The London Sinfonietta and Sound Intermedia at the Royal Festival Hall
The London Sinfonietta and Sound Intermedia perform Steve Reich's Reich/Richter, Julius Eastman's Joy Boy, Mira Calix's Nunu, Julia Wolfe's Tell me everything, and Anna Clyne.
Leading contemporary music group London Sinfonietta joins forces with renowned sound designers Sound Intermedia at the Royal Festival Hall for an intriguing New York-focussed evening.
Beginning his composing career in the vanguard of Minimalism in 60s New York, Steve Reich has long-been a hugely influential international figure. His 2019 Reich/Richter is a mesmeric, pulsating and colour-shifting score designed as a soundtrack for the abstract images of visual artist Gerhard Richter鈥檚 film Moving Picture.
Julia Wolfe's Tell me everything, from 1994, was inspired by hearing the jolly cacophony of a South American band on a cassette tape. 'It was joyful and unwieldy,' she says. 'There were so many times while writing this piece that I broke into laughter 鈥� wondering can I really write this, can it really go on like this?'
Unpredictable, provocative, charismatic and visionary, Julius Eastman's short life spiralled out of control in the 1980s and he died at the age of 49 in 1990. His 1974 Joy Boy for small ensemble shimmers and slowly morphs as musical layers are added in a process Eastman described as 'organic composition'. Tonight the London Sinfonietta perform it twice in two different instrumental combinations.
Born in 1969, British-based Mira Calix, visual artist and musician, also died too young, only last year. Her Nunu is based on audio and video sampling and mixing of a collection of insects including cicadas, cockroaches, crickets and beetles.
The concert also includes a premiere from London-born, New York-based Anna Clyne, one of today's most in-demand composers who collaborates with many of the world's leading orchestras, choreographers, filmmakers, and visual artists.
Recorded last week and introduced by Martin Handley.
Julia Wolfe: Tell me everything
Julius Eastman: Joy Boy
Mira Calix: Nunu
Anna Clyne: Fractured Time (world premiere)
Julius Eastman: Joy Boy
8:20pm
Interval music (from CD)
John Cage: In a landscape
Alexei Lubimov (piano)
8:30pm
Steve Reich: Reich / Richter
Sound Intermedia
London Sinfonietta
Manoj Kamps (conductor)
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Julius Eastman
Joy boy 1
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Mira Calix
Nunu
Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Performer: Sound Intermedia. Conductor: Manoj Kamps. -
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Anna Clyne
Fractured time (world premiere)
Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Performer: Sound Intermedia. Conductor: Manoj Kamps. -
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Julia Wolfe
Tell me everything
Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Performer: Sound Intermedia. Conductor: Manoj Kamps. -
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Julius Eastman
Joy Boy 2
Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Performer: Sound Intermedia. Conductor: Manoj Kamps. -
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John Cage
In a landscape
Performer: Alexei Lubimov.- ECM.
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Steve Reich
Reich / Richter
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Olivier Messiaen
Theme and Variations for violin and piano
Performer: Janine Jansen. Performer: Itamar Golan.- Beau Soir: Janine Jansen/Itamar Golan.
- Decca.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
From far, from eve and morning (On Wenlock Edge)
Performer: Julius Drake. Singer: Nicky Spence. Ensemble: Piatti Quartet.- Hyperion.
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Franz Schubert
Die Forelle D.550 - The Trout
Performer: Joseph Middleton. Singer: Ashley Riches.- A Musical Zoo.
- CHANDOS.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Trio in E flat major, Op.1`1 (1st mvt)
Ensemble: The Florestan Trio.- Beethoven: The Complete Music for Piano Trio, Vol. 3: Florestan Trio.
- Hyperion.
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- Wed 12 Apr 2023 19:30大象传媒 Radio 3