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This year's Oxford Lieder Festival is an immersion in Robert Schumann, but any intensive focus on Schumann would feature his music f...

Brahms Die schõne Magelone Op 33, (1861-8) at the Oxford Lieder Festival,on Tuesday, with Roderick Williams. Since this year's Oxfo...

Fresh and lively - the Oxford Lieder April Song Weekend, Holywell Music Room, 10-12th April FRIDAY 10 APRIL 7.30pm Sophie Daneman (sop...

"Bringing Schubert's Vienna to Oxford". This year's Oxford Lieder Festival will be the most ambitious Schubert undertak...

Big media coverage for a Mendelssohn song, The Heart of Man is Like a Mine , written in 1842. Because it was a private commission it was ...

Ten years of the Oxford Lieder Festival!  The Oxford Lieder Festival 2011 is the most important song festival in this country, and attracts ...

Hugo Wolf's songs to poems by Eduard Mörike are perhaps the most exquisite Lieder ever written. The songs flowed from Wolf's pen ...

Those who regularly read this site will know how much I care about young singers. Making a career as a singer is incredibly difficult. Talen...

A few years ago, at a reception after a major Lieder recital, I noticed the pianist in a corner on his own. Since he is very famous in h...

Why do I like Oxford Lieder so much? It's always in with things ahead of the main pack. Follow Oxford to hear what London will get round...

Who was "Mi" as in Poèmes pour Mi ? She was Claire Delbos, a talented violinist active in new music circles in Paris in the 1920...

Why I like the Oxford Lieder Festival so much ! Only one hour from London! Sir Thomas Allen is Patron of the Oxford Lieder Festival. He has...

Twenty-five years ago I heard Die Schöne Müllerin in a country church beside the Thames in South Oxfordshire . “How lovely”, said the...

Ian Bostridge astounded the song world with his seminal Die Schöne Müllerin with Graham Johnson ...

Super performance today by James Gilchrist of Schubert's Die Schöne Müllerin . I rushed home to listen to another DSM but couldn't ...

This year's Oxford Lieder Festival starts October 10th, kicking off with a "Schubert Weekend" , three days of th...