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I Fagiolini

Re-Wilding The Wasteland

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“Sublime music from I Fagiolini” ★ The Times

With guest appearance and readings by actress Ellise Chappell known for her role as Morwenna in Poldark.


Tomas Luis de Victoria O Vos Omnes
William Byrd Deus venerunt gentes v1
Ben Rowarth Deus venerunt gentes v2-3
Kenneth Leighton God’s grandeur (Gerald Manley Hopkins)
Tomás Luis de Victoria Caligaverunt oculi mei
Joanna Marsh Geocentric (PattiAnn Rogers)
Ralph Vaughan Williams  Silence and Music (Ursula Wood)
Tomás Luis de Victoria Ecce quomodo  moritur
Shruthi Rajasekar Ganga’s Peace
Joanna Marsh The World is Charged – John F. Deane


TS Eliot’s The Waste Land was written in the wake of the catastrophic upheavals of the First World War and the Spanish Flu.  100 years on, I Fagiolini’s new programme is inspired by Eliot’s ground breaking poem – turmoil and disorder gradually replaced by renewal; it’s also inspired by David Attenborough’s witness statement to re-wild the world. This is an abundant mix of music and poetry, placing old masterpieces beside extraordinary new work written in the last year.

It’s another stunning evening of singing from I Fagiolini, who will be joined by actress Ellise Chappell – best known for her role as Morwenna Chynoweth in Poldark – reading poetry and excerpts of text.

View texts and translations for this concert

I Fagiolini

Ellise Chappell

IFag_Photo_Credit Matthew Brodie

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An interview with Joanna Marsh, one of the programme's composers, and I Fagiolini's Robert Hollingworth:

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