For the second concert in our day-long showcase of Scotland’s composers we are joined by soprano Ailish Tynan and baritone Marcus Farnsworth.
Stuart MacRae’s Parable, commissioned by Hebrides Ensemble to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, confronts the Old Testament story of Abraham and Isaac as retold by Wilfred Owen. Its handling of dramatic tension and harrowing conclusion sets the scene for a programme rooted in the imagery of the great Scottish storytelling tradition, complete with an early gem from Thea Musgrave’s student days in Paris in the 1950s and Judith Weir’s haunting song cycle, Nuits d’Afrique, composed in 2015 as a companion piece to Ravel’s Chansons madécasses.
Programme:
Stuart MacRae Parable
Thea Mugrave Canta Canta
Helen Grime Braid Hills
Stuart MacRae Dark Liquid
Judith Weir Nuits d’Afrique
