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Mulroy Kenny Carr

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Nicholas Mulroy tenor
Elizabeth Kenny lute
Toby Carr theorbo

17th century Europe and 20th century Latin America might not seem obvious musical bedfellows. However, this programme is built around the importance of great wordsmiths to both eras. Silvio Rodríguez – “as important to Latin Americans as John Lennon and Bob Dylan combined” – and his contemporaries shine fresh light on Baroque song, and bear out the conviction that what unites these composers – irresistible gift for ravishing harmony and bewitching melody – is more interesting than the time and geography that separates them.

As Duke Ellington’s famously commented “there are two kinds of music: there’s good music, and there’s the other kind”. Intimate and exquisite, these songs deal with human life – love, loss, devotion, hope, the personal, and the political… they speak across the ocean – and across the centuries – about what it is to be alive.

Tenor Nicholas Mulroy’s glorious singing, the diction clear, the phrasing natural, the voice supple and multihued … Toby Carr and Elizabeth Kenny transcend stylistic categories to bring surprising colours, expressive textures and a wistful intimacy to the songs, whether solo or together.”
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