Luigi Nono, Olga Neuwirth, George Crumb
Robert Worby presents vocal works. Luigi Nono: Donde estas, hermano; la fabbrica illuminata. Olga Neuwirth: Songs (Hommage a Klaus Nomi). Plus Hear and Now 50: Crumb: Black Angels.
Robert Worby presents two vocal works by the great Italian Modernist Luigi Nono, and Olga Neuwirth's homage to cult singer Klaus Nomi; and a classic 20th Century quartet by Crumb is this week's focus in the Hear And Now Fifty.
Nono: Donde estas Hermano?
Nono: La fabbrica Illuminata
Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
In the latest instalment of the Hear and Now Fifty, David Harrington celebrates George Crumb's groundbreaking 1970 work for electric string quartet, Black Angels - the work which inspired him to form the Kronos Quartet. And Gillian Moore puts the piece in context, as a work full of dark foreboding and extreme sounds, in direct reaction to the Vietnam War.
George Crumb: Black Angels
Kronos Quartet
Olga Neuwirth: songs from Hommage 脿 Klaus Nomi
Andrew Watts (counter-tenor)
Sound Intermedia
London Sinfonietta conducted by Gerry Cornelius.
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The Hear and Now Fifty - George Crumb
Duration: 11:44
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- Sat 10 Mar 2012 22:30大象传媒 Radio 3
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