The Angel and The Shadow

Friday 3rd October 2025 at 7.30pm

Doors open at 7pm

Tickets: £15 (£10 for under 18s & students) 

Tickets are available HERE  by phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.

Reimagining the remarkable poetry of Gertrud Kolmar, with Professor Julian Marshall.

An immersive lecture recital featuring a specially curated playlist of original music. Hear performances by James Gilchrist, Philharmonia Orchestra cellos, Louisa Clein. Miranda Ostler, Melanie Pappenheim and many others.

Beginning in 2007 with the startling discovery of the truly remarkable yet tragically little-known poet Gertrud Kolmar, who perished in Auschwitz in 1943, composer Julian Marshall set out on what has become a deeply involving, transformative creative journey. This has, so far, resulted in five works under the collective name The Welten Project – the seventeen-poem cycle on which all works are based.

In this evening’s presentation, Julian will share the story and process of this project and play a specially curated playlist of music.

Julian says about the event:

‘Towards the end of 2024, I began to feel that an event offering some sort of consolidation and contextualisation of Welten Project works written so far would be worth exploring. I had for some time become aware that from each of the five existing works there could be drawn a kind of distilled, concentrated playlist – a carefully curated compilation that could become a new ‘whole work’ in of itself.

This has now become a reality and I very much look forward to sharing this new endeavour with you – an evening that will take the form of an immersive listener experience prefaced by a short introductory talk and completed with a Q&A session.’

 

“…the work speaks to people so directly and powerfully’’. (James Gilchrist, Tenor)

“….his musical response is so emotionally hand-in-glove that they might have been sitting together working on the piece” (Jeremy Jackman, Choir and Organ Magazine)

 

Julian is composer and a professor at the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance (ICMP) in London, England.

 

You will hear recorded performances from:

James Gilchrist

Melanie Pappenheim

Miranda Ostler

Avigal Tlalim

Louisa Clein

Sophie Harris

Lucy Railton

Raj Bhaumik

Philharmonia Orchestra cellos (sextet)

The Rupa Ensemble

Schoolhouse 6 Ensemble – conducted by Howard Moody

Engineering and mixing by Philip Bagenal and Jonas Persson.