Echoes of Nature: Live from Shakespeare's Church

Echoes of Nature features two world premiere symphonic song cycles by Lucía Caruso & Pedro H. da Silva recorded live from Shakespeare’s church in Stratford-upon-Avon. The album features soprano Laetitia Grimaldi and composers Lucía Caruso on piano and celesta, and Pedro H. da Silva on Portuguese guitar, joined by the Royal Shakespeare Company music director Bruce O’Neil conducting the Orchestra & Choir of the Swan. The music draws on classical techniques, improvisation, and elements from various cultures and eras, as well as new sonorities created by celesta and Portuguese guitar. The first song cycle, “Echoes of Nature,” is based on poems by Korean polymath Ahae. “Nine Shakespeare Songs” were selected from different plays—comedies, tragedies, and fantasies— which the Stratford-upon-Avon Herald dubbed “a major new work.”