Patterns of Love - Voice
Sat 9 Sep 2023 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM BST
Highgate School Chapel, N6 4AY
Description
PATTERNS OF LOVE
We are delighted to welcome the Voice Trio, Clemmie, Victoria and Emily, back to the Highgate School Chapel to delight us with their new Patterns of Love programme. Salon Music regulars may remember their wonderful exploration of the music of Hildegard of Bingen a year or so ago.
Patterns of Love is a programme of a cappella songs that explore the beauty, heartache and humour of love spanning hundreds of years: music from 12th century Germany by Hildegard, 13th century France, Shakespearean song, 16th century catches (cheeky rounds!), folksong arrangements from the UK and Ireland - and special commissions from British composers.
THE PROGRAMME...
....will include, among many others:
Caritas habundat Hildegard of Bingen (12th C)
Batonebo Traditional, Georgia
Angelica the Doorkeeper Marcus Davidson for Voice (2010)
The Willow Song Anon., England (c.1585), arr. V. Couper for Voice (2011)
O Mistress Mine Anon., England (c.17th C), arr. V. Couper for Voice (2014)
It was a Lover and his Lass Thomas Morley (17th C) arr. V. Couper for Voice (2014)
on cricket, sex and housework and just in case Ayanna Witter-Johnson for Voice (2014)
INTERVAL with a complimentary glass of wine in the quadrangle
Lovely Joan Traditional, England. Collected R.V. Williams (1908) arr. Voice (2017
Tres Hermanicas Traditional Sephardic, arr. V. Couper for Voice (2011)
Bien m'ont Amours entrepris Anon., France (13th C) arr. E. Burn for Voice (2014)
Echo Helen Chadwick for Voice (2012)
O wonder, O how wondrous! Marcus Davidson for Voice (2021)
Favus distillans Hildegard von Bingen C12th
Azeruz Stevie Wishart (2001)
My love is like a red, red rose Traditional Scotland, arr. E. Burn for Voice (2012)
THE ARTISTS:
Voice - Emily Burn, Victoria Couper, Clemmie Franks
“Brilliant trio…sensational singers” The Choir, BBC Radio 3 – Sara Mohr-Pietsch
Voice is an exciting, female vocal trio. In their 16 years together, they have built a dedicated fan-base across the world; a rich, varied repertoire of their own arrangements, new commissions, and rarely performed Early Music; and they have honed a truly unique sound. Victoria, Clemmie, and Emily first began singing together in Oxford as members of the Oxford Girls’ Choir, before going on to form the trio in 2006 as well as forging their own successful, diverse careers. They draw on their individual musical interests and experiences to create thrilling timbres and a blend that has been described as ‘one voice’.
Their interest in Early Music can be traced back to their performances and recordings of the medieval chant of St Hildegard of Bingen, which they learned as members of Stevie Wishart’s group, Sinfonye. The singers still perform with Sinfonye today and as a trio, Voice continues to perform Hildegard’s music and have commissioned new works inspired by her words and chant.
The trio has toured throughout the UK, USA and Europe with their two self-released albums: Musical Harmony (2013), “a stunning body of work destined to prick up the hairs on the back of one’s neck” (Oxford Times & Mail), and Patterns of Love (2015). Collaborative releases include: I Have Set My Hert So Hy (Avie, 2015) with Dufay Collective, whom they also toured two new programmes of Spanish medieval pilgrim music in Galicia in September 2019; and Leoš Janáček’s The Diary of One Who Disappeared; Moravian Folksongs; Říkadla with Julius Drake and Nicky Spence (Hyperion, 2019). “The arrival of the siren-like trio… is heart-stopping and haunting in equal measure” (Gramophone Recording of the Month).
Voice released their latest album, Hildegard Portraits on SOMM Recordings in June 2022. 4.5* “beauty and precision.. Highly recommended” - James Manheim, AllMusic
Location
Highgate School Chapel, N6 4AY