lieder Festival 2021

Add to my Calendar 08-10-2021 13:00 08-10-2021 15:00 36 Oxford Lieder Festival: Simon Bode & Simon Lepper: Die schöne Müllerin We are delighted to welcome one of the most exciting singers to emerge in recent years, German tenor Simon Bode, for our first full recital of 2021. He and Simon Lepper perform Schubert's great song cycle Die schöne Müllerin. 1820s Vienna might have been a metropolis of the time but it was a small city by today’s standards and Franz Schubert could walk easily into the hills with their woods and babbling brooks. Nature is everywhere in Schubert’s songs, and in his masterful song cycle Die schöne Müllerin, water and the colour green are as much lead characters as the love-struck young man, the huntsman and the beautiful miller’s daughter. Here's what the Bayerischer Staatzeitung wrote of one of Simon Bode's recent performances of this work: "Seldom one hears this cycle so direct, so gripping,…seldom so close to the meaning, so well articulated as from this tenor from Hamburg…Bode transports the struggle of this ultimately forsaken lover, with a clear, strong, bright-cored voice, with an array of colors, gleaming high notes, sweet lyricism and a finessed piano, emphatic but never forcing…“ Enjoy the whole festival live online for £165 with a Digital Festival Pass. All events will be available on demand after broadcast until 30th November, so you can catch up at a time which suits you. SJE Arts - St John the Evangelist Church, Oxford DD/MM/YYYY

Details

SJE Arts - St John the Evangelist Church
109A Iffley Road
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX4 1EH
England

Programme

Franz Schubert – Die Schöne Müllerin, D.795

Performers

Simon Bode – tenor
 Simon Lepper – piano

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Programme Note

We are delighted to welcome one of the most exciting singers to emerge in recent years, German tenor Simon Bode, for our first full recital of 2021. He and Simon Lepper perform Schubert's great song cycle Die schöne Müllerin.

1820s Vienna might have been a metropolis of the time but it was a small city by today’s standards and Franz Schubert could walk easily into the hills with their woods and babbling brooks. Nature is everywhere in Schubert’s songs, and in his masterful song cycle Die schöne Müllerin, water and the colour green are as much lead characters as the love-struck young man, the huntsman and the beautiful miller’s daughter.

Here's what the Bayerischer Staatzeitung wrote of one of Simon Bode's recent performances of this work:

"Seldom one hears this cycle so direct, so gripping,…seldom so close to the meaning, so well articulated as from this tenor from Hamburg…Bode transports the struggle of this ultimately forsaken lover, with a clear, strong, bright-cored voice, with an array of colors, gleaming high notes, sweet lyricism and a finessed piano, emphatic but never forcing…“

Enjoy the whole festival live online for £165 with a Digital Festival Pass. All events will be available on demand after broadcast until 30th November, so you can catch up at a time which suits you.

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