I don't normally respond as enthusiastically to orchestral concerts on H&N as I do to this, but the Music of James Tenney (1934 - 2006) is severely underrepresented on Radio, and this episode is a rare chance to hear four of his works: the orchestral works, Clang (1972), and Diapason (1996), the computer-generated sound work Analog#1 (Noise Study) from December 1961, and Beast, the solo Double Bass work from the "Postal Pieces" project, written between 1965 - 71, played by the indomitable Dominic Lash.
The two orchestral works are performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by the superb Ilan Volkov, and they also perform Salvatore Sciarrino(b1947)'s 1985 meditation on the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, Allegoria della note, with violinist Ilya Grigolts. A very different aesthetic from the Squib-CRAM "Beethoven's Violin Concerto" from a fortnight ago. Sciarrino is such a fantastic and important composer, whose haunting, unforgettable Music works on the boundary between the uncannily beautiful and the eerily unsettling - it will be a joy for me to hear an alternative performance of this work from that by Marco Rogliano and the RAISO under Tito Ceccherini in the KAIROS box.
Completing the programme, the UK premier of the 1992 orchestral work, Distemperament by the Filipino composer José Maceda (1917-2004) - a name I sadly regret that I'd not heard of before.
The two orchestral works are performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by the superb Ilan Volkov, and they also perform Salvatore Sciarrino(b1947)'s 1985 meditation on the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, Allegoria della note, with violinist Ilya Grigolts. A very different aesthetic from the Squib-CRAM "Beethoven's Violin Concerto" from a fortnight ago. Sciarrino is such a fantastic and important composer, whose haunting, unforgettable Music works on the boundary between the uncannily beautiful and the eerily unsettling - it will be a joy for me to hear an alternative performance of this work from that by Marco Rogliano and the RAISO under Tito Ceccherini in the KAIROS box.
Completing the programme, the UK premier of the 1992 orchestral work, Distemperament by the Filipino composer José Maceda (1917-2004) - a name I sadly regret that I'd not heard of before.
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