Jonathan Harvey, Walter Murch
Tom Service presents Jonathan Harvey's Song Offerings and Summer Clouds Awakening. Plus the Hear and Now 50: Symphonie pour un homme seul by Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry.
Tom Service introduces two contrasting vocal works by one of the UK's leading composers.
Jonathan Harvey: Song Offerings
Claire Booth, soprano
Nash Ensemble
Lionel Friend, conductor
Jonathan Harvey: Summer Clouds Awakening
Latvian Radio Choir/James Wood
Jonathan Harvey (electronics), Carl Faia (electronics), Clive Williamson (synthesizer), Ilona Meija (flute) & Arne Deforce (cello)
And in the latest instalment of the 'Hear and Now Fifty', the American film editor and sound designer Walter Murch nominates 'Symphonie pour un homme seul' by Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry, music he first heard on the radio as a schoolboy and which influenced his subsequent work in the field of film sound. Author and journalist Rob Young puts the work in context of post-war Paris and Schaeffer's early experiments at French Radio which led to the birth of musique concrete.
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Jonathan Harvey
Song Offerings
Perfomers: Nash Ensemble Recording: 13 March 2012
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Jonathan Harvey
Summer Clouds Awakening
Performers: Latvian Radio Choir/James Wood Performers: Jonathan Harvey (electronics), Carl Faia (electronics), Clive Williamson (synthesizer), Ilona Meija (flute) & Arne Deforce (cello)
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Pierre Henry/Pierre Schaeffer
Symphonie pour un homme seul
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- Sat 28 Apr 2012 22:30大象传媒 Radio 3
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