FRIDAY 13 OCTOBER

2.00 onward Arrival at Parklands, 100 Banbury Rd OX2 6JU (01865 554374). There is ample parking.

3.00-5.00 Study session in Parklands, with coffee break

7.30 Concert in the Sheldonian Theatre. Kate Royal (soprano), Toby

Spence (tenor), Dietrich Henschel (baritone), players from the

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (arr. for chamber 

ensemble by Schoenberg)

Strauss: Lieder

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (arr. Schoenberg)

Ends c 9.30; some might like to stop off for a drink en route to the hotel.

SATURDAY 14 OCTOBER

10.30-12.30  Study session in Parklands, with break for tea/coffee

(Free afternoon to explore Oxford)

5.45 (Optional) Dinner in a pre-booked restaurant

7.30 Concert in Holywell: Anna Stéphany (mezzo), Sholto Kynoch

(piano): 

Songs by Brahms and Mahler

SUNDAY 15 OCTOBER

10.30-12.30  Study session in Parklands, with break for tea/coffee

1.30 Sunday lunch chez Wigmore, 11 Harpes Rd, one mile from

Parklands. Lifts will be provided for those who need them.

4.00 Concert in Jacqueline Du Pre Building, St Hilda’s College:  

Raphaela Papadakis (soprano), Sholto Kynoch (piano), Penny 

Downie, Oliver Cotton (readers)

Richard and Pauline Strauss: an exploration in songs and readings of the famous husband-and-wife Lieder duo, devised by Henrietta Bredin.

7.00            Showing in the Town Hall, St Aldate’s, of the 1926 silent film of

Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, with ‘live’ accompaniment by

members of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

MONDAY 16 OCTOBER

10.30-12.20 Study session in Parklands, with break for tea/coffee

1.10 Concert in Holywell: Christina Gansch (sop), Sholto Kynoch (piano)

Songs by Schubert

7.30            Concert in Holywell: Roman Trekel (bar), Michael Dussek (piano)

Schubert: Winterreise

Ends c. 9.00

I shall book tables in Brown’s, 10-12 minutes’ walk from the Holywell, for 9.15