13/10/2012
Ivan Hewett presents music performed at the 2012 Vale of Glamorgan Festival, from Qigang Chen, Philip Glass and Per Norgard. Plus the Hear and Now 50: Per Norgard's Symphony No 2.
Ivan Hewett presents music recorded at this year's Vale of Glamorgan Festival which has been committed to celebrating work by living composers for over four decades.
Qigang Chen: Yuan
Philip Glass: Violin Concerto
Chloe Hanslip, violin
大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales
Clark Rundell, conductor
And this week's Hear and Now Fifty, novelist and critic Philip Hensher makes the case for Per Norgard's Symphony No.2, one of the first works in which the Danish composer used his own 'infinity series' to determine melody and form. With commentary from Paul Griffiths.
Per Norgard: Symphony No. 2
大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales
Clark Rundell, Conductor.
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Qigang Chen
Yuan
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Philip Glass
Violin Concerto No 1
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Per N酶rg氓rd
Symphony No 2
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Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen
For Piano: III Keep Going (Little Bird, Blue)
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