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A Far Cry in Concert: Words and the Night with Roger Tapping
With Words and the Night, A Far Cry explores connections between two groups of composers, separated by centuries.
Mozart: Divertimento #3
Dowland: 2 Songs
Britten: Lachrymae, featuring violist Roger Tapping
Palestrina: 2 Motets
Gesualdo: 2 Madrigals
Shoenberg: Verklarte Nacht
Mozart opens the evening with the perfect aperitif: Divertimento #3. Beautiful operatic melodies, perfect structure and balance, and a great sense of humor provide the ideal backdrop for an elegant evening soiree. Suddenly, the mood shifts a cloud passes in front of the moon with two songs from 16th century master John Dowland lamenting loneliness and elusive love. These are the same songs that inspired Benjamin Britten in the early 20th century to compose Lachrymae, a haunting, gorgeous conversation with Dowland, featuring the incomparable Roger Tapping on viola. The cloud passes, though, and the party resumes with two motets from the 16th century Italian Palestrina, who (although separated by centuries) speaks the same language as Mozart.
In the second half of the concert, we leave the festive gathering and explore the night in isolation. Gesualdo, the 16th century nobleman, musician, and murderer, wrote some of the most tortured, chromatic, and wildly emotional music one could imagine. Truly the nighttime of the soul. The concert concludes with a kindred spirit, Arnold Schoenberg, exploring from his vantage point 300 years in the future the same issues of guilt, betrayal, and loneliness, but also transformation and redemption. Verklarte Nacht (Transfigured Night) tells the story of two lovers wandering in the moonlight. She makes a shocking confession, and he grants a transcending forgiveness, in one of the most beautiful works ever written for string orchestra.
Roger Tapping was a member of the Takcs Quartet for ten years from 1995, during which time their busy international career included Beethoven Cycles in New York, Paris, London, Sydney, Cleveland and Los Angeles, and Bartok Cycles in New York, London, Madrid, Tokyo (for TV), Cleveland and Pittsburgh. Their recordings for DECCA/London, including the complete quartets of Bartok and Beethoven, have won 3 Gramophone Awards, a Grammy and three more Grammy nominations, 3 Japan Record Academy Chamber Music Awards, the BBC Music Disc of the Year Award and the Classical Brits Award for Ensemble Album of the Year. As a member of the quartet, Tapping taught regularly at the Aspen Festival, the Taos Quartet School, and the Guildhall School of Music.
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LocationPickman Hall at Longy School of Music
One Follen Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States
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