This performance brings together a wide variety of music, in many different instrumental arrangements, exploring the ideas of relationships and what we hide from ourselves and each other. Playing with the idea of Hide & Seek, a game when children, trying to run away, feeling fear for “it”, the unnamed that the child trying to catch the others carries, follows us and changes into adulthood. It becomes flirting, relationships, masking and discovery of what we hide, and what we strive for.

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Performed in St. John’s Notting Hill, June 2023

all the works, in order of appearance

Ravel - Le jardin feérique (Ma mère l’oye)

Shakespeare - excerpt from Midsummer Night’s dream

Sá-Dantas (arr, trad) - twinkle, twinkle

Frost - Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Bartók (transcr. ASD) - Fairy Tale (Violin duetts)

Holst - Jesu Sweet (4 Songs for voice and violin)

Kurtág - Die Guten gehen (Kafka Fragmente)

Bartók - Cradle Song (idem)

Kurtág - Berceuse (idem)

Holst (transcr. ASD) - Matthew, Mark, Luke and John (Six choral folk songs)

Brahms - Göttlicher Morpheus (Canons for upper voices)

Jung - excerpts from Letters

Edna St. Vincent Millay - First Fig

Bizet - Blind Man’s Bluff (Jeux d’enfants)

Schoenfield - Tin Pan Alley (4 Souvenirs)

Kurtág - Verstecke (idem)

Sá-Dantas - A dance of light (text: Margret Kreidl)

Sá-Dantas - A dance of gaps (text: MK)

Kurtág - Meine Festung (idem)

Bach (transcr. ASD) - Invention nr. 7 for 3 voices

Kurtág - Ruhelos (idem)

Glass (arr. ASD) - Knee Play 1

Solage - Fumeux Fume

Sá-Dantas - Doppelgänger (text: MK)

Sá-Dantas - A dance of transparent spaces (text: MK)

Kurtág - Die guten gehen (idem)

Bizet (arr. ASD) - Blind Man’s Bluff

Monteverdi - Tu ridi sempre mai (Canzonets)

Bartók - Wedding Song (idem)

Schoenfield - Tin Pan Alley