Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Saturday 21 January 2006 23:00-1:00 (Radio 3)
Highly individual and contrasted approaches to music, sound and colour are the central theme of this programme. Featuring choral and instrumental music by Giacinto Scelsi, performed by the New London Chamber Choir and Mieko Kanno; alongside the salty anger of Xenakis in his piano quintet Akea. To balm all this, the delicate, poised sound-world of Jo Kondo.
Plus James Dillon's fourth quartet, in a performance by France's Diotima Quartet.
Playlist
SCELSI, Giacinto: Ko-tha for guitar
KONDO, Jo: Three songs of the elderberry tree for violin [1995]
Mieko KANNO - Violin
SCELSI, Giacinto: Sauh III/IV for a capella choir
NEW LONDON CHAMBER CHOIR
XENAKIS, Iannis: Akea for piano quintet
DIOTIMA STRING QUARTET
Noriko KAWAI
SCELSI, Giacinto: Xnoybis for violin [1964]
Mieko KANNO - Violin
DILLON, James: Quartet for strings no. 4
DIOTIMA STRING QUARTET
HOSOKAWA, Toshio: Melodia
CIKADA
KONDO, Jo: Yarrow for chamber orchestra
CIKADA
