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A concert given earlier today at the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra's Total Immersion day devoted to the music of Brian Ferneyhough. Presenter Ivan Hewett is joined by Tom Service, who reports on the day's events.

Ferneyhough: Second String Quartet
Quatuor Diotima

Ferneyhough: Plötzlichkeit (UK premiere)
´óÏó´«Ã½ SO, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Singers,
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Ferneyhough: Carceri d'Invenzione III
´óÏó´«Ã½ SO
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Ferneyhough: Missa Brevis
´óÏó´«Ã½ Singers, James Morgan (conductor)

Ferneyhough: La Terre est un Homme
´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

This concert spans the broad gamut of
Ferneyhough's fertile invention, from the Missa Brevis for 12 solo singers of 1969 to the UK premiere of Plötzlichkeit , a 20-minute masterpiece for large orchestra. The programme also includes a rare chance to hear the third part of his Carceri d'Invenzione cycle, a seminal work of the 1980s inspired by Piranesi's etchings of imagined dungeons and infernal places of imprisonment. Discover the multiform artistic influences and ideas behind the work of a composer who represents the antithesis of the predictable, the enemy of the routine.