Lucie Skeaping presents music by the winners of the National Centre for Early Music Young Composers Award 2015.
The NCEM Young Composers Award invited composers to create new settings for a short dramatic scene from one of two Monteverdi masterpieces: Orfeo or Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda. Students were provided with an English translation of the texts, which could be cut or adapted as appropriate. The new works had to be written for two or three singers accompanied by a small ensemble of baroque instruments, similar to those available to Monteverdi.
The winning pieces, 'Fractos Corde' by 17-year-old Joshua Urben and 'Why are you in such a hurry?' by 25-year-old John Goldie-Scot, were given their public premieres last month in Glasgow, in the atmospheric setting of the Mackintosh Church, by the Dunedin Consort and John Butt
The NCEM Young Composers Award invited composers to create new settings for a short dramatic scene from one of two Monteverdi masterpieces: Orfeo or Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda. Students were provided with an English translation of the texts, which could be cut or adapted as appropriate. The new works had to be written for two or three singers accompanied by a small ensemble of baroque instruments, similar to those available to Monteverdi.
The winning pieces, 'Fractos Corde' by 17-year-old Joshua Urben and 'Why are you in such a hurry?' by 25-year-old John Goldie-Scot, were given their public premieres last month in Glasgow, in the atmospheric setting of the Mackintosh Church, by the Dunedin Consort and John Butt
