Details
Holywell Music Room
Holywell Street
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX1 3SD
England
Programme
Franz Schubert – Winterreise, D.911
Performers
Thomas Oliemans – baritone
Clara Barbier Serrano – soprano
Joanna Kacperek – piano
Oxford Lieder
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Programme Note
Thomas Oliemans is well known to Oxford Lieder audiences as a masterful baritone, having appeared numerous times at the Festival with the pianist Malcolm Martineau. But Thomas is also a pianist, and has recently given recitals accompanying himself, including at Het Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, reviving a lost tradition of the singer-pianist. In tonight’s programme – the first of three Festival concerts following this format – he sings and plays Schubert’s monumental Winterreise. The cycle was first heard by Schubert’s friends, with the composer himself sat at the piano and singing with a voice ‘wrought with emotion’.
