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Love Lines

An intimate journey with Scottish composers

Part of the London Sinfonietta 2024/25

Add to my Calendar 06-12-2024 20:00 06-12-2024 22:00 36 Love Lines London Sinfonietta returns to Kings Place, presenting an evening of music by Scottish composers exploring the idea of love and our deepest human need for connection. Judith Weir’s evocative music sets the scene, before the Public World Premiere of a privately commissioned work Love Bade me Welcome by James MacMillan setting poetry about divine love by George Herbert. Peter Maxwell Davies’ Hymn to Artemis Locheia is a rarely performed and virtuosic work for clarinet quintet, written as a celebration of the joy and exuberance between couples when new life is confirmed. MacMillan’s expressive After the Tryst is an instrumental short based on his previous setting of a love poem by William Soutar. Kings Place, Hall Two, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Kings Place, Hall Two
90 York Way
Kings Cross
London
N1 9AG
England

Programme

Judith Weir – Sketches from a Bagpipers Album
James MacMillan – Love Bade Me Welcome
Electra Perivolaris – New Commission
Peter Maxwell Davies – Hymn to Artemis Locheia
James MacMillan – After the Tryst

Performers

Mark van de Wiel – clarinet
Jennifer France – soprano
Simon Haram – Saxophone

London Sinfonietta

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Programme Note

London Sinfonietta returns to Kings Place, presenting an evening of music by Scottish composers exploring the idea of love and our deepest human need for connection.

Judith Weir’s evocative music sets the scene, before the Public World Premiere of a privately commissioned work Love Bade me Welcome by James MacMillan setting poetry about divine love by George Herbert.

Peter Maxwell Davies’ Hymn to Artemis Locheia is a rarely performed and virtuosic work for clarinet quintet, written as a celebration of the joy and exuberance between couples when new life is confirmed. MacMillan’s expressive After the Tryst is an instrumental short based on his previous setting of a love poem by William Soutar.

Peter Maxwell Davies

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