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‘Standards’: love songs by David Lang based on Guillaume de Machaut

Claron McFadden
Wed 10 Dec / 20:15 - 21:20
Wed 10 Dec ’25
20:15 - 21:20
  • Wed 10 Dec ’25
    20:15 - 21:20
    Amare Studio
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David Lang writes ‘smoky tunes’ from vanished nightclubs for Cello Octet Amsterdam and the fantastic soprano Claron McFadden. A world premiere by this top composer, inspired by old recordings of Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan who sang about the sorrows of love. David Lang’s texts draw upon the passionate love songs of Guillaume de Machaut, the 14th-century poet and composer who captured the same intensity of longing that centuries later would later be expressed in jazz standards.

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David Lang standards

The way old love songs keep touching us is similar to how standards work in jazz. Every singer makes their own version and thus brings out a slightly different meaning of the song. ‘All versions are in dialogue with each other and deepen the meaning of all the others’, says David Lang. Claron McFadden is one of the few singers who masters both early and contemporary music and jazz. Her unique ability to bridge diverse musical traditions shines through in David Lang’s new incarnations of these old smoky tunes.

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Claron McFadden sopraan
Cello Octet Amsterdam

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