International Concert Series 2021-22
The founder and director of Oxford Lieder Sholto Kynoch joins with a rising star mezzo Helen Charlston for a programme blending the familiar with the unfamiliar – the latter mostly in the shape of items from The Isolation Songbook conceived and collated during lockdown by Helen Charlston and her fiancé Michael Craddock.
Event programme
Clara Schumann (1819-1896): 6 Lieder Op. 13
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
- Ständchen Op. 106 No. 1
- Wie Melodien zieht es mir Op. 105 No. 1
- Immer leiser wird mein Schlummer Op. 105 No. 2
- Feldeinsamkeit Op. 86 No. 2
- Es steht ein Lind WoO. 33 No. 41
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976): How sweet the answer
Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979): Down by the Salley Gardens
Andrew Brixey-Williams (b.1956): Abat-jour (from the Isolation Songbook, commissioned by Helen Charlston)
Gerald Finzi (1901-1956): Oh fair to see Op. 13b; As I lay in the early sun
Joshua Borin (b.1989): Nature is Returning (from the Isolation Songbook, commissioned by Helen Charlston)
Juliana Hall (b.1958): Letters from Edna; To Mother
Nathan James Dearden (b.1992): the way we go (from the Isolation Songbook, commissioned by Helen Charlston)
Stephen Bick (b.1993): On His Blindness (from the Isolation Songbook, commissioned by Helen Charlston)
About the performers
Hailed “a rather special mezzo” (Music Web International), Helen Charlston is a young artist increasingly in demand in the UK and abroad. Recent concert highlights include debuts with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (Handel Messiah/Stephen Layton), Royal Northern Sinfonia (Mendelssohn Lobgesang/Paul McCreesh) and at the Palau de la Musica in Barcelona (Bach Matthew Passion/Gabrieli Consort and Players); a worldwide tour of Handel Messiah with the Seattle Symphony, the Western Australian Symphony Orchestra and Adelaide Symphony Orchestra; performances as part of Barbican Sound Unbound 2019 and solo recitals at York Early Music Festival, London Handel Festival, Händel-festspiele Halle, Korčula Baroque Festival, Leicester International Music Festival and Fitzrovia Festival. Helen is a BBC New Generation Artist (2021-2023). Read more.
Sholto Kynoch is a sought-after pianist who specialises in song and chamber music. He is the founder and Artistic Director of the Oxford Lieder Festival, which won a prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Award in 2015, cited for its ‘breadth, depth and audacity’ of programming. In July 2018, Sholto was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in the RAM Honours. Recent recitals have taken him to Wigmore Hall, Heidelberger Frühling in Germany, the Zeist International Lied Festival in Holland, the LIFE Victoria festival and Palau de la Música in Barcelona, the Opéra de Lille, Kings Place in London, Piano Salon Christophori in Berlin and many other leading venues nationally and internationally. He has performed with singers including Louise Alder, Benjamin Appl, Sophie Daneman, Tara Erraught, Robert Holl, James Gilchrist, Dietrich Henschel, Katarina Karnéus, Wolfgang Holzmair, Jonathan Lemalu, Stephan Loges, Daniel Norman, Christoph Prégardien, Joan Rodgers, Kate Royal, Birgid Steinberger, Anna Stéphany and Mark Stone, amongst many others. Read more.
Covid-19 Policy
To ensure the safety of you and others, we have implemented the following steps for all of our International Concert Series events:
- Booking is essential for all International Concert Series events, as numbers will be capped to enable sufficient spacing in our venues. There will be no tickets available on the door.
- We ask that our audience continue to socially distance and wear a mask at all times.
- Entry to our events is dependent on evidence of double vaccination or a negative lateral flow test within 24-hours of the concert start time.
- We regret that we cannot provide refreshments at this time.
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