Emma Welton |
Voodoo Lounge Exeter Phoenix
Sunday 1 November
FOLK SONGS & FAÇADE
Soprano: Sarah Owen
Narrator: Kate Westbrook
Violin: Emma Welton
Viola: Andrew Gillett
'Cello: Jane Pirie
Harp: Sally Jenkins
Flute: Susie Hodder Williams
Saxophone: Chris Caldwell
Clarinet: Victoria Loram
Trumpet: Brian Moore
Percussion: Michelle Hiley
Andy Smith-Turner
Luciano Berio: "Folk Songs"
Sarah Owen |
for performer Cathy Berberian, viola, 'cello, harp
flute/piccolo, clarinet & two percussionists.
(Soprano Sarah Owen)
Kentucky songs in a folk style by John Jacob Niles:
1. "Black is the colour of my true love's hair"
with solo viola introduction (Andrew Gillett)
2. "I wonder as I wander out under the sky"
viola 'cello & harp = a hurdy-gurdy
(Andrew Gillett, Jane Pirie, Sally Jenkins)
flute & clarinet = flying birds
(Chris Caldwell, Susie Hodder-Williams)
Traditional folk songs:
3. "Loosin yelav ensareetz" (Armenia)
(The Moon has risen over the hill)
4. "Rossignolet du bois" (France)
(Little nightingale of the woods)
clarinet, harp & crotales cymbals
(Victoria Loram, Sally Jenkins
Michelle Hiley, Andy Smith Turner)
"MUSIC ON THE EDGE" Susie Hodder Williams Chris Caldwell (Photography: Chris Chapman) |
5. "A la Femminisca" (Sicily)
(May the Lord send fine weather)
Traditional poetry set to music by Berio
as a student at Milan Conservatory 1947:
6. "La Donna Ideale" (Genoa)
(The Ideal Woman)
7. "Ballo" (an Italian dance)
Traditional folk song:
8. "Motettu de tristura" (Sardinia)
(Song of Sadness)
Traditional songs from Joseph Canteloube's
'Chants d'Auvergne' in the Occitan language
(still spoken in Catalonia):
9. "Malurous qu’o uno fenno, Maluros qué n’o cat!"
(Wretched is he who has a wife,
wretched is he who has not!)
10. "Lo Fïolairé" (The Spinner)
with 'cello introduction (Jane Pirie)
A traditional folk song from the USSR transposed
phonetically by American soprano Cathy Berberian:
11. Azerbaijan Love Song (Azeri)
Sir William Walton / Dame Edith Sitwell:
"Façade II"
Sitwell's poems, published in "Wheels" and set to
music by Walton 1918-1923, were published as
Kate Westbrook |
Posthumously, additional Sitwell poems were
arranged for recitation, with ensemble, by Walton
and published as "Façade II" in 1977.
(narrator Kate Westbrook)
2. "Aubade – Jane, Jane"
3. "March" ("Ratatatan")
3. "March" ("Ratatatan")
4. "Madam Mouse Trots"
5. "The Octogenarian"
5. "The Octogenarian"
6. "Gardener Janus Catches a Naiad"
7. "Water Party"
7. "Water Party"
8. "Said King Pompey"
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