The Classical Events logo, in black-and-white
Please note: This concert is in the past and has already taken place.

Elgar The Music Makers; Brahms Schicksalslied

Part of the Oxford Harmonic Choir 2023-2024

Add to my Calendar 23-03-2024 19:30 23-03-2024 21:30 36 Elgar The Music Makers; Brahms Schicksalslied Our spring concert consists of two highly expressive choral works, together with Smetana’s well-known symphonic poem Vyšehrad . The Music Makers is a setting of Ode by the Victorian poet Arthur O’Shaughnessy. It is intensely personal: Elgar wrote ‘I have written out my soul … I have shown myself’, and he includes quotations from earlier works, including the famous theme from Nimrod. The work moves between triumph and melancholy, ending quietly with the opening words; ‘We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.’  Brahms was responding to a poem by the German Romantic poet Friedrich Hölderlin, ‘Schicksalslied’, which contrasts the everlasting bliss of the immortals with the suffering of humanity, both wonderfully evoked in Brahms’s music. We will be joined by contralto Jess Dandy. Oxford Town Hall, Oxford DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Oxford Town Hall
Saint Aldate's
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX1 1BX
England

Programme

Johannes Brahms – Schicksalslied, Op.54
Bedřich Smetana – Ma Vlast: Vysehrad
~ Interval ~
Edward Elgar – The Music Makers, Op.69

Performers

Jess Dandy – contralto
Robert Secret – Conductor

Oxford Harmonic Choir
Orchestra of Stowe Opera

Other concerts in this Season ▼

Handel Solomon

Programme Note

Our spring concert consists of two highly expressive choral works, together with Smetana’s well-known symphonic poem Vyšehrad . The Music Makers is a setting of Ode by the Victorian poet Arthur O’Shaughnessy. It is intensely personal: Elgar wrote ‘I have written out my soul … I have shown myself’, and he includes quotations from earlier works, including the famous theme from Nimrod. The work moves between triumph and melancholy, ending quietly with the opening words; ‘We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.’  Brahms was responding to a poem by the German Romantic poet Friedrich Hölderlin, ‘Schicksalslied’, which contrasts the everlasting bliss of the immortals with the suffering of humanity, both wonderfully evoked in Brahms’s music. We will be joined by contralto Jess Dandy.

Elgar The Music Makers; Brahms Schicksalslied

Get a route map

Your Map