Eros in Oxford: Brahms, Janáček and gypsies

Von Roy Westbrook, 18 Oktober 2018

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“In Daumer’s erotic verses kisses burn and bosoms heave, and Brahms’ more prudish friends disapproved”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Holywell Music Room, Oxford, am 16 Oktober 2018

Janáček, Ríkadla (Nursery Rhymes)

Brahms, 8 Lieder und Gesänge, Op.57

Brahms, Zigeunerlieder, Op.103

Janáček, Tagebuch eines Verschollenen

Toby Spence, Tenor

Dorottya Láng, Sopran

Victoria Soames Samek, Klarinette

Julius Drake, Klavier

Singers from the Royal Academy of Music

Ian Bostridge bringt Krieg in all seinen Facetten nach Köln

Cristina Burack, 7th January

Trotz räumlicher Herausforderungen zeigt der Tenor Ian Bostridge mit dem hervorragenden Julius Drake am Klavier warum er als Meister der Lieder gilt.

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Les péchés capiteux d'Axelle Fanyo et Fleur Barron à l'Athénée

Jean-Pierre Rousseau, 16th February

Les deux chanteuses ont proposé un panorama innovant des sept péchés capitaux à travers les styles et les cultures, avec la complicité unificatrice de Julius Drake au piano.

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Le Voyage d’hiver de Bostridge, Drake et Warner pétrifie l’Athénée

Pierre Michel, 20th November

Ian Bostridge et Julius Drake proposent une interprétation exceptionnelle du cycle schubertien, sublimée par la mise en scène de Deborah Warner et les lumières de Jean Kalman, jusqu'à l'énigme finale.

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Bumpy love songs from Roderick Williams and Julius Drake at PCMS

Cameron Kelsall, 12th February

A fully produced performance of Brahms' Die schӧne Magelone in Philadelphia, complete with on-stage narrator and bespoke drawings, proved less than the sum of its parts.

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Fauré Song Gala a showcase for the composer's mélodies

Mark Valencia, 13th September

Fauré was the finest of French songwriters. Stéphane Degout and Véronique Gens shine in a full-length evening in a packed Wigmore Hall.

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Gerald Finley and Julius Drake bring Night and Day to London

Mark Valencia, 24th November

Heinrich Heine settings by Schumann and Schubert are counter-balanced by Duparc and Cole Porter in a Temple Song recital reflecting on night and day.

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Roy Westbrook

Roy Westbrook gained a diploma in music history at London University (Morley College) and was for some years the head of music day schools at Oxford University, where he also led music summer schools. After some years leading the University's business school he has returned to music teaching and writing, and recently took part in the Arts in Residence courses on Bruckner, Mahler and Bach He is co-author (with Terry Barfoot) of a history of opera, and has taught day schools on Sibelius in Oxford and elsewhere.

Eros in Oxford: Brahms, Janáček and gypsies at the Lieder Festival