Episode 3
With Robert Worby and Sara Mohr-Pietch. With George Lewis's opera Afterword, plus works by Jurg Frey, Jonty Harrison and Karen Rehnqvist and a performance by Klangforum Wien.
Robert Worby and Sara Mohr-Pietsch continue coverage of this year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival with a broadcast of American composer and improviser George Lewis's opera Afterword, which celebrates the work of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), a pioneering collective of musicians that took root in Chicago in 1965.
And as part of Radio 3's Northern Lights season, a recording of Karen Rehnqvisst's Arktis Arktis!, the Swedish composer's orchestral ode to the Arctic inspired by a polar expedition in 1999.
George Lewis: Afterword
Joelle Lamarre (soprano)
Julian Terrell Otis (tenor)
Gwendolyn Brown (contralto)
International Contemporary Ensemble
David Fulmer (conductor)
Recorded at the Lawrence Batley Theatre last month.
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George Lewis
Afterword - Act 1
Singer: Joelle Lamarre. Singer: Gwendolyn Brown. Singer: Julian Terrell Otis. Conductor: David Fulmer. Orchestra: International Contemporary Ensemble. -
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George Lewis
Afterword - Act 2
Singer: Joelle Lamarre. Singer: Gwendolyn Brown. Singer: Julian Terrell Otis. Conductor: David Fulmer. Orchestra: International Contemporary Ensemble. -
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Karin Rehnqvist
Arktis Arktis!
Conductor: John Storg氓rds. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra.- BIS.
Broadcast
- Sat 5 Dec 2015 21:30大象传媒 Radio 3
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