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Xenakis: La L茅gende d鈥橢er

Tom Service presents the latest in new music performance, including Kristine Tjogersen, Beat Furrer, Rebecca Saunders and Enno Poppe, Helen Grime, and Iannis Xenakis.

Tom Service introduces music from the 2022 Witten New Music Festival, including works by Kristine Tjogersen and Beat Furrer played by Ensemble Recherche and Trio Accanto. Rebecca Saunders and Enno Poppe have wanted to compose a work together for some time and tonight you can hear the result of that collaboration, Taste is premiered by violinist, Sarah Saviet with pianist, Joseph Houston.

Also on the programme, Helen Grimes鈥檚 virtuosic, high energy and expressively nuanced Limina played by the 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales and conducted Catherine Larsen-Maguire, and to end tonight's programme Tom marks the centenary of the birth of Iannis Xenakis with La L茅gende d鈥橢er, a 45-minute long electro-acoustic tone-poem, designed for the opening of Centre Pompidou in Paris.

1 hour, 59 minutes

Last on

Sat 27 Aug 2022 22:00

Music Played

  • Iannis Xenakis

    A R.

    Performer: Claude Helffer.
    • Iannis Xenakis: Chamber Music 1955-1990.
    • Montaigne.
    • 6.
  • Kristine Tjogersen

    Habitat

    Ensemble: ensemble recherche.
  • Helen Grime

    Limina

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Catherine Larsen-Maguire.
  • Rebecca Saunders

    Taste

    Composer: Enno Poppe. Performer: Sarah Saviet. Performer: Joseph Houston.
  • Beat Furrer

    In's offene

    Ensemble: Trio Accanto.
  • Iannis Xenakis

    La Legende d'Eer

    • Karlrecords.

Broadcast

  • Sat 27 Aug 2022 22:00

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