‘Transfigured Love’ Ian Bostridge & Julius Drake
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28 September 2021
To:
28 September 2021
SJE Arts Oxford
‘Transfigured Love’ by Ian Bostridge & Julius Drake
About ‘Transfigured Love’ Ian Bostridge & Julius Drake
The Oxford Chamber Music Festival 2021 takes flight with two of the greatest song-cycles of all, separated by Arvo Pärt’s remarkable setting of Robbie Burns: so ‘simple’, yet haunting and unforgettable.
Beethoven’s gentle, folk-like songs of longing for an absent lover flow one into the next and end as they began to form a ‘ring of song’ – the first song cycle.
The idea inspired countless composers, especially Schumann, whose The Poet’s Love (Dichterliebe) charts a love affair with the psychological insight of a great dramatist – and some of Schumann’s finest piano inspirations.
Beethoven
An die ferne Geliebte
Ian Bostridge, Julius Drake
Arvo Pärt
My Heart’s in the Highlands
Ian Bostridge, Julius Drake, Priya Mitchell, Johannes Marmen, Bryony Gibson-Cornish, Brian O’Kane
Schumann
Dichterliebe
Ian Bostridge & Julius Drake