{"id":6347,"date":"2015-02-19T15:44:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T14:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=6347"},"modified":"2015-02-19T15:59:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T14:59:42","slug":"a-variation-a-day-first-two-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2015\/02\/19\/a-variation-a-day-first-two-days\/","title":{"rendered":"A Variation a Day: first two days"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ‘Variation a Day’ project exploring each of the pieces in Variations for Judith <\/em>began yesterday (see rationale here<\/strong><\/a>); preceding each variation with the aria to which each responds, ‘Bist du bei mir,’ throws up the resonances between them.<\/p>\n

Day One began with fourth-year soprano Kathryn Cox singing the aria, before Anthony Burton’s Breaking Away<\/em>, whilst earlier this afternoon the aria prefaced Stephen Johns’ evocative Spitalfields Echoes. <\/em>These delicate responses to the aria have really drawn the audience into the performance, both Burton’s filigree fragments of part of the melodic line above a singing lower-register incarnation, and Johns’ bell-like incantations floating above static chords.<\/p>\n