Ensemble Perpetuo
Libby Burgess piano
Claude Debussy La Mer (arr. Beamish)
Roxanna Panufnik The Upside Down Sailor
Sally Beamish The Lone Seafarer
Cecilia McDowall Time Between the Tides
Malcolm Arnold Sea Shanties
From the cliffs of Dover to the tempestuous southern Ocean, Ensemble Perpetuo will take you on a poetic and musical journey exploring the beauty and unforgiving nature of our seas, and will tell the tales of the courage and love of those wo have worked and sailed across it. Music by Debussy, Roxanna Panufnik, Sally Beamish, Cecilia McDowall and Malcolm Arnold. The London Photo Festival will also be specially curating an exhibition of photographs inspired by the sea to accompany the music. The concert is programmed as part of Totally Thames and the Landlubbers Maritime Folk Festival taking place at the National Maritime Museum and Cutty Sark in September.
