Feb 1, 2022Fanny Mendelssohn’s DivanSiegbert Prawer lecture of the English Goethe Society by Anhad Arora which took place on Thursday 3 February 2022, and recordings of three of the six discussed Divan settings by Fanny Mendelssohn by Anhad Arora and Henrike Lähnemann plus the duet ‘Hatem und Suleika’ with Martin Pickard Editions from…Fanny Mendelssohn2 min readFanny Mendelssohn2 min read
Dec 10, 2020Joseph Haydn, ‘Lob der Faulheit’The fourth episode of ‘Liederspiel’ premiered on our youtube channel on Saturday 12 December, 7pm British time:Laziness4 min readLaziness4 min read
Nov 9, 2020Clara Schumann, ‘Lore-Ley’The third episode of ‘Liederspiel’ was premiered on our youtube channel on Saturday 21 November, 7pm British time We looked at Clara Schumann’s setting of Heinrich Heine’s poem ‘Loreley’ In the last blogpost, we discussed Robert Schumann’s Orientalist amulet which, designed to herald the prophetic union of marriage to…Fairy Tale4 min readFairy Tale4 min read
Nov 6, 2020Robert Schumann, ‘Talismane’ (Gottes ist der Orient)The second episode of ‘Liederspiel’ will be premiered on our youtube channel on Saturday 7 November, 7pm British time — tune in or watch it afterwards! Here the actual link to the premiere at 7pm British time https://youtu.be/6NU8hYePSmM6 min read6 min read
Oct 24, 2020Johannes Brahms, ‘Schöner Augen schöne Strahlen’You would be forgiven for asking yourself why we would begin our exploration of Medievalist and Orientalist elements in the Lied during the long nineteenth century with an example which is both at the outer extreme of our temporal period and makes little use of immediately…Romanticism8 min readRomanticism8 min read
Oct 22, 2020Liederspiel: Grand OpeningWe are pleased to announce that the first episode of our fortnightly series designed to unearth Orientalist and Medievalist strains in the nineteenth-century Lied repertoire premieres this Saturday, 19:00 (GBT = 20 Uhr deutscher Zeit) on our Youtube Channel. The publication of the accompanying blogpost will immediately follow the pre-recorded…Brahms1 min readBrahms1 min read
Sep 14, 2020Liederspiel — Who We Are“Liederspiel” is an experimental channel for discussing music and literature. Anhad Arora, a doctoral student in Music, and Henrike Lähnemann, Professor of Medieval German at Oxford, explore Medievalist and Orientalist themes in Lieder, unlocking the rich musical, literary and cultural background of the medium through informal performance and conversation. Our…Songs1 min readSongs1 min read
