This week's Hear & Now commemorates the recent seventieth birthday of the wonderful composer Salvatore Sciarrino (b7/4/47) with a performance of his Studi Per L'intonazione Del Mare ("Studies for the Tunings of the Sea") from 2000 - scored for solo counter-tenor, two quartets of flutes and saxophones, percussion, and originally an orchestra of 100 flutes and 100 saxophones; a characteristically imaginative ensemble, producing Music that is, as so often with this composer, spell-binding in both its beauty and originality. We seem to be hearing a "chamber version" for a mere 70 of each!
And before that, six works (two of them receiving their World Premieres) by composers who are all still in their twenties - all commissioned for Jack Sheen's new ensemble An Assembly, and "showcasing the huge range of composition in the UK today".
With this programme, and the three previous from Techtonics, H&N is on a roll! NB - the slightly later start time this week: tune in at the usual 10 o'clock slot and you'll probably find yourself in the middle of a Mediaeval Eurovision Song Contest.
And before that, six works (two of them receiving their World Premieres) by composers who are all still in their twenties - all commissioned for Jack Sheen's new ensemble An Assembly, and "showcasing the huge range of composition in the UK today".
With this programme, and the three previous from Techtonics, H&N is on a roll! NB - the slightly later start time this week: tune in at the usual 10 o'clock slot and you'll probably find yourself in the middle of a Mediaeval Eurovision Song Contest.
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