First performance by Ryland Angel and Lara St John on 28 December 2012, Trinity Wall Street, New York, USA.

  • vn
  • countertenor
  • 9 min

Programme Note

Now fatal change, for solo violin and counter-tenor, sets the poem The Blessed Virgin’s Expostulation by Nahum Tate (1652-1715). A meditation on a single moment of trauma, the piece is split into five short movements, each representing a sequentially heightened stage of anguish in the protagonist.
Tarik O’Regan
October, 2012


PERFORMANCE NOTE
Now Fatal Change should ideally be performed as a continuous song cycle.
Alternatively, the individual movements may be performed in order but interspersed with other music or events over the course of a concert.

Media

O'Regan: Now Fatal Change

Scores

Score sample

Discography

Now Fatal Change

Now Fatal Change
  • Label
    NMC Recordings
  • Catalogue Number
    NMC DL3030
  • Soloist
    Ryland Angel, countertenor; Lara St. John, violin
  • Released
    2nd February 2017