Future Classical Women Awards – April Fredrick

Hello and welcome to Future Classic Women Awards with me, Stefania Passamonte, on Women's Radio Station, the program where we search for the most amazing new female artists on the classical panorama. Today On future Classic Women Awards, we will be talking to April Frederick, a wonderful British soprano with a growing reputation for championing new works. She has premiered Philip Sawyer's Songs of Loss and Regret and Laurence Osborne's Mikrographia with the Riot Ensemble. April's discography features several premiere recordings including the Barbeck Knoxville Summer of 1915 and Copland Eight Songs of Emily Dickinson. And she returns to her beloved Strauss' Violin Lieder in 2017 in Manchester, Blackburn, and Nottingham, as well as to Knoxville with the Cheltenham Symphony Orchestra. April has recently premiered the title role of John Joubert's opera Jane Eyre in a live concert recording for SOM. Welcome, April. Thank you so much for having me. Yeah, it's a pleasure. Tell us about this Jane Eyre. It was an amazing project from start to finish. One of the lessons that I learned, first of all, was always to never despise a cover, because initially I was only meant to be doing the COVID and the soprano dropped out. Oh. And this, I think, was one of the greatest privileges of my life, but also one of the greatest adventures. Jane has always been one of my favorite literary characters, so I had known the book and loved it for many years. And so the privilege of realizing her on stage was immense. Yes. The thing which is also such a joy about this piece is that among John Joubert's many commissions, it was— this was actually a piece that was not done to commission. It was a labor of love written over about 20 years. And, and even the libretto, the way that he chose to work with his collaborator Kenneth Birkin, the text was so obviously loving and with such a high commitment to the author's initial intent. And as one of the cellists who did a review of the premiere said it actually illuminates the book, which is not always the case for libretto, but it brings even more insight to the piece. And it is a fantastic piece of work. It's a wonderful opera. It's a great piece of theatricality. And Jane is just amazingly feisty. And I was actually on stage singing about two-thirds of the time, so it's an absolute marathon. Wow. And at one stage, for grins and giggles, I wrote kind of how many high notes there were and low notes, because it sort of exists both kind of above and below the stave. And I decided his favorite note was high A-flat. There were 43 of them. Oh. But then there were an equal number sort of under the stave. So it's quite unusual for a soprano to have to be able to really whack out some of these big high notes, I suppose, as you will hear, but then to be able to have the warmth in voice as well and to be able to have this transparency and this strength. But all these things are in Jane herself as a character, so it was such great fun to realize that. So you chose to play for us, um, "My Spirit is Willing" from Act 2, Scene 2 from the Jane Eyre opera. What's happening in this area? So Jane has been taken in by the Rivers family, and St. John is, um, in some ways quite a, I suppose, intense fanatical character himself, and he dreams of going to be a missionary, and he wants Jane to go with him. And she feels as though if she does, he's going to crush her, not intentionally. And so this is her fighting back, and he sort of said, ah, be careful, you know, um, lest you essentially, you know, fall prey to your own weakness, because the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. And at this point her inner grit, which shows itself throughout the opera in standing up to these kind of various oppressive male figures, comes back in. And she says, "My spirit is willing to do what is right, and my flesh is strong enough, I hope, you know, to accomplish the will of heaven, strong enough to search, to inquire, to grow up an outlet through this cloud of doubts to the open day of certainty." And it's this amazing sort of triumphant scene. And in my head, I was picturing the moment in the film about Louis Zamperini, the Olympic athlete who ended up being a prisoner of war, where he accomplishes this sort of superhuman feat of having to hold this beam, you know, for this period of time. But that moment when the human will asserts itself and says, "No, I will not be trampled, and I will be myself." And so it's that moment when the self rises to say, "I'm here and I will do what I feel is right. I have a will and I will exercise it to the right end," which she feels is actually going to Rochester. Wonderful. Let's listen to it then. My spirit is willing. To do what is right. And my Finnish, I hope, is strong enough. O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming. And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. You are deceived. I heard nothing. He loves me still. He needs me. He loves me still. And this was April Frederick with My Spirit is Willing from Jane Eyre, and we would like to listen now to the end of the scene, It is as if transcendent. It is as if transcendent. Swedish toast, friends! WRS, Women's Radio Station, voice of women worldwide. Sarah's Universal Soul Show. What does your soul or spirituality mean to you? Welcome to Future Classical Woman Awards with me, Stefania Passamonte, on Women's Radio Station. Welcome back, I'm Russ Kane, you're listening to In Conversation With on Women's Radio Station. I'm Angie and I'm Patsy and we're open. To see what other programs we have on Women's Radio Station, head to our website womensradiostation.com. 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Welcome back to Future Classic Women Awards on Women's Radio Station, the program where we search for the most amazing new female artists on the classical panorama. Today we're talking to April Frederick. We heard her before singing the amazing arias from Jane Eyre, her latest album, with some, some records. April, do you have any favorite role or dream role? I think one of the, the roles that I would love to be able to play would be Constanze in Abduction from the Serralio by Mozart, because she's, she's very feisty. I've sung the role of Martin Alla'Arten many times, but I think there's also a definite element of comedy in it, and I, I like that. But on the complete end other end of the spectrum, I would also love to play Lulu in Berg's opera. I tend to be drawn to the kind of complex characters, and I really enjoy the challenge of portraying them in all their detail. So would you say, as a soprano in general, you know, for you at least in your career, is it easier to play a character that somehow goes with your way of thinking, or it's or it's more fun to play some character that have nothing to do with what you would do, for example, if you were in their shoes? I think sometimes I tend to prefer to play people who aren't like me, but I suppose I've done both because in some ways I feel Jane was more like me and some of the others, for instance, the next role I'm playing, Avis, is very unlike me. Who is Ava? Tell us. So she is a young girl in Ethel Smythe's The Wreckers, which I'm playing in in October. And she's a very unpleasant young creature. She's going to be the kind of woman you love to hate. Yeah, she's a real pot stirrer. But she also kind of represents how we— when we get wrapped up in love, it can kind of take over and it can become a bit of an obsession, which actually reduces us as people. And, um, but it's, it's quite interesting to find how to portray the truth of the human spirits in that. So when you do that, do you have in mind anyone similar to that? I think you do tend to kind of draw on your own experience, but I think primarily I am a— I would think of myself as a singer-actress, and so I'm trying to kind of get into that character and to think about the whole discipline of intentions and super intentions and objectives and to prepare it as you would a dramatic role with that sort of rigor. I know you're also an active Lieder performer. That is a completely different thing, I might say. This is actually, I think, in some ways my first passion, because from the very beginning of my life I've had a passion for words. In fact, I had intended to do creative writing before I ended up doing music in university. And so I think that this love affair with words has certainly followed me the whole time. And I've always had a real commitment to Lieder a discipline, and I think that you have real magic that happens when a composer falls in love with a poem. So which one is your favorite lieder? I think it depends on my mood and it depends on the time. I think that one which I've had the privilege of recording— this was actually my first record with SOM— was from the Eight Songs of Emily Dickinson by Erin Copeland, and it's called "The World Feels Dusty." Ah, I'd love to listen to it. Why does the world feel dusty? Well, in Emily's usual unique perspective, she's talking about the fact that when everything is said and done, honors taste dry, as she says, and that what we want is connection. We don't actually want the world's fame or adulation. What we want is people with us. We want relationship. And I think this song really captures kind of the tenderness of that and both the strength and the vulnerability of that. Brilliant. So let's listen to Copland, "The World Feels Dusty," sung by April Frederick. Oh, the world feels dusty. When we stoop to die, we want the dear, the honest taste of life. Like, like, I bid a ministry when thy thirst comes, Jews of And this was Copland, The World Feels Dusty. Do you have any other lieder that is dear to you? One that I particularly like is Die Sterne by Franz Schubert, who is of course the greatest of song composers in many ways. So this is a strophic song, so it's the same music for different verses. It's about a moonlit or a starlit journey, and it's with a dear collaborator of mine, Amy Disciple. Wow, let's listen to it. Wie blitzen die Sterne so hell durch den Nord, erhofft schon darüber von Schlummer ihr Wort. Doch schellt nicht in lichten Gebirgen rundum, sehe in den Stil hoch oben in Engelgestalt. Sie leuchten dem Pilger durch Heiden und Mond. Sie schweben auf Booten der Liebe her und tragen auf Küssarbeit Himmel aus mildet Gesicht und säumt die Tränen mit silbernem Licht. Und weiß und von Gräben Gott riss sich und wurd' und hinter das Blaue mit Fingern von Burg and hint at the promise, think on, for the good. Und leuchte mir lange noch Freundlied und Klang. Und wenn ich heißt, lebe, sei Tod dem Führer ein, sei Hoden dem Führer ein, und euer Geflimmern als Segen uns sein, und euer Geflimmern als Segen uns sein. And this was Schubert, "Dir starne," sung by April Fredrik. We will be back after a short break. Welcome to Women's Radio Station, the voice of women worldwide. Hungry? An average woman eats about 2 to 3 kilos of lipstick in her lifetime. Women's Radio Station, We want to hear from you. This is Women's Radio Station. You're listening to Avril Price with Kitchen Sink Spirituality. It's Anna Kennedy talking all things autism, and my guest today is Karen Nunn. I listen to Women's Radio Station. 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We're currently welcoming donations to help towards our running costs to keep this important initiative alive. To donate, simply head to our website. Every little will help. Welcome back to Future Classic Women Awards on Women's Radio Station, the program where we search for the most amazing new female artists on the classical panorama. Today we're talking with April Frederick. Um, April, what does it mean to be an opera singer today? Are you an opera singer? That's a very interesting question because opera is part of what I do, but as we were sort of saying earlier, I also have a great commitment to song, to contemporary music, and I'm also a founding member of a baroque ensemble called Dea Grazia. And I think that it's a great thing to be versatile. I think that it was the norm up until maybe kind of the middle of the last century, if you think about it, and then we seem to have kind of fallen into a habit of specialization and thinking boxes, boxes. And I think I'm a singer who definitely works outside of the box for a lot of what I do. So I love, I love opera, but I think also I'm very interested in the theatricality of song. And another project that I might allude to later is looking at that. But a lot of the different projects that I'm involved in are looking at how to bring that same that we expect in opera into other music and to make it as engaging and as immersive as opera can be. So for example, of a Baroque, which Baroque example could you give us? Well, one of my favorites is this piece by Alessandro Scarlatti called "L'autor d'ogni mio bene" from his Christmas cantata "Odi Bethlehem" me altera. And so it's saying the author of all of my being has chosen to wrap himself in, well, the chains of swaddling clothes. So it's in some ways quite an astonishing text to choose, and there's a poignancy and a real beauty to what he does, but it's quite sort of conversational, and this beautiful kind of violin obbligato on top. Oh wow, that is what we're going to listen now. And so to go to the extreme opposite, what would you choose? Definitely Strauss, Beim Schlafengehen, from his 4 last songs. I got to do this for the first time— still very, very dear performance to me— with the Chester Philharmonic in Chester Cathedral. One of those strange performances where everybody feels the same and is reduced essentially to speechlessness with the power of what's just happened. A clergyman at the cathedral came up to me afterwards with tears in his eyes, clasped my hand, and said, "Salieri once said upon hearing the music of Mozart," "I have heard the voice of God. Today I can say the same." And what is the song about? The song is about, in some ways, making your peace with death, as the whole cycle is, about what you will never be able to do. It was written right at the end of Strauss's life. So he's sort of talking about when you're coming to the end of things, putting aside thoughts, and then when your soul soars. So after the violin solo, you hear the voice literally kind of go up and up and up and talking about going into the kind of magic circle of the night. And so to me, it's part and parcel of what we do as musicians, of finding a way to be content with what we have and where we are and finding joy in the work that we have and enjoying that process. Beautiful. Let's listen to it then. WRS, Women's Radio Station, voice of women worldwide. News, music, science, fashion, comedy, and much more on Women's Radio Station. Hello and welcome to Talking Travel with myself, Kay, on Women's Radio Station. Women speak about 20,000 languages. Words a day. That's 13,000 more than the average man. Welcome back to From Sonnet to Song. I'm Isabel Schuler. I'm Martha Reid. WRS, Women's Radio Station. 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Oh goodness, I think one of the moments was, um, when I did Mahler 4 with the Warsaw Philharmonic in the Royal Concert Hall, and, um, Jacek Kapuściński was conducting, and they always tell you in conservatoire, you set the tempo. But what happens if the man who's conducting studied with someone who studied with the composer? Ah. Then suddenly you think, "Yeah, we'll take your tempo. We'll do that." And we started off at a tempo that I wasn't expecting, and so it wrong-footed me slightly. So twice I started at the wrong tempo, and then of course your psychology kicks in. And he stopped me and he just sort of said, I don't know why you're so nervous, but it's going to be fine. I will be singing with you. Oh no! But in a sense, I thought, isn't that what the whole thing is about? Yeah, that actually it's not just soloist and orchestra. It's not just soloist, it's— we, we make the music together. And I— because so many of my formative years were spent behind the baton and, you know, doing chamber music, I think that's always my attitude is to try and develop a rapport with the orchestra, develop rapport with the audience, the idea that it's something that we make together. Yeah, totally, I totally agree. So do you have any fun moments or embarrassing moments to tell us? There are actually, there was one, this was a pretty spectacular one. The first time I did Mahler 4, I got so wrapped up in the interlude that I got so emotionally involved, I not only managed for a split second to forget the words, but the melody that I was meant to sing. So blessedly, this was not a very high-profile thing. So there was just a second where it sounded a little bit more like Schoenberg than Mahler. Okay. But I sort of sprang back into action and finished it. Amazing. And it was a great lesson to me because nobody remembered. Nobody even noticed. And I was just reminded that we are such perfectionists as classical musicians, but that we register all of our errors. But also it reminded me that in the end it's not about me, that I'm there to be a storyteller. I'm there to remind people what it is to be human. And I'm there to connect them to themselves, to each other, with the past, you know, through the music. It's not actually about me. I'm there to be a servant. And so do you have— Absolutely. So is that what would you say to a young aspiring singer? I think I would, I would say be yourself. And I would say hold on, and things may not transpire as you imagine they will, but make the decisions that will help you to become the roundest person and the, the best person and the best musician. And eventually your life as a whole will speak the truth of the music that you love, and it will be richer for that. And so I think I would say don't get so wrapped up with what people think of you, but remember that in the end it is about living well And it is about more than just your singing, and your singing will be fed by the whole of who you are. So to finish our interview, you chose a piece by Tavener. Yes. Do you want to tell us about this? Yes. So this was one of the first big pieces I sang in Russian. It was the same year I also sang my first Shostakovich Symphony 14, which I'm of which I'm doing a staged version with the English Symphony Orchestra next year. It's pretty— well, both of them are about death, really cheerful stuff, but this one's about sort of standing on the edge of something. And Akhmatova sort of talks about finding that death is a ship and that there's a cabin that's reserved for her, and it's the moment of parting from the beloved country, and you can kind of hear her drifting away. But it's amazing effect between the cello and the voice. And I think it also really shows the contrasts. And also sort of shows what Russian brings out in my voice, which I think is tremendously different to what Baroque does. Wow. So there's the kind of— one is the kind of nuance and the light and the shadow, and this one is all gutsiness and kind of darkness. And so I really enjoy both of those extremes. Brilliant. Let's listen to John Taverner, Death. And this was John Taverner's Death, sung beautifully by April Frederick. April, what's your next big thing? My first solo recital at St. John's Smith Square on the 4th of October, all American music, Outlaws and Outsiders. Quite excited about that. Mm-hmm, that's on my diary. And, and, um, Avis in Ethel Smyth's The Wreckers for Arcadian Opera on October 27th and 28th. Ah, beautiful. Well, April, a big thanks to you for the beautiful chat and the beautiful music that we played today. 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