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Missy Mazzoli's The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt

The latest in new music - Missy Mazzoli's Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt - the UK premiere at last weekend's Total Immersion.

Tom Service introduces the UK premiere of Missy Mazzoli's Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt - from last weekend's Total Immersion.

A resonant and haunting music-drama by one of the 21st century’s most original creative minds.

Isabelle Eberhardt (1877–1904) was an explorer, nomad, journalist, novelist, passionate romantic, Sufi, and one of the most unique and unusual women of her era. Missy Mazzoli’s chamber opera evokes her short, untrammelled life in words and music of uncompromising beauty and imagination.

Kitty Whately as Isabelle Eberhardt (mezzo-soprano)
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Singers
³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ SO Ensemble:
Daniel Pailthorpe (flute)
Meline le Calvez (clarinet)
James Woodrow (guitar)
Elizabeth Burley (piano)
Enno Senft (double bass)

Sofi Jeannin (conductor)

1 hour, 59 minutes

Last on

Sat 2 Mar 2024 22:00

Music Played

  • Kaija Saariaho

    Vent nocturne

    Performer: Garth Knox. Performer: Tim Cooper.
  • Francisco Lima da Silva

    Derealisation

    Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Ryan Bancroft.
  • Jürg Frey

    Extended Circular Music no. 5

    Performer: Carl Raven.
    • m​é​moire, horizon.
    • Carl Raven.
    • 15.
  • Jacques Cohen

    From Behind the Glass

    Ensemble: Tippett Quartet.
    • JACQUES COHEN – The Lady of Satis House.
    • Meridian Records.
    • 15.
  • Missy Mazzoli

    Song from the Uproar: the Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt

    Singer: Kitty Whately. Choir: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Singers. Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestra. Director: Isabelle Kettle. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin.
  • Jacques Cohen

    Misterioso (from 'When the Bough Breaks - Three Lullabies for String Quartet')

    Ensemble: Tippett Quartet.
    • JACQUES COHEN – The Lady of Satis House.
    • Meridian Records.
    • 13.
  • Riccardo La Foresta

    Six and Forty-Six (extract)

    Composer: James Ginzburg. Performer: Riccardo La Foresta. Performer: James Ginzburg.
    • Six and Forty-Six.
    • Subtext Recordings.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Sat 2 Mar 2024 22:00

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