Paganini: Caprice No.24, for solo violin Vivaldi: Violin concerto in A minor Geminiani: Violin Sonata in G Major Bax: Mediterranean, for piano Ravel: Pièce en forme de Habanera Sarasate: Hommage à Rossini
Arnold Bax provided the name to this chamber music concert. He composed his piano piece Mediterranean after being inspired by a trip to Majorca. Here at the heart of Mare Nostrum we explore the grand operatic repertoire as we cross 400 years of history and meet the virtuosic roots of violin and piano playing in Spain
2016 Words & Music Festival: Celebrating Shakespeare
Such Sweet Thunder is among the most masterful of the many suites composed by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, his most frequent and significant collaborator. It was commissioned in 1956 by the Stratford Shakespeare Festival Such Sweet Thunder and premiered to critical acclaim on 28 April, 1957, the night before Ellington turned 58, at New York’s Town Hall.
The programme will also include Duke Ellington classics Take the A Train, Caravan, Mood Indigo and It Don't Mean A Thing
2016 Words & Music Festival: Celebrating Shakespeare
Dr Katherine Williams, Lecturer in Music, Plymouth University
Katherine Williams uses Duke Ellington’s music to explore the balance of authorial power between composer, bandleader, musicians, improvisers and record producers. This lecture is both an introduction to the forthcoming performance of the Shakespeare suite Such Sweet Thunder, and an investigation into the music and recordings of the notorious Ellington performance at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival.
2016 Words & Music Festival: Celebrating Shakespeare
Alexander Robin Baker, baritone Jo Ramadan, piano
Clive Jenkins is associate composer-arranger with the Chamber Ensemble of London, which has played his music at London’s most prestigious venues including the Purcell Room, Kings Place and St James, Piccadilly.
A Plymouth man, many of his works have West Country themes – like The Mayflower Pilgrims, the cantata he wrote for the University of Plymouth Choral Society and Ten Tors Orchestra.
Clive Jenkins’ Scurvy Songs from Shakespeare was commissioned by...
2016 Words & Music Festival: Celebrating Shakespeare
Clive Jenkins talks about his three new Shakespeare songs: Pugging Song, A Scurvy Tune & Freedom, Hey-day!
Clive Jenkins is associate composer-arranger with the Chamber Ensemble of London, which has played his music at London’s most prestigious venues including the Purcell Room, Kings Place and St James, Piccadilly.
A Plymouth man, many of his works have West Country themes – like The Mayflower Pilgrims, the cantata he wrote for the University of Plymouth Choral Society and Ten Tors Orchestra.
2016 Words & Music Festival: Celebrating Shakespeare
Ten Tors Orchestra & Bath Spa University Choir Simon Ible, conductor Augusta Hebbert, Soprano Elin Pritchard, soprano Alexander Robin Baker, baritone Matthew Spring, chorus master
Thomas Linley: A Lyric Ode on the Fairies, Aerial Beings and Witches of Shakespeare Thomas Arne: Nine Shakespeare Songs Henry Purcell: Incidental music for The Tempest
Bath composer Thomas Linley the younger (1756 - 1778) was known as the “English Mozart”. He composed violin sonatas and concertos as well as choral works, and...
2016 Words & Music Festival: Celebrating Shakespeare
How did music, sound and spectacle interact with poetry in Shakespeare’s theatre and what legacy did he leave? Starting with The Tempest (1611) this talk looks at how Shakespeare inspired future poets, playwrights and the best English composers – Henry Purcell, Thomas Arne, and Thomas Linley (jnr) – in songs, odes and operas.
Friday 22nd April at 19.00
Free Admission
Lower Lecture Theatre, Sherwell Centre, Plymouth University
Shakespeare is celebrated in film adaptations that attracted the greatest contemporary composers of the day.
Based on Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story remains the most successful musical film at the Oscars, winning 10 in all. Set in the Upper West Side of New York City in the late 1950s, two youngsters from rival gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy. Bernstein’s superb score energises the excitement, melodrama and despair.
Peter Hinds, Associate Professor of English at Plymouth University will give a short pre-screening...
Shakespeare is celebrated in film adaptations that attracted the greatest contemporary composers of the day.
Kozintsev's gripping version of King Lear provides unforgettable scenes from the grand entrance of Lear to divide his kingdom, to the final muddy battlefield. As Kozintsev wrote, “In Shostakovich's music I can hear a ferocious hatred of cruelty, the cult of power and the oppression of justice ... a fearless goodness which has a threatening quality.”
Peter Hinds, Associate Professor of English at Plymouth University will give a short pre-screening...
