Product Description
Joseph Chester – Lucia (CD)
RELEASE DATE: 27 / 01 / 2023 LABEL: Bohemia Records
On January 27th, 2023, Bohemia Records release LUCIA, multi-award nominated musician
Joseph Chester’s first major composition for classical guitar & strings, commissioned by Axis
Ballymun, Dublin, as part of the celebrations marking the centenary of James Joyce’s Ulysses
taking place in Dublin and globally on the 16th of June 2022. The suite, which was “inspired by
fragments of the life of Lucia Joyce,” had its world première performance in Dublin on
Bloomsday, 2022.
Over 11 instrumental pieces Chester is joined by renowned musicians Steve Wickham, Vyvienne Long and Kenneth Rice to tell the story of Lucia Joyce, daughter of James Joyce. 2022 marks the centenary celebrations of the release of his seminal work, Ulysses.
TRACKLIST:
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Northampton
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The Little Match Girl
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La Princesse Primitive
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The Jury’s Verdict
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Beckett
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Fragment From Work in Progress
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Nuvoluccia in her Lightdress
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Candlemas, 1932
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Asylum
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What’s he Doing Under the Ground, That Idiot
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A Flower Given to my Daughter
