{"id":2729,"date":"2016-01-13T11:55:46","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T11:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=2729"},"modified":"2016-01-13T11:55:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T11:55:46","slug":"the-schumann-project-oxford-lieder-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=2729","title":{"rendered":"THE SCHUMANN PROJECT \u2013  OXFORD LIEDER 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Schumann\u2019s complete songs will be the focus of the fifteenth\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordlieder.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oxford Lieder Festival<\/a>\u00a0(14-29 October 2016).\u00a0<i>The Schumann Project<\/i>,\u00a0which falls on the 160th anniversary of the composer\u2019s death, places his works for voice alongside an array of his other works and songs by his friends and contemporaries. The two-week Lieder Festival, which won an RPS Award for the 2014 Schubert Project, encompasses chamber and choral works, study events, artistic partnerships and world-class musicians. It will explore Schumann\u2019s life and times, his friends and contemporaries, his influences and his legacies, and his literary and artistic interests; all illuminating and casting a fresh light on his remarkable body of songs.<\/p>\n<p>Graham Johnson returns for two lecture-recitals exploring Schumann\u2019s life and music; study days will look at Schumann\u2019s fascination with Bach, and at the political upheaval and revolution of the 1840s; Wolfgang Holzmair will lead the residential mastercourse; and there will be film screenings, masterclasses and talks.\u00a0 2016 is also the 120th anniversary of Clara Schumann\u2019s death; her 29 songs will be included in the Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber will give the opening recital of the Festival, and other artists appearing in Oxford for the first time include Anne Sofie von Otter, Bo Skovhus and Juliane Banse. The roster also features Thomas Allen, Sarah Connolly, Felicity Lott, James Gilchrist, Sophie Karth\u00e4user, Christopher Maltman, Mark Padmore, Christoph Pr\u00e9gardien, and Roderick Williams, alongside many other leading artists and emerging stars.<\/p>\n<p>Passes for the entire festival cost \u00a3460 and a week pass \u00a3280 \u2013 available now from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordlieder.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.oxfordlieder.co.uk<\/a>\u00a0\/ 01865 591276. General booking opens 1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0June.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordlieder.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.oxfordlieder.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schumann\u2019s complete songs will be the focus of the fifteenth\u00a0Oxford Lieder Festival\u00a0(14-29 October 2016).\u00a0The Schumann Project,\u00a0which falls on the 160th anniversary of the composer\u2019s death, places his works for voice alongside an array of his other works and songs by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=2729\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2730,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions\/2730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}