Name: John Casken's 'The Shackled King' (Trailer)
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Rozanna Madylus

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Awarded the 2020 inaugural Tippett Medal and nominated for an Ivor Novello Award in the Stageworks category, this new work by John Casken based on the tragedy of 'King Lear' and set in an imagined cell scene with King Lear and his daughter, Cordelia, incorporates Shakespeare’s text in the form of speech, sprechstimme and singing.

Sir John Tomlinson (bass)
Rozanna Madylus (mezzo-soprano)

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Fenella Humphreys (violin)
Kyle Horch (clarinet/saxophone)
Deborah Calland (trumpet)
Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Recorded at Lilian Baylis House, West Hampstead, London in December 2020.

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John Casken's 'The Shackled King' (Trailer)

Performed in the Great Hall at Barts Heritage on Wednesday 8th December 2021.
Rozanna Madylus - Mezzo-Soprano
Rokas Valuntonis - Piano
Emily Earl - 1st Violin
Yume Fujise - 2nd Violin
Francesca Gilbert - Viola
Ariana Kashefi - Cello

Programme:
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
For us the meek stars shone, Op. 60, No. 12
I opened the window, Op. 63, No. 2
Already the lights in the rooms were fading... Op. 63, No. 5 
The Canary, Op. 25, No.4
Why?, Op. 6, No. 5
No, only the one who knew, Op. 6, No. 6

Ottorino Respighi (1879 – 1936)
Il tramonto (The Sunset)

Gaetano Donizetti (1797 – 1848)
‘E sgombro il loco... Un bacio, un bacio ancora’: Smeton’s aria from Anna Bolena

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 – 1921)
‘Mon cœur s’ouvre à ta voix’: Samson et Dalila, Op.47 - new arrangement with string quartet by Iain Farrington

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
‘Da, chas nastal’: Joan of Arc’s Aria, from The Maid of Orleans

Jacques Offenbach (1818 -1880)
'C’est l’amour, l’amour vainqueur' Nicklausse’s aria from Les contes d’Hoffman with string quartet - new arrangement with string quartet by Iain Farrington

Sound Engineer: Adam Bonser
Director/Vision Mixer: Oliver Bowring
Camera Operator: Joe-Lee Coupe
Production: Musicarta Media
Executive Producer: City Music Foundation

Rozanna Madylus (mezzo-soprano) | City Music Foundation | Full HD Concert at Barts Heritage

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