The opening song recitals offer radically different experiences. Edward Rushton's setting of Tony Harrison's Palladas receives its London premiere, taking its strikingly original place in the tradition of English Song. The duo of Roderick Williams and Iain Burnside have been acclaimed for their musical understanding. Here they turn their attention to Spain, seen both from the sunny South and the frozen North. In between, three outstanding younger artists pay homage to the single German oak tree that gives Hall One at Kings Place its acoustic glow. Who better than Schubert to sort out the wood from the trees?
This opening week at Kings Place closes with a sequence of late-night music. "I have come to the borders of sleep", Edward Thomas writes in Lights Out, "the unfathomable deep forest, where all must lose their way." Hobgoblins and foul fiends lurk in our forest, together with Blake's tiger, burning as bright as ever. Keeping nightmares at bay are angels from Liza Lehmann and a blessing from Henry Purcell, together with panoramas of the night sky from Finzi and Barber. The last words go to W B Yeats: "Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."
Palladas: Songs
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Date: Wednesday 1 October
Time: 14:15
Venue: Hall One
Elizabeth Atherton, Robert Murray,
Purcell, Britten, Rushton, Bridge.
Forest Murmurs
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Date: Wednesday 1 October
Time: 15:30
Venue: Hall One
Fflur Wyn, Ben Johnson, Gary Griffiths
Schubert: including Das Lied im Grünen, An die Nachtigall, Im Walde, Der Lindenbaum, Trost, Wanderers, Nachtlied
¡Viva España!
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Date: Wednesday 1 October
Time: 16:45
Venue: Hall One
Roderick Williams
Three contrasting visions of Spain, from a German, a Russian and a Catalan.
Robert Schumann, Dmitri Shostakovich, Xavier Montsalvatge
Lights Out
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Date: Sunday 5 October
Time: 23:00
Venue: Hall One
Elin Manahan Thomas, Susan Bickley, Roderick Williams
