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Heather Shipp and Stephen Barlow

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Vienna is the connection for all three composers featured in this rich programme. With Vienna in their blood as the 19th century turned into the explosive early 20th, it is a snapshot of intimate portraits of each composer, not only in the texts of the songs they chose, but in the different worlds of expression they inhabit. 

Brahms’ songs are imbued with backward looking respect for classicism, Wolf’s are typically concise and testing, and Mahler’s are deeply infused with simplicity and a wistful sweetness. Heather Shipp is one of the UK’s most versatile mezzo sopranos, acclaimed across a wide repertoire on the concert platform, operatic stage, in the recording studio and on television. She is joined by Festival Artistic Director Stephen Barlow at the piano, who is no stranger to accompanying.

  • Duration: 1hr
  • Price: £15