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Une Mère protectrice et rebelle : portrait croisé par Emma Kirkby et ses amis

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“le sens rythmique et l’attention au texte demeurent admirables”
Reviewed at Voces8 Centre, London on 14 March 2021
Programme to include:
von Bingen, De Sancta Maria, for female voice
Monteverdi, Venite sitientes ad aquas, SV 335
Merula, Canzonetta Spirituale sopra alla nanna
Strozzi, Sacri Musicali Affetti, Op.7: O Maria
Hindemith, Das Marienleben: Mariä Heimsuchung
de Grandval, Stabat mater: Juxta crucem
Root, Just before the Battle, Mother
Piantadosi, I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier
Works by Copland
Works by Weber
Dame Emma Kirkby, Soprano
Toby Carr, Theorbo
Helen Charlston, Mezzo-soprano
Patricia Hammond, Mezzo-soprano
Christopher Glynn, Piano
Aileen Henry, Harp
Matt Redman, Guitar, Accordion, Banjo, Organ
Toby Spence’s lovelorn miller embodies new translation
***11
Love conquers all, kills some, exiles others
****1
Harry Christophers and The Sixteen: Brahms in Manchester
****1
Kathleen Ferrier Award Winner Kitty Whately in Leeds
*****
Cummings and the AAM win ‘Leipzig's Got Talent’
*****
Michel van der Aa’s Theory of Flames: defining opera for a modern age
****1
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