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Highlights from the 2011 GIO Festival

Jez Nelson presents highlights from the 2011 GIO Festival in Glasgow. With avant-garde Japanese pianist Satoko Fujii, and the GIO themselves, performing a newly-commissioned work.

Jez Nelson presents highlights from the 2011 GIO Festival in Glasgow. Run by the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra for the last four years, GIO Festival presents improvisation in a variety of sometimes unusual settings. Among the featured artists this year are avant-garde Japanese pianist Satoko Fujii, a pop-influenced quartet that includes festival director and saxophonist Raymond MacDonald and Bill Wells, and the GIO themselves, performing a newly commissioned work.

Presenter: Jez Nelson
Guest: Brian Morton
Producers: Phil Smith & Russell Finch.

1 hour, 30 minutes

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Mon 19 Dec 201123:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • New release

    • Bill Wells

      Different Pans

      • Lemondale.
      • Double Six.

  • BBC Introducing artist

    • Joe Wright/James Maddren Duo featuring Alice Zawadzki

      Wind

      Composer: Joe Wright

  • Jez talks to critic Brian Morton

    • Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra

      Ord (excerpt)

      Composer: Liene Rozite

  • Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra recorded at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow on 25 November 2011

    • Line-up:

      Raymond MacDonald & Graeme Wilson (saxophones), Emma Roche & Liene Rozite (flutes), Robert Henderson (trumpet), Chris Barclay & Nicole McNeilly (trombones), Aileen Campbell (voice),

    • Untitled

      Nicola MacDonald (harmonica), Gerry Rossi (piano), Neil Davidson (guitar), Catriona McKay (harp), Peter Nicholson (cello), Una MacGlone & Armin Sturm (basses), Stuart Brown & Fritz Welch (percussion),

    • Untitled

      Miguel Carvalhais (laptop)

    • Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra

      This set is freely improvised

  • Brian Morton speaks to Satoko Fujii

    • Untitled

  • Satoko Fujii recorded at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow on 25 November 2011

    • Line-up:

      Satoko Fujii (piano)

    • Satoko Fujii

      I Know You Don't Know

      Composer: Satoko Fujii

    • Satoko Fujii

      Ram

      Composer: Satoko Fujii

    • Satoko Fujii

      Take Right

      Composer: Satoko Fujii

  • George Burt/Miguel Carvalhais/Raymond MacDonald/Bill Wells at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow on 25 Nov 2011

    • Line-up:

      George Burt (guitar & bass guitar), Miguel Carvalhais (laptop), Raymond MacDonald (piano & alto saxophone), Bill Wells (piano & bass guitar)

    • George Burt / Miguel Carvalhais / Raymond MacDonald / Bill Wells

      Sterne

      Composer: George Burt

    • George Burt / Miguel Carvalhais / Raymond MacDonald / Bill Wells

      Ending At The Beginning

      Composer: Raymond MacDonald

    • George Burt / Miguel Carvalhais / Raymond MacDonald / Bill Wells

      The Splattered Lift

      Composer: Bill Wells

    • George Burt / Miguel Carvalhais / Raymond MacDonald / Bill Wells

      Part Of Me Wants You To Die

      Composer: Bill Wells

  • New release

    • John Zorn

      The Christmas Song

      • A Dreamers Christmas.
      • Tzadik.

Broadcast

  • Mon 19 Dec 201123:00
    BBC Radio 3

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