大象传媒

Tom Service presents the best in new music performance, including some new Lockdown commissions for the Riot Ensemble, and the world premiere of a powerful setting of Iraqi poet Fawzi Karim for soprano and orchestra by Michael Hersch.
Matt Rogers: Working for the Pea Fox
Tom Lessels (clarinets)
Laurence Crane: Estonia
Royal Northern Sinfonia conducted by James Weeks
Michael Hersch: The script of storms
Ah Young Hong (soprano)
大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tito Mu帽oz
Riot Ensemble new solo commissions:
Aidan Teplitzky: Penn and/or Teller
Sam Wilson (percussion)
Oliver Brignall: Always interrupted
Ruth Rosales (bassoon)
Carmen Ho: Unknown
Claudia Racovicean (piano)
Anna Korsun: Marevo (WP)
(for two singing saws, two violins, two cellos and keyboard)
Ensemble Modern conducted by Lin Liao
Ezko Kikoutchi: D鈥橦ypnos
We Spoke
Tim Parkinson: HeadPhoneHead; Here Comes A Monster; They've Got A Good View Of The Shard
George Barton and Siwan Rhys (voices)

Michael Hersch's The script of storms sets nine poems by Fawzi Karim (1945-2019), Iraqi poet and painter. Born in Baghdad in 1945, he lived in Lebanon and then London. Michael Hersch writes: 鈥淜arim鈥檚 world is a remarkable and disquieting place; a landscape of empathy, beauty, but also war and unspeakable horror... his experience of the 1958 coup he witnessed in Iraq as a boy haunts his poetry.鈥� This is a dark and powerful new work, with graphic descriptions of war. It was recorded in concert at the 大象传媒 Maida Vale studios in January.