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DREAM CATCHER - WORKS FOR VIOLIN BY AUGUSTA READ THOMAS PERFORMED BY CLARISSA BEVILACQUA WITH BBC NATIONAL ORCHESTRA OF WALES, RELEASED ON NIMBUS RECORDS, 6 JANUARY 2023

14/11/2022

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Nimbus Records releases Dream Catcher: Clarissa Bevilacqua's debut release, with BBC National Orchestra of Wales, on 6 January 2023 (NI.8109)

Augusta Read Thomas, works for violin
Clarissa Bevilacqua, violin
Juggler in Paradise, Concerto No. 3 for violin and orchestra
Nine solo works for violin including Dream Catcher
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Vimbayi Kaziboni, conductor
Augusta Read Thomas and Adrian Farmer:  co-producers


PictureClarissa Bevilacqua
Clarissa Bevilacqua won first prize at the 14th International Mozart Competition of the Mozarteum University Salzburg. The 18-year-old, from Italy, received not only the first prize but also the audience award and the special award for the best interpretation of a piece by Mozart – a copy of Bärenreiter’s New Mozart Edition. Bevilacqua, who has studied with Maria Luisa Ugoni, Daniele Gay, Olga Kaler and David Taylor, performed the composer’s Violin Concerto no.5 KV219 in the final round. Two years ago, aged 16, she became the youngest student ever to receive a Bachelor of Music in Italy.

'Clarissa is also the Grand Prize winner of the Cape Symphony International Online Violin Competition, is not only a wonderful violinist, but also a wonderful person. We received applications from around the world and the quality was extraordinarily high, but her exceptional talent stuck out above the rest. A true violin prodigy, Clarissa would have been an outstanding guest artist for the May 2020 concert. Sadly, the pandemic forced us to cancel the concert, but Clarissa will definitely join us in the future. Enjoy her conversation with me, a glimpse of her award-winning performance, and a special demonstration of her talent. Congratulations to Clarissa!' Jung-Ho Pak, Artistic Director Cape Symphony

PictureAugusta Read Thomas and Clarissa Bevilacqua
Dream Catcher

'Native American tradition attaches special meaning to dreams. One tradition was to hang a 'dream catcher' that would move freely in the night air. According to tradition, good dreams know their destination: they slip through the hole in the center of the web and glide gently down the feather into the subconscious of the dreamer. Bad dreams become entangled and dissipate with the light of the dawn. Although highly notated, precise, carefully structured, soundly proportioned, and while musicians are elegantly working from a nuanced, specific text, I like my music to have the feeling that it is organically being self-propelled - on the spot.  As if we listeners are overhearing a captured improvisation.' Augusta Read Thomas
 
Juggler in Paradise: Concerto No. 3 for Violin and Orchestra

F
lowering across a 20-minute arch, the work can be considered a series of poetic outgrowths and variations which are organic and, at every level, concerned with transformations and connections. The violin solo is present for almost the entire sweeping arc, serving as protagonist as well as fulcrum point, around which all musical force-fields rotate, bloom, and proliferate. The Concerto begins with a slow, spacious, elegant solo for violin, accompanied, at first, by delicate sounds in the harps and percussion. With each new phrase the tempos quicken, the intensity climaxes and suddenly we are in a spacious landscape leading to the final minutes of the composition, which are dreamy, as if the soloist were delicately floating while chanting an ardent incantation. Juggler in Paradise, is a poetic image for the way soloist and orchestra relate, a continuous rhapsodic cadenza set against colourful "paradisiacal constellations." It's physical, too: dance is often close by. When the violin starts to speed up, the score suggests playing "as if 'juggling' the notes, rhythms, articulations" and, further on, "like several objects in motion, in the air."  The animated, quicksilver orchestrations, at times pointillist like a Seurat paining, at other times akin to bold brush strokes, full and brassy, are continuously juggling and flexibly rearranging."


'Classical Music as a Constantly Evolving Organism'
Mareen Buja interviews Clarissa Bevilacqua: Interlude, 16 March 2023


'Variety aplenty in this snapshot of a distinguished American composer.'
Peter Quantrill, The Strad, 23 Feb 2023


'In this premiere recording ... the BBC National Orchestra of Wales (conducted by Vimbayi Kaziboni) makes a strong case for further performances. Bevilacqua balances the jerky playfulness of the early movements with the subtlety and space demanded in the final dream-like sequence.'
Claire Jackson, BBC Music Magazine, 21 Feb 2023


'Bevilacqua’s performances in Dream Catcher reveal mature musicianship and an intimate knowledge of the program — a notable slice of contemporary classical music from the U.S. With a warm tone in the low register, her fluent shifting in dynamics adds emotional resonance, and her approach to phrasing flows engagingly between Thomas’ moodiness and sunnier temperaments.'
Esteban Meneses,I Care if You Listen, 6 Jan 2023


Gramophone Magazine Recommended Classical Releases, 6 Jan 2023

Pizzicato, 10 Jan 2023

Planet Hugill Interview with Clarissa Bevilacqua, 14 Jan 2023

Classical New Releases: Classical Music Daily, Jan 2023

Laurie Niles, For The Record, The Violinist, Jan 2023

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Electronic press kit available from Ulysses Arts for press use.


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CARITAS CHAMBER CHOIR RELEASES 'CHRISTMAS WITH CARITAS' ALBUM ON 25 NOVEMBER 2022

9/11/2022

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Ulysses Arts releases Canterbury-based Caritas Chamber Choir's first Christmas album, directed by Benedict Preece, on 25 November 2022. Christmas with Caritas features traditional carols in new arrangements with première recordings of contemporary works by Phillip Cooke, Sarah Cattley, Graham Patterson, Anthony Esland, Eric Choate, Stewart Duncan and Simon Beattie.

 Click to download on iTunes or stream on Apple Music


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Download on iTunes or stream on Apple Music: click above
Christmas with Caritas is preceeded by two singles from the album:

Phillip Cooke, I Sing of a Maiden - 28 October
Sarah Cattley,  What Child is this? - 11 November


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Download on iTunes or stream on Apple Music.
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Download on iTunes on stream on Apple Music.

Album Details

Tradition (arr. Benedict Preece), O Little Town of Bethlehem
Lyricist: Phillips Brooks

Sarah Cattley, What Child is this?
Lyricist: William Chatterton Dix

Graham Patterson, Sweet was the Song
Lyricist: Anonymous/Graham Patterson

Traditional (arr. Benedict Preece), Ding Dong Merrily on High
Lyricist: George Ratcliffe Woodward

Sarah Cattley, The Robin Carol
Lyricist: Sarah Cattley/Traditional

Phillip Cooke, I Sing of a Maiden
Soloists: Christina Bosanko, Christina Astin, Peter Ellis, Graham Titus
Lyricist: Anonymous

Phillip Cooke, Susanni
Soloists: Catherine Futcher, Bob McKay
Lyricist: Traditional

Franz Gruber (arr. Phillip Cooke), Silent Night
Lyricist: Joseph Mohr, John F. Young

Sarah Cattley/Michael Praetorius, A Spotless Rose
Soloist: Peter Ellis
Lyricist: Traditional, Catherine Winkworth

Graham Patterson, Balulalow
Lyricist: Wedderburn brothers

Anthony Esland, The Bee Carol
Lyricist: Carol Ann Duffy

Traditional (arr. Eric Choate), Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella
Lyricist: Anonymous

Stewart Duncan, There is no Rose
Lyricist: Anonymous

Lewis Redner (arr. David Conte), O Little Town of Bethlehem
Soloist: Sally-Anne Hanson
Lyricist: Phillips Brooks

Simon Beattie, Advent Calendar
Lyricist: Rowan Williams


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