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Dove: In Exile / Keenlyside, Wallfisch, Maderas, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
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Dove: In Exile / Keenlyside, Wallfisch, Maderas, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

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Composer
Jonathan Dove
Artist
Simon Keenlyside, Raphael Wallfisch
Format
CD
Label
Lyrita
Released
Mar 03, 2023
Catalog #
SRCD413
UPC
5020926041326

About

The idea of writing a cello concerto for Raphael Wallfisch was first mooted more than ten years ago at the Banff Arts Centre, Canada, where Jonathan Dove was composer-in-residence. The two men spoke of Dove’s interest in writing a piece for cello and orchestra, and after further meetings in London, the work began to take shape. Given the composer’s extensive experience of writing for the voice, it was decided that the score would be written for baritone singer and solo cello with orchestra with texts taken from poems by various writers. The subject matter was suggested by the Wallfisch family history. Raphael’s father fled, together with his mother and brother, to Palestine from Breslau in 1937, and his mother, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, is a concentration camp survivor. She has written of the persecution of her Jewish family during the Second World War and her own incarceration in Auschwitz and Belsen, where her skill as a cellist saved her life.2 Knowing of these events, Jonathan Dove was inspired to base the work’s theme on the universal experience of refugees being exiled from their homeland.

Jonathan Dove writes of the piece, ‘In Exile moves through a day in the life of an involuntary exile: waking alone in a foreign land; remembering the moment of banishment, the moment of departure, the voyage; remembering the homeland. The Exile feels the pain of being so far away in his country’s time of need, unable to help his own people. He remembers all the names he has been called in this strange land. He thinks of all he has lost, and longs for home. In Raphael Wallfisch’s words: ‘the cello represents the soul and spirit of the Exile, the baritone is that person and sings the dramatic and often challenging texts. Jonathan’s lyrical style lends itself so naturally to the cello. He exploits every register from the lowest to the highest notes. The cello comments on the sung texts”. [Paul Conway] Night Song, a short piece for cello and piano is derived from the final section of ‘In Exile’. In the calm closing moments of the work the baritone sings of his loss in the words of the poet Douglas Hyde : My grief on the sea, / How the waves of it roll - / For they heave between me / And the love of my soul. Night Song was written partly at the request of the Rachel Baker Memorial Charity – who commissioned the orchestral work – and partly in response to the strong reaction of the first audiences who connected with this uncomplicated musical expression.

Tracklist 12 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1 Cello alone I 03:05
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1 Cello alone I
    Duration
    03:05
    Composer
    Jonathan Dove
    Performer
    Raphael Wallfisch
  2. 2 No. 2. Daybreak again 02:36
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. Daybreak again
    Duration
    02:36
    Composer
    Jonathan Dove
    Performer
    Simon Keenlyside, Raphael Wallfisch
    Ensemble
    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Gergely Madaras
  3. 3 No. 3. The first arrow the bow of exile will shoot 01:51
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. The first arrow the bow of exile will shoot
    Duration
    01:51
    Composer
    Jonathan Dove
    Performer
    Simon Keenlyside, Raphael Wallfisch
    Ensemble
    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Gergely Madaras
  4. 4 No. 4. See, cold Island, we stand 03:25
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 4. See, cold Island, we stand
    Duration
    03:25
    Composer
    Jonathan Dove
    Performer
    Simon Keenlyside, Raphael Wallfisch
    Ensemble
    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Gergely Madaras
  5. 5 No. 5. I left that land wretched 03:51
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 5. I left that land wretched
    Duration
    03:51
    Composer
    Jonathan Dove
    Performer
    Simon Keenlyside, Raphael Wallfisch
    Ensemble
    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Gergely Madaras
  6. 6 No. 6. Cello alone II 03:44
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 6. Cello alone II
    Duration
    03:44
    Composer
    Jonathan Dove
    Performer
    Raphael Wallfisch
  7. 7 No. 7. If I were an ear of corn 03:12
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 7. If I were an ear of corn
    Duration
    03:12
    Composer
    Jonathan Dove
    Performer
    Simon Keenlyside, Raphael Wallfisch
    Ensemble
    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Gergely Madaras
  8. 8 No. 8. Cello alone III 01:33
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 8. Cello alone III
    Duration
    01:33
    Composer
    Jonathan Dove
    Performer
    Raphael Wallfisch
  9. 9 No. 9. Unclean 02:47
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 9. Unclean
    Duration
    02:47
    Composer
    Jonathan Dove
    Performer
    Simon Keenlyside, Raphael Wallfisch
    Ensemble
    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Gergely Madaras
  10. 10 No. 10. Where have the horses gone? 03:19
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 10. Where have the horses gone?
    Duration
    03:19
    Composer
    Jonathan Dove
    Performer
    Simon Keenlyside, Raphael Wallfisch
    Ensemble
    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Gergely Madaras
  11. 11 No. 11. My grief on the sea 04:02
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 11. My grief on the sea
    Duration
    04:02
    Composer
    Jonathan Dove
    Performer
    Simon Keenlyside, Raphael Wallfisch
    Ensemble
    City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor
    Gergely Madaras
  12. 12 In Exile: Night Song (version for cello and piano) 04:25
    Track
    12
    Title
    In Exile: Night Song (version for cello and piano)
    Duration
    04:25
    Composer
    Jonathan Dove
    Performer
    Raphael Wallfisch, Jonathan Dove