In what is billed as "the first of two programmes of highlights from this year's Festival", Tom Service introduces three works:
James DILLON: The Gates
Arditti Quartet/SWR Symphony Orchestra/Pierre-André VALADE
Michael WERTMULLER: Discorde
Steam Boat Switzerland/Klangforum WienTitus ENGEL
( Steamboat Switzerland comprises the force of a fully cranked-up Hammond organ, an E-bass distorted beyond recognition and drums as hard as nails. Driven by the highly explosive mixture of metal-riffs, contemporary sound material and free improvisation, the steamboat resolves its interfering noises into strangely moving harmonies. Watch out for the engine room which crashes, bangs and chirps quite cunningly. )
Joanna BAILIE: Music from Public Places
SWR Vokalensemble/Améi String Quartet/The Composer (electronics)/Marcus Creed (conductor)
For me a covetable programme - Dillon is always worth repeated hearings; I've lost track of Bailie's work over the past decade or so, so it will be wonderful to catch up; and Wertmuller is a composer I've not heard before. A pity it's another shortened programme; just 90 minutes this week.
(Not sure when "Episode Two" will be broadcast - the programme on the 19th is a Live broadcast from some Festival or other in the frozen wastes of the Pennines.)
James DILLON: The Gates
Arditti Quartet/SWR Symphony Orchestra/Pierre-André VALADE
Michael WERTMULLER: Discorde
Steam Boat Switzerland/Klangforum WienTitus ENGEL
( Steamboat Switzerland comprises the force of a fully cranked-up Hammond organ, an E-bass distorted beyond recognition and drums as hard as nails. Driven by the highly explosive mixture of metal-riffs, contemporary sound material and free improvisation, the steamboat resolves its interfering noises into strangely moving harmonies. Watch out for the engine room which crashes, bangs and chirps quite cunningly. )
Joanna BAILIE: Music from Public Places
SWR Vokalensemble/Améi String Quartet/The Composer (electronics)/Marcus Creed (conductor)
For me a covetable programme - Dillon is always worth repeated hearings; I've lost track of Bailie's work over the past decade or so, so it will be wonderful to catch up; and Wertmuller is a composer I've not heard before. A pity it's another shortened programme; just 90 minutes this week.
(Not sure when "Episode Two" will be broadcast - the programme on the 19th is a Live broadcast from some Festival or other in the frozen wastes of the Pennines.)
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