Thomas Adès - Alchymia

Performed by Mark Simpson and the Diotima Quartet, 6th October 2021 (world premiere performance).
00:00: I. A Sea-Change
05:17: II. The Woods So Wild
08:21: III. Lachrymae
14:42: IV. Divisions on a Lute Song (Wedekind's Round)
"The clarinet quintet Alchymia is woven from four threads leading out of the alchemical world of Elizabethan London. The movement titles refer to:
William Shakespeare, The Tempest 1611 - the king’s eyes transformed by the sea into pearls.
The Woods So Wild 1612 - Tudor popular song transformed by William Byrd into keyboard divisions (variations).
Lachrymae 1600 - (Tears) - John Dowland’s lute-song, which he transformed into viol consort Fantasias.
Divisions on a Lute-song: Wedekind’s Round - variations on the playwright Frank Wedekind’s Lautenlied (lute-song), which is played by clarinet, imitating a barrel-organ in the London street, in the final scene of Alban Berg’s opera Lulu." ~Thomas Adès~
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[@jcbdwsn]

00:00 I. A Sea-Change
05:17 II. The Woods So Wild
08:21 III. Lachrymae
14:42 IV. Divisions on a Lute Song (Wedekind's Round)

[@zoemartlew]

Radiant, luminous, masterpiece. SO incredibly beautiful, finely wrought…

[@rw31415]

Thanks for posting

[@acoustictourist]

Lovely to hear this again 💗

[@rikbardyn5914]

Such a beauty !

[@phillipnoone8044]

Love it 😁👍