ORLANDO: SONGS ABOUT LOVE AND IDENTITY FROM DOWLAND TO DYLAN
Two of the most imaginative and daring artists of their generation craft an immersive, genre-defying program titled ‘Orlando’, which traces the legendary troubadour’s journey across centuries and continents, from the medieval Chanson de Roland to Ariosto’s epic poem, and Virginia Woolf’s groundbreaking 1928 novel. This bold and imaginative program explores themes of love, conflict, and identity, weaving together works by Schubert, Glanert, Adès, and others, alongside newly-commissioned pieces by Sasha Scott and Cassandra Miller.
Ema describes the Orlando project as: “Courtly love, conflict, identity, adventures traversing time and space, and the role of song, the life of the troubadour in the middle of it all – the fascinating, gallivanting, and almost science-fiction characters of Orlando from Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso and Virginia Woolf’s Orlando are at the heart of this program.”
JULES MASSENET: Le Cid, “O souverain, ô juge, ô père”
JOHN DOWLAND: Praeludium
JOHN DOWLAND: Come again, sweet love
JOHN DOWLAND: Come, heavy sleep
JOHN DOWLAND: Thinkst thou then by thy feigning
SASHA SCOTT: 1000 Parts of you
LINDA CATLIN SMITH: Dark Light
THOMAS ADÈS: The Exterminating Angel, Blanca
DETLEV GLANERT: Orlando-Lieder, Hexensabbat
SCHUBERT arr GLANERT: Einsamkeit, D620
DETLEV GLANERT: Orlando-Lieder, Lied der Wehmut
THOMAS ADÈS: Habanera
NAHRE SOL: This Other Here
MADDIE ASHMAN: Split
CASSANDRA MILLER: Dream Memorandum (It Reminded Me of the Truth)
HANS ABRAHAMSEN: See the limpid well spring
FRANZ SCHUBERT: So last micht scheinen
ALEX PAXTON: Be Kind
JOHN DOWLAND: Orlando Sleepeth
PAULINE VIARDOT: Aime-moi
BOB DYLAN: Masters of War (based on Trad/American, arr. Jean Ritchie)
LAURIE ANDERSON: O Superman (arr. Sean Shibe & Ema Nikolovska)
A remarkable concert by the mezzo Ema Nikolovska and the guitarist Sean Shibe at the Bath Festival — and if I say that the experience felt like being awake in a vivid dream, I do so as a compliment.
— The Times
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