‘Feeling New Strength’ | String Quartets and the Voice

Dynamic ensemble The Kreutzer Quartet perform Beethoven’s fifteenth string quartet, whose lively middle section ‘Neue Kraft fuehlend’ (feeling new strength) is set against music that echoes a solemn religious song. In this innovative concert, The Kreutzer join forces with singers from the Oxford University Faculty of Music, led by renowned tenor James Gilchrist. Their programme explores more contrasts, performing songs accompanied by string quartet, and string quartets inspired by songs.

Performers

James Gilchrist tenor
Liz Kenny guitar
Stephanie Franklin soprano
Isabelle Blaine alto
Arthur Campbell tenor
Thomas McGowan bass baritone

Kreutzer Quartet
Peter Sheppard Skærved violin
Mihailo Trandafilovski violin
Clifton Harrison viola
Neil Heyde cello 

Programme

Franz Joseph Haydn 
String Quartet in D minor op. 103 Hob. III:83
Der Greis’ Hob XXVc:5 for voices and string quartet

Mauro Giuliani
Sei Ariette for voice and guitar op. 95BeethovenSechs Gesänge op. 75, arr. for voice and guitar

Ludwig van Beethoven
‘Elegischer Gesang’ for Voices and Strings op. 188
Mehrstimmige italienische Gesänge ohne Begleitung WoO 99 (Selections)
String Quartet no. 15 in A minor op. 132, ‘Heiliger Dankgesang’

Tickets: £15/£10 (free for music students)

More info:
https://www.music.ox.ac.uk/event/feeling-new-strength-string-quartets-and-the-voice/