PCM 2 - 24.07.17: Webern, Durupt & Mozart

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  • Eine Alpensinfonie
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    • Nov 2010
    • 20570

    PCM 2 - 24.07.17: Webern, Durupt & Mozart

    13:00 Monday 24 July 2017
    Cadogan Hall

    Anton Webern: Langsamer Satz
    Laurent Durupt: Grids for Greed
    BBC commission: world première
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A major, K 581

    Van Kuijk Quartet
    Annelien Van Wauwe clarinet


    Two of BBC Radio 3's current New Generation Artists come together for a programme of chamber music spanning over 200 years.
    The Van Kuijk Quartet joins forces with clarinettist Annelien Van Wauwe for Mozart's lyrical Clarinet Quintet, whose expansive melodies and sunny A major key belie the struggles and sadnesses of his personal life.
    Webern's Langsamer Satz (Slow Movement) is, by contrast, the ecstatic outpouring of a young man in love, happier than ever before and writing music once described as 'Tristan and Isolde compressed into 11 minutes'.
    In his first string quartet, which today receives its world premiere, French composer and pianist Laurent Durupt explores contrasts both of musical material and musical time and asks whether the differences are conflicting or complementary.
    Last edited by Eine Alpensinfonie; 21-07-17, 15:28.
  • Eine Alpensinfonie
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    • Nov 2010
    • 20570

    #2
    So far I haven't been able to access any information re the new work in this 2nd Proms Chamber Music concert.

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    • ferneyhoughgeliebte
      Gone fishin'
      • Sep 2011
      • 30163

      #3
      Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
      So far I haven't been able to access any information re the new work in this 2nd Proms Chamber Music concert.
      Et voila, mon brave:

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      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
        Gone fishin'
        • Sep 2011
        • 30163

        #4
        Oh. Not much on the new work - presumably the composer hadn't completed/sent information on/started the new piece when the booklet went to print. Examples of his work can be heard on Soundcloud:

        Listen to Laurent Durupt | SoundCloud is an audio platform that lets you listen to what you love and share the sounds you create.
        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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        • bluestateprommer
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          • Nov 2010
          • 3009

          #5
          Heard this PCM this morning; generally well done, as is normal with the PCM's. On the 'novelty', Laurent Durupt's work: this struck me as "minimalist" in the truest sense, in that it tried to get as much mileage out of as few different notes as possible, that I could tell. The metaphor of zapping electric grids wasn't too far off, in a sense. Not sure that I would want to hear the work again right away, but the VKQ did a fine job with it. Solid work in the Webern also, and both AVW and the VKQ were very good in the Mozart. Maybe just a bit of a rush to the end in the Mozart, but this may have been with the generous encore in mind, the finale of Weber's op. 34 clarinet quintet (also archived in the Calendar).

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          • Serial_Apologist
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            • Dec 2010
            • 37684

            #6
            I must check and see if there is any... characteristic Webern represented at this year's Proms.

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            • 5against4
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              • Feb 2012
              • 34

              #7
              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
              Oh. Not much on the new work - presumably the composer hadn't completed/sent information on/started the new piece when the booklet went to print.
              A bit late replying to this (sorry), but when i was speaking with Durupt about the piece a few weeks prior to the concert – for my pre-première questions with him, a new feature i've added to my coverage this year – he said someone else had written the programme note. Not sure of the whys or wherefores (possibly due to his English - in his own estimation - being somewhat poor; it's not that bad, as you can see from his answers, which i hardly had to edit), but i'm assuming this note never ended up in the concert programme?

              Either way, his answers to my questions, which shed a little light on his outlook and practice, are here: http://5against4.com/2017/07/24/prom...aurent-durupt/.
              5against4.com
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              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                Gone fishin'
                • Sep 2011
                • 30163

                #8
                Many thanks for this, 5:4 - very useful. I didn't see the concert programme, but I could find nothing online when I posted earlier.
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