I Fagiolini - 'Re-Wilding The Waste Land'

I Fagiolini 
Robert Hollingsworth Director
Jessica Walker Narrator 

Programme: 
William Byrd/Ben Rowarth: Deus, venerunt gentes 
Joanna Marsh: The World is Charged
Joanna Marsh: now I lay me down
Joanna Marsh: Geocentric
Shruthi Rajasekar: Ganga's peace
Tomás Luis de Victoria: Tenebrae Responsories
Kenneth Leighton: God’s Grandeur
Vaughan Williams: Silence and Music

Chosen by the ArtsDesk as one of the best concerts of 2021, 'Re-Wilding the Waste Land' is I Fagiolini’s creative response to T.S.Eliot’s ground-breaking poem 'The Waste Land”, written 100 years ago in the wake of the catastrophic upheavals of the First World War and the ‘Spanish Flu’, and with striking resonance today post pandemic and with the war in Ukraine raging. ‘Re-Wilding The Waste Land’ explores cycles of renewal in both creation and creativity. Ensnared in our own pandemic and mindful of David Attenborough’s "witness statement" plea to re-wild, desolation flowers into an outpouring of music and poetry. With music from early masters such as Byrd and Victoria to new works especially commissioned for this project, this is a concert which mirrors Elliot’s wish for peace, but does not offer a simplistic response. Instead, old and new poetry and music mirror the cycles of creation, encouraging reflection and hope.

Tickets: £30, £25, £15, £10, children 16yrs & under free with paying adult

Concert end time 9.30pm approx.

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