PRS "Resonate" pieces

[MrGongGong]

Some interesting discussion about this on FB at the moment

https://prsfoundation.com/2019/04/23/new-resonate-pieces-announced/?fbclid=IwAR34j7GZEYDcj2qTIcU2X9_UcV--gWWvug8mi0dNyb5olac-iU-TkFsqgRg

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Some interesting discussion about this on FB at the moment
https://prsfoundation.com/2019/04/23...ac-iU-TkFsqgRg

It's a very "Radio 3" interpretation of "outstanding", isn't it. (And of "from the last 25 years" come to that - Skempton's Lento was written in 1990 and premiered the following year - and, to be picky, the Macmillan Seven Last Words was premiered 25 years AND ONE MONTH ago! )

Heigh-ho - time to play

https://soundcloud.com/r-barrett/no-2004-for-orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPw_YbIQYXw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m6VMm66tYE

(or, for that matter):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6rmFC__tt4

or:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDLlmGwubBU

Quite a number of orchestral works by Birtwistle from the past quarter-century, too, of course - perhaps their more frequent performances abroad disqualifies them from inclusion in the PRS criteria, in spite of their neglect by British Orchestras?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Good to see the RLPO choices, though.

[Dave2002]

I'm not sure that I like too much of James MacMillan's music (some is very good ...) - the Dunedin Consort are usually worth hearing. What is the Seven Last Words from the Cross like?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I'm not sure that I like too much of James MacMillan's music (some is very good ...) - the Dunedin Consort are usually worth hearing. What is the Seven Last Words from the Cross like?

Slightly less unpleasant than the events it depicts.

I found it a dreary sequence of note-spinnings, uninteresting, and predictable (in the sense that, when I first heard it, it sounded familiar - when I heard it the second time, I couldn't remember much from the first, but there was still that sense of having heard something like the bits I couldn't remember somewhere before). But that's how I feel about most of MacMillan's output.

[Dave2002]

MMm. I have heard some, but very little, of JM's output which was lovely. The rest I could happily give a miss.

The musicians who play and sing are his music are often (if they're the Dunedins plus ensemble, particularly) very good.

[Bryn]

Anyway, never mind Skempton's ubiquitous Lento, I'm going to this.

[Dave2002]

Eusebius even manages to get into this thread! (Buggered or otherwise ...)

[Richard Barrett]

Anyway, never mind Skempton's ubiquitous Lento, I'm going to this.

Very interesting. Are those recent pieces by MC?

[Bryn]

Very interesting. Are those recent pieces by MC?

The 2nd dates, IIRC, from 2010 (performed on May 1st that year). I'm not sure when he composed the 1st and 3rd. I will ask him.