vioro.co presents DEVOTIONS

BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists Ema Nikolovska and Kunal Lahiry together with violist Friedemann Slenczka present a programme dedicated to the human connection with nature, with one another, and questions examining our finitude.

Ema, Kunal and Friedemann lead this adventure with composers and poets of today and the past interacting dramaturgically, including songs with and without words - served with shots of fantasy and whimsy.

Inspired by the poetry of Emily Dickinson and John Donne and their awe in witnessing the beauty of humanity and the natural world, we invite you to a celebration of delectable universes of music and words.

The trio presents music from Aaron Copland, Emily Doolittle, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Frank Bridge, Olivier Messiaen, Héloïse Werner, Tansy Davies, George Crumb, and Sergei Prokofiev.

• Programme

  Priaulx Rainier
  ‘Wee cannot bid the fruits’ from Cycle for Declamation

  Copland
  ‘There came a wind like a bugle’ fromTwelve Poems of Emily Dickinson

  Prokofiev
  No.5, from Five Songs Without Words, Op.35

  Tansy Davies
  ‘Winter’ from Troubairitz

  Copland
  ‘When they come back’ from Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson 

  Prokofiev
  No.2, from Five Songs Without Words, Op.35

  Copland
  ‘Dear March, come in!’ from Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson 

  Messiaen
  ‘Pourquoi?’ from Trois mélodies

  Copland
  ’I felt a funeral in my brain’ from Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson 

  Vaughan Williams
  Three Vocalises for voice and clarinet
  I.Prelude
  II.Scherzo
  III.Quasi Menuetto

  Copland
  ‘Why do they shut me out of heaven?’ from Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson

  Emily Doolittle
  ‘Batter my heart’ from Virelais

  Copland
  ‘The world feels Dusty’ from Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson

  Copland ‘Nature, the gentlest mother’ from Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson

  Emily Doolittle
  Vocalise (for bees)

  Crumb
  ‘The Fly’ from Spanish Songbook II “Sun and Shadow”

  Héloïse Werner
  Le coeur crucifié 

  Messiaen
  Vocalise-Étude 

  Crumb
  ’The Interrupted Concert’ from Spanish Songbook II “Sun and Shadow”

  Rainier
  ‘In the wombe of the earth’ from Cycle for Declamation

  Bridge
  Three songs for voice, viola and piano
  I.Far, far from each other
  II.Where is it that our soul doth go?
  III.Music, when soft voices die

  Rainier
  ‘Nunc, lento, sonitu dicunt, morieris’ from Cycle for Declamation

Doors @ 19:00 with full dinner service and drinks available from the kitchen at Lobe Block, who delight in creating sustainably-sourced, seasonal food using high quality, local ingredients. 

Music @ 20:00 with the bar and canteen remaining open to help sate your post-concert inclinations while offering you a space to reflect on the musical and thematic offerings of the evening.