The Past & I:
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"A New Absence" - Bespoke Etching Commissioned for this Project
£80.00
£60.00
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We teamed up with artist Georgie Fay who has made a beautiful, bespoke, limited print specifically for this project.
This is a bespoke design, commissioned specifically for this project. The print run was 25 and the print measures 13x15cm on card 27x19cm.
CD - The Past & I: 100 Years of Thomas Hardy
£20.00
The album in CD form - Limited Edition CD run
Conceived during a residency at The Red House, Benjamin Britten’s former home, in 2019, this collection of new compositions and arrangements by Arthur Keegan – developed in close collaboration with the performers – shows the profound influence of Thomas Hardy’s poetry on composers throughout the twentieth century and into our own era. Hardy’s characteristic themes are present throughout: the relentless passing of time; nature and the changing seasons; the effects on both of the modern world, with its machines and timetables.
Keegan’s Elegies for Emma, for voice and guitar, seeks to restore the voice of Hardy’s first wife Emma alongside the regret-filled poems Hardy wrote after her death, while String Quartet No 1 ‘Elegies for Tom’ weaves instrumental meditations on Hardy’s poem ‘Afterwards’ together with interludes setting a later poem by Philip Larkin.
Recently named Young Artist of the Year at the prestigious RPS Music Awards, mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean is joined by guitarist James Girling and the Ligeti Quartet in performances that linger long in the memory.
Poetry Postcards - Elegies for Emma
£6.00
A pack of six postcards, each with a poem from the song cycle 'Elegies for Emma' and a bespoke design.
- Days to Recollect
- The Walk
- Rain on a Grave
- I Look Into My Glass
- The Voice
- She to Him