Pascale Criton - 'Alter'

Pascale Criton - 'Alter'
(BBC Commission, World Premiere)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov - conductor
Juliet Fraser - soprano

Pascale Criton’s music first appeared at Tectonics Glasgow in 2018 and she returns with a work specially written for the festival. Written during the pandemic, 'Alter' plays on the idea of otherness, as well as alteration and transformation. The reference points are unstable, driven by minute reciprocal influences, bordering on acoustic phenomena such as beats and resulting sounds. Its text is a variation on this shifting world expressed in French, English and Arabic, with words written during the confinement by its soprano soloist, Juliet Fraser.