This is the first interlude from 'Recueillement', a chamber opera by Garrett Sholdice based on poetry by Charles Baudelaire. 

In the opera, this music accompanies the projection of a silent film by Krishan Hukam (http://vimeo.com/user8487642/videos).

Kate Ellis is the cellist here (www.kateelliscello.com).

This is a live recording taken from the Ergodos-produced first performances of Two Operas at Project Arts Centre, Dublin, August 2012.

Personnel for the first performances of 'Recueillement':

Michelle O’Rourke, voice; Silja Thomsen, dance and choreography; Krishan Hukam, film; Ergodos Muscians (Kate Ellis, cello; Isabelle O’Connell, piano); Garrett Sholdice, direction; Aedín Cosgrave, lighting; Valerie Francis, sound, Benedict Schlepper-Connolly, producer.

More info on the opera here: garrettsholdice.ie/recueillement-2

More info on the suites of concert music extracted from the opera here: garrettsholdice.ie/two-arias-and-a-recitative

And here: garrettsholdice.ie/two-dances-and-two-interludes

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First Interlude from 'Recueillement'

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.