Nothing by Either of the Matthews Brothers

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... instead, this week's Hear & Now focusses on two works: Sserenades by Norwegian composer Sigurd Fischer Olsen (b.1976) and oyelos desgarrar la tele del presagio ("listen to them ripping the ominous fabric", I think) by Argentinian Santiago Diez-Fischer (b. 1977), the latter of which is available on a soundcloud recording:

https://soundcloud.com/san2003/oyelos-desgarrar-la-tela-del-presagio

The performers (who do not include Julia Fischer or Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau) are the BIT20 Ensemble, conducted by Peter Szilvay, with Sofia Jernberg providing the vocals in the Olsen. All recorded at performances given in venues not normally used for Music performances around Bergen as part of the Borealis Festival last March.


AND there's a chat between Sara Mohr-Pietsche and Irish composer Jennifer Walsche (b 1974)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07tyx1s

[Richard Barrett]

(A nation breathes a sigh of relief.)

[ahinton]

(A nation breathes a sigh of relief.)

An entire nation?! Mon Dieu! Does anyone know which one?

[Richard Barrett]

(A nation breathes a sigh of relief.)

But seriously, this is exactly the kind of programming H&N ought to be doing.

I've been once to Bergen which was a memorable visit on account of containing the heaviest rainfall I've ever experienced.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

But seriously, this is exactly the kind of programming H&N ought to be doing.

Mind you, so was last week's edition - but, as I neglected to mention Dave or Col, it was like talking to messel'n.

[Richard Barrett]

Mind you, so was last week's edition

True. And I did actually try to post a response to the announcement but it disappeared somehow into cyblivion while I was doing so. Clearly the thing to do in future is always to find a way of mentioning Matthews major and minor and such problems won't happen.

Thanks for posting the Diez-Fischer piece anyway, I found it quite intriguing. I had thought from the little I previously knew of his music that he was yet another adherent of the post-Lachenmann "instrumental musique concrète" tendency, which is well into the diminishing-returns phase these days in my opinion, but this piece seems to be doing something different.

[Serial_Apologist]

I've been once to Bergen which was a memorable visit on account of containing the heaviest rainfall I've ever experienced.

That's on account of the height and proximity of its mountainous hinterland - a case of Alpen Bergen, but not the cereal kind.

)Had to get that one off my chest(

[Beef Oven!]

But seriously, this is exactly the kind of programming H&N ought to be doing.

But H&N clashes with MOTD. If R3 are going to take contemporary music seriously (or serious music contemporarily), then they need to change its time-slot.

[Richard Barrett]

But H&N clashes with MOTD. If R3 are going to take contemporary music seriously (or serious music contemporarily), then they need to change its time-slot.

The MOTD timeslot I presume you mean. 3am would be good.

[MrGongGong]

Mind you, so was last week's edition - but, as I neglected to mention Dave or Col, it was like talking to messel'n.

A rare chance to hear one of Frank's pieces on the radio
Why hasn't he been COTW?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

A rare chance to hear one of Frank's pieces on the radio
Why hasn't he been COTW?

In a couple of those parallel universes, MrGG ...

Good stuff, isn't it. The anothertimbre CD Whispers (jointly produced by the composer and the late lamented Bob - who also [I presume] wrote the liner notes) is highliest recommended

http://www.anothertimbre.com/denyerwhispers.html

(actually, the entire bloody anothertimbre catalogue would make for a fantastic sequence of H&Ns!)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

<several unprintable curses!>

Just realized - after overhearing a passing comment on Record Review - that because of the "celebration like no other (except the one last year and all the years before that)" it's a truncated programme tonight - starting at 11:00pm and lasting just an hour.

(And bad news for BeefO: it still clashes with MotD!)

[ahinton]

Clearly the thing to do in future is always to find a way of mentioning Matthews major and minor and such problems won't happen.

Mightn't it be advisable first to determine which is which and on what grounds (even assuming that to be possible)? - unless of course you're effectively referring to "Matthews senior" and "Matthews not quite so senior"? (I believe that they've each had recourse to both major and minor tonalities at one time or another, so it presumably cannot be that).

That said, it is of course your prerogative to express your Matthewsiasm/s in your own way and in places of your choice...

[ahinton]

But H&N clashes with MOTD.

It certainly does, although for some unaccountable reason I would not have known this had you omitted to mention it! Indeed, my ignorance of it was such that, having speculated upon what MOTD might stand for and considered but rejected Music On The Danube and Musicians On Toxic Drugs, I felt impelled to look it up and, even when I found what it stood for, I first assumed - given that it is usually relayed on a Saturday which is the day of the week on which most weddings take place - that it must be yet another wearisome "competition" programme to find the best of that day's matrimonials.

If R3 are going to take contemporary music seriously (or serious music contemporarily), then they need to change its time-slot.

Never mind time-slots; its first priority ought surely to be to resolve the very issue of the term "serious music" that has given rise to so many posts in another thread here without attracting a majority decision!

Now that I have finally figured out what MotD actually is, I do, however, agree with Richard that 3 a.m. for MotD is a commendable idea.

[teamsaint]

BBC TV is over run with football, in the same way that R3 is over run with contemporary music.