Magyar Music
Saturday 17 July 2004 23:00-1:00 (Radio 3)
More music from the Cheltenham Festival in a Hear and Now joint promoted concert given as part of Magyar Music: Hungary in Focus 2004.
The London Sinfonietta is conducted by Pierre-André Valade.
Presented by Alwynne Pritchard.
Playlist
Summer Festivals 3 of 5
Harrison Birtwistle
‘Ritual Fragment’ (10’44”)
London Sinfonietta
Tansy Davies
‘Iris’ (13’24”)
World Premiere
London Sinfonietta conducted by Pierre-André Valade, with Simon Haram (saxophone)
Michael Berkeley
‘Double Guitar Concerto’ (21’18”)
World Premiere
London Sinfonietta conducted by Pierre-André Valade, with the Katona Twins: Peter Katona and Zoltán Katona (guitars)
György Ligeti
‘Melodien’ (11’26”)
London Sinfonietta conducted by Pierre-André Valade
Zoltán Jeney
‘Heraclitian Fragments’ (16’35”)
UK Premiere
London Sinfonietta conducted by Pierre-André Valade
Harrison Birtwistle
‘Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum’ (8’49”)
London Sinfonietta conducted by Pierre-André Valade
Zoltán Jeney
‘Self-quotations’ (13’02”)
Ensemble UMZE
Recorded at the 2003 Huddersfield Festival
This edition of Hear and Now was preceded at 10.20pm in Pre-Hear by a performance of music by Peter Eötvös recorded in December 2003.
This edition of Hear and Now was preceded at 10.20pm in Pre-Hear by more Hungarian music:
Peter Eotvos
'Wind Sequences' (27'43")
UK Premiere
London Sinfonietta conducted by Pierre-Andre Valade
Recorded in December 2003
Gyorgy Kurtaq
Music from Jatekok:
Prelude & Chorale
Knots
Antiphon in F-sharp
Dirge
Homage to Christian Wolff (half-asleep)
Play with over-tones
Perpetuum mobile
Gyorgy Kurtag (piano)
CD: ECM 1619 tracks 3-9
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