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Music on the Brink

Ivan Hewett with a focus on the early 20th-century avant garde and its influence today, plus new music from Benjamin Oliver, Aaron Holloway-Nahum, Tom Coult and Robin Holloway.

As part of Radio 3's Music on the Brink season featuring music on the eve of the First World War, Robert Worby interviews Italian musicologist and producer Luciano Chessa about his research into the Futurist movement of the pre-war years and his reconstructions of Luigi Russolo's noise intoners, for which he has commissioned new works by a wide range of composers including Pauline Oliveros, Ellen Fullman and Blixa Bargeld. And Christopher Fox assesses the profound impact on experimental music today of the early 20th-century composer Erik Satie.

Also tonight, Ivan Hewett introduces works by three composers selected for Sound and Music's artist development scheme Embedded. They were given the opportunity to work with the 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra over several months in a project which culminated in a concert given last November at the 大象传媒's Maida Vale studios. Alongside these works the orchestra performed a recent composition by Robin Holloway, commissioned by the National Centre for the Performing Arts in China, and inspired by that country's vast landscapes.

The programme concludes with a recording from the 大象传媒 archive and another work by Robin Holloway: Men Marching, the first of a diptych for brass band whose title comes from verse by Scottish war poet Charles Sorley.

Tom Coult: Codex
Benjamin Oliver: Lullaby for Joni
Aaron Holloway-Nahum: The Deeper Breath to Follow
Robin Holloway: In China

大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra
Garry Walker (conductor)

Robin Holloway: Men Marching

Britannia Building Society Brass Band
Howard Snell (conductor)
Recorded in 1990 as part of the 大象传媒's Festival of Brass.

1 hour, 45 minutes

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Sat 11 Jan 2014 22:15
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Aaron Holloway-Nahum

    The Deeper Breath To Follow

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 S O.. Conductor: Garry Walker.

  • Blixa Bargeld

    The Mantovani Machine I

    Performer: Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners.
    • Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners.
    • Sub Rosa.
    • 1.

  • Tom Coult

    Codex

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 S O.. Conductor: Garry Walker.

  • Robin Holloway

    In China

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 S O.. Conductor: Garry Walker.

  • Benjamin Oliver

    Lullaby for Joni

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 S O.. Conductor: Garry Walker.

  • Robin Holloway

    War Memorials No. 1 (Men Marching)

    Performer: Britannia Building Society Band. Conductor: Howard Snell.

  • Gavin Bryars

    Out of Zaleski's Gazebo

    Performer: Dave Smith, Christopher Hobbs, Gavin Bryars, John White.
    • Hommages.
    • LTM.
    • 6.

  • John Cage

    Sonnekus

    Performer: Irene Kurka.

  • Ellen Fullman

    Sunday Industrial (Post Futurist Reverie)

    Performer: Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners.
    • Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners.
    • Sub Rosa.
    • 6.

  • Matthew Shlomowitz

    Weird Twin

    Performer: Mark Knoop.

  • Thomas Newman

    American Beauty

    Performer: Thomas Newman.

  • Pauline Oliveros

    Waking The Intonarumori

    Performer: Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners.
    • Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners.
    • Sub Rosa.
    • 2.

  • Luigi Russolo

    Fragment from Risveglio di una Citta

    Performer: Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners.
    • Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners.
    • Sub Rosa.
    • 15.

  • Erik Satie

    Parade

    Performer: Orchestre symphonique et lyrique de Nancy. Conductor: J茅r么me Kaltenbach.
    • Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.

  • Erik Satie

    Trois Sonneries No.2

    Performer: Steffen Schleiermacher.
    • Satie: Piano Music Vol. 2.
    • MDG.
    • 3.

  • Erik Satie

    Gnossienne No.3 in A minor

    Performer: Anne Queff茅lec.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.

Credit

Performer 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra

Broadcast

  • Sat 11 Jan 2014 22:15
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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