Sally Beamish - Catalogue
Catalogue
Shadow And Silver (1995)
Programme Note available
Sally Beamish, Hugh Haughton, Federico Garcia Lorca
Commissioned by BBC Singers.
First performance:
BBC Singers, St John's Smith Square, London, 01 Jan 1995
Recording BBC (off air recording) / location: sound archive - C - Beam 13 [enquire]
Recording BBC (off air recording) / location: sound archive - C-XZ / 272 b i [enquire]
Score : unpublished / Location: ref library [enquire]
Score : unpublished / Location: archive collection [enquire]
Programme Note availableSally Beamish, Hugh Haughton, Federico Garcia Lorca
Commissioned by BBC Singers.
First performance:
BBC Singers, St John's Smith Square, London, 01 Jan 1995
Work Details
Category: choral secular unaccompanied
Duration: 8'
Instrumentation: Satb
Duration: 8'
Instrumentation: Satb
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Recording BBC (off air recording) / location: sound archive - C - Beam 13 [enquire]
Recording BBC (off air recording) / location: sound archive - C-XZ / 272 b i [enquire]
Score : unpublished / Location: ref library [enquire]
Score : unpublished / Location: archive collection [enquire]Programme Note
I came across Hugh Haughton's beautiful translations of these four Lorca poems in the Chatto Book of Nonsense Poetry; however they are arguably somewhat misplaced in that context. To quote Hugh Haughton: `Perhaps in part because Lorca was a musician himself, these delicately inventive, quasi-naif poems seem to invite music; folkish and in touch with the childish, they have a mysterious fizz and gnomic rhythmic swing about them, a sense of voice and space...'
The songs are entitled
Shell - Girl by the River (with an accompaniment of bells) - Corridor - Tío-Vivo (or the Merry-go-round)
My settings draw on influences from various vocal traditions - not least Lorca's own arrangements of Spanish folk-songs - but also barber-shop and close harmony singing.
They are dedicated to the BBC Singers on their 70th birthday.
Sally Beamish
I came across Hugh Haughton's beautiful translations of these four Lorca poems in the Chatto Book of Nonsense Poetry; however they are arguably somewhat misplaced in that context. To quote Hugh Haughton: `Perhaps in part because Lorca was a musician himself, these delicately inventive, quasi-naif poems seem to invite music; folkish and in touch with the childish, they have a mysterious fizz and gnomic rhythmic swing about them, a sense of voice and space...'
The songs are entitled
Shell - Girl by the River (with an accompaniment of bells) - Corridor - Tío-Vivo (or the Merry-go-round)
My settings draw on influences from various vocal traditions - not least Lorca's own arrangements of Spanish folk-songs - but also barber-shop and close harmony singing.
They are dedicated to the BBC Singers on their 70th birthday.
Sally Beamish