Details
Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Wolfson College
Linton Road
Oxford
OX2 6UD
England
Programme
Agathe Backer-Grøndahl – Mot kveld, Op.42 no.7
Agathe Backer-Grøndahl – Skjærer, Op.52 no.6
Agathe Backer-Grøndahl – Forsilde, Op.65 no.2
Agathe Backer-Grøndahl – Den vildene fugl, Op. 65 no.1
Wilhelm Stenhammar – Jungfru blond och Jungfru brunett, Op.26 no.4
Wilhelm Stenhammar – Til en ros, Op.8 no.4
Wilhelm Stenhammar – Vid fönstret, Op.20 no.2
Edvard Grieg – Haugtussa, Op.67
Clara Schumann – Walzer
Clara Schumann – Ich stand in dunklen Träumen, Op.13 no.1
Clara Schumann – Lorelei
Clara Schumann – Was weinst du, Blümlein?, Op.23 no.1
Performers
Joanna Harries – mezzo-soprano
Sholto Kynoch – piano
Oxford Lieder
Programme Note
Oxford Lieder begin 2022 with a new season of wonderful collaboration concerts with Wolfson College. This time they welcome mezzo-soprano Joanna Harries for a programme of Scandinavian and German song. She and Sholto Kynoch include Grieg's stunning, folk-infused cycle Haugtussa.
Joanna Harries is a 2021/22 Young Artist at the National Opera Studio in London. She was a choral scholar at the University of Cambridge and went on to train at the Royal Northern College of Music and the Alexander Gibson Opera Studio at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She is also co-founder of SongPath and led one of the wonderful SongPaths at the Botanic Garden at the 2021 Lieder Festival.