Severnside Composers Alliance Presents

Lore Lixenberg Double Bill

This event has already taken place and ended on 12 May 2012

Double bill - Featuring Lore Lixenberg, mezzo-soprano

Lore Lixenberg is one of this country's leading exponents of contemporary vocal music.

Lixenberg is not just a good singer, she is a deeply theatrical performer, who constantly transgressed the boundaries of musical performance... with ease and astonishing results. ( S & H Concert Review, Jean Martin, 2004)

...Lixenberg's rich powerful voice has an almost bewildering range of colours and a breathtaking upper register... ( Metro)

Lore Lixenberg Concert 1 - voice and piano

Friday 11 May 8pm - Plus introductory talk 7pm

Raymond Warren Another Spring 5 poems by Christina Rossetti (World Premiere)

John Pitts Dreams do Show thee me 2 sonnets by Shakespeare (World Premiere)

Jolyon Laycock Six Sonnets of Edna St. Vincent Millay (World Premiere)

John Cage She is asleep (1943), a flower (1950)

The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs (James Joyce) (1942) Experiences no.2

George Crumb Apparition – Elegiac Songs and Vocalises for soprano and amplified piano (Walt Whitman)

Laycock's Millay Sonnets were written for Lore Lixenberg, exploiting the full dramatic and histrionic range of her remarkable voice. Millay is one of America's most important national poets. Her six sonnets, first published in 1917, are an intense expression of love, loss and bereavement. Crumb's mysterious and atmospheric Apparition is a setting of texts by Walt Whiman, another celebrated American poet.

Lore Lixenberg Concert 2 - voice and instruments

Saturday 12 May 8pm - Plus introductory talk 7pm

With members of the Bristol Ensemble
Roger Armstrong - flute, David Pagett - Clarinet, Roger Huckle - violin

Robyn Austen - cello, Chris Northam - piano

Plus Jolyon Laycock - accompanist & conductor

Jean Hasse Five Poems from the Japanese for mezzo-soprano, clarinet and piano

Raymond Warren Drop, Drop Slow Tears a sacred cantata for mezzo-soprano, flute and piano

Raymond Warren Burnt Norton Sketches for violin, cello and piano

Arnold Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire three times seven poems of Albert Giraud

Raymond Warren, former Professor of Music at Bristol University, is the most distinguished SCA member. The concert features his 1985 piano trio, inspired by T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets". The concert culminates in Lore Lixenberg's unique interpretation of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire. 2012 marks the centenary of this ground-breaking work first performed in Berlin in October 1912. The soloist, in the guise of the moon-drunk delusional Pierrot, delivers Albert Giraud's twenty-one surreal poetic fantasies in a kind of histrionic speech-song that Schoenberg called Sprechstimme.

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