New Music Show - Sat 4 April: 10pm

[Serial_Apologist]

With Tom Service. Featuring trombonist and composer Weston Olencki, Finnish composer Tomi Raisanen's Marimba Concerto, and a recording of Joanna Bailie's Symphony-Street-Souvenir. Robert Worby talks to composer Naomi Pinnock and there's new electronic music by Ruth Anderson.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000h06w

There's more on the Bailie work on the above link.

[Serial_Apologist]

At midpoint, this is turning out one of the best NMS's since the programme's name-change, imho: Raisanen's Marimba Concerto a charming blending of French Neo-Classicism and post Ligeti cluster textures; and three pieces - two trombone, one trumpet, performed multiphonically using extended techniques by their composer, the American Weston Olencki. And now we are about to hear a symphonic tribute to the Italian avant-garde composer Aldo Clementi (no relation!) by Joanna Baillie. Quick, somebody! Wind up the gramophone! It's slowing to a stop!!

[Quarky]

At midpoint, this is turning out one of the best NMS's since the programme's name-change, imho: Raisanen's Marimba Concerto a charming blending of French Neo-Classicism and post Ligeti cluster textures; and three pieces - two trombone, one trumpet, performed multiphonically using extended techniques by their composer, the American Weston Olencki. And now we are about to hear a symphonic tribute to the Italian avant-garde composer Aldo Clementi (no relation!) by Joanna Baillie. Quick, somebody! Wind up the gramophone! It's slowing to a stop!!

Yes for me, The New Music show is catching up with Freeness in terms of interest. Add to that J to Z and Late Junction, and I have a very full plate to listen again. And somehow I have to fit in Haydn's Symphonies!