Poems of Love and War will be performed by the Universities Chamber Choir as part of their Nordic Nights Concert. The work is a set of nine Viking Age poems translated by Professor Judith Jesch in her book Viking Poetry of Love and War (2013). The music reflects the contrasting themes of the words, ranging from brutality to tenderness via humour.
The settings (and performances) were as sharply etched as Viking jewellery: lyrical, intense, concise, the one-syllable-per-note style adding to the sense of directness, of nothing being wasted. Both choir and conductor were clearly deeply inside the idiom, consistently precise and intelligently attentive to the poems’ words. Praise for Poems of Love and War
The settings (and performances) were as sharply etched as Viking jewellery: lyrical, intense, concise, the one-syllable-per-note style adding to the sense of directness, of nothing being wasted. Both choir and conductor were clearly deeply inside the idiom, consistently precise and intelligently attentive to the poems’ words.
Praise for Poems of Love and War
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