Acclaimed vocal ensemble The Carice Singers with their conductor George Parris bring together seminal choral works from the 20th and 21st centuries, including rarely performed masterpieces by near contemporaries Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur and Luigi Dallapiccola. Both composers reimagine archaic ideas in their individual modernist languages, producing works of technicolour splendour and richness.
The spirit of daring innovation continues with the London premieres of four new works by a wave of fresh talent from Composer Academy, presented each year at Cheltenham Music Festival in partnership with Spitalfields Music. The concert begins with former Artistic Director Judith Weir‘s vibrant multi-movement piece The Song Sung True, in which she distills the ‘life-giving activity of singing’.
The Carice Singers
George Parris Conductor
Judith Weir The Song Sung True
Cloe Hotham Oak
George W. Parris The Voice of the Rain
Luigi Dallapiccola Due cori di Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane
Hannah Siddiqui Seafarings
Sam Buttler Who has seen
Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur Le Cantique des cantiques
Duration: 1 hour
This concert is generously supported by The Vaughan Williams Foundation, The Bliss Trust, and The Hinrichsen Foundation.
