I’ve always loved Edward Lear’s nonense poetry. I discovered this delightfully quirky setting by Stravinsky on what turned out to be the penultimate weekend of normal life when mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska sang it in the concert after our Samling Masterclass. Ema told me afterwards that it was the last piece Stravinsky wrote, which I found rather touching – and it suits the oddities of the poem rather nicely.
Henry Purcell meets Monty Python
Dunelm Consort offer up an irresistable combination of strong musical performances and glorious silliness in an imaginative semi-staging of Henry Purcell’s Dramatick Opera ‘King Arthur’.
