Best of Schubert
Benjamin Appl, baritone and Sholto Kynoch, piano
Sunday 30 July 3:00pm | Ian Hanger Recital Hall
Programme:
Seligkeit (Hölty) D433
Am Bach im Frühling (Schober) D361
Im Frühling (Schulze) D882
Fischerweise (Schlechta) D881
Der Wanderer an den Mond (Seidl) D870
Wanderers Nachtlied II (Goethe) D768
Der Wanderer (Schmidt) D493
An den Mond (Goethe) D259
Der Musensohn (Goethe) D764
Strophe aus „Die Götter Griechenlands“ (Schiller) D677
An die Leier (Bruchmann) D737
Prometheus (Goethe) D674
Geheimes (Goethe) D719
Nachtstück (Mayrhofer) D672
Litanei auf das Fest Allerseelen (Jacobi) D343
Erlkönig (Goethe) D328
Artists:
Benjamin Appl
Former Gramophone Award Young Artist of the Year in 2016, Appl was a BBC New Generation Artist 2014-16 and ECHO Rising Star in the 2015-16 season. During his early career, he had the good fortune of being mentored by the legendary singer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.
An established recitalist, Appl has performed at the Ravinia, Rheingau, Schleswig Holstein, and Edinburgh International, Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Wigmore Hall, Heidelberger Frühling, and at the KlavierFestival Ruhr. He has sung at major concert venues including Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and the Musée de Louvre, Paris. In equal demand as soloist on the world’s most prestigious stages, he collaborates with many of the world’s finest orchestras, including Royal Concertgebouw, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, NHK Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra, Vienna Symphony, Tonhalle Orchestra and many others.
Significant career highlights to date include celebrated recitals at New York’s Park Avenue Armory featuring all three Schubert song cycles, performances of Bach with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Mozart’s Requiem with Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Klaus Mäkelä. Returning regularly to the US for major touring projects, Appl recently made his long-awaited solo recital debut at Carnegie Hall.
Forbidden Fruit is the second of Appl’s recordings for Alpha Classics. His first album Winterreise was released to major critical acclaim in February 2022: “Appl handles the cycle's sharp turns with affecting control, a storytellers' thrall and above all, trust in the text" (The New York Times). The recording was released in conjunction with a film commissioned by BBC Four entitled Winter Journey, shot at the Julier Pass in Switzerland by John Bridcut.
Sholto Kynoch is a sought-after pianist who specialises in song and chamber music. He is the founder and Artistic Director of the Oxford Lieder Festival, which won a prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Award in 2015, cited for its ‘breadth, depth and audacity’ of programming. In July 2018, Sholto was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in the RAM Honours.
Recent recitals have taken him to Wigmore Hall, Heidelberger Frühling in Germany, the Zeist International Lied Festival in Holland, the LIFE Victoria festival and Palau de la Música in Barcelona, the Opéra de Lille, Kings Place in London, Piano Salon Christophori in Berlin and
Sholto Kynoch
many other leading venues nationally and internationally. He has performed with singers including Louise Alder, Benjamin Appl, Sophie Daneman, Tara Erraught, Robert Holl, James Gilchrist, Dietrich Henschel, Katarina Karnéus, Wolfgang Holzmair, Jonathan Lemalu, Stephan Loges, Daniel Norman, Christoph Prégardien, Joan Rodgers, Kate Royal, Birgid Steinberger, Anna Stéphany and Mark Stone, amongst many others.
Together with violinist Jonathan Stone and cellist Christian Elliott, Sholto is the pianist of the Phoenix Piano Trio, an ensemble that has been praised for creating a ‘musical narrative of tremendous, involving depth’. In recent years, he has curated several series of recitals at the National Gallery, including their ‘Monet and Architecture’ exhibition in 2018. He has recorded, live at the Oxford Lieder Festival, the first complete edition of the songs of Hugo Wolf. Other recordings include discs of Schubert and Schumann lieder, the complete songs of John Ireland and Havergal Brian with baritone Mark Stone, a recital disc with Anna Stéphany, and several CDs with the Phoenix Trio.
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