Goldmark Gallery Concert

A performance by the small acoustic verison of the Gavin Bryars Ensemble (electric guitar, viola, cello, bass) with tenor John Potter at the small but elegant Goldmark Gallery in Uppingham. The gallery has presented a wide range of music for some time, both classical and folk, in an intimate environment that, with a capacity of around 60, gives an unusual directness to the performance - with the audience a few feet away, there is no place to hide...

It is hoped that this initial concert will be the first of many. I certainly see it as an opportunity to present vocal and chamber works (a maximum of 6 musicians, often fewer, and without piano) and even to try out new works away from the pressure of a commercial environment, and in a visual art context which has always been important to me. My conversations with Mike Goldmark have shown me that we have much in common.

http://www.goldmarkart.com/music.php

Programme

Laude Dolçe no. 1  (2007) solo cello, electric guitar, double bass

Lauda 4 "Oi me lasso" (2002) tenor, ensemble

Lauda 32 "Omne homo" (2005) tenor, ensemble

Lauda 39 "Magdalena degna da laudare" (2009) tenor, ensemble

Lauda Dolçe no. 2 (2007) solo viola, electric guitar and double bass

Solos from Irish Madrigals (2004-2007) Petrarch, trans JM Synge; tenor, ensemble

"He wishes he might die and follow Laura"

"The sight of Laura's house reminds him of the great happiness he has lost"

"He sends his rhymes to the tomb of Laura to pray her to call him to her"

-  interval -

It Never Rains (2010) - electric guitar, viola, cello, bass

from the Morrison Songbook (2010)- Blake Morrison; tenor, ensemble

"Web"

"Almond Tree"

"In April"

"Just As The Ash-Glow"

The Flower of Friendship (2009) electric guitar, viola, cello and bass

(possibly + Epilogue from Wonderlawn)

John Potter (tenor); Morgan Goff (viola), Nick Cooper (cello); James Woodrow (electric guitar); Gavin Bryars (double bass)

Premiere of new Psalm setting

An a capella choral setting of Psalm 141 commissioned by Soli Deo Gloria for the Danish choir Ars Nova.

Psalm 141

1. Lord, I cry unto thee; make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.

2. Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

3. Set a watch, O Lord, before my moth; keep the door of my lips.

4. Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.

5. Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness; and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head; for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.

6. When their judges are overthrown in stony place, they shall hear my words; for they are sweet.

7. Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.

8. But mine eyes are unto thee, O God the Lord: in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.

9. Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers iniquity.

10. Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst I withal escape.

Titanic (Forma)

A performance on the centenary of the actual sinking, with GB Ensemble, Philip Jeck, Gavin Bryars' four children, projections by Bill Morrison and Laurie Olinder, one of a number of performance organised by Forma.

Off The Page

The Story of the Sinking of the Titanic: I will open the second edition of "Off The Page" with a talk that tells the story of a composition that commemorates one of the 20th century's defining events - in the 100th anniversary year of the sinking of the Titanic itself.

http://thewire.co.uk/articles/8173/