12.00 noon, Saturday 13 April, 2013
Tickets: £15.00, £12.00
Belgian 4-voice ensemble Encantar make their Cambridge debut with a brilliant programme called WOOD/WOULD, which combines the music of
16th century Bernardo Pisano, contemporary repertoire, and electro-acoustic interventions created by Lieselot De Wilde. The programme has
two themes: WOOD refers to the wooden cross of Jesus Christ, dedication, devotion, pain, and religious passion; WOULD refers to human desire,
human passion, doubt, and pain.
It was easy to be beguiled by the sheer beauty of Encantar's sound. They had a remarkable unity of tone, pure and rounded yet unadorned
by operatic vibrato, and one from which individual voices could suddenly harden to stand out from the gently rippling tapestry. [The Guardian]
PROGRAMME
Bernardo Pisano (1490-1548): Tenebrae factae sunt
Bernardo Pisano: Velum templi scissum est
Irving Berlin (1888-1989) arr. Lieselot de Wilde: Blue skies
arr. Lieselot de Wilde: O Morpheus
arr. Lieselot de Wilde: Ophelia
Bernardo Pisano: Tradiderunt me
arr. after the Chordettes (1946-61): O baby mine
Michel Fugain (b.1942) arr. Donald Bentvelsen: Une belle histoire
Billy Joel (b.1949) arr. Kirby Shaw: And so it goes
Bernardo Pisano: Jerusalem, surge
Bernardo Pisano: Plange quasi virgo
Bernardo Pisano: Omnes amici mei
Paul Simon (b.1941) arr. Nicholas Hare: The sound of silence
Rudi Tas (b.1957) arr. Lieselot de Wilde: La chanson d'eve
PERFORMERS
Encantar
Griet De Geyter
Michaela Riener
Kerlijne Van Nevel
Soetkin Baptist
All concert information is correct at 13 June 2013.