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| St Magnus Cathedral |
Beneath the directorship of Scottish composer Alasdair Nicolson, the forty eighth St Magnus Worldwide Pageant from 21 to 29 June 2024, brings a mixture of movie, literature, theatre, group participation and world-class musicians to the Orkney Islands. The result’s an imaginative and seductive mixture of musics from up to date to people to group efficiency. Native composers characteristic strongly, each up to date classical and the extra people influenced.
Swedish chamber orchestra Musica Vitae with visitor cellist and director Robin Michael carry out an eclectic programme together with music by Bach, Highland composer Lisa Robertson, the UK premiere of cello concerto Storm Runes by Alasdair Nicolson and a programme based mostly on Swedish people music. Michael can even be performing a solo occasion at Stromness City Corridor, with Welsh composer Huw Watkins’ Sonata for Solo Cello and two of Bach’s Cello Suites. [Musica Vitae will also be at Kings Place in London on 27 June with their Storm Runes programme]
Along with their very own live performance, the Edinburg Quartet performs alongside Alon Sariel (mandolin), Kathryn Stott (piano), and in a really particular live performance with composer and multi-instrumentalist, Erland Cooper. Cooper, who’s from Stromness, buried the one current tape of his work Carve The Runes Then Be Content material With Silence alongside different artefacts, leaving clues as to its whereabouts. The musical time capsule has lately been unearthed, and the piece shall be performed with the Edinburgh Quartet with Cooper on piano because the buried trinkets dry out round St Magnus Cathedral.
An ongoing collaboration with Dwell Music Now Scotland, options performances by guitar and soprano Morris Begg Duo and the fiddle and accordion of Roo and Neil, together with a multi-media promenade live performance at St Magnus Cathedral with musicians from the Nicolson-founded Meeting Undertaking and video mapping from Illuminos. Roo and Neil additionally carry out in certainly one of two late-night Sound of Native People concert events, with younger Orcadians pianist Jennifer Austin and fiddler Eric Linklater performing within the different. Austin additionally performs a live performance in-the-round at St Magnus Cathedral, bringing her new compositions to Kirkwall by candlelight.
Percussion ensemble O Duo and soprano Elizabeth Llewellyn give the long-awaited UK premiere of George Crumb’s American Songbook III: Unto The Hills. Subtitled, “Songs of Unhappiness, Craving, and Innocence: A Cycle of Appalachian Songs”, the work dates from 2002 and units conventional and people songs for singer, amplified piano, and percussion quartet. O Duo and Llewellyn shall be by the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire percussion division. Ensemble Hesperi will carry out Baroque music with a Scottish flavour, acclaimed mandolin participant Alon Sariel performs Plucked Bach and Kathryn Stott provides a recital as a part of her farewell to the piano tour.
The group is concerned too. The world premiere of recent fee The Rhythm Of The Stones from Stephen Deazley and Orkney Voices shall be carried out by tons of of native college youngsters and the Meeting Undertaking. Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana shall be carried out by the Pageant Refrain of many native volunteer singers alongside acclaimed choir Sonoro, O Duo and Royal Birmingham Conservatoire percussion.
Gerda Stevenson, has her movie The Storm Watchers proven in set up each day on the Pageant, alongside out of doors performances from all-women’s theatre firm Circo Rum Ba Ba who carry a 50ft life-size sperm whale to Kirkwall inside which they carry out a present exploring plastic in our oceans. There’s extra theatre from Aotearoa / New Zealand firm Trick of the Gentle.
Full element from the competition web site.
