Laidlaw Live: Lucy Schaufer (mezzo soprano), Ben Dawson (piano), Emma Jane Lloyd (violin)

Описание: Programme

Shakespeare Four Ways

Songs created for stage, screen, concert and cabaret

Songs written for concert
Four Shakespeare Songs, op. 31 Erich Korngold (1897-1957)
1. Desdemona
2. Under the Greenwood Tree
3. Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind
4. When Birds Do Sing

Songs written for the theatre
Four Shakespeare settings Grant Olding (b 1974)
(World premiere; composed for Lucy Schaufer)
1. Mistress Mine (Twelfth Night) English Touring Theatre
2. Come Away Death (Twelfth Night)
3. The Rain it Raineth Every Day (Twelfth Night)
4. Sigh No More (Much Ado About Nothing) Globe Theatre

From ‘The Sail of the Flame’ (2020) Emma-Ruth Richards (b 1985)
Ann Hathaway (poem by Carol-Ann Duffy)
(World premiere of these arrangements by the composer for Lucy Schaufer)
Emma Jane Lloyd (violin)
Wild Plum Arts commission with the support of the Vaughan Williams Foundation
This performance is dedicated to the memory of Laura Samuel, Leader of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra from 2012, who played the world premiere in 2020.

Songs written for cabaret
Four Shakespeare Stories by Amanda McBroom

Ophelia (Hamlet) music by Michele Brourman (b 1947)
Ariel’s Lament (Tempest) music by Joel Silberman
Lady Anne: Is it Love? (Richard III) music by Joel Silberman
Titania (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) music by Michele Brourman


Grammy Award winning Lucy Schaufer is voracious and versatile in her choice of repertoire. Her career takes her to theatres, opera houses and concert halls throughout Europe, USA, and the UK, singing major roles in shows from Guettel, Sondheim, Rodgers, Heggie, Weill and Bernstein, with the John Wilson Orchestra at the BBC Proms to the most demanding contemporary music, leading Gramophone Magazine to say “She occupies an undefinable space in the 'who's who' of classical music.” With over 75 premieres under her belt, she dedicates her career to performing and collaborating with composers. Shortlisted for the 2023 Royal Philharmonic Society Singer of the Year, Lucy is an educator, creative producer and artistic director of Wild Plum Arts.

Ben Dawson has earned an international reputation as a pianist and musician, at home in the most diverse range of musical styles and environments. He has appeared as a concerto soloist with major orchestras in the UK and abroad, featured on numerous film and television soundtracks, written music for film, and appeared on-screen as a performer in TV productions. In 2022, comedian, satirist and actor Barry Humphries asked Ben to play for him on what was to be his final tour, with more than 30 performances of The Man Behind The Mask.

Emma Jane Lloyd is an international performer, improviser, composer and artist. She performs as a soloist and in small ensembles, working often with live electronics and collaborating regularly with composers. In addition to the modern set-up, she plays a baroque violin and performs both baroque and contemporary music written specifically for this instrument. She is a member of Tesseris, a new Edinburgh-based string quartet and one third of Machine Orchid, a contemporary electro-alternative-folk-jazz-experimental group with fellow multi-instrumentalists Caro Bridges and Aurora Engine.





Grant Olding is a multi award-winning composer and lyricist who works across theatre, film, television, dance and musical theatre from his studio in the Welsh Marches. He has written over sixty theatre scores for the National Theatre, RSC, Shakespeare’s Globe, The Bridge Theatre, Curve Theatre and many regional and international theatres including on Broadway and in the West End. His work can currently be heard in Richard II at the Bridge Theatre directed by Nicholas Hytner, and his ballet Merlin returns to stages this year with the Northern Ballet. He is the musical director of the Hay Shantymen. www.grantolding.com

Emma-Ruth Richards is a composer born in the UK in 1985. Her deeply expressive and highly charged music has been championed by many ensembles and soloists in the UK and abroad. She is acclaimed for her understanding of both instrumental and vocal writing and her music has been described as “accomplished” (Times), and “simply beautiful” (Opera North, Bachtrack). The Sail of a Flame, commissioned by BBC Radio 3 for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and mezzo Lucy Schaufer, was premiered and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in January, 2020.

“…in the setting of Carol Ann Duffy's Anne Hathaway, inspired by the famous line from Shakespeare's will in which he leaves his wife his "second best bed", did the music step back, flowering into echoes of Berg, and allowing the extraordinarily focused mezzo Lucy Schaufer to weave her intoxicating spell.” THE TIMES 13/01/2020