Sudden Light (2013)

Vocal
Written By Tobias Patrick Wolf

1. Slant of Light
2. Delay
3. Sudden Light

Baritone and Piano

Duration:
10′

First Performance:
30 October 2013
Jeremy Huw Williams, Ed Jones, St Machar’s Cathedral, Aberdeen, UK as part of the Sound Festival 2013

Score

Programme note

Sudden Light is a short song-cycle on themes of light and starlight. The opening song (a setting of Emily Dickinson) is anxious and full of foreboding, this being dissipated somewhat in the expansive and sustained setting of Elizabeth Jennings’s ‘Delay’ that follows. The final song (a setting of Dante Gabriel Rossetti) is more traditional in feel, but here more than in the other songs, the light is not radiant and pervasive, rather weak and wan.

PAC

Recording

Sudden Light (2013) by Phillip Cooke, performed by Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone) and Ed Jones (piano) at St Machar's Cathedral, Aberdeen, UK.

Tobias Patrick Wolf

Tobias is an award-winning German conductor and composer based in North East Scotland. He is Music Director of the renowned King’s Studio Orchestra (Scotland), the Braeside Singers (Aberdeen) and Principal Guest Conductor of the German Winds. Tobias is PhD researcher at the University of Aberdeen, exploring hybrid composition and performance practice. Sought after as guest conductor for ensembles around the globe, he brings new music to life — for audiences in the concert hall, on radio and television, and across multi-platform online streaming services.

https://www.tpwolf.com
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