Saturday
31 May 7.15pm
Salisbury
Festival Salisbury Cathedral
Wednesday
18 June 8.00pm
Chelsea
Festival Holy Trinity Church Sloane Street book
online
Tuesday
8 July 7.30pm
Lichfield
Festival Lichfield Cathedral book
online
Mark
Padmore tenor/director*
Philippe Honoré violin
Vikram Seth writer
Alec Roth composer/conductor
Purcell
arr. Britten Chacony (Chelsea and Lichfield Festivals only)
Finzi
Dies Natalis*
Ysaÿe Violin Sonata No. 2 in A minor, Op. 27
Alec Roth The Traveller (world première tour)
The Traveller
is the third piece in a unique four-year commission from writer Vikram
Seth and composer Alec Roth – a collaboration described by The
Times as ‘the Rolls and Royce of the arts world’.
This new work, scored for violin, tenor, chorus and orchestra, takes its
literary inspiration from India. In addition to writing six new poems,
Vikram Seth will translate more than twenty Indian texts from a rich variety
of sources to create a work themed on the ages of man.
The first
half of the programme builds on this notion of the ages of man, beginnings
and endings, birth and death. Dies Natalis, a cantata for tenor and strings,
sets out to depict a newborn child’s first sensations of the world
in a work that is richly textured and melodic, whilst Ysaÿe’s
Second Sonata for solo violin, one of a set of six composed in 1924, after
the death of his wife, in honour of J.S. Bach, weaving the portentous
Dies Irae motif into the fabric of its four movements.
Salisbury
Festival
Box Office 0845 241 9651
Chelsea
Festival
Box
Office 0845 890 2435
Tickets
£22, £16, wine ticket £3, £2 discount for festival
friends
Lichfield
Festival
Box Office 01543 412121
The Traveller
is commissioned in partnership with Salisbury, Chelsea and Lichfield Festivals
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