Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Claire Booth and Christopher Glynn join forces to perform a concert at the Aldeburgh Festival this afternoon at 3pm. This concert is a combination of music and words that evoke the North including Grieg, British folksongs, and a major new song cycle from award-winning composer Gavin Higgins (world premiere).The Idea of North: Grieg, Grainger and Gavin Higgins
“At its heart is our new commission from composer Gavin Higgins, Speak of the North: “a song cycle about place, landscape, borderlands, and belonging. Set to poems by a range of Northern poets such as the Brontë sisters, Michael Symmons Roberts, Zoe Mitchell, Tony Williams, Katrina Porteous, and Katie Hale, the cycle looks at what it means to be Northern. With songs about the Peak District, Manchester as seen from above, coal-mining landscapes, an argument between Hadrian’s wall and the Sycamore Gap tree, and some Northumbrian folksongs, Speak of the North is a sprawling journey through both the physical and imagined landscape of Northern England.”
Photo – Neda Navaee