One I've been looking forward to since the end of November. Sadly, not the performance of FAMA that I attended at the Huddersfield Festival, but the "dress rehearsal" for that performance, given in London a few days earlier. Same great performers (the London Sinfonietta on their best form in many a long year, EXAUDI, Contrabass Flute played by Eva Furrer [the composer's sister], and actress Isabelle Munke, conducted by the Composer) same superb work - Furrer's best piece, I think.
Very much less impressive, I thought, is Furrer's Intorno al Bianco which starts the programme - a Clarinet Quintet, played by members of Furrer's "own" ensemble, Klangforum Wien; a recording from last year's HCMF (the first concert in the Festival that I attended last year). Finishing the programme, yet another work by Georg Friederich HAAS from Huddersfield; his aus freier Lust...verbunden ..; Angelos Kritikos leads his colleagues from the Hanover Trombone Unit.
SPOILER: a couple of complete performances of FAMA are available on youTube - and this excerpt from the very opening, recorded at the US premiere in 2013. We here in the UK had to wait more than another three years
Worth it, though - if the London performance was anything nearly as good as the Huddersfield event!
Very much less impressive, I thought, is Furrer's Intorno al Bianco which starts the programme - a Clarinet Quintet, played by members of Furrer's "own" ensemble, Klangforum Wien; a recording from last year's HCMF (the first concert in the Festival that I attended last year). Finishing the programme, yet another work by Georg Friederich HAAS from Huddersfield; his aus freier Lust...verbunden ..; Angelos Kritikos leads his colleagues from the Hanover Trombone Unit.
SPOILER: a couple of complete performances of FAMA are available on youTube - and this excerpt from the very opening, recorded at the US premiere in 2013. We here in the UK had to wait more than another three years
Worth it, though - if the London performance was anything nearly as good as the Huddersfield event!
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