Sudden Light (2013, rev. 2025)

Vocal
Written By Tobias Wolf

1. Slant of Light
2. Delay
3. Sudden Light

Baritone and Piano

Duration:
10′

First Performance:
30 October 2013
Jeremy Huw Williams, Ed Jones, St Machar’s Cathedral, Aberdeen, UK as part of the Sound Festival 2013

Score

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Programme note

Sudden Light is a short song-cycle on themes of light and starlight. The opening song (a setting of Emily Dickinson) is anxious and full of foreboding, this being dissipated somewhat in the expansive and sustained setting of Elizabeth Jennings’s ‘Delay’ that follows. The final song (a setting of Dante Gabriel Rossetti) is more traditional in feel, but here more than in the other songs, the light is not radiant and pervasive, rather weak and wan.

PAC

Recording

Tobias Wolf

Tobias Wolf is a photographer, musician and artist based in North East Scotland. With a background in conducting, composition and hybrid media, his creative practice has long been shaped by an interest in atmosphere, structure and the relationship between sound, image and place. Photography has been a lifelong companion — a way of slowing down, noticing light, and finding quiet meaning in everyday scenes.

https://www.tpwolf.com
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