I've just written a very witty and informative post about this week's programme, which my computer has decided to delete!!!
Probably just as well - I'm not a huge fan of the work of Richard Ayres (b1965), and I'm not one of those who have been "eagerly awaiting" his recent "hour-long Theatre piece" The Garden. The "taster" in last week's programme (and Tom Service's voluble enthusiasm for it) did nothing to make me look forward to the new piece - although the description of the "plot" <ho-ho> does seem a very good one for "operatic" treatment. Maybe someone should set it to Music.
More my kind of stuff, also on the programme, though:
Italian- born Finnish-residing composer Paola Livorsi(b1967)'s Lamenti for a capella choir, performed by the Helsinki Chamber Choir, conducted by Nils Schweckendiek.
The UK premiere at last month's Tectonics Festival in Glasgow of George Lewis(b1952)'s Timelike Weave, played by Mahan Esfahani
And a track from the new NMC recording devoted to the work of Erika Fox (b1936), Quasi una Cadenza, played by the Goldberg Ensemble.
Probably just as well - I'm not a huge fan of the work of Richard Ayres (b1965), and I'm not one of those who have been "eagerly awaiting" his recent "hour-long Theatre piece" The Garden. The "taster" in last week's programme (and Tom Service's voluble enthusiasm for it) did nothing to make me look forward to the new piece - although the description of the "plot" <ho-ho> does seem a very good one for "operatic" treatment. Maybe someone should set it to Music.
More my kind of stuff, also on the programme, though:
Italian- born Finnish-residing composer Paola Livorsi(b1967)'s Lamenti for a capella choir, performed by the Helsinki Chamber Choir, conducted by Nils Schweckendiek.
The UK premiere at last month's Tectonics Festival in Glasgow of George Lewis(b1952)'s Timelike Weave, played by Mahan Esfahani
And a track from the new NMC recording devoted to the work of Erika Fox (b1936), Quasi una Cadenza, played by the Goldberg Ensemble.
