Name: Allegro Con Molta Elettronica (#BeethovenRemixed) by Sarah Lianne Lewis
Duration: 3 min 14 s
Description: Created using stems and samples provided by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, through their #BeethovenRemixed project.

You are listening to a live recording of micro-opera THE HARDEST JOURNEY taken from the premiere in St Pancras Station, London on International Womens' Day 08.03.22.

Composer ANNA BRAITHWAITE 
Librettist KERRY PRIEST
Musical Director ELLIE SLORACH
Soprano SIÂN DICKER 
Tenor SAM MARSTON 
Baritone CHUMA SIJEQA 
Bass JAMIE WOOLLARD 
Flute FEMKE VAN LEUVEN 
Clarinet YUKO FUKUMAE 
Horn EVI BAETENS

Commissioned by The Royal Opera for International Womens Day 2022 as part of a series of pop-up performances created by women composer and librettist teams. This piece was sung by rising stars of the opera world, accompanied by musicians from Belgium’s Casco Phil chamber orchestra.
The Hardest Journey was based on stories, collected via interview with neurodiverse women around the theme of railway travel as part of the Europalia Trains & Tracks Festival.

http://www.annabraithwaite.co.uk
http://kerrypriest.com

Live Recording From St Pancras - The Hardest Journey

for Genesis Sixteen

First performance: 5th July, 2015 at Cheltenham International Music Festival; Genesis Sixteen; Eamonn Dougan (cond.)



…on a theme of Sanctus and Benedictus.



TEXT

after the Isaiah 6:3, Matthew 21:9 and Book of Common Prayer (1549)
(ed. Nathan J Dearden)



[kaddosh, kaddosh, kaddosh]

“and one cried unto another, and said…”

holy, holy, holy, Lorde God of Hostes:
heaven (+ earth) are full of thy glory:

“and the multitudes that went before, cried…”

hosanna, in the highest.

Blessed is he that come in the name of the Lorde:
Glory to thee, O Lorde in the highest.



and one cried... (excerpt)

Created using stems and samples provided by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, through their #BeethovenRemixed project.

Allegro Con Molta Elettronica (#BeethovenRemixed)

Sarah Lianne Lewis is a Welsh composer based in the Vale of Glamorgan.  Her music has been performed by ensembles such as the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Gemini, and PianoCircus, and been featured in the Aix-en-Provence Festival, Bangor Music Festival, St David's Cathedral Festival, Heidelberg Music Festival, among others.  

Allegro Con Molta Elettronica (#BeethovenRemixed)

Sarah Lianne Lewis

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