More Sciarrino from Huddersfield, 2018.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Two works recorded at HCMF last November. Details not provided on the website, but (judging by when microphones were present at works that haven't been broadcast) I reckon we're going to get Cosa Resta ("What Remains", 1999) as performed by Countertenor Jake Arditti with dad's band on Sunday, 25th, and Archeologia del telefono ("The Archeology of the Telephone", 2005) as performed by the Divertimento Ensemble, on Friday, 23rd.


To complete the programme, three symphonies by American composer Gloria Coates (b1938) whose 80th birthday was celebrated ... err ... last year. In a concert recorded on 17th November, Ilan Volkov conducts the BBCSSO in the First (Music on Open Strings) from 1978; the Seventh (in Peace) from 1990 [UK premiere]; and the World Premiere of the Eleventh, from 1997.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001zq4

Kate Molleson presents.

[Quarky]

Two works recorded at HCMF last November. Details not provided on the website, but (judging by when microphones were present at works that haven't been broadcast) I reckon we're going to get Cosa Resta ("What Remains", 1999) as performed by Countertenor Jake Arditti with dad's band on Sunday, 25th, and Archeologia del telefono ("The Archeology of the Telephone", 2005) as performed by the Divertimento Ensemble, on Friday, 23rd.


To complete the programme, three symphonies by American composer Gloria Coates (b1938) whose 80th birthday was celebrated ... err ... last year. In a concert recorded on 17th November, Ilan Volkov conducts the BBCSSO in the First (Music on Open Strings) from 1978; the Seventh (in Peace) from 1990 [UK premiere]; and the World Premiere of the Eleventh, from 1997.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001zq4

Kate Molleson presents.

Sciarrino more my style. Gloria is a bit serious - her mum may have had a point.

**Comments subject to modification upon repeated listening**

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Sciarrino more my style. Gloria is a bit serious - her mum may have had a point.

I thought her commentaries and introductions were more engaging than the Music itself (a bit "samey" for a portrait concert).

But the Sciarrino works were in a different league altogether - wonderful to hear them again (and lovely to hear the comments from Jake Arditti and his "old man" )

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I thought her commentaries and introductions were more engaging than the Music itself

Except that I didn't understand her comment that the string players in Poland told her that crescendi couldn't be done on open strings - which required an elaborate system of gradually tightening the bow hairs ...

Of course you can perform cresc and dims on open strings - I've just done it on my over-neglected and sadly much-abused violin this morning.

[kindofblue]

I enjoyed both the Coates and Sciarrino immensely.