This event was presented in association with TORCH, with support from the Humanities Cultural Programme, the Voltaire Foundation, and The Queen’s College.
This event was broadcast as part of the Oxford Lieder Festival 2020. From the stunning Upper Library in Queen’s College, Nicholas Cronk and Suzanne Aspden introduce two key Enlightenment figures: Voltaire, whom we hear set by Russian composers; and Rousseau, who was widely admired as a composer in his own day and wrote many songs.
Please find out more about Oxford Lieder Festival 2020: Connections Across Time HCP project here.
Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the
future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.
