Inheriting the Earth
Inheriting the Earth
Take a moment to reflect on the awesome natural beauty of our Earth – what is our place in it? What does it mean to be custodians of this vast planet?
Soprano Ruby Hughes and the United Strings of Europe present Inheriting the Earth – arrangements and commissions of 20th and 21st Century works by women composers that celebrate natural beauty and explore our role in safeguarding it.
Expanding the repertoire for voice and string orchestra, the project seeks to engage audiences and young musicians with the challenges of preserving and nurturing our natural world. No-one can pretend that music has answers to the great loss of biodiversity we’re witnessing, nor does it have the ability to solve climate change. But music can provide a space to allow tempers to ease, minds to calm, thinking to resume and optimism to flourish.
The programme explores nature and humanity’s role as custodians of our beautiful Earth with new arrangements and original works by Nadia and Lili Boulanger, Alma Mahler, Joanna Marsh, Deborah Pritchard, Rhian Samuel, and Errollyn Wallen.
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PROGRAMME
Lili Boulanger (arr. R Samuel)
Reflets
Nadia Boulanger (arr. R Samuel)
La mer est plus belle
Alma Mahler (arr. R Samuel)
Stille Stadt, Laue Sommernacht
Rhian Samuel Naming the flowers
A perfect view; My river runs to thee
Deborah Pritchard
Beyond the Stars (USE commission)
Joanna Marsh
Another Eden (USE commission)
Errollyn Wallen
Rain; On the Mountain; Timeless
Holder of a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award and a former BBC New Generation Artist, Ruby Hughes has appeared at the world’s great opera houses, concert and recital halls. A champion of women composers, Ruby’s disc Heroines of Love and Loss was Editor's Choice in Gramophone Magazine and was awarded a Diapason d’Or. Ruby collaborated with the United Strings of Europe on the ensemble’s second album Renewal and they have performed together in Switzerland and the UK to great acclaim. (pls find Ruby’s full bio here)
“Ruby Hughes [...] presented her voice very much as a fine-spun instrumental line, woven around the string layers of the players”
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