{"id":19151,"date":"2023-07-28T17:47:33","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T15:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/operacarlofelicegenova.it\/spettacolo\/novecenti-folk-wonder\/"},"modified":"2023-10-16T12:12:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T10:12:29","slug":"novecenti-folk-wonder","status":"publish","type":"show","link":"https:\/\/operacarlofelicegenova.it\/en\/show\/novecenti-folk-wonder\/","title":{"rendered":"Novecenti Folk Wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:17px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ce155fab wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Songs of Travel<br\/>The House of Life<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ce155fab wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Baritone<br\/><strong>David Ireland<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"height:53px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Piano<br\/><strong>Claudio Marino Moretti<\/strong><br\/><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">The collection <em>Songs of Travel<\/em> was composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams between 1905 and 1912 based on texts from the homonymous poetry collection by Robert Louis Stevenson. It is not a case that Stevenson&#8217;s works have a lot in common with that &#8220;travel poetry&#8221; which had inspired other composers, leading them to the same genre. Just as in Schubert&#8217;s renowned <em>Die Sh\u00f6ne M\u00fcllerin<\/em> and <em>Winterreise<\/em>, the songs tell in first person the adventures of a wayfarer. But in Stevenson&#8217;s writings the wayfarer is not victim of the circumstances and proceeds with determination, appreciating the beauty of the world. Such an aspect is represented quite effectively on a musical level, where it becomes the fulcre of a surprising vital impulse. Only in certain isolated moments Williams-Stevenson&#8217;s wayfarer shows a slight nostalgic sentiment regarding the past times, though quickly returning to the reaffirmation of beauty and its simple and temporary nature.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">The collection <em>The House of Life<\/em> was written some years earlier based on works by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (also renowned as an illustrator and painter of the pre-Raphaelite school). This time, the theme is love. Each piece pays homage to the loved woman, almost idealized, whom the poet longs for. There are many literary &#8211; and therefore, musical &#8211; references to symbolist atmosphere of XIX century, with visions of great effect outlining love even in its shadows.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Vaughan Williams&#8217; music lightly describes the poets&#8217; words. Both collections present a research effort around the sounds of British folk and ancient music widely present in the composer&#8217;s catalogue, always accompanied by a refined writing influenced by the XIX-century German tradition, Maurice Ravel&#8217;s and Gabriel Faur\u00e9&#8217;s music.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><em>Ludovica Gelpi<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p><br\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claudio Marino Moretti introduces the audience to the European 1900s: Ralph Vaughan Williams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":18893,"template":"","discipline":[203],"season":[257],"tag_spettacoli":[154,42],"class_list":["post-19151","show","type-show","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag_spettacoli-opera-carlo-felice-genova","tag_spettacoli-orchestra-teatro-carlo-felice"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/operacarlofelicegenova.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/show\/19151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/operacarlofelicegenova.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/show"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/operacarlofelicegenova.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/show"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/operacarlofelicegenova.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/show\/19151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/operacarlofelicegenova.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/operacarlofelicegenova.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"discipline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/operacarlofelicegenova.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/discipline?post=19151"},{"taxonomy":"season","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/operacarlofelicegenova.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/season?post=19151"},{"taxonomy":"tag_spettacoli","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/operacarlofelicegenova.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tag_spettacoli?post=19151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}