Social DistanSong Day One: Ailish Tynan, James Baillieu, Helen Abbott & Natasha Loges
28 March 2020, 10:00 - 23:55
Concert
Remember that you can find texts and translations of all the songs that were due to be performed today in the 'Explore' section on the main menu above.
Helen Abbott: Poetry Making Song
Helen presents her talk 'in conversation' with her husband, Richard Longman. Underneath the video are links to the various recordings she mentioned: you can pause the film and watch these (they will open in new tabs) or just enjoy them afterwards.
Links for songs referenced in Helen Abbott's talk:
Fauré Clair de lune
Veronique Gens + Roger Vignoles
Philippe Jaroussky + Jérôme Ducros
Fauré Après un rêve
Véronique Gens + Roger Vignoles
Cello + orchestra arrangement: Gautier Capuçon + Orchestre de Chambre de Paris
Percy Grainger piano arrangement: Leslie Howard
Jazz arrangement: Arturo Sandoval
Natasha Loges: Poetry Making Song
Natasha has recorded her talk over a PowerPoint presentation. Again, you'll need to pause it to listen to the recordings she references, and the links to those are underneath this video.
Links for songs referenced in Natasha Loges's talk:
Click here for Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau & Hertha Klust (1955)
Click here for Wolfgang Holzmair & Imogen Cooper (2002)
A welcome from Ailish Tynan, with Grieg's 'Ein Traum' performed and recorded remotely by Ailish Tynan and James Baillieu
Click here for Ailish Tynan's Social DistanSong Playlist on Spotify*.
*You will need to be a Spotify user to listen to this.
And finally, an encore from Ailish and James...
Ailish Tynan
Ailish Tynan
Soprano
Irish soprano Ailish Tynan won the 2003 Rosenblatt Recital Song Prize at BBC Cardiff Singer of the World. Ailish was a member of the prestigious Vilar Young Artist Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and a BBC New Generation Artist. Ailish established herself with operatic roles including Gretel Hänsel und Gretel (The Royal Opera, Welsh National Opera and Scottish Opera); Madame Cortese Il viaggio a Reims, Marzelline Fidelio and Madame Podtotshina’s Daughter The Nose (The Royal Opera); Vixen The Cunning Littl... Read Full Biography
James Baillieu
James Baillieu
Pianist
Born in South Africa, James studied in Cape Town and London. He was a Borletti-Buitoni Trust and Young Classical Artist Trust artist and was shortlisted for the Royal Philharmonic Society Outstanding Young Artist Award and the Chamber Music and Song Award. He is an International Tutor in Piano Accompaniment at the Royal Northern College of Music and head of the Song Programme at the Atelier Lyrique of the Verbier Festival Academy. An accomplished chamber musician, soloist and accompanist, James’ partnerships include Lawrence Power... Read Full Biography
Helen Abbott
Helen Abbott
Speaker
Professor Helen Abbott is a specialist in nineteenth-century French poetry and music at the University of Birmingham (UK). She writes about word-music relationships deployed in poetic language and critical-philosophical texts. An expert in using digital methodologies, she directs the AHRC-funded Baudelaire Song Project which has recently launched a database of over 1,700 songs in 25 languages, and 40 different musical genres www.baudelairesong.org/search. The project also showcases a new networked model for analysing and visualising word/mus... Read Full Biography
Natasha Loges
Natasha Loges
Speaker
Natasha Loges is Head of Postgraduate Programmes and Reader in Musicology at the Royal College of Music, London. She gained her BMus in piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, her MMus at King’s College London, and her PhD at theRoyal Academy of Music, University of London, entitled Text and Context in Brahms’s Lieder. Her books include Brahms in the Home and the Concert Hall: Between Private and Public Performance (Cambridge University Press, 2014), Brahms and His Poets (Boydell, 2017), Brahms in Context (Cambridge... Read Full BiographyThis event is part of a series:
Social DistanSong
In these strange and unsettling times, we're delighted to present our much-reduced virtual spring festival in place of Spring Song. From 27 March to 4 April, we'll be bringing you exclusive content to enjoy from the artists and speakers who were due to take part. Artistic Director, Sholto Kynoch, tells us more about what's coming up in the video below... [youtube url=http...