I’m taking the Lark Ascending to Chester and Carlisle this weekend, with ‘Concertante North’. Ticket links below!
Rumour has it that we’re also soft-launching a new interpretation of a DEVILISH piece of music that might be full of trills …. What could it be? Hmmm. You’ll have to come along and find out………………..
Here’s a bit of Larking around that we did in Bath Abbey earlier in the year.
The more I perform this piece in different spaces, the more I realise you can ‘play’ the acoustic of the building in different ways.
When a building is more reverberant, there’s more resonance to explore, which I think demands slower tempos and longer phrase shapes. I’m trying different things each time. Sometimes it really depends on what works best for a particular piece of architecture!
I can’t yet decide how best to balance the frenzy of the Skylark’s chirpiness with the longer lyrical lines that just have a lot more space in them. But I think my version of Lark will end up slower and spacier eventually.
Apparently Skylarks are on the government’s birds of conservation concern list, and the UK Red List for Birds. Along with an extraordinary number of other species that used to be commonplace.
What are we doing to our world? It’s madness.
Anyway, tickets are here for Chester, and here for Carlisle. Do come along.