A Delicate Fire (Soundtrack from the Film) Erin Helyard & Simon Martyn-Ellis

• 1 Arie, Op. 8: Sinfonia 02:22
• 2 Sonetto proemio dell'opera, Op. 1 No. 1 06:14
• 3 Silentio nocivo, Op. 1 No. 6 04:51
• 4 Canto di bella bocca, Op. 1 No. 2 06:01
• 5 Ballo detto Eccardo, Op. 12 No. 19 02:27
• 6 L'affetto umano, Op. 1 No. 7 04:04
• 7 Il contrasto de' cinque sensi, Op. 1 No. 14 02:47
• 8 Lagrime mie, lamento Op. 7 No. 4 07:37
• 9 Sonata sopra "Fuggi dolente core", Op. 22 No. 21 03:41
• 10 Priego ad Amore, Op. 1 No. 15 03:46
• 11 Vecchio amante che rende la piazza, Op. 1 No. 20 06:12
• 12 Conclusione dell'opera, Op. 1 No. 25 03:37
• 13 Godere in gioventù, Op. 1 No. 12 04:18
• Total Runtime 57:57

Info for A Delicate Fire (Soundtrack from the Film)

This film was produced on the lands of the Wangal and Gadigal peoples of the Eora nation. Pinchgut Opera acknowledges the first story-tellers and singers of songs.

Erin Helyard, Musical Director of Pinchgut Opera, says of this madrigal - “The Quarrel of the Five Senses is one of Strozzi’s more whimsical madrigals. Which of the five senses is the greatest? Which one brings us the greatest joy? Well, just one little kiss, which unites all the senses, can make everything overflow, so let the heart that craves love be the judge, Strozzi says. Con Costi, Charlotte Mungomery, and I loved the light-hearted playfulness of this madrigal and I think we really brought out Strozzi's quirkiness in our approach to this charming piece.”

Anna Dowsley, mezzo soprano
Taryn Fiebig, soprano
Chloe Lankshear, soprano
Keara Donohoe, mezzo soprano
Nicholas Jones, tenor
David Greco, baritone
Andrew O'Connor, bass
Simon Martyn-Ellis, theorbo, baroque guitar
Hannah Lane, baroque harp
Anthea Cottee, cello, viola da gamba, lirone
Matthew Greco, violin
Karina Schmitz, violin
Allie Graham, dancer
Neale Whittaker, dancer
Erin Helyard, musical director, conductor

Erin Helyard
has been acclaimed as an inspiring conductor, a virtuosic and expressive performer of the harpsichord and fortepiano, and as a lucid scholar who is passionate about promoting discourse between musicology and performance. Erin graduated in harpsichord performance from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with first-class honours and the University Medal. He completed his Masters in fortepiano performance and a PhD in musicology with Tom Beghin at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University, Montreal. He was named the Westfield Concert Scholar (Cornell University) on fortepiano for 2009-2010 and from 2003 to 2012 Erin was a central member of the award-winning Ensemble Caprice (Montreal). As Artistic Director and co-founder of the celebrated Pinchgut Opera and the Orchestra of the Antipodes (Sydney) he has forged new standards of excellence in historically-informed performance in Australia. The company won Best Rediscovered Opera (2019) for Hasse’s Artaserse at the International Opera Awards in London. Operas under his direction have been awarded Best Opera at the Helpmann Awards for three consecutive years (2015-2017). He has received two Helpmann Awards for Best Musical Direction: one for a fêted revival of Saul (Adelaide Festival) in 2017 and the other for Hasse’s Artaserse (Pinchgut Opera) in 2019. Erin has conducted from the keyboard operas by composers as varied as Handel, Vivaldi, Cavalli, Monteverdi, Rameau, Vinci, Hasse, Charpentier, Salieri, and Grétry. As a conductor Erin has distinguished himself in dynamic performances with the Adelaide, Tasmanian, and Queensland Symphony Orchestras and the Australian Haydn Ensemble. Helyard regularly collaborates with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and duets in nineteenth-century repertoire on historical pianos with renowned Alkan exponent Stephanie McCallum. On fortepiano and harpsichord he was recently described as “Australia’s most engaging soloist” by Limelight magazine. In 2017 Helyard was awarded a major Australian Research Council Discovery Grant for a collaborative project entitled Performing Transdisciplinarity: Image, Music, and Text in Eighteenth-Century Print Culture and in 2018 was recognised with a Music and Opera Singers Trust Achievement Award (MAA) for contribution to the arts in Australia. Erin appears courtesy of Pinchgut Opera.

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