Songs of

THURSDAY 5th OCT

Holywell Music Room | 7.30pm

In memory of dear friends and generous supporters of the festival Sir Oliver and Lady Phoebe Scott

Sephardic and Mediterranean songs for voice, violin and bass

Alice Zawadzki and Misha Mullov-Abaddo

Interval

Antonín Dvořák Piano quintet in A major, op.81

I – Allegro ma non tanto

II – Dumka. Andante con moto

III Scherzo (Furiant). Molto vivace –poco tranquillo

IV – Finale. Allegro

Polina Leschenko | Priya Mitchell

Tetiana Lutsyk | Sascha Bota

Claude Frochaux

Alice Zawadzki is a vocalist, violinist, songwriter and composer loosely connected to the jazz scene but described as “a genuine original” by The Guardian. With bassist, improviser and composer Misha Mullov-Abbado she has recorded her latest album for new-music label ECM, and here they explore Sephardic and Mediterranean songs of freedom. Dvořák‘s exuberant piano quintet, filled with life and colour, centres on a gorgeous dumka – a form based on the epic ballads written to demand national freedom for nineteenth-century Ukraine.