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12 Ensemble play John Dowland, Tansy Davies, Britten, John Woolrich and Schubert

12 Ensemble's new programme Reborn ties the past with the present. With works by Dowland, Tansy Davies, Britten, John Woolrich and Schubert, at St George鈥檚 Bristol.

Recorded at St George's Bristol last week, 12 Ensemble perform their new programme "Reborn", a contrasting sequence of music that explores the ways in which artists find inspiration in the work of previous generations.

Founded in 2012, 12 Ensemble, who always play without a conductor, are known for their deep commitment to chamber music and for the energy and innovation of their music-making. Linking the past with the present, "Reborn" begins with an arrangement by one of the group's founders, Max Ruisi, of Renaissance composer John Dowland's "Lachrimae". Tansy Davies reaches back in her 2005 piece"Residuum" to a Galliard in Dowland's Lachrimae; she describes the connection she makes as "an echo of ancient music in a modern time". This link to our past is captured by Benjamin Britten in "Lachrymae" in which he references Dowland's songs "If my complaints could passions move" and "Flow my tears" in the course of the piece. Written in 1950 for the celebrated viola player William Primrose, the soloist joining 12 Ensemble is one of the 21st century's virtuosos, Maxim Rysanov. A solo viola takes the role of Ulysses in John Woolrich's 1989 work after two arias from Monteverdi's opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria. Mahler's richly sonorous arrangement for 12 strings of Schubert's "Death and the Maiden" quartet brings the evening to a fulfilling conclusion.

John Dowland, arr. Max Ruisi: Lachrimae for strings
12 Ensemble

Tansy Davies: "Residuum" for two solo violin, a solo cello and strings.
12 Ensemble

Britten: Lachrymae, Op 48a for solo viola and string orchestra
Maxim Rysanov, viola
12 Ensemble

John Woolrich: "Ulysses Awakes" for solo viola and strings
Maxim Rysanov, viola
12 Ensemble

Schubert, arr. Mahler, edited by David Matthews and Donald Mitchell:
Quartet in D minor, D810 (Death and the Maiden) for string orchestra
12 Ensemble

Presented by Nicola Heywood Thomas
Produced by Johannah Smith for 大象传媒 Wales

Photo: c/o St George's Bristol (credit Evan Dawson)

2 hours, 28 minutes

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Fri 5 Oct 2018 19:30
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • John Dowland

    Lachrimae Antiquae (arr. Ruisi)

    Ensemble: 12 Ensemble.

  • Tansy Davies

    Residuum

    Ensemble: 12 Ensemble.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Lachrymae (Reflections on a song of Dowland) for viola and strings

    Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Ensemble: 12 Ensemble.

  • John Woolrich

    Ulysses Awakes

    Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Ensemble: 12 Ensemble.

  • Kate Whitley

    Autumn Songs for 12 solo strings

    Ensemble: 12 Ensemble.
    • RESURRECTION.
    • Rough Trade.
    • 1.

  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet in D minor (Death and the Maiden) arr. Mahler

    Ensemble: 12 Ensemble.

  • Franz Schubert

    Soirees de Vienne - No.8 in D major, S427

    Performer: Leslie Howard. Music Arranger: Franz Liszt.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Le Tombeau de Couperin for orchestra [after nos. 1, 3, 5 & 4 of piano work]

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • DG.

  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    Romance, JW VII/3

    Performer: Jennifer Pike. Performer: Tom Poster.
    • Dvorak/Janacek/Suk Works for Violin and Piano.
    • 6.

Broadcast

  • Fri 5 Oct 2018 19:30
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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