Hear And NowSummer Festivals
Saturday 3 July 2004 23:00-1:00 (Radio 3)
In the first of five programmes taking in the music of various Summer festivals, Robert Worby visits the City of London Festival and takes in the music of George Crumb in three different concerts.
In addition to Eleanor Alberga's Tiger Dream in Forest Green, the ensemble Conchord performs Crumb's Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale), and the cellist Claudio Bohorquez plays the Sonata for solo cello of 1955. The Galliard Ensemble and Friends play two works inspired by the works of the Andalusian poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca: Crumb's Ancient Voices of Children and Madrigals, Book III, and the world premiere of Carlos Miranda's del amor insome noche based on recently discovered Lorca sonnets and commissioned by BBC Radio 3.
Duration:2 hours |
 Playlist Summer Festivals 1 of 5
City of London Festival: George Crumb series
Eleanor Alberga
‘Tiger Dream in Forest Green’ (13’30”)
World Premiere
Conchord
George Crumb
‘Madrigals, Book III’
Anna Dennis (soprano), Lucy Wakeford (harp), Colin Currie (percussion) (9’18”)
George Crumb
‘Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale)’ (19’45”)
Vocalise (…for the beginning of time)
Variations on Sea-Time (Sea Theme)
Archeozoic (Var. I)
Proterozoic (Var. II)
Paleozoic (Var. III)
Mesozoic (Var. IV)
Cenozoic (Var. V)
Sea-Nocturne (…for the end of time)
Conchord
George Crumb
‘Sonata for solo cello’ (10’10”)
Claudio Bohorquez (cello)
Carlos Miranda
‘del amor insome noche’ (15’40”)
World Premiere of BBC Radio 3 Commission
Galliard Ensemble
George Crumb
‘Ancient Voices of Children’ (25’18”)
Galliard Ensemble with Anna Dennis (soprano), Zico Shakar (boy soprano), Colin Currie (percussion)
This edition of Hear and Now was preceded by performances of music from a concert given by the London Sinfonietta in January.
Mauricio Kagel
‘Double Sextet’ (21’35”)
London Premiere
London Sinfonietta, conducted by Oliver Knussen
Augusta Read Thomas
‘In My Sky at Twilight’ (20’05”)
UK Premiere
London Sinfonietta, conducted by Oliver Knussen with Nicolas Hodges (piano)
City of London Festival: http://www.colf.org
George Crumb: http://www.georgecrumb.net
Galliard Ensemble: http://www.margaretmurphy.com/galliard.htm
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For further details of any of tonight’s composers, performers or pieces, please e-mail hear.and.now@bbc.co.uk
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