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Elliott Carter Tribute, Eliane Radigue

Ivan Hewett pays tribute to the late American composer Elliott Carter with an interview from 2008. Plus the Hear and Now Fifty: Eliane Radigue's Songs of Milarepa.

Ivan Hewett pays tribute to the American composer Elliott Carter who died earlier this week, with a repeat broadcast of an interview first heard in 2008. And in this week's Hear and Now Fifty, author and journalist Rob Young nominates French composer Eliane Radigue's Songs of Milarepa, which combines drone-like electronics with the voices of Lama Kunga Rinpoche and Robert Ashley singing and reading the words of the 11th-century Tibetan Buddhist poet Milarepa. With commentary from Richard Whitelaw, Head of Programmes at Sound and Music.

1 hour, 45 minutes

Last on

Sat 10 Nov 2012 22:15

Music Played

  • Elliott Carter

    The Harmony of Morning (excerpt)

    Artist: John Oliver Chorale

    • Koch.
    • 371782, Tk 3.
  • Elliott Carter

    Piano Sonata

    Artist: Charles Rosen (piano)

    • ETCETERA.
    • KTC 1008, Tk 2.
  • Elliott Carter

    Concerto for orchestra (excerpt)

    Artist: London Sinfonietta, Oliver Knussen (conductor)

    • Virgin Classics.
    • VC 7915032, Tk 1.
  • Elliott Carter

    Penthode (excerpt)

    Artist: Ensemble Intercontemporain, Pierre Boulez (conductor)

    • Erato.
    • ECD 75553, Tk 9.
  • Elliott Carter

    Quartet for strings no. 2 (excerpt)

    Artist: Juilliard String Quartet

    • Sony.
    • B 0000027J7.
  • Elliott Carter

    Adagio Tenebroso

    Artist: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra, Oliver Knussen (conductor)

    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4596602, Tk 9.
  • Éliane Radigue

    Songs of Milarepa

    Artist: Eliane Radigue (Arp synthesizer), Lama Kunga Rinpoche (Tibetan voice), Robert Ashley (English voice)

    • Lovely Music.
    • CD2001, Tk 1.

Broadcast

  • Sat 10 Nov 2012 22:15

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