While the narrative of the Creation might be familiar to concert audiences from the works of Haydn and, in more recent years, Aaron Copland, Jacques Cohen’s approach to his own version is a unique blend that intersperses biblical text with the more sobering verse of such twentieth-century poets as Louis MacNeice and Franta Bass, a Czech Jew, who was murdered at Auschwitz at the age of 14. The concert commemorates the life of Christine Didelot, a passionate and dedicated member of several ... continue reading...
TRANSFIGURED
TRANSFIGURED Jacques Cohen: Beginnings & Endings (World Première) Jean Sibelius: Romance in C Zakia Fawcett: Lost in this Moment (World Première) Marcus Paus: Love’s Last Rites (UK Première) Jacques Cohen: Love Journeys for soprano and strings Jacques Cohen: For Angel (World Première) Arnold Schoenberg: Transfigured Night The Cohen Ensemble Marie Vassiliou, Soprano Jacques Cohen, Conductor Tickets on sale here The Cohen Ensemble returns to Southbank Centre for the first time ... continue reading...