Wait For Me

A meditation (headphones recommended)

Joshua Adams – Landscape (2021)
Landscape is a setting of an English translation of Federico García Lorca's 'Paisaje' from 'Poema del cante jondo' (Poem of the Deep Song). This collection of Lorca's was dedicated to endorsing the aesthetic value of Andalusian folk music through all the elements of its poems. In Lorca's own words, 'the Poem [i.e. the collection] begins with a motionless sunset', which is this first poem, 'Paisaje'. Written in York, my setting reflects the slow pace of the words, the subtle melancholy it evokes, and the beautiful colours of his landscape. 

The field
of olive trees
opens and closes
like a fan.
Above the olive grove
a foundering sky
and a dark rain
of cold stars.
Bulrush and penumbra tremble
at the river's edge.
The gray air ripples.
The olive trees
are laden
with cries.
A flock
of captive birds
moving their long long
tails in the gloom.

– Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), translated by Cola Franzen.

This recording is from a live performance by The 24 at the University of York in their first concert of the 2021/22 academic year. 
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Performance: 
The 24, University of York, conducted by Robert Hollingworth
Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, November 2021.

Landscape

Landscape (2021)

Stasis

Light in, dark out - reset. 
Featuring crickets. For those who need a solid minute or nine of peace.

A meditation (headphones recommended)

David Buckley