From the album "Winter" by Ficino Ensemble.
https://ergodos.bandcamp.com/album/winter

Winter

From the album "Folk Songs" by Michelle O'Rourke + Ficino Ensemble
https://ergodos.bandcamp.com/album/folk-songs

I Would Be Where I Am Not

This is a recording of the premiere performance of Col Tuo Lume, given by EXAUDI, directed by James Weeks, at "Exposure2014", at the Bishopsgate Institute, London, in October 2014.

Col Tuo Lume means ‘with your light’ in Italian. The sung text is from the first canto of Dante’s Paradiso. The words describe Dante’s entrance into the first sphere of heaven and his first encounter with Beatrice, his guide. The preternatural revelations he experiences are related in ecstatic prose. My piece is also searching for a certain ecstasis, a certain revelation. Through its declamations, repetitions and elisions the music is ever-turning, ever-sifting, ever-trying to soar. The madrigals of Monteverdi and Gesualdo were ringing in my ears somewhat as I composed, particularly the suave fourth book of the former (1603) and the eccentric fifth book of the latter (1611). For me, the declamatory nature of this music often takes on a rather ritualistic atmosphere. It’s something I feel very close to.

The Italian text set to music is taken from the first canto of the Paradiso, the third part of La Divina Commedia by Medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri (c. 1265-1321). 

More info on the piece here: garrettsholdice.ie/col-tuo-lume

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Col Tuo Lume (2014)

Garrett Sholdice (b. 1983) is an Irish composer based in Dublin. His music has been described as possessing an “exquisite delicacy” (The Irish Times). His work has been recorded by Ficino Ensemble, pianist Michael McHale, Maya Homburger & Barry Guy duo, Ergodos Musicians, vocalist Michelle O’Rourke, and Trio Scordatura, amongst others. Notable commissions include works for the Irish Chamber Orchestra, basset clarinetist Jonathan Sage and the Keats Quartet, Crash Ensemble, and cellist Kate Ellis and pianist Isabelle O’Connell. Sholdice is a co-director of Ergodos, a Dublin-based record label and audio production company co- founded with composer Benedict Schlepper-Connolly in 2006. He has lectured in composition, orchestration, and score analysis at several Irish third level institutions, and at summer courses in Ireland and abroad.

Col Tuo Lume (2014)

Garrett Sholdice

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