Stone, Salt & Sky: Beamish, Maconchy, Strachan, R Clarke Gaia Duo

• Rebecca Clarke (1886 - 1979), Gaia Duo: Grotesque:
• 1 Clarke, Duo: Grotesque 02:35
• Lullaby:
• 2 Clarke, Duo: Lullaby 03:16
• Sally Beamish (b. 1956), Gaia Duo: Stone, Salt and Sky:
• 3 Beamish, Duo: Stone, Salt and Sky: I. Processional 04:33
• 4 Beamish, Duo: Stone, Salt and Sky: II. Horizon 07:33
• 5 Beamish, Duo: Stone, Salt and Sky: III. Harbour Blues 04:10
• Elizabeth Maconchy (1907 - 1994), Gaia Duo: Duo (Theme and Variations):
• 6 Maconchy, Duo: Duo (Theme and Variations): I. Theme Andante moderato 01:00
• 7 Maconchy, Duo: Duo (Theme and Variations): II. Variation I Allegro 00:18
• 8 Maconchy, Duo: Duo (Theme and Variations): III. Variation II Andante espressivo, rubato 01:05
• 9 Maconchy, Duo: Duo (Theme and Variations): IV. Variation III Allegro commodo – 01:08
• 10 Maconchy, Duo: Duo (Theme and Variations): V. Variation IV Molto moderato, espressivo – 01:32
• 11 Maconchy, Duo: Duo (Theme and Variations): VI. Variation V Allegro molto 00:33
• 12 Maconchy, Duo: Duo (Theme and Variations): VII. Variation VI Allegro vigoroso 00:48
• 13 Maconchy, Duo: Duo (Theme and Variations): VIII. Variation VII Lento serioso 02:12
• 14 Maconchy, Duo: Duo (Theme and Variations): IX. Variation VIII Allegro molto 01:49
• Gaia Duo: Antibes:
• 15 Duo: Antibes 05:16
• Duncan Strachan, Gaia Duo: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird:
• 16 Strachan, Duo: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird: I. Among twenty snowy mountains 02:23
• 17 Strachan, Duo: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird: II. I was of three minds 00:57
• 18 Strachan, Duo: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird: III. The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds 01:09
• 19 Strachan, Duo: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird: IV. A man and a woman are one 01:37
• 20 Strachan, Duo: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird: V. The blackbird whistling, or just after 00:35
• 21 Strachan, Duo: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird: VI. The shadow of the blackbird 02:07
• 22 Strachan, Duo: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird: VII. O thin men of Haddam, why do you imagine golden birds? 02:03
• 23 Strachan, Duo: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird: VIII. I know noble accents 02:02
• 24 Strachan, Duo: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird: IX. When the blackbird flew out of sight 00:56
• 25 Strachan, Duo: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird: X. At the sight of the blackbirds flying in a green light 01:07
• 26 Strachan, Duo: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird: XI. He rode over Connecticut in a glass coach 00:45
• 27 Strachan, Duo: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird: XII. The river is moving 02:17
• 28 Strachan, Duo: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird: XIII. The blackbird sat in the cedar-limbs 03:37
• Total Runtime 59:23

Info for Stone, Salt & Sky: Beamish, Maconchy, Strachan, R Clarke

Das 2019 gegründete, preisgekrönte Violinen- und Cello-Duo GAIA hat sich mit seiner bahnbrechenden Programmgestaltung und seinen kühnen und gewagten Auftritten schnell einen Namen gemacht: Ihr Debütalbum enthält drei Werke, die speziell für das Duo geschrieben wurden, und zeugt von ihrem Engagement für Werke unterrepräsentierter und übersehener Stimmen aus der Vergangenheit der klassischen Musik.

Elemente von Folk- und Jazz-Saiteninstrumenten treffen auf traditionelle kammermusikalische Elemente in einem Programm, das voller Frauenstimmen ist: die der Interpreten, der Komponistinnen Sally Beamish, Rebecca Clarke und Elizabeth Maconchy sowie der Sängerinnen zweier schottischer Volkslieder, die auf Tonband aufgenommen wurden und Duncan Strachans eindringliches Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird umrahmen.

GAIA Duo

GAIA are an award winning violin and cello duo, comprising two of Scotland’s most distinguished chamber musicians - Katrina Lee and Alice Allen. Winners of Chamber Music Scotland highly competitive and prestigious two year residency, GAIA are at the forefront of innovative and pioneering programming with exciting, bold and daring performances that push the boundaries of string duo performance and creative programming. Their impressive and growing collection of bespoke commissions from world renowned composers includes Sally Beamish, Kim Moore (Sound designer for SuperFan, Nose Dive), and Duncan Strachan (Maxwell Quartet). GAIA celebrate and champion works by under-represented voices within classical music and their commitment to spotlight historical works by uncredited women composers sees them explore current issues of gender inequality within classical music, making them one of today's the most exciting and dynamic duos of our times. ​

Both Alice and Katrina are previous Scottish Ensemble Young Artists and between them boast an impressive array of instrumental awards. During her time at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Katrina was recipient of every string prize awarded by the Conservatoire. She was also the recipient of the International Konigin Sophie Charlotte competition for Violin. During Alice’s two year masters at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland she was recipient of the Durbar-Gerber Chamber Music Award, Thomas and Margaret Roddan Trust Scholarship and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra’s Concerto Competition. Whilst studying at the Royal Northern College of Music Alice was winner of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s professional experience scheme.

GAIA are regular performers at the Royal Conservatoire’s annual PLUG Contemporary Music Festival, which showcases the talent of current composition students. GAIA were recently commissioned by the world renowned Courtauld Gallery in London, to compose a piece of music inspired by Claude Monet’s 'Antibes' from the gallery's extensive collection of prized art. Other recent highlights include an award winning performance of Konstantinos Terzakis piece ‘Invisible Sound’ which saw the composer awarded second prize at the 4th International Composer Award in Vienna. This outstanding ensemble regularly work on cross-arts collaboration, and their work with award winning Glasgow based artist Jennifer Wicks has been showcased by Centre for Contemporary Arts. ​

Alice and Katrina are co-founders of the Scottish Freelancers Ensemble, formed as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic, helping our community of freelance musicians support each other to keep our art alive.

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