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SUMMARY:Out of the Shadows
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DESCRIPTION:Alessandro Fisher (tenor)\nGareth Brynmor John (baritone)\nWil
 liam Vann (piano)\nNavarra String Quartet\nA stellar line-up of musicians 
 come together to mark the 70th birthday of composer Ian Venables. At the h
 eart of the programme are two powerful works for tenor\, string quartet an
 d piano. Vaughan Williams' On Wenlock Edge is a deeply evocative setting o
 f poetry from A.E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad - with its themes of homes
 ickness\, lives cut short\, and lost love\, and its conjuring of Shropshir
 e landscape. Ian Venables’ ethereal Portraits of a Mind\, was commission
 ed by the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society in honour of that earlier compose
 r’s 150th Anniversary in 2022 and premiered by the musicians who perform
  it tonight.  Inspired by the musical language of Vaughan Williams and his
  artistic credo – ‘the object of art is to reach out to the ultimate r
 ealities through the medium of beauty’ – Venables references music fro
 m The House of Life to The Lark Ascending\, in a highly atmospheric cycle.
 \n\nThe concert opens with the London premiere of Out of the Shadows\, whi
 ch was commissioned by Robert Venables KC in 2023 to celebrate Gary Morris
  and he having been together for 30 years. Works by Howells and Butterwort
 h complete the lavish programme.\n\nVenables: Out of the Shadows\nVaughan 
 Williams (arr. Vann): Fantasia on Greensleeves\nVaughan Williams: On Wenlo
 ck Edge\n\nInterval\n\nVaughan Williams: Love Bade me Welcome\nButterworth
 : Love Blows as the Wind Blows\nVenables: Portraits of a Mind\nHowells: An
  Old Man’s Lullaby\n\nDuration: 1 hr 45 minutes (including interval)\n\n
 Sponsored by The Morris-Venables Charitable Foundation
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LOCATION:The Temple Church\, London
URL:https://www.templemusic.org/concerts/on-wenlock-edge
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