Echoes of Nature:
Live from Shakespeare's Church
The music draws on classical techniques, improvisation, and elements from various cultures and eras. Echoes from the Renaissance, Baroque, Romantic opera, and Impressionism pervade the two cycles, as well as new sonorities created by celesta and Portuguese guitar with choir and orchestra. The first song cycle, “Echoes of Nature,” is based on poems by Korean polymath Ahae translated into Italian and French, ranging from a child discovering the world, to the silvery moon at a lake, an autumn dawn, a sunset over the mountains, to all of creation singing glory to the eternal. The “Nine Shakespeare Songs” were selected from different plays—comedies, tragedies, and fantasies— which the Stratford-upon-Avon Herald dubbed “a major new work."
Lucia Caruso, Pedro H. da Silva, Orchestra of the Swan
Release Date: August 30 2024
Echoes of Nature features two world premiere symphonic song cycles by Lucía Caruso & Pedro H. da Silva recorded live from Shakespeare’s church in Stratford-upon-Avon. The album features soprano Laetitia Grimaldi and composers Lucía Caruso on piano and celesta, and Pedro H. da Silva on Portuguese guitar, joined by the Royal Shakespeare Company music director Bruce O’Neil conducting the Orchestra & Choir of the Swan.
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TRACK LIST
Echoes of Nature
I. Un bimbo cammina in un meleto by Lucía Caruso, Pedro H. da Silva / AHAE
II. Lune d’argent by Lucía Caruso, Pedro H. da Silva / AHAE
III. Aube d’automne by Lucía Caruso / AHAE
IV. Un cielo vuoto by Pedro H. da Silva / AHAE
V. Une ribambelle d’oiseaux by Pedro H. da Silva / AHAE
Nine Shakespeare Songs
I. Titania’s Lullaby by Lucía Caruso / Shakespeare
II. When Daffodils Begin to Peer by Pedro H. da Silva / Shakespeare
III. Double, Double Toil and Trouble by Lucía Caruso, Pedro H. da Silva / Shakespeare
IV. Willow Song by Lucía Caruso, Pedro H. da Silva / Shakespeare
V. Sigh No More by Lucía Caruso / Shakespeare
VI. Ophelia’s Madness by Lucía Caruso, Pedro H. da Silva / Shakespeare
VII. Pardon, Goddess of the Night by Lucía Caruso / Shakespeare
VIII. O Mistress Mine by Lucía Caruso, Pedro H. da Silva / Shakespeare
IX. Ariel’s Song by Pedro H. da Silva / Shakespeare
PRESS
ALBUM CREDITS
Audio recorded at Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK. June 24th and 25th, 2019.
Mixing and Mastering Engineer: Mike Tierney
Editing and Mixing Engineer: Pedro H. da Silva
Recording Engineer: Terry Carter
Assistant Recording Engineer: Phil Hardman