2007 New Music Highlights
Saturday 29 December 2007 22:30-0:00 (Radio 3)
For the last edition of 2007, Sara Mohr-Pietsch is joined by critics Annette Morreau and Ivan Hewett for a round-up of the year's new music highlights.
Duration:
1 hour 30 minutes
Playlist
Presenter: Sara Mohr Pietsch
Producer: Peter Meanwell
Opening Montage:
Oliver KNUSSEN Requiem: Songs for Sue (00'5")
Terry RILEY Rainbow in Curved Air (revisited) (00'6")
Jonathan HARVEY/Kaffe MATTHEWS - Body Mandala Improvisation (00'8")
Howard SKEMPTON Chamber Concerto (00'8")
Philip GLASS Music in 12 Parts: Part 5 (excerpt) (00'52")
The Philip Glass Ensemble
Michael Riesman (director)
NONESUCH 79324-2
Cd 1 Tr 5
Howard SKEMPTON The Moon is Flashing
2nd Movement: A day in three wipes (excerpt) (03'46") (BBC Commission)
James Gilchrist(tenor)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Grant Llewellyn (conductor)
(Recorded at LLandaff Cathedral, Cardiff, Wales on 6th September 07 as part of the Vale of Glamorgan Festival)
Luigi NONO Hay no camino (excerpt) (00'25")
London Sinfonietta, Diego Masson (conductor)
(Recorded on 1st October 2007 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, to be broadcast on H&N on 16 Feb 2008)
Jonathan HARVEY/Kaffe MATTHEWS Body Mandala / Improvisation (excerpt) (07'38")
BBC SSO, Ilan Volkov (conductor)
(Recorded 5th May 2007 at the Glasgow City Halls)
Karlheinz STOCKHAUSEN - Kontakte (00'33")
David Tudor (piano and percussion), Christoph Caskel (percussion), Karlheinz Stockhausen and Gottfried Michael Koenig (electronics)
WERGO WER 6009-2 (CD)
Orlando GOUGH/Emma Bernard - Critical Mass (01'47")
The Shout, Streetwise Opera, Orlando Gough (director)
[from private CD]
Terry RILEY A Rainbow In Curved Air (07'09")
Terry Riley (keyboard)
William Winant (percussion)
Mikail Graham (keyboard & laptop)
(Recorded at Glasgow Tramway on 26th April 07)
Poet Jo Shapcott reads her poem Magnificat Antiphons for the Presteigne Festival
Arvo PART Seven Magnificat Antiphons (1) (01'30) Taverner Choir, Andrew Parrott (conductor)
SONY SK 61753 (CD)
Oliver KNUSSEN Requiem: Songs for Sue (12'09") Claire Booth (soprano)
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Oliver Knussen (conductor)
(Recorded at the Aldeburgh Festival on 15th June 07)
Actor and broadcaster John Bird gives his 2007 highlight.
Helmut LACHENMANN - Mouvement
(vor der Erstarrung) (00'28")
London Sinfonietta,
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
(Recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall London on 20th November 2006)
Thomas ADES Violin Concerto 'Concentric Paths' (3rd movement played) (05'14"): Anthony Marwood (violin), Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Thomas Ades (conductor)
EMI 5099950027156 (CD)
Howard SKEMPTON Chamber Concerto
(excerpt) (05'43")
(from CD entitled 'Ben Somewhen'): Birmingham Contemporary Music Group,
James Weeks (conductor)
NMC CD D135 (CD)
For further details of any of tonight's composers, performers or pieces, please e-mail [email protected]
