大象传媒

大象传媒 PROMS 2010

Live from Cadogan Hall, London

Presented by Catherine Bott

Music which casts a glance over its shoulder to the works of previous generations is the keynote of this Proms Saturday Matinee, including pieces by living composers which have been inspired by the music of earlier times.

Judith Weir's All the Ends of the Earth takes as its starting-point the newly-invented style of four-part singing developed at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris in the 13th century, while Brian Ferneyhough's work for string quartet is based on music by the Tudor composer Christopher Tye. Jonathan Harvey's motet for Easter is inspired by the work of Tye's contemporary John Taverner, as is Gabriel Jackson's new piece, a 大象传媒 commission, which makes a 21st-century contribution to the popular Renaissance form initiated by Taverner, the In nomine.

Completing the programme, another 大象传媒 commission by the Edinburgh-born but California-based Thea Musgrave. Ithaca sets a modern poetic description of Odysseus' epic journey back to his island home after the Trojan Wars. And - a classical companion-piece - Bayan Northcott, in his Hymn to Cybele, sets words by Catullus in honour of the wild mountain Mother-Goddess whose followers were noted for their orgiastic nocturnal dances of self-mutilation.

Judith Weir: All the Ends of the Earth
Thea Musgrave: Ithaca (大象传媒 commission; World Premiere)
Bayan Northcott: Hymn to Cybele
Brian Ferneyhough: Dum transisset I-IV (London premiere)
Taverner: Dum transisset
Jonathan Harvey: Dum transisset sabbatum
Taverner: Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas - In nomine Domini (Benedictus)
Gabriel Jackson: In nomine Domini (大象传媒 commission: world premiere)

Arditti Quartet
Endymion
大象传媒 Singers
David Hill (conductor).