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2022-07-09 08:31:30
Growing up with Hildegard: Voice trio on the importance of Hildegard of Bingen's music to them alongside contemporary pieces
[…] peaceful and mindful music.The title of the disc Hildegard Portraits comes from the suite of songs by Laura Moody which form the centrepiece of the disc. The suite reflects Moody's connection with Hildegard which comes from reading her letters, reflecting Hildegard as not just spiritual but a woman of her time, a connection not just to Hildegard's music but insight into her as a human. The commission came about because, Deborah Roberts, artistic director of Brighton Early Music Festival (BREMF), suggested a project to them collaborating with the artist Innerstrings: Chris Tomsett but then the pandemic happened and they continued to explore ideas. They wanted to commission a living female composer to explore Hildegard's personality, not just the sacred texts. Laura Moody did not know Hildegard's music until then, and the pandemic delay meant she delved deeper. The result was a one-hour show with a collaboration with Laura Moody and […]
2021-12-02 07:37:45
Unsung Heroine: The Telling in music of Hildegard of Bingen and troubadour songs
[…] modern tradition of including instruments comes, to some extent, from the fact that at the time we know instruments were used, partly because the Church thundered against them so frequently. For this disc, the musical decisions are partly practical. These are the sound tracks to concert plays which were intended to be performed by a compact group of performers - Vision can be performed with just two singers, harp and actor, though I heard it at Brighton Early Music Festival performed with more lavish numbers of singers. Also, Norburn explains in her booklet note that the musical text was trimmed slightly for the film. What really counts, though, is the long performance experience that Norburn and Prüssner bring to this music, both in their careers in general and performing these works on tour with The Telling. The results are engaging and engaged, stylistically consistent and highly communicative. With Hildegard's music all three […]
2021-10-05 08:11:21
Back indoors: BREMF returns with an action-packed Autumn weekend
Joglaresa, who appear at BREMF on 24/10/21 (Photo Andrew Mason) Brighton Early Music Festival (BREMF) has kept the faith these last 18 months via on-line offerings and outdoor Summer concerts, now BREMF is back with an indoor, in-person concert series from 20 to 24 October 2021 taking place in St George’s Church, Kemptown and St Martin’s Church, Lewes Road.The programme includes Clare Norburn's latest concert-play, I Spie, which posits a dramatic spying past for composer John Dowlen, being presented by Norburn's ensemble The Telling (20/10/2021), the festival's own BREMF Consort of Voices in a programme of music by two composers who both died in 1521, Josquin and Fayrfax (21/10/2021), Canzona in French Baroque music by Rameau, Clérambault, Marais and Leclair (22/10/2021), the showcase of emerging talent, BREMF Live! (23/10/2021) and Joglaresa in medieval cantigas telling of weird and wonderful miracles performed by the Virgin Mary (24/10/2021). For those who are not […]
2021-09-21 13:09:50
[…] to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I, Dowland sent the information on the plot and key players to Cecil. In I, Spie, Norburn uses her imagination to fill in the gaps in what we know about Dowland's life at that time – what led to the moment of his writing that letter - but also what happened in the aftermath. The tour of I, Spie consists of six dates, stopping in North London (Stroud Green Festival), Brighton (Brighton Early Music Festival), Wolverhampton, Liverpool, Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria and West London from Wednesday 15th October to Sunday 24th October.The Telling is currently crowd-funding to help support the tour. Please do consider supporting them so that the tour can take place. Further information from the Crowdfunder page.