Listening now to Mr Rytersky's mightily impressive protest lament, composed as a now mocking, now beseeching collage of truncated and distorted quotations familiar and unfamiliar on the theme of needless death (the Dies Irae motif appears more than once), repression, victimisation and climate change - no less! - with the fallen women of Ukraine especially in mind. We hear richly orchestrated passages reminiscent of late BA Zimmermann inter-threaded with composed and semi-improvised passages for voices and electronic samples. An inadequate account, for sure, given that this is not a work that can be summed up on a single hearing.
Below is a more helpful summary of the work:
And here the BBC programme link:
I am almost tempted back into listening to the New Music Show on a regular basis.
Below is a more helpful summary of the work:
And here the BBC programme link:
I am almost tempted back into listening to the New Music Show on a regular basis.