The UK premiere (five years after it was written) of Ferneyhough's Chronos Aion is part of tomorrow night's H&N from the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. I shall be particularly interested in this as the acoustic in Huddersfield Town Hall was rather "muddy" and a lot of detail (clear on the YouTube recording, "taken", I imagine from the Aeon CD) was lost. Having watched the concert of Gruppen made available by Chris, it occured to me how much BF's recent works (such as Plotzlichkeit and CA) owe to the Stockhausen (but without the continuity that Gruppen's overlapping layers provide).
The other works on the programme seemed less impressive on a first hearing: Fabien Levy's Qwerwuschig struck me as a collection of "Advanced Technique" cliches, and Francesco Fillidei's Finito ogni gesto, whilst being amiable enough, finished quite a long after it ended. I hope the broadcast demonstrates that the demands of the Festival had taken such a toll on me that I missed hearing a couple of splendid pieces.
Oh, and Stephen Fry has a few quite interesting comments on Conlon Nancarrow.
Best Wishes.
The other works on the programme seemed less impressive on a first hearing: Fabien Levy's Qwerwuschig struck me as a collection of "Advanced Technique" cliches, and Francesco Fillidei's Finito ogni gesto, whilst being amiable enough, finished quite a long after it ended. I hope the broadcast demonstrates that the demands of the Festival had taken such a toll on me that I missed hearing a couple of splendid pieces.
Oh, and Stephen Fry has a few quite interesting comments on Conlon Nancarrow.
Best Wishes.
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