Michael Nyman's Revisiting the Don
Saturday 25 March 2006 23:00-2:00 (Radio 3)
Robert Worby introduces a studio session by the Michael Nyman Band, playing Nyman's new BBC commission for Mozart year, Revisiting the Don. They are joined by mezzo-soprano Hilary Summers for Nyman's Six Celan Songs.
Plus, the London Sinfonietta, conducted by Jurjen Hempel and joined by Synergy Voices and Sound Intermedia, gives its first public performance of Writing on Water, a new collaboration between David Lang and librettist Peter Greenaway, commissioned to mark the bicentenary of Nelson's victory at Trafalgar. The piece was performed alongside a contemporary classic, De Staat by Louis Andriessen, and recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.
Playlist
Presenter: Robert Worby
Producer: Philip Tagney
Broadcast Assistant: Patrick Johns
Michael Nyman and David Lang
Michael Nyman
'Revisiting the Don' (4'32")
BBC Commission
The Michael Nyman Band
David Lang
'Writing on Water' (29'27")
London Sinfonietta conducted by Jurjen Hempel with Synergy Voices: Robert Kearley (baritone), Richard Halton (baritone), Alistair Bamford (bass)
Michael Nyman
'Six Celan Songs' (37'00")
The Michael Nyman Band with Hilary Summers (contralto)
Louis Andriessen
'De Staat' (35'46")
London Sinfonietta conducted by Jurjen Hempel with Synergy Voices
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