Project Summary:
Wessex Love Songs is a recital celebrating Thomas Hardy’s Poetry in Art Song over the last 100 years. Alongside new arrangements of music setting Hardy by canonic composers are new commissions, including 'Elegies or Emma' a cycle setting Hardy’s Poems of 1912-13 which elegise Hardy’s complex reaction to the death of his first wife Emma. There is a sister piece to this called 'Elegies for Tom' and these are part of a bigger Thomas Hardy, poetry and music project. See here for more details.
The programme also showcases the wonderful combination of guitar and voice which has been a cornerstone of the vocal tradition since the renaissance.
Fundraising is ongoing but so far the project has been made possible by generous contributions from these institutions:
Wessex Love Songs is a recital celebrating Thomas Hardy’s Poetry in Art Song over the last 100 years. Alongside new arrangements of music setting Hardy by canonic composers are new commissions, including 'Elegies or Emma' a cycle setting Hardy’s Poems of 1912-13 which elegise Hardy’s complex reaction to the death of his first wife Emma. There is a sister piece to this called 'Elegies for Tom' and these are part of a bigger Thomas Hardy, poetry and music project. See here for more details.
The programme also showcases the wonderful combination of guitar and voice which has been a cornerstone of the vocal tradition since the renaissance.
Fundraising is ongoing but so far the project has been made possible by generous contributions from these institutions:
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People:
Arthur Keegan-Bole (composer, arranger, producer)
Lotte Betts-Dean (mezzo-soprano)
James Girling (guitar)
Kerry Andrew (composer)
Programme - 'Wessex Love Songs'
Arthur Keegan-Bole - Elegies for Emma, the Poems of 1912-13 (2022)*
Kerry Andrew - The Echo Elf Answers (2022)*
Betty Roe - Beeny Cliff (2001)**
David Gow - songs from A Distant Door (1987)
Nicholas Maw - songs from 6 Interiors (1966)
Lennox Berkley - Songs of the Half Light (1965)
Gerald Finzi - It Never Looks Like Summer (1956)**
Benjamin Britten - At the Railway Station Upway (1953)**
Henry Handel Richardson (Ethel Florence) - Regret Not Me (1945)**
Robin Milford - If it's Ever Spring Again (1938)**
Imogen Holst - Weathers (1926)**
Ivor Gurney - In the Black Winter Morning (1924)**
Arnold Bax - The Market Girl (1922)**
Alongside other core repertoire from the renaissance on for guitar and voice.
* New music commissioned for this project
** New arrangement made for this project
Arthur Keegan-Bole (composer, arranger, producer)
Lotte Betts-Dean (mezzo-soprano)
James Girling (guitar)
Kerry Andrew (composer)
Programme - 'Wessex Love Songs'
Arthur Keegan-Bole - Elegies for Emma, the Poems of 1912-13 (2022)*
Kerry Andrew - The Echo Elf Answers (2022)*
Betty Roe - Beeny Cliff (2001)**
David Gow - songs from A Distant Door (1987)
Nicholas Maw - songs from 6 Interiors (1966)
Lennox Berkley - Songs of the Half Light (1965)
Gerald Finzi - It Never Looks Like Summer (1956)**
Benjamin Britten - At the Railway Station Upway (1953)**
Henry Handel Richardson (Ethel Florence) - Regret Not Me (1945)**
Robin Milford - If it's Ever Spring Again (1938)**
Imogen Holst - Weathers (1926)**
Ivor Gurney - In the Black Winter Morning (1924)**
Arnold Bax - The Market Girl (1922)**
Alongside other core repertoire from the renaissance on for guitar and voice.
* New music commissioned for this project
** New arrangement made for this project