The Linarol Consort of Viols and James Gilchrist: 16th Century German Love Songs
Event
The distinguished Linarol Consort of Viols is joined by internationally celebrated tenor James Gilchrist to give a St Edmund Hall concert in the Holywell Music Room, preceded by a pre-concert talk. Tickets can be obtained at https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/linarolconsort with free concert tickets available to St Edmund Hall members and staff plus one guest.
Event programme
Attendees are welcome to book for one or both events in the music programme.
Pre-Concert Talk | 17:55-18:45 | Holywell Music Room
Join tenor James Gilchrist, Hall Fellow Henrike Lähnemann, and the editor David Hatcher for an informal conversation about the making of ‘Inn Stetter Hut’. Find out who was the richest man in the sixteenth century and what the song ‘Lust hab ich ghabt zur Musica’ reveals about music making in the 16th century. There will be a serving of tea at 17:30 with the talk from 17:55 to 18:45.
Tickets are free and must be obtained via Ticket Source. Hall members and staff are welcome to bring one guest.
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Concert | 19:30-21:30 | Holywell Music Room, Holywell St, Oxford OX1 3SB
St Edmund Hall members are invited to a concert performed by Aularian Claire Horáček née Harrison and fellow viol players from The Linarol Consort of Viols with tenor James Gilchrist.
Join us for an evening of enchanting sixteenth-century song performed by one it its leading exponents and authentically accompanied by copies of the earliest surviving viol. Love in all its various forms (unrequited, romantic and lascivious mischief) is explored in the songs by leading musical figures working in Maximilian’s court: Heinrich Isaac, Paul Hofhaimer and Ludwig Senfl, one of the most prolific composers of German song and secular music of the period.
Tickets are £20 and must be purchased via Ticket Source. Entry is free to Hall members and staff plus one guest.
The Performers
The Linarol Consort of Renaissance Viols
The Linarol Consort draws together players who are leading exponents of the viol as both a consort and solo instrument, and focuses uniquely on their love of the instrument’s very earliest sound and repertoire. One of their players is Aularian Claire Horáček née Harrison (1986, BFA Fine Art).
James Gilchrist
A prolific and versatile recitalist, James Gilchrist enjoys imaginative and varied programming in collaborations with pianists Anna Tilbrook and Julius Drake, and harpist Alison Nicholls. Recent appearances include a Schubertiade weekend at St John Smith Square and Schwanengesang coupled with Beethoven’ An die Ferne Geliebte at the Wigmore Hall. James recently returned to the Wigmore Hall to begin his project with Anna Tilbrook, Schumann and the English Romantics, pairing Schumann song cycles with new commissions from leading composers including, Sally Beamish, Julian Philips and Jonathan Dove, setting English poetry of the Romantic period.
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Henrike Lähnemann
As professorial fellow at the Hall, Henrike works on the literature and culture of the late medieval and early modern period, among them on visual culture and soundscape of church and court in 16th century Germany. She also teaches translation of pre-modern German texts and has worked with the Consort and James Gilchrist on the edition of the song texts and their translation.
Read more about Henrike’s work
Special thanks
This special concert is sponsored by Emeritus Fellow Dr Peter Collins, and also supported by the Continuo Foundation and The Music Reprieval Trust.
Further Information
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