
20 Songs, 1 Hour 13 Minutes

Jonathan Dove: In Damascus Sacconi Quartet
EDITORS’ NOTES
Jonathan Dove’s In Damascusis a song-cycle for tenor and string quartet and was inspired by the Syrian refugee crisis. His response is direct, uncompromising, unsentimental and, as a result, very powerful. Few tenors can galvanise the intensity of Mark Padmore, while the Sacconis are joined by the pianist Charles Owen for Dove’s Piano Quintet which dances, ducks and dives to great effect. The quartet, Out of Time, was commissioned to remember a departed husband, and judging by the vivacity of the music he must have been immense fun.
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Piano Quintet
Sacconi Quartet & Charles Owen
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I. Energetic
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II. Very Spacious
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III. Lively
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Out of Time
Sacconi Quartet
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I. Quite fast
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II. Slow
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III. Stomping
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IV. Lively
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V. Fast
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VI. Gently Moving
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In Damascus
Sacconi Quartet & Mark Padmore
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I. A Little While Ago
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II. And What If You Weep Alone
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III. Two Days Ago
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IV. Here and Now In Damascus
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V. The Many Faces of Damascus
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VI. Instrumental
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VII. Soon, We Will Be Free
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VIII. I Don’t Think Any Nations
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IX. On All My Travels, I’d Take a Book
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X. My Heart is a Black Lump of Coal
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XI. My Country
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