Oxford Lieder Festival: Oxfordshire

Julian Bliss
Tim Horton
Alexander Sitkovetsky

This stellar trio of musicians perform Béla Bártok’s effervescent Contrasts, written in 1938 and commissioned by the legendary jazz clarinettist Benny Goodman. They also include music by the toweringly influential American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, and Antonín Dvo?ák, who spent nearly four years in New York, where he wrote some of his best-loved works including the famous ‘New World Symphony’.