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Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall
The School of Music
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
England
Programme
Maurice Ravel – Shéhérazade: La flute enchantée
Judith Weir – Nuits d'Afrique
Maurice Ravel – Chansons madécasses
~ Interval ~
Ewan Campbell – Translations of the Night
Camille Saint-Saens – Une flûte invisible
Mel Bonis – Scenes de la foret: Invocation
Mel Bonis – Scenes de la foret: Pour Artemis
Michael Finnissy – Wisdom
Performers
Lotte Betts-Dean – voice
Marsyas Trio
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Programme Note
Echoes of a Distant Land
Helen Vidovich (flute) Val Welbanks (cello) Olga Stezhko (piano) Lotte Betts-Dean (voice)
This globetrotting programme for voice, flute, cello and piano is inspired by a rich array of literary sources. Ravel’s evocative Chansons madécasses has become an iconic work in the canon of vocal chamber music, transporting the listener through a Madagascan panorama. Commissioned as a companion piece by Wigmore Hall for the same combination, Judith Weir's Nuits d’Afrique represents three female writers from Senegal, Ivory Coast and Congo-Brazzaville, with poems depicting local life. The magical pieces by Mel Bonis and Ravel draw on Greek mythology and the Arabian Nights. The concert will feature a premiere of songs by Ewan Campbell, setting texts by the Malagasy poet, Rabearivelo. Michael Finnissy's Wisdom draws on a multitude of texts ranging from Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime myths to Shakespeare and Mary Shelley and is the centrepiece on the critically acclaimed album, Alternative Readings, released on the Métier label in 2024.
