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Love Songs

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Soundstreams performing Love Songs from Love Songs by Claude Vivier @ Purcell Room, Southbank Centre (Opening 07-05-2022) ©Tristram Kenton 05-22 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: [email protected]

Love Songs
April 9, 2026
7:30 pm
Jane Mallett Theatre

FEATURED PERFORMERS
David Fallis, Music Director
Carla Huhtanen, soprano
Gregory Oh, piano
Noam Bierstone, percussion

Soundstreams’ Love Songs—for seven singers, piano and percussion, explores love, identity, connection, and censorship through works that challenge and captivate. At the heart of the program are Claude Vivier’s Love Songs and Shiraz—two intensely personal and spiritual works shaped in part by his travels to Japan, Indonesia and Iran. Previously toured by Soundstreams to the U.K. and Germany, London’s The Guardian hailed Vivier’s music in this program as “unruly and utterly distinctive.” Ana Sokolović’s Dring! Dring! playfully reflects on our complex relationship with our cell phones, and Nicole Lizée’s The Filthy Fifteen, inspired by a 1985 list of songs compiled in the USA and deemed too obscene for public consumption, takes a subversive look at artistic censorship and the boundaries of expression. Together, these works challenge and captivate— offering a striking meditation on identity, connection, and the forces that shape what we hear, say, and create.

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Photo: Love Songs (Claude Vivier)
Southbank Centre, Purcell Room, 2022
Photo by Tristram Kenton