A Stranger's Taste

Ballet: Work details

Choreographer: Siobhan Davies
Composer: Tobias Hume
Music title: The First Part of Ayres (1605) - 'Harke, harke' for solo bass viol
Composer: John Cage
Music title: The Unavailable Memory Of (1944); Tossed as it is Untroubled (1943); Prelude for Meditation (1944); And the Earth Shall Bear Again (1942)
Composer: Marais Marais
Music title: Suitte d'un goût étranger, Piéces de Violes, 4e livre (1717) - 'Sarabande', 'La Tartarine', 'Le Tourbillon', for bass viol and harpsichord
Composer: Carl Friedrich Abel
Music title: Two pieces for solo bass viol
Composer: Antoine Forqueray
Music title: Piéces de Viole avec la bass continue (1747) - 'La Bouron', vivement et détaché for bass viol and harpsichord
Work definition: Ballet in one act
World premiere: 8 December 1999, The Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
ROH premiere: 8 December 1999, The Royal Ballet
ROH company premiere: 8 December 1999, The Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Productions
A Stranger's Taste (1999) The Royal Ballet (5 performances online)