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Oxford Lieder Festival: Sarah Connolly & Julius Drake: Summer Nights
Part of the Oxford Lieder Festival 2021
Add to my Calendar 08-10-2021 17:30 08-10-2021 19:30 36 Oxford Lieder Festival: Sarah Connolly & Julius Drake: Summer Nights Star of The Last Night of the Proms and the world’s great stages, Dame Sarah Connolly’s Festival appearances are always eagerly anticipated. With the celebrated pianist Julius Drake, she sings Hector Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été (‘Summer nights’), a cycle of six songs that are one of the masterpieces of this firebrand composer. Also featured are songs by Ivor Gurney’s contemporaries Herbert Howells and John Ireland.Emerging Artists Charles Cunliffe and Gus Tredwell open the evening with George Butterworth’s famous settings of A.E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad, which resonate strongly with our earlier focus on Ivor Gurney. SJE Arts - St John the Evangelist Church, Oxford DD/MM/YYYYDetails
SJE Arts - St John the Evangelist Church
109A Iffley Road
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX4 1EH
England
Programme
George Butterworth – 6 Songs from A Shropshire Lad
John Ireland – Her song
Herbert Howells – O my deir Heart
Hector Berlioz – Les nuits d'été, Op.7 H81
Performers
Sarah Connolly – mezzo-soprano
Julius Drake – Accompanist
Charles Cunliffe – bass-baritone
Gus Tredwell – Accompanist
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Programme Note
Star of The Last Night of the Proms and the world’s great stages, Dame Sarah Connolly’s Festival appearances are always eagerly anticipated. With the celebrated pianist Julius Drake, she sings Hector Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été (‘Summer nights’), a cycle of six songs that are one of the masterpieces of this firebrand composer. Also featured are songs by Ivor Gurney’s contemporaries Herbert Howells and John Ireland.
Emerging Artists Charles Cunliffe and Gus Tredwell open the evening with George Butterworth’s famous settings of A.E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad, which resonate strongly with our earlier focus on Ivor Gurney.
