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Gigs

Bath Philharmonia

April 19, 2018

Bath

Jess performs Nyman and Bryars with Bath Philharmonia.

Gig Details

Time
7:30 pm
Tickets
£25/£30/£15/£5 (under 18s) – Buy
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Address
Bath Assembly Rooms Bennett StreetBath, BA1 2HQ
Phone
01225 477173
Website
nationaltrust.org.uk/bath-assembly-rooms

Vaughan Williams, Tallis Fantasia

Gavin Bryars, The Green Ray

Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on Greensleeves

Michael Nyman, Where the Bee Dances

Vaughan Williams, Linden Lea

Saxophone: Jess Gillam
Conductor: Jason Thornton

Vaughan Williams’ music is highly evocative of the English countryside, particularly Gloucestershire, where he spent his formative years. His Tallis Fantasia, Fantasia on Greensleevesand the enchanting Linden Lea transport the listener to a Tudor idyll complete with folk-song, church music and the rolling English countryside.

The music of Bryars and Nyman, whilst still infused with the sense of the pastoral is over-laid with sumptuous modern textures and crazy cross-rhythms. The Green Ray is the title of a romantic novel by Jules Verne, set in the West of Scotland, in which a peculiar atmospheric phenomenon plays the key part; a “green ray” is seen at sunset just as the sun touches the horizon. Where the Bee Dances has a double reference in its title: firstly to the circular dances which a foraging bee performs to communicate a food source and secondly to Nyman’s setting of ‘Where the bee sucks’, composed for Peter Greenaway’s film Prospero’s Books and quoted sporadically during this concerto.

After her success in BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2016, Jess Gilam’s career to date can only be described as stratospheric including her 2017 BBC Proms debut.

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