1999 AFCM Ensemble: In Tempo di Valse (5mins 44secs) Album: Scnittke Piano Quintet Naxos 8.554728
:: Track 2
Tonus Peregrinus: Jesus is Betrayed... (9mins 38secs) Album: Arvo Part - Passio Naxos 8.555860
:: Track 3
Gavin Bryars Ensemble: A Man in a Room, Gambling No 4 (1st track) (5mins 07secs) Album: A Man in a Room, Gambling Point Music 456 514 - 2
BACKGROUND
Reflective, melancholic music - possibly a bit mainstream classical, but all three composers have featured on Late Junction. The Schnittke movement is a mordant piano waltz, pursued and dragged into chaos by the Furies of the strings. The Part is simple and solemn, whilst the (typical) Bryars is one of a series of ten 5-minute pieces intended to be played on successive nights to close a programme (now there's an idea!); even if you don't like it, you can at least learn how to cheat at cards....