Podcast appearances and mentions of London Sinfonietta

Imogen is a movement director and artist working with the body with choreography, connectivity and somatic movement. She works across a number of mediums from theatre, Film and TV, classical and electronic music, performance and visual art, photography and opera. Musically, she's worked with some of the brightest minds in the industry such as the London Sinfonietta, Southbank Sinfonia, London Contemporary Orchestra, Matthew Herbert, Keeley Forsyth, Anna Phoebe and Isobel Waller-Bridge. As well as the English National Opera (ENO) and many others. As a movement director she's been involved in:Look Back in Anger, Almeida most recentlyUnder Milk Wood, National starring Michael SheenLes Blancs, National, starring Elliot Cowan and Danny SapaniKing Lear, Almeida, starring Danny Sapani and Faith OmoleThe Crucible, Old Vic, directed by Yaël FarberFor TV:Harlots, ITVPatrick Melrose, Sky Atlantic starring Benedict CumberbatchCall the Midwife, Hollow Crown, BBCChernobyl, HBO & Sky Atlantic - and much more!Imogen discusses her process as movement director, how each performer has a unique way of moving and her time working on the smash-hit series Chernobyl. A superb drama documenting how reactor 4 at the Chernobyl power plant exploded in 1986 and the ways in which the Soviet Union tried its best to cover it up. Starring Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Jessie Buckley and Laura Elphinstone. In addition, her time working on The Crucible at the Old Vic, particularly through the intense Act 3 of the play where the girls conduct their “victory dance” in the court. A great conversation about how she works with actors across different mediums and the best way to communicate without any words at all. Oliver GowerSpotlight Link: https://www.spotlight.com/9097-9058-5261Instagram: @goweroliverFor enquiries and requests: olliegower10@gmail.comPlease Like, Download and Subscribe ✍️Music from #InAudio: https://inaudio.org/ Early Morning.

durée : 01:28:57 - En pistes ! du mercredi 02 avril 2025 - par : Emilie Munera, Rodolphe Bruneau Boulmier - De Mozart à Schoenberg, cap sur des interprétations historiques du London Sinfonietta. A retrouver également : une ôde aux compositrices baroques avec le nouvel album des Kapsber'girls, le deuxième volume de l'intégrale des œuvres orchestrales Franz Schreker, Bach au clavier avec Albert Cano Smit...

durée : 01:28:57 - En pistes ! du mercredi 02 avril 2025 - par : Emilie Munera, Rodolphe Bruneau Boulmier - De Mozart à Schoenberg, cap sur des interprétations historiques du London Sinfonietta. A retrouver également : une ôde aux compositrices baroques avec le nouvel album des Kapsber'girls, le deuxième volume de l'intégrale des œuvres orchestrales Franz Schreker, Bach au clavier avec Albert Cano Smit...

A pianist who The New Yorker described as “New York's queen of avant-garde piano”, Lisa Moore has performed with the London Sinfonietta, Australian Chamber Orchestra, the Sydney, Canberra and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras to name just a few, and has played under the baton of luminaries like Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, David Robertson and Edo de Waart. She's appeared in venues from Carnegie Hall to the Sydney Opera House, and been part of over 30 albums. Lisa has made her career performing music of living composers. In this conversation she speaks with great passion about this music, sharing great insights about it plus her career journey as a modern pianist. Since recording this interview, Lisa is happy to announce the release in early 2025 of the new album from Crux Duo, a collaboration between herself and clarinettist Lloyd Van't Hoff. Called My Place, it's a compilation of modern Australian and American works written and arranged especially for them, including by Elena Kats-Chernin, Erik Griswold, Nick Russoniello, Harriet Steinke, and Martin Bresnick, and will be released on the ABC Classics label. Lisa and Lloyd will perform a concert launching the album at the Goethe Institute, as part of the Goethe Lounge Series, at 6pm on Wednesday 22 January 2025. Find Lisa's albums on the usual streaming services, and follow Lisa via her website lisamoore.org as well as on Instagram @lisapianomoore and on Facebook @lisamoorepiano

This week on the podcast is part two of our interview with renowned English cellist Matthew Barley.  He has performed in over 50 countries, and with numerous orchestras including the BBC Philharmonic and the London Sinfonietta, and in venues from Ronnie Scott's to Wigmore Hall. In addition to being a busy performing musician, his varied experiences include founding Between the Notes, a performance and education group that works with musicians and artists in other arts genres; he was a former music director and presenter of the BBC2 Series Classical Star; and he founded the Matthew Barley Arts Foundation to run creative workshops using music and theatre to help university students improve their mental health. Matthew's most recent project is Light Stories, a new program for cello, electronics and visuals which launches this month in London's Southbank Centre.https://matthewbarley.com/

Today we released part one of our interview with renowned English cellist Matthew Barley.  He has performed in over 50 countries, and with numerous orchestras including the BBC Philharmonic and the London Sinfonietta, and in venues from Ronnie Scott's to Wigmore Hall.  In addition to being a busy performing musician, his varied experiences include founding Between the Notes, a performance and education group that works with musicians and artists in other arts genres; he was a former music director and presenter of the BBC2 Series Classical Star; and he founded the Matthew Barley Arts Foundation to run creative workshops using music and theatre to help university students improve their mental health. Matthew's most recent project is Light Stories, a new program for cello, electronics and visuals which launches this month in London's Southbank Centre.We hope you'll join us for Matthew's inspiring journey from a near-death experience as a teen to becoming a world-class performer.  https://matthewbarley.com/

La existencia de ejecutantes musicales que no son compositores, o lo son pero prefieren consagrarse a interpretar, resulta crucial en la Historia de la Música. Gracias a esos encargos de los que se beneficia su desempeño, han hecho más grande la obra de los grandes compositores._____Has escuchadoImmer: pour violoncelle seul (1996) / Pascal Dusapin. Sonia Wieder-Atherton, violonchelo. RCA (2001)Plainsound Glissando Modulation: Raga in Just Intonation for Violin and Double Bass, op. 49 (2006-2007) / Wolfgang von Schweinitz. Helge Slaatto, violín; Frank Reinecke, contrabajo. NEOS (2009)Ryoanji: For Contrabass and Tape (1983) / John Cage. Stefano Scodanibbio, contrabajo. WERGO (2009)st/4: for string quartet (1955-1962) / Iannis Xenakis. Arditti String Quartet. Montaigne (2003)Wunderblock (Nebenstück II): pour accordéon et orchestre (2005) / Gérard Pesson. Teodoro Anzellotti, acordeón. Aeon (2009)_____Selección bibliográficaCLARKE, Eric F. y Mark Doffman, Distributed Creativity: Collaboration and Improvisation in Contemporary Music. Oxford University Press, 2017COOK, Nicholas, Beyond the Score: Music as Performance. Oxford University Press, 2013COUROUX, Marc, “Evryali and the Exploding of the Interface: From Virtuosity to Antivirtuosity and Beyond”. Contemporary Music Review, vol. 21, n.º 2-3 (2002), pp. 53-67DUNCAN, Stuart Paul, “Re-Complexifying the Function(s) of Notation in the Music of Brian Ferneyhough and the ‘New Complexity'”. Perspectives of New Music, vol. 48, n.º 1 (2010), pp. 136-172*FLENDER, Reinhard David, Freie Ensembles für Neue Musik in Deutschland eine Studie des Instituts für kulturelle Innovationsforschung an der Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. Schott, 2007HILL, Peter, “Xenakis and the Performer”. Tempo, n.º 112 (1975), pp. 17-22*HOWARD, Philip, “‘Evryali': Beyond the Surface (What I Learned from ‘Evryali' by Performing It)”. Perspectives of New Music, vol. 42, n.º 2 (2004), pp. 144-157*LAWSON, Colin y Robin Stowell (ed.), The Cambridge History of Musical Performance. Cambridge University Press, 2012*MABRY, Sharon, Exploring Twentieth-Century Vocal Music. Oxford University Press, 2010*MADURELL, François, L'ensemble Ars Nova: Une contribution au pluralisme esthétique dans la musique contemporaine, 1963-1987. L'Harmattan, 2003MCPHERSON, Gary E. (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Music Performance. Volume 1. Oxford University Press, 2022*—, The Oxford Handbook of Music Performance. Volume 2. Oxford University Press, 2022*PACE, Ian, “Notation, Time and the Performer's Relationship to the Score in Contemporary Music”. En: Unfolding Time: Studies in Temporality in Twentieth Century Music. Editado por Darla Crispin. Leuven University Press, 2009SILVERTHORNE, Diane V. (ed.), Music, Art and Performance from Liszt to Riot Grrrl: The Musicalisation of Art. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021*WEISBERG, Arthur, Performing Twentieth-Century Music: A Handbook for Conductors and Instrumentalists. Yale University Press, 1993*WRIGHT, David C. H., “The London Sinfonietta 1968-2004: A Perspective. Twentieth-Century Music, vol. 2, n.º 1 (2005), pp. 109-136 *Documento disponible para su consulta en la Sala de Nuevas Músicas de la Biblioteca y Centro de Apoyo a la Investigación de la Fundación Juan March

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For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads — DJs, music journos, indie label captains, record shop owners, listening bar kingpins, et al — about their stories + the music that makes them. Join the Crate Coalition: https://discord.gg/sAaG6a7bv4 Born in Detroit, raised in London and now based in Kraków, Alex Roth is a composer, guitarist, producer and interdisciplinary collaborator. His diverse body of work encompasses improvised performances; a wide range of concert music from solo to orchestral compositions; scores for dance, theatre and film; leading numerous bands; and producing electronic music. He has worked with some of Europe's leading experimental musicians, such as John Butcher, Arve Henriksen, Savina Yannatou, Kit Downes, Mikolaj Trzaska and Olga Szwajgier. Alex leads the acclaimed improvising trio Cut The Sky (with Wacław Zimpel and Hubert Zemler); produces experimental electronic music as Supersigil; co-directs Sephardic music group Sefiroth; and founded the networked ensemble MultiTraction Orchestra, whose critically lauded debut album was hailed by The Guardian as "a remarkable sonic collage by an A-list of international improvisers.” Alex's compositions have been recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra and London Sinfonietta, and the 20+ releases in his discography also include collaborations with singer/songwriter Alice Zawadzki, Mercury Prize nominee Laura Jurd's Human Spirit, and Orcadian fiddler/singer/songwriter Catriona Price, among other recordings on labels such as Superpang, Edition, Diatribe and NMC. Alex is also the founder of multidisciplinary label Zyla, whose inaugural season of releases was curated around his Inpouring EP—a collaboration with experimental cellist Alice Purton—and included poetry, drawing, animation, choreography and videography. Explore more of this conversation and others: https://www.greymatter.fm/community/ftr027-alex-roth --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/greymatterfm/message

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SynopsisOn today's date in 1968, London witnessed a double debut: the first concert of the London Sinfonietta, a chamber group that would go on to become one of Britain's most famous new music ensembles, and, on its debut program, the premiere performance of The Whale, a dramatic cantata by John Tavener, who would go on to become one of Britain's most famous contemporary composers.The London Sinfonietta's premiere attracted the attention of both the BBC, which broadcast the work that same year, and the Beatles, who released a recording of the work on their newly formed Apple label.After Tavener's religious conversion to the Greek Orthodox faith in 1977 and a near-death experience during surgery in 1990 to remove a tumor from his jaw, his music became ever more liturgical, even other-worldly, and was described as “mystic minimalism.”In 1997, when the funeral service for Princess Diana was broadcast worldwide, it was Tavener's serenely lyrical anthem Song for Athene that was chosen to accompany the princess' coffin as it left Westminster Abbey.Music Played in Today's ProgramJohn Tavener (1944-2013) The Whale; London Sinfonietta and Chorus; David Atherton, cond. Capitol 98497

Conductor John DeMain is noted for his dynamic performances on concert and opera stages throughout the world. In January 2023, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Opera Association, the association's highest award. During his three decades as the Madison Symphony Orchestra music director, John has consistently raised the quality of the orchestra by introducing blind auditions and continuously expanding the repertoire to encompass ever more challenging and virtuosic works. His active conducting schedule has taken him to the stages of the National Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the symphonies of Seattle, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Columbus, Houston, San Antonio, Long Beach, and Jacksonville, along with the Pacific Symphony, Boston Pops, Aspen Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Orchestra of Seville, the Leipzig MDR Sinfonieorchester, and Mexico's Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional. In 2019, he conducted the world premiere of Tazewell Thompson's Blue at the Glimmerglass Festival to critical acclaim.  He “drew a vibrant performance from an orchestra of nearly 50 players; the cast was superb,” said The New York Times.

Compositor austriaco de origen húngaro, toma contacto con las vanguardias a través de Stockhausen. Crea un estilo propio basado en la búsqueda de nuevos modelos rítmicos y la exploración de texturas y densidades sonoras. Apparitions, Atmosphères y Lux aeterna son algunas de sus obras maestras._____Has escuchadoChamber Concerto: movimento preciso e meccanico (1970). London Sinfonietta. David Atherton, director. DECCA (1990)Continuum: para clave (1968). Olga Pashchenko, clave. Grabación sonora realizada en directo en la sala de conciertos de la Fundación Juan March, el 2 de noviembre de 2022Lontano: For Large Orchestra (1967). Wiener Philharmoniker; Claudio Abbado, director. Deutsche Grammophon (1990)Lux Aeterna (1966). Schola Cantorum Stuttgart; Clytus Gottwald, director. WERGO (1988)String Quartet No. 1 “Métamorphoses Nocturnes” (1954). Arditti Quartet. Sony Classics (1997) _____Selección bibliográficaBEFFA, Karol, György Ligeti. Fayard, 2016BERÁ, Camille, “De Platon à Dodecahedron: les apports des textures ligétiennes et de la musique électronique chez un groupe de Metal extrême”. Itamar. Revista de Investigación Musical: Territorios para el Arte, n.º 5 (2019), pp. 143-161*BOUKOBZA, Jean-François, György Ligeti: Études pour piano. Contrechamps, 2019BULUT, Zeynep, “Theorizing Voice in Performance: György Ligeti's Aventures”. Perspectives of New Music, vol. 48, n.º 1 (2010), pp. 44-64*CLENDINNING, Jane Piper, “The Pattern-Meccanico Compositions of György Ligeti”. Perspectives of New Music, vol. 31, n.º 1 (1993), pp. 192-234*DROTT, Eric, “Ligeti in Fluxus”. The Journal of Musicology, vol. 21, n.º 2 (2004), pp. 201-240*—, “Lines, Masses, Micropolyphony: Ligeti's Kyrie and the Crisis of the Figure”. Perspectives of New Music, vol. 49, n.º 1 (2011), pp. 4-46*DUCHESNEAU, Louise y Wolfgang Marx (eds.), Györgi Ligeti: Of Foreign Lands and Strange Sounds. Boydell Press, 2011*GALLOT, Simon, György Ligeti et la musique populaire. Éditions Symétrie, 2010HICKS, Michael, “Interval and Form in Ligeti's Continuum and Coulée”. Perspectives of New Music, vol. 31, n.º 1 (1993), pp. 172-190*KERÉKFY, Márton. “‘A ‘New Music' from Nothing': György Ligeti's Musica Ricercata”. Studia Musicologica, vol. 49, n.º 3-4 (2008), pp. 203-230*LEVY, Benjamin R., “Shades of the Studio: Electronic Influences on Ligeti's Apparitions”. Perspectives of New Music, vol. 47, n.º 2 (2009), pp. 59-87*—, Metamorphosis in Music: The Compositions of György Ligeti in the 1950s and 1960s. Oxford University Press, 2017LIGETI, György, Écrits sur la musique et les musiciens. Contrechamps, 2014PABLO, Luis de, “Conversaciones con Ligeti: sobre ‘Ligeti in Conversation' de Péter Várnai, Josef Häusler, Claude Samuel y György Ligeti”. Saber Leer, n.º 2 (1987): [PDF]*RICHART, Robert W., György Ligeti, A Bio-Bibliography. Greenwood Press, 1990ROIG-FRANCOLÍ, Miguel A., “Harmonic and Formal Processes in Ligeti's Net-Structure Compositions”. Music Theory Spectrum, vol. 17, n.º 2 (1995), pp. 242-267*SEARBY, Mike, “Ligeti's Chamber Concerto - Summation or Turning Point?”. Tempo, n.º 168 (1989), pp. 30-34*—, “Ligeti the Postmodernist?”. Tempo, n.º 199 (1997), pp. 9-14*STEINITZ, Richard, György Ligeti: Music of the Imagination. Northeastern University Press, 2003TAYLOR, Stephen Andrew, “Ligeti, Africa and Polyrhythm”. The World of Music, vol. 45, n.º 2 (2003), pp. 83-94*TOOP, Richard, György Ligeti. Phaidon, 1999 *Documento disponible para su consulta en la Sala de Nuevas Músicas de la Biblioteca y Centro de Apoyo a la Investigación de la Fundación Juan March

An den Rändern des Jazz - heute mit: Julia Werup: Dear Frances | Marius Neset & London Sinfonietta: Geyser | Daniel Villarreal: Lados B (Sendung vom 28.11.)

Muzyka pełna zadumy, refleksji... wspomnień. 1. J.S.Bach - Aria z Wariacji Golbergowskich - Britten Sinfonie, Thomas Gould. 2. F. Chopin - Nocturne nr 1 op 9, Brigitte Engerer. 3. W.A. Mozart - Requiem, Lacrimosa, Pierre Genisson. 4. Jan Garbarek, Eleni Karaindrou - Requiem for Willy Loman. 5. Maurice Durufle - Requiem, Agnus Dei, Okka von der Damerau, 6. Gabriel Faure Requiem, Agnus Dei. 7. Zbigniew Preisner Requiem dla przyjaciela, Okrywamy świat, Miłość 8. Edward Grieg Suita Peer Gynt nr 1 Śmierć Azy, Academy of Saint Martin in The Field. 9. Henryk Mikołaj Górecki - 3 Symfonia cz. III , Lento , London Sinfonietta, Dawn Upshaw, David Zinman. 10. Sinead O'Connor - This is to Mather You. 11. Luis Bonfá - Manha de Carnaval, Astrud Gilberto.

Swedish saxophonists Per "Texas" Johansson and Marius Neset both have two new albums out; Swedish bassist Petter Eldh is on--at least--three new albums, including some by Johansson and Neset. This and much more on a playlist largely focusing on music from the Berlin and Scandinavian scenes. The playlist features Lucia Cadotsch; Enemy (Kit Downes, Petter Eldh, James Maddren); Per "Texas" Johansson [pictured]; Johan Lindström, Norbotten Big Band; Marius Neset, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, London Sinfonietta; Suzanne, Emile Parisien; and Aruan Ortiz. Detailed playlist at https://spinitron.com/RFB/pl/18027811/Mondo-Jazz (from "No Apology" onwards). Happy listening!

Puskás Péter Bécsben született, első zenei oktatását és formáló tapasztalatait a Bécsi Fiúkórusban, valamint gyermekszínészként a bécsi Burgtheaterben szerezte. A Bécsi Konzervatóriumban (Konservatorium der Stadt Wien) végzett zongoratanulmányok különleges érdeklődést váltottak ki a nagyszabású operaprodukciókban való munkavégzés iránt, mint rendezőasszisztens és színpadi menedzser (Wagner Festival Wels, Salzburg Fesztivál). Több éven át együttműködött színpadi tervezőkkel is. 2005-ben Londonba költözött, és több Klasszikus Music Video on Demand üzletnél dolgozott programmenedzserként és programigazgatóként, mielőtt csatlakozott a London Music Team of Arts Council England-hoz. Ebben a minőségében Peter irányította a közfinanszírozási kapcsolatot a londoni székhelyű nemzeti portfóliószervezetekkel (Londoni Filharmonikusok, Philharmonia Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment) és más támogatási kérelmezőkkel. Péter 2012-ben hozta létre művészmenedzser- és tanácsadó cégét, amely személyre szabott karriermenedzsment- és tanácsadói szolgáltatásokra szakosodott az egész szektorban. Az együttműködési partnerek között szerepel többek között a Universal Edition, a Boosey & Hawkes, az Alban Berg Alapítvány, a SONY, a Deutsche Grammophon, a Bécsi Állami Operaház, a Salzburgi Fesztivál, a Southbank Centre, a Philharmonia Orchestra, A Berlini Rádió Szimfonikus Zenekara és mások. Pétert rendszeresen meghívják vendégelőadásokra a zenei és kulturális menedzsment témakörben az európai egyetemeken. Önkéntes minőségben jelenleg az English Touring Opera igazgatótanácsának tagja, és Európa-szerte számos művészeti szervezet tanácsadója. Péter a Royal Society of Arts tagja. A Puskás International 2012-ben alakult Londonban, mint komolyzenei művészmenedzsment és tanácsadó cég. Válogatott nemzetközi művészeket képvisel, és projektmenedzsment szolgáltatásokat nyújt, amelyek a teljes folyamatot lefedik a koncepciótól kezdve a marketing, a PR és a rendezvényszervezésig. Butikügynökségként szólisták, karmesterek és együttesek menedzselésére és karrierfejlesztésére szakosodtunk, emellett kiemelt figyelmet fordítunk a projektek fejlesztésére és kurátori tevékenységére, beleértve a fesztiválokat, digitális projekteket és turnékat. Együttműködési partnereink közé tartozik többek között a Universal Edition, a Boosey & Hawkes, a Deutsche Grammophon, a Bécsi Állami Operaház, a Salzburgi Ünnepi Játékok, a Southbank Centre, a Philharmonia Orchestra és a Cleveland Orchestra. https://www.jammusiclab.com/de/faculty/peter-puskas?fbclid=IwAR3PMcp5VHPEWwJUBwr7lDDfB9PQPIebnNsr9oe2yfdzpFOwCf_iIiWTJWw https://www.facebook.com/klangkollektivwien https://puskasinternational.com/ https://radiokulturhaus.orf.at/artikel/705285/Jonathan-Powell-spielt-Hans-Winterberg https://remyballot.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@PUSKASINTERNATIONAL 0:00 Beköszönés 1:00 1956 2:00 Zenei gyökerek 4:30 Zongora 5:00 Gyermekként a színpadon (1979-1986 Burgtheater) 11:30 1985. Bécsi Konzervatórium 14:30 Színpadi menedzser, rendezőasszisztens, programmenedzser 16:30 Üzletvezetője egy Zongoraboltnak 19:30 2005. Bécset elhagyva Londonba kerülés 20:30 Vod 23:30 Program igazgatói pozíció 25:00 Ida Haendel-lel közös munka 28:30 Sony 29:20 2012. Művészmenedzser- és tanácsadó cég 32:30 Riga, Lettország 37:30 2023-ban újra Bécsben 41:30 Rémy Ballot 47:30 Dohnányi születésnap 51:30 Rémy Ballot-tal közös munka 55:30 2023.11.21. Jonathan Powell spielt Hans Winterberg 1:02:30 Elköszönés ----

Today there will be more. Yes! CHEST will carry Carry to wherever you are, how near or how far. It will be more teethy, it will be big, and there will be a fountain. There will be a radiowalk w. Shortwave Collective, there will be a symphony, there will be questions and there will be no answers. There will be happiness and it will be easy. Yes! so excited to be live from Struer Tracks again today. Tracklist Radiowalk w. Shortwave Collective Symphony No. 3, Op. 36: I. Lento - Sustenuto Tranquillo Ma Cantabile - David Zinman, Dawn Upshaw, London Sinfonietta, Henryk Górecki Sorrow: III - Lento -- Cantabilie-Semplice - Colin Stetson, Henryk Górecki Happiness Is Easy - Talk Talk

British folk musicians Kathryn Tickell, Laura Cannell, Amy Thatcher and Ruth Lyon discuss their musical and personal identities, the music they made when they were younger, and whether or not place affects the music they create. Kathryn Tickell is from the North Tyne Valley of Northumberland and comes from a musical family of pipers, singers, fiddlers and accordion players. She took up the Northumbrian small pipes at the age of nine, and began learning tunes from old shepherd friends and family. Her work has evolved to traverse jazz, and music from around the world, to large-scale orchestral works. She has released 15 of her own albums to date, and has recorded and performed with Evelyn Glennie, the London Sinfonietta, Sting, and many others. In 2015 she was awarded an OBE for services to folk music. Laura Cannell is a composer and violinist whose music straddles the worlds of experimental, folk, chamber and medieval music. She came to prominence with her debut album, Quick Sparrows over the Black Earth, and is known for her compositions that draw on the emotional influences of landscapes, and explore the spaces between ancient and experimental music. She's also the founder of independent record label Brawl Records, and is curator of the Modern Ritual performance series. Amy Thatcher is one of the UK's leading folk accordionists, who's based in the North East of England. Her first album, Paper Bird, was recorded when she was just 16 years old, and she released her first album proper, Solo, in 2019. She's worked with the likes of the Royal Northern Sinfonia and Sting. Ruth Lyon is a folk and chamber-pop artist who has established herself as a key member of the music scene in Newcastle, UK. She grew up in the countryside of the North York Moors, inheriting a love of the outdoors as well as a sense of melancholy from the landscape, something that is instilled in the music she creates. Her most recent EP, Direct Debit to Vogue, showcases her soulful vocals and her witty, raw lyricism, expressing the power in fragility and the beauty in imperfection.

Soweto-born Gregory Vuyani Maqoma took up dance in the late 1980s as a refuge from the political tensions in the township, and quickly began excelling. He embarked on his formal dance training at Moving Into Dance Mophatong in 1990 where, in 2002, he would return to serve a five-year stint as associate artistic director. Today, Maqoma is an internationally renowned dancer, choreographer, teacher, director and scriptwriter. He has also distinguished himself for his artistic collaborations, including working with British-based choreographer Akram Khan and the London Sinfonietta, as well as South African fashion designer David Tlale, singer-songwriter Simphiwe Dana and theatre maker Brett Bailey. He joins us a guest in this week's edition of My Rands & Sense.    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Luke spoke to the musician Robert Mitchell about his life as a creative artist and the importance of music and other arts to society and, more broadly, for humankind. Robert Mitchell is one of the most significant voices in British jazz. Multi-faceted creator, pianist, keyboardist, composer, improviser, writer, poet and so much more. He is a relentless seeker and thinker, encompassing many art forms, musical genres and constantly pushing the envelope. In the last year he has released the extremely contrasting albums “Hold The Light/The New Resistance' DOF004 (from his unit TRUE THINK) and 'Towards The Flame' 577 Records (from the improv trio The Flame). He has released 13 albums. Robert is a throwback to the powerful tradition of artistic mastery in pursuit of transcendence. He is proud to have been a Steinway artist since 2009. He was MD on the successful BBC4 television programme ‘Jazz 625 Live: For One Night Only' which won the British Broadcasting Award. He has played with Billy Harper, Greg Osby, Courtney Pine CBE, Alicia Olatuja, Orphy Robinson, Steve Coleman, Phil Ranelin, Omar Puente, Ernesto Simpson, Daymé Arocena, Jason Rebello, Shirley Smart, Basement Jaxx, Dub Colossus, Daniel Casimir, Joshua Redman, Jacqui Dankworth MBE, and many others. Robert Mitchell's works have been performed by the Grammy-winning Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and the London Sinfonietta, amongst others. He is a sought-for composer and known as an innovator with a distinct, unique voice. Robert has performed solo piano since the 90s. Recent concerts include Romania, Derby, Coventry, London with more on the way this year in Newcastle, Brighton and Bristol. His 2020 album The Rainbow Mountain/Can We Care' - was a near 40 min improvisation (completed with one of his original songs - live at the Jazz Cafe, London). Solo performances now include original music, Classical, Jazz, improvisations, left hand only, inside piano and poetry. He releases his second collection of poetry later this year - on Common Tone Press.   Robert is a Professor of Jazz Piano (Guildhall School Of Music And Drama), Piano Lecturer (Leeds Conservatoire) and Piano teacher at YMM.   https://robertmitchell.bandcamp.com/album/hold-the-light-the-new-resistance-dof0004 https://twitter.com/robertmitchellm https://www.instagram.com/robertmitchellmusic/

Linton Stephens tries out a classical playlist on comedian Josie Long. Josie's Playlist: Schubert arr. List - Standchen [S.560] (Schwanengesang D.957) (Khatia Buniatishvili) Caroline Shaw - The Isle: II. Ariel (Roomful of Teeth) Richard Ayres - No.37b For Orchestra: 4th mvt: 'Exit' (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Roland Kluttig) Thea Musgrave - Loneliness from Night Windows (Nicholas Daniel, Huw Watkins) Henryk Gorecki - Symphony no. 3 Op.36 (Symphony of sorrowful songs).....: 2nd movement (Dawn Upshaw, London Sinfonietta, David Zinman) Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia - Requiem Mass I. Introit: Requiem aeternam (Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Morgan State College Choir, Paul Freeman) Classical Fix is a podcast aimed at opening up the world of classical music to anyone who fancies giving it a go. Each week, Linton mixes a bespoke playlist for his guest, who then joins him to share their impressions of their new classical discoveries. Linton Stephens is a bassoonist with the Chineke! Orchestra and has also performed with the BBC Philharmonic, Halle Orchestra and Opera North, amongst many others.

Synopsis In the early years of the 20th century, a hauntingly beautiful piece of Grecian sculpture – a bust of the head of the goddess Aphrodite – was donated to the Boston Museum of Fine Art. There it inspired this orchestral work by Boston composer George Whitefield Chadwick. Chadwick's symphonic tone poem Aphrodite was, in the words of the composer, “an attempt to suggest in music the poetic and tragic scenes which may have passed before the sightless eyes of such a goddess.” Chadwick composed this music during East Coast holidays on Martha's Vineyard, inspired, he said, by the play of light and wind on the sea before him. It received its premiere at the Norfolk Festival in Connecticut on this date in 1912. On today's date in 1999, at a summer musical festival on the opposite coast of America, another musical work inspired by ancient Greece received its first performance. This music was entitled Five Images after Sappho, inspired by texts of the ancient Greek poetess Sappho and written for the remarkable voice of a modern American soprano, Dawn Upshaw. It was premiered at the Ojai Festival in California, and was written by the Finnish composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen. Music Played in Today's Program George Whitefield Chadwick (1854 - 1931) Aphrodite Brno State Philharmonic; Jose Serebrier, conductor. Reference 74 Esa-Pekka Salonen (b. 1958) Five Images after Sappho Dawn Upshaw, soprano; London Sinfonietta; Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor. Sony 89158 On This Day Births 1770 - possible birthdate of the British-born early American composer, conductor, and music publisher James Hewitt, in Dartmoor; 1932 - American composer and jazz arranger Oliver Nelson, in St. Louis; Deaths 1872 - Polish opera composer Stanislaw Moniuszko, age 53, in Warsaw; 1907 - Norwegian composer Agathe Backer-Groendahl, age 59, in Kristiania (now Oslo); 1951 - Russian-born American double-bass player, conductor and new music patron, Serge Koussevitzky, age 76, in Boston; Premieres 1811 - Weber: opera, "Abu Hassan." In Munich; 1883 - Tchaikovsky: "Festival Coronation March," in Moscow (Julian date: May 23); Tchaikovsky conducted this march at the gala opening concert of Carnegie Hall (then called just "The Music Hall")in New York on May 5, 1891; 1912 - Chadwick: tone poem "Aphrodite" in Norfolk, Conn., at the Litchfield Festival; 1914 - Sibelius: "Oceanides," in Norfolk, Conn., at the Litchfield Festival, with the composer conducting; 1935 - Shostakovich: ballet "The Limpid Stream," in Leningrad at the Maliiy Opera Theater; 1935 - R. Strauss: opera "Die schweigsame Frau" (The Silent Woman), in Dresden at the Staatsoper; 1994 - Philip Glass: opera "La Belle et la Bête" (Beauty and the Beast) based on the film by Jean Cocteau), by the Philip Glass Ensemble at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville (Spain), with Michael Riesman conducting; 1997 - Richard Danielpour: ballet "Urban Dances," at New York State Theater by the New York Ballet, choreographed by Miriam Mahdaviani; 1999 - Esa-Pekka Salonen: "Five Images after Sappho" for voice and orchestra, at the Ojai Festival in California, with soprano Dawn Upshaw and the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, conducted by the composer. Links and Resources On Chadwick On Salonen

The fifth episode of Composing Myself sees Wise Music CEO Dave Holley and Creative Director Gill Graham convene with French-British composer Josephine Stephenson for an illuminating and insightful meander through the fertile meadowlands of conversation. Topics covered include;- a formative introduction to the works of Mahler (“powerful music for a tiny child”)- how you really know when something is finished- collaborations with Damon Albarn, Arctic Monkeys and Radiohead- redressing the balance in COVIDAs ever, this is a chat full of interesting and thought-provoking insight into the creative process and nuance of the life of a professional composer. Not to be missed!----------Josephine Stephenson is a composer, arranger and performer working across contemporary classical and indie music. "A bewitching combination of dissonance and sweet-toned cantabile" (Bachtrack), Josephine's music has been commissioned by insitutions such as the BBC, Radio France, Wigmore Hall, Kings Place, Nonclassical and Spitalfields Music, and broadcast on France Musique and BBC Radio 3. She has written for acclaimed performers including the London Sinfonietta, Aurora Orchestra, s t a r g a z e, Miroirs Étendus, Explore Ensemble, The Hermes Experiment, Tenebrae, the Maîtrise de Radio France, tenor Allan Clayton, gambist Liam Byrne and guitarist Laura Snowden.Interested in harmony, sonority and dynamic immediacy in her music, she has collaborated with theatre companies La Raffinerie, L'Éventuel Hérisson Bleu and FellSwoop Theatre and filmmakers Julia Hart and Scott Vickers. She also regularly works as an arranger for songwriters and bands, which have included Damon Albarn, Daughter, Lisa Hannigan, Benjamin Biolay, NZCA LINES, James Righton, Ana Silvera, Evergreen and others.She studied composition with Giles Swayne while an undergraduate at Clare College Cambridge, before completing a Masters in Composition at the Royal College of Music under Kenneth Hesketh, graduating with Distinction. She was a Britten-Pears Young Artist in 2015-16 and a London Sinfonietta 'Writing the Future' composer for 2017-19.In 2021-23 she is composer in residence at the Opéra Grand Avignon.https://josephinestephenson.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Synopsis On today's date in 1928, the Danish composer Carl Nielsen conducted the first public performance of his new Clarinet Concerto in Copenhagen. “The clarinet,” said Nielsen, “can, at one and the same time seem utterly hysterical, gentle as balsam, or as screechy as a streetcar on badly greased rails.” Nielsen set himself the task of covering that whole range of the instrument's conflicting emotions and colors. He wrote it for a Danish clarinetist he admired named Aage Oxenvad, who played both the public premiere on today's date and a private reading a few weeks earlier. After the private performance Oxenvad is supposed to have muttered: “Nielsen must be able to play the clarinet himself — otherwise he would hardly have been able to find all the instrument's WORST notes.” The concerto's wild mood-swings puzzled audiences in 1928, but today it's regarded as one of Nielsen's most original works. In October of 1996, another Clarinet Concerto received its premiere when American composer John Adams conducted the first performance of his work Gnarly Buttons with soloist Michael Collins. This concerto contains a bittersweet tribute to Adams' father, a clarinetist who fell victim to Alzheimer's disease. In Adams' concerto, the swing tunes slide into dementia, but the concerto ends with a kind of benediction. Music Played in Today's Program Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) Clarinet Concerto, Op. 57 Kjell-Inge Stevennson, clarinet; Danish Radio Symphony; Herbert Blomstedt, cond. EMI 69758 John Adams (b. 1947) Gnarly Buttons Michael Collins, clarinet; London Sinfonietta; John Adams, cond. Nonesuch 79453 On This Day Births 1882 - Canadian-born American composer R. Nathaniel Dett, in Drummondsville, Ontario; Deaths 1896 - Austrian composer Anton Bruckner, age 72, in Vienna; Premieres 1727 - Handel: "Coronation Anthems," in London at Westminster Abbey during the coronation of King George II and Queen Caroline (Gregorian date: Oct. 22); 1830 - Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, in Warsaw, composer as soloist; 1928 - Nielsen: Clarient Concerto, at a public concert in Copenhagen, with the composer conducting and Aage Ozenvad the soloist; This concert had been given a private performance in Humlebaek on September 14, 1928); 1947 - Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6, by Leningrad Philharmonic, Yevgeny Mravinsky conducting; 1952 - Prokofiev: Symphony No. 7, by Moscow Philharmonic, Samuil Samosud conducting; 1953 - Messiaen: "Réveil des oiseaux," in Donaueschingen, Germany; 1955 - B.A. Zimmermann: "Nobody Knows de Trouble I See" for Trumpet and Orchestra, in Hamburg, by the North German Radio Orchestra conducted by Ernest Bour, with Adolf Scherbaum the soloist; 1962 - Carlisle Floyd: opera "The Passion on Jonathan Wader," by the New York City Opera; 1977 - Bernstein: "Songfest," "Three Mediations from 'Mass,'" and "Slava!" by the National Symphony, conducted by the composer ("Songfest" and "Meditations"‚ and Mstislav Rostropovich ("Slava!"); Rostropovich was also the cello soloist in the "'Meditations"; 1980 - Bernstein: "A Musical Toast ( A Fanfare in Memory of André Kostelanetz)" by the New York Philharmonic conducted by Zubin Mehta; 1980 - Zemlinksy: opera "Der Traumgörge" (Goerge the Dreamer), posthumously, in Nuremberg at the Opernhaus (This opera was written in 1906); 1985 - John Harbison: String Quartet No. 1, at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., by the Cleveland Quartet. 1985 - Michael Torke: “Vanada” for brass, keyboards and percussion, at the Concertgebouw Chamber Hall in Amsterdam, by the Asko Ensemble, Lukas Vis conducting. Links and Resources On Carl Nielsen On John Adams

Reimagining an opera is a delicate balance. Discovering a new perspective while honoring the spirit of the original work requires a special level of care and artistry. So how does one reimagine an opera like Bela Bartok's haunting Bluebeard's Castle, a work straight from the realms of Gothic horror, for a new audience? Director Daisy Evans and conductor Stephen Higgins come to the mic for this episode of BlinkOpera to talk about their inspiration and process of rediscovering this chamber opera as an exploration of a very familiar experience - traveling a path of a life with dementia. Welcome to Season 3 of The Atlanta Opera Podcast's BlinkOpera, the series built to give you an introduction to operas told from the artists who actually perform them and know them intimately. So, let's listen to the highlights, unpack the plot, and hear about performance anecdotes in a time-efficient and fun way! Recording: Bartok: Bluebeard's Castle; London Sinfonietta; Stephen Higgins

durée : 00:19:55 - Disques de légende du mardi 13 septembre 2022 - Le chef d'orchestre britannique Oliver Knussen, a été l'ami très proche de Takemitsu, dévasté par la mort du compositeur, il lui rend hommage avec ce disque enregistré juste après la mort de Takemitsu.

Synopsis On today's date, Elvis left the building – permanently. On August 16, 1977, Elvis Presley died in Memphis, Tennessee. Born in Tupelo, Mississippi in 1935, Elvis first earned his living as a mechanic and furniture repairman who occasionally played cowboy ballads on the guitar at parties. But somehow Elvis reinvented himself and became the archetypal rock 'n' roll superstar, revered more as the modern day reincarnation of the Greek god Dionysius than a mere mortal. His funeral caused such an outpouring of hysteria and that two people died in the chaos and many more were injured. There was even a bizarre plot at the time to kidnap Elvis' corpse and hold it for ransom. And, of course, some people claim he never died at all. American composer Michael Daughtery has taken pop icons like Elvis as the inspiration for a number of his concert works. He has even written a bassoon concerto titled "Dead Elvis" – a set of variations on the Dies Irae theme from the Latin Mass for the Dead. In performance, the composer asks that the soloist enter in the familiar costume of Las Vegas Elvis – sunglasses and a rhinestone-encrusted white jumpsuit with a plunging, open, neckline. Hip gyrations are optional. Michael Daugherty writes: "Elvis is a part of American culture, history, and mythology, for better or for worse. If you want to understand American and all its riddles, sooner or later you have to deal with Elvis." Music Played in Today's Program Michael Daugherty (b. 1954) –Dead Elvis (Charles Ullery, bassoon; London Sinfonietta; David Zinman, cond.) Argo 458 145

Born in Inverness in 1976, Stuart MacRae has established himself as one of the most distinctive of contemporary composers. Stuart's music has been performed at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the BBC Proms and the Edinburgh International Festival, by ensembles including the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Ensemble and London Sinfonietta. Often inspired by aspects of natural landscape, Stuarts music draws on various strands of European modernism including the music of Stravinsky, Carter, Xenakis and most significantly, Maxwell Davies.   I am Prometheus Ursa Minor Cladonia bellidiflora Dark Liquid With special thanks to performers: Hebrides Ensemble   Ear to the Ground keeps you in the loop with interviews and gig alerts from Scotland's top-notch composers. Hosted by Aileen Sweeney and Ben Eames. Sound edited by Mia Eames. Website Links: https://www.eartothegroundscotland.com/ https://stuartmacrae.com  

Por fin le ha tocado el turno a “SHOW BOAT”, el musical basado en la novela de Edna Ferber, autora de novelas río llevadas también al cine como “Cimarron” o “Gigante” y conocido en España por la película que dirigió George Sidney en 1951 con Howard Keel, Kathryne Grayson, Ava Gardner, Agnes Moorehead y el matrimonio Marge y Gower Champion. El musical se estrenó en 1927 y fue un punto de inflexión en la historia del musical ya que por primera vez las canciones, los números cómicos y los bailes ayudaban a avanzar la historia y estaban integrados en la misma, una propuesta de Oscar Hammerstein que se atrevió a poner en escena el tema del racismo y que volvería a tratar en musicales como “Carmen Jones” o “South Pacific”. “Show Boat” abrió una vía al musical lejos de la ópera o la operetta y trataba temas serios que hicieron cuestionar el término de “comedia musical” y que a pesar de estar escrito hace más de noventa años, sigue subiendo a escena en forma de ópera o de musical. En el podcast hemos utilizado la grabación de estudio que se hizo en 1988 con Frederica Von Stade (Magnolia y Kim), Jerry Hadley (Ravenal), Karla Burns (Queenie, la cocinera negra), Bruce Hubbard (Joe, el marido de Queenie), Teresa Stratas (Julie Laverne), Steve Barton (Steve el marido de Julie), David Garrison y Paige O’Hara (Frank y Ellie, los actores de comedia) con The Ambrosian Chorus y la London Sinfonietta dirigidos por John McGlinn. 00h 00'00" Old man river 00h 02'19" Presentación 00h 04'17" Cabecera 00h 05'24" Inicio 00h 05'57" Obertura 00h 12'25" Cotton Blossom 00h 18'23" Captain Andy's ballyhoo / Hey Julie... 00h 25'05" Where's the mate for me? / Make believe 00h 34'16" Old man river 00h 40'34" Can't help lovin' that man 00h 48'10" Life upon the wiked stage 00h 52'07" 'Til good luck comes my way 00h 54'50" Misery comin' around 01h 02'10" Looks like a swell 01h 08'22" You are love 01h 15'46" Oh tell me did you ever 01h 22'12" At the fair 01h 26'56" Why do I love you? 01h 36'17" Make believe (Reprise) 01h 38'08" Bill 01h 42'53" Can't Help Lovin that Man (Reprise) 01h 44'56" I might fall back on you 01h 48'46" After the ball 01h 52'38" Hey feller 01h 55'30" Old man river (Reprise) 01h 58'00" You are love (Reprise) 02h 00'05" Why do I love you 02h 04'05" Finale ultimo 02h 06'52" Curiosidades 02h 08'51" I have the room above her 02h 13'55" Ah, still suits me 02h 18'40" Can't help lovin’ that man (Ava Gardner) 02h 22'50" Nobody else but me

Synopsis The fairy-tale opera “Sadko” by the Russian composer Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov had its first performance in Moscow on today's date in 1898. This opera is still staged in Russia, but rarely anywhere else – even though some of its wonderful melodies have proven extremely popular. One of the opera's arias had a tune so catchy that it was set to English words as “Play That Song of India Again” and became a best-selling Paul Whiteman recording in the 1920s. In the big-band era, Rimsky-Korsakov's “Song of India” even made the American “Hit Parade.” The line between popular culture and classical music has often been blurred – and seldom so wickedly as in the works of the American composer Michael Daugherty. Take his “Le Tombeau de Liberace,” for example. Now, in classical music terminology, a “tombeau” is a memorial tribute to an eminent musician or composer – in this case, it's Wladziu Valentino Liberace, the flamboyant, rhinestone-encrusted pianist and showman who died in 1993. Many of Michael Daugherty's other concert pieces have also been inspired by pop icons, real and imaginary, ranging from Desi Arnaz to Superman. Music Played in Today's Program Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) — Song of India, from Sadko (arr Kreisler) (Gil Shaham, vn; Akira Eguchi, p.) DG 447 640 Michael Daugherty (b. 1954) — Candelabra Rhumba, from Le tombeau de Liberace (Paul Crossley, piano; London Sinfonietta; Markus Stenz, cond.) Argo 458 145

La música clásica polaca experimentó una suerte de resurrección después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. A la cabeza de ésta estaba Henryk Górecki. Éste compositor, siguió en principio las corrientes vanguardistas de Europa Occidental, pero su estilo decantó en lo que se ha descrito como un “minimalismo sacro”. Dicho minimalismo se percibe claramente en su tercera sinfonía, estrenada en abril de 1977 que ha vendido más de un millón de discos, rara hazaña para una obra clásica. La sinfonía es una obra de lo más inusual, parece que el compositor nos pidiera mirar la tragedia de la guerra fijamente a los ojos. En cada movimiento una soprano canta un texto en polaco: el primero es un lamento de María, del siglo XV; el segundo contiene una plegaria que una chica de 18 años dejó escrita en la pared de una cárcel de la Gestapo en 1944; y el tercero es una canción popular de Silesia en la que una madre busca a su hijo muerto, a manos de los alemanes. Recordando que un día como hoy en 2010 falleció Henryk Górecki, escucharemos un fragmento del tercer movimiento de su tercera sinfonía en la voz de la soprano Dawn Upshaw, de manos de la London Sinfonietta dirigida por David Zinman

Synopsis Yes, Juliet, a rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a catchy title alone can't help a piece of music that's uninspired or just plain boring. An intriguing title, however can sometimes help put audiences into a more receptive frame of mind – or at least pique their curiosity. From the very beginning of his career in the 1980s, the young American composer Michael Torke had the knack of coming up with quite evocative titles. His early works had titles like “Ecstatic Orange” and “Bright Blue Music.” A piece composed for the 1994 Olympic Games in Atlanta was titled “Javelin,” and this music, an orchestral suite that premiered in Amsterdam on today's date in 1997, was titled “Overnight Mail.” And each of the three movements of his orchestral suite had an ADDITIONAL title, as Torke explains: “The titles of the suite's three movements, Priority, Standard, and Saturday Delivery present the options for expediency when sending things, but musically, they represent different reactions to an abstract compositional problem I set up for myself … For me this was important, because I want to write music that follows all the old rules of voice leading and counterpoint, but sounds fresh.” Music Played in Today's Program Michael Torke (b. 1961) — Overnight Mail (Orkest de Volharding; Jurjen Hempel, cond.) Argo 455 684 On This Day Births 1673 - French flutist and composer Jacques-Martin Hottetere, in Paris; Deaths 1977 - Russian composer Alexander Tcherepnin, age 78, in Paris; Premieres 1918 - Holst: "The Planets," at Queen's Hall, London; 1921 - Sigmund Romberg: operetta "Blossom Time," in New York City; 1949 - Bliss: opera "The Olympians," in London; 1968 - Henze: Piano Concerto No. 2, in Bielefeld, Germany; 1969 - Shostakovich: Symphony No. 14 (to poems of Lorca, Apollinaire, Küchelbecker, and Rilke), in Leningrad, by the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Rudolf Barshai conducting, with vocal soloists Galina Vishnevskaya and Yevgeny Vladimirov; 1983 - Lutoslawski: Symphony No. 3, in Chicago; 1997 - Michael Torke: "Overnight Mail" for chamber ensemble, in Carre, Amsterdam, by the Orkest de Volharding, Jurjen Hempel conducting; 2000 - Tan Dun: "Crouching Tiger Concerto," at the Barbican Festival in London, by the London Sinfonietta; Others 1739 - Handel completes in London his Concerto Grosso in G, Op. 6, no. 1 (Gregorian date: Oct. 10); 1789 - Mozart completes in Vienna his Quintet in A for clarinet and strings, K. 581, written for clarinetist Anton Stadler, who gave the first public performance of the new work in December of that year. Links and Resources On Torke

David Hockings is Head of Percussion at the Royal College of Music and Principal Percussionist with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. He's much in demand as a performer and a teacher and has worked with all the major London symphony orchestras. As Principal Percussionist with the London Sinfonietta he plays highly demanding contemporary music involving a wide range of instruments. He's passionate about education and has worked with communities and disadvantaged people all over the world. In the podcast we explore points of connection between our worlds of music and medicine and discuss what it means to lead and inspire. https://londonsinfonietta.org.uk/players/david-hockings

Kim's  career has taken her from Broadway to the West End to the international concert stage, resulting in a most unusual career path unmatched by any other singer. She continues to specialize in musical theatre, bringing the classic American songbook to leading music venues across the world, both in symphony settings and recital.  She has sung at La Scala in Milan, La Fenice in Venice, the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, the Accademia Nazionale Santa Cecilia in Rome, the Théâtre du Châtelet and the Opéra Comique in Paris, Concertgebauw in Amsterdam, Carnegie (Weill) Recital Hall in New York, the Musikverein, Konzerthaus and Volksoper in Vienna, the Berliner Philharmonie, the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon, the Snape Maltings Concert Hall in Aldeburgh, and the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, not to mention multiple appearances in London at the Wigmore Hall, the Royal Albert Hall, the Barbican, the Royal Festival Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Purcell Rooms, Cadogan Hall, and the Linbury Studios at the Royal Opera House, and elsewhere, from Reykjavik, Helsinki, Leipzig and Kaiserslautern, to Athens, Essen, Gothenburg and Bremen, to Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Hong Kong, Malta, Montpellier, and Moscow, giving her a unique platform among interpreters of the musical theatre repertoire.She has had the pleasure of singing with many of the world's greatest symphony orchestras, ranging from the Berlin Philharmonic and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestras conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, with whom she has recorded Leonard Bernstein's Wonderful Town in a version that then was repeated as a BBC Proms concert, and as the New Year's Eve Gala in Berlin, to the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia and London Sinfonietta, the Liverpool Philharmonic, the Northern Sinfonia, the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the Orchestre National de Lyon, the Orchestre de Picardie, the Orchestra della Toscana, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Toronto and Winnipeg Symphonies, and many, many more. Kim has formed several lasting musical partnerships over the years, leading to both concert and recording opportunities. Conductor/music historian John McGlinn brought her to EMI Classics, which led to several recordings and a personal recording contract, as well as many symphony concerts across America and Europe. With conductor John Wilson, she has explored the world of film music across the UK in concert, including the very popular MGM and Rodgers and Hammerstein Proms concerts, and several solo evenings. Her ongoing recital partnership with conductor/pianist Wayne Marshall has taken the pair to many of the great concert venues in Europe, both as recitalists and in full symphony settings.  Other conductors she has appeared with include Kristjan Jarvi, , Leonard Slatkin, Marin Alsop, Yutaka Sado, Keith Lockhart, Ulf Schirmer, John Axelrod, Kevin Farrell, Carl Davis and Richard Hickox, to name a few.Critically acclaimed for playing “Annie Oakley” in Annie Get Your Gun at London's Prince of Wales Theatre, for which she earned a Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical, and for her role as “The Old Lady” in Robert Carsen's productions of Candide at La Scala and the Théâtre du Châtelet, she has also won a Helen Hayes Award for her work in Side by Side by Sondheim. She also starred as “Sally Adams” in Call Me Madam at the Goodspeed Opera House, singing the role of “The Old Lady” in Candide at Chicago's Ravinia Festival, and co-starring with Joseph Fiennes and Charles Edwards in Happy Days in the Art World at NYU's Skirball Center in New York.Kim's Broadway credits include starring as “Lucy”, opposite Sting, in the 3 Penny Opera directed by John Dexter, and appearing in the original Broadway cast of 1982 Best Musical Tony winner Nine, first as Francesca, then taking over the leading role of Claudia. Other Broadway original cast credits include The First, Baby and Star

Synopsis In the 1980s, the Finnish Broadcasting Company had come up with the idea of commissioning a whole evening’s worth of orchestral pieces by native composer Einojuhanni Rautavaara, which, when taken together, would form a conventional concert program of overture, concerto and symphony. These three works have come to be called the “Angel Trilogy,” since each of them has a title with the word “Angel” in it. Rautavaara’s Fifth Symphony, with the working title “Monologue with Angels,” premiered on today’s date in 1986, was originally to be the symphonic conclusion of this triple commission. But Rautavaara dropped the title, and his Symphony No. 7, subtitled “Angel of Light,” ended up being the third part of the “Angel Trilogy,” alongside an overture entitled “Angels and Visitations” and a double-bass concerto entitled “Angel of Dusk.” If you asked the mystical Rautavaara why he changed his mind, he would probably have said it really wasn’t HIS idea at all. Rautavaara believed that his compositions already existed in ‘another reality,’ as he said, and his job was just to bring it into our world in one piece. "I firmly believe that compositions have a will of their own,” he said, “even though some people smile at the concept.” Music Played in Today's Program Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928 - 2016) Symphony No. 5 Leipzig Radio Symphony; Max Pommer, cond. BMG 62671 On This Day Births 1885 - German conductor and composer, Otto Klemperer, in Breslau; 1917 - American composer Lou Harrison, in Portland, Ore.; Deaths 1847 - German composer Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, age 41, in Berlin; She was the sister of Felix Mendelssohn; Premieres 1723 - Handel: opera "Flavio, re de' Langobardi" (Flavio, King of the Langobards), in London at the King's Theater in the Haymarket (Gregorian date: May 25); 1832 - Mendelssohn: "Hebrides" Overture ("Fingal's Cave"), in London, conducted by the composer; 1914 - R. Strauss: ballet "Josephslegende," in Paris; 1919 - Debussy: Saxophone Rhapsody (orchestral version by Roger-Ducasse), at a Société Nationale de Musique concert conducted by André Caplet at the Salle Gaveau in Paris; 1923 - Holst: "The Perfect Fool," in London at Covent Garden Opera House; 1941 - Cage: "Third Construction" for four percussionists, in San Francisco; 1942 - Copland: "Lincoln Portrait," by the Cincinnati Symphony conducted by André Kostelanetz, with William Adams the narrator; 1953 - American premiere of Stravinsky's opera, "The Rake's Progress," at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, with the composer conducting; The world premiere performance occurred on September 11, 1951, in Venice, again with the composer conducting; 1966 - Ginastera: "Concerto per Corde," by the Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; 1986 - Rautavaara: Symphony No. 5, in Helsinki, by Finnish Radio Symphony, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting; 1987 - Alvin Singleton: "Shadows" for orchestra. By the Atlanta Symphony, Robert Shaw conducting; 1992 - James MacMillan: "Sinfonietta" at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, by the London Sinfonietta, Martyn Brabbins conducting; 1993 - Philip Glass: opera "Orphée" (based on the Jean Cocteau film), by the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass.; Others 1719 - Handel is commanded by the Lord Chamberlain (Thomas Holles, Duke of Newcastle), to hire singers for the recently established Royal Academy of Music's productions of Italian operas (Gregorian date: May 25); 1974 - Final London concert performance by conductor Leopold Stokowski, age 92 conducting the New Philharmonia Orchestra at Royal Albert Hall: The program was Symphony No. 4 by Brahms, the "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis" by Vaughan Williams, the "Merry Waltz" by Otto Klemperer, and the "Rapsodie espagnole" by Ravel; This was not Stokowski's "final" concert appearance, however; He was on the podium again in Venice in July of that year, and continued to make studio recordings; He died on September 13, 1977, at the age of 95 in his house in Nether Wallop, Hampshire, England; Links and Resources On Rautavaara Rautavaara NYTimes obit

Synopsis In the 1980s, the Finnish Broadcasting Company had come up with the idea of commissioning a whole evening’s worth of orchestral pieces by native composer Einojuhanni Rautavaara, which, when taken together, would form a conventional concert program of overture, concerto and symphony. These three works have come to be called the “Angel Trilogy,” since each of them has a title with the word “Angel” in it. Rautavaara’s Fifth Symphony, with the working title “Monologue with Angels,” premiered on today’s date in 1986, was originally to be the symphonic conclusion of this triple commission. But Rautavaara dropped the title, and his Symphony No. 7, subtitled “Angel of Light,” ended up being the third part of the “Angel Trilogy,” alongside an overture entitled “Angels and Visitations” and a double-bass concerto entitled “Angel of Dusk.” If you asked the mystical Rautavaara why he changed his mind, he would probably have said it really wasn’t HIS idea at all. Rautavaara believed that his compositions already existed in ‘another reality,’ as he said, and his job was just to bring it into our world in one piece. "I firmly believe that compositions have a will of their own,” he said, “even though some people smile at the concept.” Music Played in Today's Program Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928 - 2016) Symphony No. 5 Leipzig Radio Symphony; Max Pommer, cond. BMG 62671 On This Day Births 1885 - German conductor and composer, Otto Klemperer, in Breslau; 1917 - American composer Lou Harrison, in Portland, Ore.; Deaths 1847 - German composer Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, age 41, in Berlin; She was the sister of Felix Mendelssohn; Premieres 1723 - Handel: opera "Flavio, re de' Langobardi" (Flavio, King of the Langobards), in London at the King's Theater in the Haymarket (Gregorian date: May 25); 1832 - Mendelssohn: "Hebrides" Overture ("Fingal's Cave"), in London, conducted by the composer; 1914 - R. Strauss: ballet "Josephslegende," in Paris; 1919 - Debussy: Saxophone Rhapsody (orchestral version by Roger-Ducasse), at a Société Nationale de Musique concert conducted by André Caplet at the Salle Gaveau in Paris; 1923 - Holst: "The Perfect Fool," in London at Covent Garden Opera House; 1941 - Cage: "Third Construction" for four percussionists, in San Francisco; 1942 - Copland: "Lincoln Portrait," by the Cincinnati Symphony conducted by André Kostelanetz, with William Adams the narrator; 1953 - American premiere of Stravinsky's opera, "The Rake's Progress," at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, with the composer conducting; The world premiere performance occurred on September 11, 1951, in Venice, again with the composer conducting; 1966 - Ginastera: "Concerto per Corde," by the Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; 1986 - Rautavaara: Symphony No. 5, in Helsinki, by Finnish Radio Symphony, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting; 1987 - Alvin Singleton: "Shadows" for orchestra. By the Atlanta Symphony, Robert Shaw conducting; 1992 - James MacMillan: "Sinfonietta" at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, by the London Sinfonietta, Martyn Brabbins conducting; 1993 - Philip Glass: opera "Orphée" (based on the Jean Cocteau film), by the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass.; Others 1719 - Handel is commanded by the Lord Chamberlain (Thomas Holles, Duke of Newcastle), to hire singers for the recently established Royal Academy of Music's productions of Italian operas (Gregorian date: May 25); 1974 - Final London concert performance by conductor Leopold Stokowski, age 92 conducting the New Philharmonia Orchestra at Royal Albert Hall: The program was Symphony No. 4 by Brahms, the "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis" by Vaughan Williams, the "Merry Waltz" by Otto Klemperer, and the "Rapsodie espagnole" by Ravel; This was not Stokowski's "final" concert appearance, however; He was on the podium again in Venice in July of that year, and continued to make studio recordings; He died on September 13, 1977, at the age of 95 in his house in Nether Wallop, Hampshire, England; Links and Resources On Rautavaara Rautavaara NYTimes obit

Steve Caplin discusses Elon Musk's changed attitude toward Bitcoin, the guilt felt by many towards buying from Amazon, how jazz encourages healthy eating, why the London Sinfonietta are going to be getting on their bikes, how cricket bats could be made of bamboo, Asda trialling insulated delivery boxes, a solar-powered cooler and why some in-game ads are so bloodthirsty. He also demonstrates his own guilt by receiving an Amazon delivery in the middle of the podcast!

Steve Caplin discusses Elon Musk's changed attitude toward Bitcoin, the guilt felt by many towards buying from Amazon, how jazz encourages healthy eating, why the London Sinfonietta are going to be getting on their bikes, how cricket bats could be made of bamboo, Asda trialling insulated delivery boxes, a solar-powered cooler and why some in-game ads are so bloodthirsty. He also demonstrates his own guilt by receiving an Amazon delivery in the middle of the podcast! Hrkn to www.shareradio.co.uk for more .. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1977 schockiert die polnische Avantgarde-Hoffnung Henryk Górecki die kunstmusikalische Fachwelt mit einer melancholischen Sinfonie und zartem Wohlklang. Zum Klassik-Megahit avanciert das Werk allerdings erst 15 Jahre später. Ein Meisterstück, an dem sich bis heute die Geister scheiden. (Autor: Martin Zingsheim)

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Hang onto a dream (America)" - Show #469, from Aug. 28, 2013 (1/16/17 edit) Neil Diamond - "America" - Jazz Singer Unknown IT Corporation - "I Have A Dream" - IT Anthems [of 2 CPU's] Noam Chomsky - "Class War" - Class War Brian Reitzell & Roger J. Manning Jr. - "Shibuya (field only)" - Lost In Translation s.t. Brian Reitzell & Roger J. Manning Jr. - "Shibuya (field only)" - Lost In Translation s.t. George W. Bush - "Address to Congress 9/20/01" Joe Frank - "Another Country Pt 2" [Life in America was inconceivable to her] Joe Frank - "Another Country Pt 3" [To have so much beauty, perhaps you had to have this much degradation.] Jello Biafra - "The New Soviet Union" - If Evolution Is Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Evolve (Disc 1) Neil Diamond - "America" - Jazz Singer Brian Reitzell & Roger J. Manning Jr. - "Shibuya (field only)" - Lost In Translation s.t. Madiha R Tahir & NSA - "NSA recruiting session with students questions" - University of Wisconsin recruitment drive, July 2013 [Discussion here] Leo McKern & Patrick McGoohan - "You're just as much a prisoner as I am" - The Prisoner (1x02: The Chimes of Big Ben) Joe Frank - "Another Country Pt 2" [I can't stand the isolation in this country. All you Americans do is watch television and go to the movies.] Shell - "Growing and Winning (We Are the World)" Joe Frank - "Another Country Pt 3" [The waste is enormous] Timothy "Speed" Levitch - "One of the great tragedies of civilization is this need to work for a living" - The Cruise Noam Chomsky - "The Undermining of Union" - Class War Neil Diamond - "America" - Jazz Singer Jeff Daniels, Emily Bergl - "There used to be more time, before I had to work" - Chasing Sleep Ralph Richardson, Peter Vaughan - "When I have knowledge of computers, I will be the surpreme being" - Time Bandits American Standards - "My Bathroom Is a Private Kind of Place" - Bathrooms Are Coming!! [I'm free....] Malcolm X - "Stop Singin' And Start Swingin'" Malcolm X - "The Ballot or the Bullet" Michael Nyman - "Drowning By Number 2" - Drowning By Numbers George W. Bush - "Address to Congress 9/20/01" George W. Bush - "Address to Congress 9/20/01" Michael Nyman - "Drowning By Number 2" - Drowning By Numbers George W. Bush - "Address to Congress 9/20/01" Leo McKern & Patrick McGoohan - "Both sides are becoming identical" - The Prisoner (1x02: The Chimes of Big Ben) Noam Chomsky - "Social Policy-Welfare for the Rich" - Class War Harrison Ford - "It's an absolute sin to accept the decadence of obsolesence" - Mosquito Coast Iam Holm, Craig Warnock, David Rappaport - "Evil turned out rather well" - Time Bandits Shell - "Growing and Winning (We Are the World)" David Lynch - "Blue Velvet interview (excerpts)" - Canadian TV interview Irene Trudel - "Today live 2021 on Drummer stream, mixed with now mixed with then" Ken - "The half-way handoff, live in 2021" Ken - "Everything is going as planned" Jeff Daniels, Guy Sanville - "Always two steps behind" - Chasing Sleep Timothy "Speed" Levitch - "Been running from the cops all my life" - The Cruise Unknown IT Corporation - "I Have A Dream" - IT Anthems Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn - "Full movie" - My Dinner With Andre Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn - "Full movie" - My Dinner With Andre Great Society Band - "March of the Astronauts" Malcolm X - "You Can't Hate the Roots of a Tree and Not Hate That Tree" Harrison Ford, River Phoenix - "America is a toilet" - Mosquito Coast [Why do they keep coming?] Martin Luther King, Jr. - "Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Address" Alessio Rastani - "Trader on market crashing, dreams of another recession" - BBC, Dec. 2012 Barack Obama - "If you can't trust us, we're going to have some problems" Malcolm X - "You Got What's Known As White's Disease" John Lennon - "Jann Wenner Interview Part 1" [The dream of this generation is over] Noam Chomsky - "Terrorism & The War On Nicaragua" - The New War On Terrorism Air Supply - "Making Love out of Nothing at All (reversed)" [Written by Jim Steinman] Neil Diamond - "America" - Jazz Singer Neil Diamond - "America" - Jazz Singer Set: Live 2021 I-miss-you mixing Joe & Eddie - "Sing Halleluiah" - The Best Of Joe & Eddie [with Les Baxter Orchestra] Ween - "She Wanted to Leave (Reprise)" - The Mollusk Henryk Gorecki - "Symphony No. 3, Op. 36: I. Lento - Sostenuto Tranquillo Ma Cantabile" - Fearless s.t. [With Dawn Upshaw, London Sinfonietta, David Zinman] Ken - "I miss you, I've been meaning to visit, I have been thinking about you" Arvo Part - "Fratres (The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra)" - Out of the Night [With Taverner Choir; Andrew Parrott] Ken - "I don't think you should be afraid to reach out to the people you're thinking of (you always run out of time)" [Life is about connection] Henryk Gorecki - "Symphony No. 3, Op. 36: I. Lento - Sostenuto Tranquillo Ma Cantabile" - Fearless s.t. [With Dawn Upshaw, London Sinfonietta, David Zinman] Noam Chomsky - "Being subjected to a master is intolerable (Ask Me Anything)" - Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal, Dec. 21, 2020 [Working for a master is intolerable, and American workers used to know it] Ken - "I need to you to embrace" https://lastever.org/show/210118

STRAVINSKY: El rey de las estrellas (6.04). Coro de la RTV Francesa (voces masculinas), Orq. Nac. de Francia. Dir.: P. Boulez. Concierto para orquesta de cuerda en Re mayor (12.14). Orq. de Cámara Inglesa. Dir.: C. Davis. Hymne (3 Piezas para cuarteto de cuerda) (4.39). M.-H. Thomas (vl.), I. Belton(vl.), P. Cassidy (vla.), J. Thomas (vc.), Cuarteto Brodsky. Concierto de ébano (Segundo movimiento: Andante) (2.33). M. Collins (cl.), London Sinfonietta. Dir.: S. Rattle. Adagio (El beso del hada) (arr. para vc. y p.) (4.14). M. Rostropovich (vc.), A. Dedyukhin (p.). Escuchar audio

BARTOK: Concierto para orquesta SZ 116 (selec.) (Intermezzo Interroto-Allegretto. Finale-Pesante.Presto) (13.34). Orq. Fil. de Berlín. Dir.: H. Von Karajan. Concierto para piano e instrumentos de viento (19.05). P. Crossley (p.), London Sinfonietta. Dir.: E.-P. Salonen. Ah, joie (Canto del ruiseñor del Acto II de El ruiseñor) (3.08). N. Dessay (sop.), Orq. del Teatro Nacional de la Ópera de París. Dir.: J. Conlon. Escuchar audio

Steven J Fowler chats asemic poetry and the kindness of the avant-garde writing world with Michelle Moloney King. No editing of this video, forgive the cough at the beginning as I whip baby grows out of the shot view, lockdown life, eh! I live the meta vibe of no editing so enjoy or not, whatever. What a cool chap, so kind and considered...to have so many avant-garde books published and so open to supporting all in the field....sound fella. WHO: SJ Fowler is a writer, poet and artist who lives in London. His work has been commissioned by Tate Modern, BBC Radio 3, Somerset House, Tate Britain, London Sinfonietta, Southbank Centre, National Centre for Writing, National Poetry Library, Science Museum and Liverpool Biennial amongst others. He has published eight collections of poetry, five of artworks, six of collaborative poetry plus volumes of selected essays and selected collaborations. His writing has explored subjects as diverse as prescription drugs, films, fight sports, museums, prisons and animals. He is the founder and curator of The Enemies Project and Poem Brut as well as poetry editor at 3am magazine and former executive editor at The Versopolis Review. He is lecturer in Creative Writing and English Literature at Kingston University, has taught at Tate Modern, Poetry School and Photographer's Gallery and is a Salzburg Global Fellow. He is the director of Writers' Centre Kingston and European Poetry Festival. LINKS: S J Folwer website and Twitter http://www.stevenjfowler.com/ https://twitter.com/stevenjfowler Asker of questions https://michellemoloneyking.com/ https://twitter.com/MoloneyKing https://beirbuajournal.wordpress.com/ Beir Bua Journal https://beirbuajournal.wordpress.com/ https://twitter.com/BeirBuaJournal

On today’s date in 1968, London witnessed a double debut: the first concert of the London Sinfonietta, a chamber group which would go on to become one of the Britain’s most famous new music ensembles and, on their debut program, the premiere performance of a dramatic cantata by John Tavener, who would go on to become one of Britain’s most famous contemporary composers. Tavener’s cantata was titled, “The Whale.” The London Sinfonietta’s premiere attracted the attention of both the BBC, which broadcast the work that same year, and The Beatles, who released a recording of the work on their own newly formed Apple label. After Tavener’s religious conversion to the Greek Orthodox faith in 1977, and a near-death experience during surgery in 1990 to remove a tumor from his jaw, Tavener’s music became ever more liturgical, even other-worldly, and was described as “mystic minimalism.” In 1997, when the funeral service for Princess Diana was broadcast worldwide, it was Tavener’s serenely lyrical anthem “Song for Athene” that was chosen to accompany the Princess’s coffin as it left Westminster Abbey.

On today’s date in 1968, London witnessed a double debut: the first concert of the London Sinfonietta, a chamber group which would go on to become one of the Britain’s most famous new music ensembles and, on their debut program, the premiere performance of a dramatic cantata by John Tavener, who would go on to become one of Britain’s most famous contemporary composers. Tavener’s cantata was titled, “The Whale.” The London Sinfonietta’s premiere attracted the attention of both the BBC, which broadcast the work that same year, and The Beatles, who released a recording of the work on their own newly formed Apple label. After Tavener’s religious conversion to the Greek Orthodox faith in 1977, and a near-death experience during surgery in 1990 to remove a tumor from his jaw, Tavener’s music became ever more liturgical, even other-worldly, and was described as “mystic minimalism.” In 1997, when the funeral service for Princess Diana was broadcast worldwide, it was Tavener’s serenely lyrical anthem “Song for Athene” that was chosen to accompany the Princess’s coffin as it left Westminster Abbey.

STRAVINSKY: Renard (Acción dramática burlesca en un acto) (16.01). J. Aler (ten.), N. Robson (ten.), D. Wilson-Johnson (bar.), J. Tomlinson (baj.), London Sinfonietta. Dir.: E.-P. Salonen. Cantata sobre antiguos textos ingleses (25.23). A. Albert (mez.), A. Young (ten.), Gregg Smith Singers, Conjunto de Cámara de Columbia. Dir.: I. Stravinsky. Escuchar audio

In this episode I present a 3-way conversation between English composers Colin Matthews, Julian Anderson and myself.Colin Matthews was born in London in 1946. He studied with Arnold Whittall and Nicholas Maw; in the 1970s he was assistant to Benjamin Britten, and worked for many years with Imogen Holst. His collaboration with Deryck Cooke on the performing version of Mahler's Tenth Symphony lasted from 1963 until its publication in 1975. Over four decades his music has ranged from solo piano music through five string quartets and many ensemble and orchestral works. He was Associate Composer with the London Symphony Orchestra between 1992 and 1999, and Composer-in-Association with the Hallé from 2001-10, now their Composer Emeritus. Colin Matthews' music is published by Faber Music. Julian Anderson is one of the most talented composers of his generation. Born in London in 1967, he studied with John Lambert, Alexander Goehr and Tristan Murail and first came to prominence when his orchestral Diptych (1990) won the RPS Composition Prize in 1992.  Anderson has held Composer in Residence positions with the City of Birmingham Symphony, Cleveland and London Philharmonic orchestras, relationships which produced an impressive body of orchestral works including Stations of the Sun (1998, a BBC Proms Commission) and Eden (2005, Cheltenham Festival). Fantasias (2009), written for the Cleveland Orchestra, won a British Composer Award and The Discovery of Heaven (2011), a co-commission by the New York Philharmonic and the London Philharmonic Orchestra was awarded a South Bank Sky Arts Award. Both works were recorded by the LPO live label. Anderson has enjoyed commissions from bodies including the BCMG, London Sinfonietta, Asko-Schönberg Ensemble and Cheltenham Festival. Book of Hours for ensemble and electronics (2004) won the 2006 RPS Award for Large Scale Composition and featured on a NMC portrait disc. This was one of two recordings of his music to be nominated for a 2007 Gramophone Award, the other being the eventual winner, Alhambra Fantasy (Ondine).  Poetry Nearing Silence (1997), originally a commission from the Nash Ensemble, was later arranged to become a successful ballet choreographed by Mark Baldwin. In 2009, Anderson and Baldwin collaborated again on a Darwin-inspired ballet, The Comedy of Change, which toured nationally. Julian Anderson's music is published by Faber Music and by Schott Music.More about Julian AndersonMore about Colin MatthewsSUPPORT THIS PODCASTPatreonDonorboxORDER SAMUEL ANDREYEV'S NEWEST RELEASEIridescent NotationLINKSYouTube channelOfficial WebsiteTwitterInstagramEdition Impronta, publisher of Samuel Andreyev's scoresEPISODE CREDITSPodcast artwork photograph © 2019 Philippe StirnweissSupport the show (http://www.patreon.com/samuelandreyev)

De nieuwe CD van harpist Remy van Kesteren, indrukwekkende koormuziek van Hans Bakker, een tip voor een concert van het Ives Ensemble in De Link in Tilburg, en een fragment uit de podcast 'Gaudeamus 1945-2020'! 23.04 CD Voices of Earth and Air vol. III (Navona Records NV 6299) Hans Bakker: RAT - Counsel for male choir Kühn Choir of Prague olv Lenka Navrátilová 1'39” CD Voices of Earth and Air vol. III (Navona Records NV 6299) Hans Bakker: Ich habe den Menschen gesehen Kühn Choir of Prague olv Lenka Navrátilová 6'14” CD Voices of Earth and Air vol. III (Navona Records NV 6299) Hans Bakker: RAT - Counsel for mixed choir Kühn Choir of Prague olv Lenka Navrátilová 1'44” 23.16 CD An alternative soundtrack to the motion picture The Red Turtle (Snowstar Records 20-167) Remy van Kesteren: Waves Remy van Kesteren 4'54” CD An alternative soundtrack to the motion picture The Red Turtle (Snowstar Records 20-167) Remy van Kesteren: 4=1 (everything) Remy van Kesteren 4'54” 23.33 CD Hans Abrahamsen (Da Capo Marco Polo 8.224080) Hans Abrahamsen - Marchenbilder: III. Scherzo prestissimo London Sinfonietta olv Elgar Howarth 5'12” 23.42 CD Artificial Environments (NMC Recordings…) Joanna Bailie: Artificial Environments nos 1 to 5: no 2 + no 3 Plus-Minus Ensemble & Joanna Bailie 8'26” 23.52 CD Music for Quiet Moments 26 Robert Fripp: Evensong (Haapsalu 24 augustus 2006) Robert Fripp [gitaar, elektronica] 5'05”

Speelbal. De levensloop tot en met het najaar van 1989; waarin nog maar valt te zien of het wel zo slim was Bilthoven voorgoed te verlaten... en de voortslepende recessie vreselijk dichtbij gaat komen. Met: Michael Torke: Vanada (Icebreaker) David Bedford: Sun Paints Rainbows on the Vast Waves (Royal Northern College Of Music Wind Orchestra olv Clark Rundell) Paul Termos: Concerto for alto saxophone and chamber orchestra (Arno Bornkamp (sax.) & Netherlands Ballet Orchestra olv Lucas Vis) Danis Smalley: Vortex (Denis Smaley, elektronica) Hans Abrahamsen: Marchenbilder: III. Scherzo prestissimo (London Sinfonietta olv Elgar Howarth) Iannis Xenakis: Thalleïn (Ensemble InterContemporain olv Michel Tabachnik) Jan Rokus van Roosendael :Tala (Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center & Netherlands Ballet Orchestra & Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra) Igor Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps: II. Le sacrifice (Amsterdam Piano Quartet)

durée : 00:12:19 - Disques de légende du jeudi 08 octobre 2020 - La soprano Dawn Upshaw, le chef d'orchestre David Zinman et l'ensemble London Sinfonietta enregistrent la Symphonie n° 3 du compositeur polonais Henryk Gorecki en 1991 pour le label Nonesuch Records. Le disque rencontre rapidement un grand succès commercial.

This week’s guest is the marvellous, exhilarating and captivating cellist, Gabriella Swallow. Seb and Verity took a trip to her fabulous North London apartment on a rainy September day for a chat ranging from bowling with Hugh Jackman in Lederhosen to taking John Adams for lunch in Manchester. Gabi initially made a name for herself specialising in contemporary music - At the age of 22 she made her Southbank debut with London Sinfonietta playing Mark-Anthony Turnage’s About Water. However, she took an extended break in her mid to late 20’s to have her family and support her husband’s flourishing career. Gabi discusses rebuilding her career and expanding her horizons post hiatus....she has many great stories including meeting the Chuckle Brothers and Jackson 5 at a festival, wild times with Nigel Kennedy’s band and leading a double life at music college. For any ‘90’s students out there Gabi references listings paper Loot. Enjoy!///Show NotesGabi’s WebsiteInstagram: @gabriellaswallowTwitter: @gabiswallow Click here to join the Members' Club on Patreon! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

After 16 episodes, I finally interviewed a guest whom I have never interacted with prior to our conversation, but lucky for me, this was a classic case of preceding reputation. I first came across Bernice when she won the President's Young Performers' Competition in 2016, which resulted in her concerto debut with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Since then, her career has gone from strength to strength, spending 2018 as Guest Co-Principal Oboe with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and currently based in London and earning positions in Academy programme organized by the London Sinfonietta and the London Philharmonic Orchestra.Accolades aside it was no surprise that Bernice deserved every ounce of success that she is enjoying at the moment. Many points that she brought up during the interview resonated with me - such as creating your own luck, sustaining her productivity during these difficult times and how she is providing value through her tireless work online. These are some of the primary ingredients to building up a successful career as a musician. We also spoke about the common dilemma musicians face with self-promotion. In this conversation with Bernice, she exudes a devotion to her craft, continuous pursuit of excellence and painstaking diligence in practice that is found in a great musician. This conversation has left me inspired and energized! To sum it all up, what a remarkable musician!To find out more about Bernice, visit her website here.Subscribe to Bernice's YouTube Channel to stay updated with her amazing content!Thank you so much for tuning in to this episode of the podcast! You can get in touch with me through https://www.youplayawhat.com . Subscribe and share this podcast with your friends if you enjoyed the episode. Feel free to leave a rating and review on which ever platform you choose to listen to your podcast!  

In this episode we talk about Elaine Mitchener's many projects, improvisation, music education, Jeanne Lee and much more. Elaine Mitchener is an experimental vocalist, movement artist and composer, whose work encompasses improvisation, contemporary music theatre and performance art. Born in East London to Jamaican parents, Elaine studied voice at Trinity College of Music, London and currently studies with Jacqueline Bremar. She has performed at numerous UK and European festivals, venues and galleries including Aldeburgh Music, London Contemporary Music Festival (LCMF), 56th Venice Biennale, Wysing Arts, Café Oto (London), Bluecoat (Liverpool), SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin), Purcell Room (Southbank Centre, London), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, ULTIMA Festival (Oslo), OCCUPY (St John’s Smith Square), SPILL Festival (Ipswich), La Monnaie (Brussels), Block Universe (London), White Cube (London), Whitechapel Gallery (London), Weserburg MOMA (Bremen), Wellcome Collection (London), and the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London). She has worked and performed in a wide variety of contexts with an array of leading musicians, composers, directors and visual artists including Moor Mother (Camae Ayewa), Mark Padmore, The Otolith Group, Deborah Warner, Christian Marclay, Apartment House, Steve Beresford, Pat Thomas, Irvine Arditti, Sonia Boyce, London Sinfonietta, John Butcher,Tansy Davies, George. E. Lewis, Attila Csihar, Rolf Hind, Dam Van Huynh, Lore Lixenberg, George Lewis, Alexander Hawkins, Sam Belinfante, Phil Minton, Evan Parker, Alasdair Roberts, Lucy Bailey, David Toop, Netia Jones, Matt Wright, and Jason Yarde. Elaine is co-founder of the experimental jazz quartet the Hawkins/Mitchener Quartet and a regular vocalist with the ensemble Apartment House. She created the role of Hannah/Voice singing with tenor Mark Padmore, in the opera CAVE, by composer Tansy Davies with libretto by Nick Drake, co-commissioned by the London Sinfonietta / Royal Opera House and directed by Lucy Bailey which premiered in June 2018. Her production company Elaine Mitchener Projects has researched, developed, produced and toured or staged a number of projects including Industrialising Intimacy (with choreographer Dam Van Huynh, David Toop, George Lewis); The Nude Voice (with Dam Van Huynh) commissioned for the Wellcome Collection London’s THIS IS A VOICE exhibition; ‘I back… I neck… I face… I chest’ commissioned by Sonia Boyce for her installation We Move In Her Way at London’s ICA; Of Leonardo da Vinci (with Dam Van Huynh, David Toop, Barry Lewis) for Oslo’s ULTIMA Festival; the three hour durational performance [NAMES] premiered at Ipswich’s SPILL Festival; a presentation of John Cage’s SongBooks for London’s Poetry In The City Festival; Vocal Classics of the Black Avantgarde for LCMF; and SWEET TOOTH in partnership with Bluecoat Liverpool, Stuart Hall Foundation and the International Slavery Museum. Premiered in Nov 2017, SWEET TOOTH has been described as ‘a vital black British addition to those seminal creative statements of resistance and defiance from the African Diaspora’, and was subsequently broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s Hear and Now programme (Dec 2017). Elaine has participated in residencies and symposiums including Aldeburgh Music (to develop SWEET TOOTH) and Fondazione Claudio Buziol, Venice (where she developed Of Leonardo Da Vinci supported by Muziektheater Transparant) and New Resonances organised by Theatrum Mundi. For more information about Elaine Mitchener please visit: http://www.elainemitchener.com/ © Let's Talk Off The Podium, 2020

Ah what a lovely chat. We begin with a love letter to new music and Manchester, work through why everyone should be improvising and the parallels between graphic scores and electroacoustic soundscapes, before ending with the role of music in activism, and electro finding a mainstream home in horror music and Amazon’s Alex Rider adaptation. Sarah Keirle - http://sarahekeirle.wixsite.com/ Links and Show Notes The Illy Quane Episode James Keirle International Anthony Burgess Foundation The Vonnegut Collective episode I found it! Turns out we liked the piece enough to commission him… Theme & Transformations by Mark Bowler reflecting deforestation (not temperature change) Sonification & The Problem with Making Music from Data - Tantacrul https://harryovingtonmusic.com/sonic-rewild Harrison Birtwistle: Silbury Air (with score) – See also this excellent primer by London Sinfonietta which includes an explanation of what metric modulation is if you’re wondering. Can you hear Sarah Keirle’s burp in Okypete and Aello? I can’t. Send me a timestamp! Danny Saul Music played in this episode (in order) Gethsemane intro bed Okypete and Aello extracts throughout Blue Lungs outro bed Okypete and Aello final piece played in full Support the podcast Review us on iTunes Subscribe to the mailing list to catch every new episode

Countersounds Playlist Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3 (1976) op. 36. London Sinfonietta; Dawn Upshaw soprano; David Zinman, conductor. Erased Tapes Track 9: Crash Erased Tapes Track 8: Paused   THANKS Many thanks to Alanna, Marcel, Paul, Jill, Dave, Maria, Udo, my mom, and the BBC Monks for tonight’s show. Tune in next week for my […]

Saxophonist Jess Gillam is joined by composer Dani Howard, and between them they swap music by Thomas Adès, Anna Thorvaldsdottir and Fats Waller. Track we played today... Thomas Ades - In Seven Days: iv. Stars - Sun - Moon Nicolas Hodges (piano) London Sinfonietta, Thomas Ades Toshio Hosokawa - Japanese folksongs: no.2; Itsuki no komori uta (Lullaby of Itsuki) Emmanuel Pahud (flute) Christian Rivet (guitar) Steve Reich – Variations for Vibes, Pianos and Strings: I. Fast London Sinfonietta, Alan Pierson Anna Thorvaldsdottir - In The Light of Air (Existence) International Contemporary Ensemble Robert Schumann - Fantasiestücke, Op. 73; III. Rasch und mit Feuer Sol Gabetta (cello) Hélène Grimaud (piano) Fats Waller – Two Sleepy People Rae Morris - Do it (Acoustic Version) Satie - 3 Gymnopedies for piano, no.1 in D major; Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)

最近勺子有两个朋友都买了电钢琴，开始了成人学琴者生涯。练钢琴，最痛苦的事，莫过于枯燥无味的练习曲——从入门到放弃，就靠它了。 而对于大多数古典音乐爱好者来说，练习曲却又是肖邦的《离别》《革命》，李斯特的《钟》《马捷帕》，如果喜爱炫技流，那听到这些华丽的练习曲，简直有如吃到了东坡肉中油汪汪的大肥肉。 其实练习曲对于钢琴艺术的发展一直起到了很重要的作用，从枯燥无味的劝退神器，到无数爱乐人的心头好，练习曲到底是如何起源、如何发展，就让勺子用两期节目的时间好好跟大家聊聊。 阿 D, 卡尔·车尔尼 Carl Czerny - 钢琴初级教程，作品 599 Erster Wiener Lehrmeister im Pianoforte-Spiel, Op.599: 第 60 首 LXX 格伦·古尔德 Glenn Gould, 约翰·塞巴斯蒂安·巴赫 Johann Sebastian Bach - 第 1 号降 B 大调帕蒂塔，BWV 825 Partita No. 1 in B-Flat Major, BWV 825: 第 1 首，前奏曲 I. Prelude / 第 2 首，阿拉曼德舞曲 II. Allemande / 第 3 首，库朗特舞曲 III. Courante / 第 4 首，萨拉班德舞曲 IV. Sarabande / 第 5 和 6 首，小步舞曲第 1 和 2 首 V & VI. Menuett I & II / 第 7 首，吉格舞曲 VII. Gigue 格伦·古尔德 Glenn Gould, 约翰·塞巴斯蒂安·巴赫 Johann Sebastian Bach - 第 13 首 A 小调二部创意曲，BWV 784 Invention No. 13 in A Minor, BWV 784 / 第 14 首降 B 大调二部创意曲，BWV 785 Invention No. 14 in Flat B Major, BWV 785 / 第 6 首 E 大调三部创意曲，BWV 792 Sinfonia No. 6 in E Major, BWV 792 皮埃尔·瀚代 Pierre Hantaï, 多梅尼科·斯卡拉蒂 Domenico Scarlatti - 大键琴练习 Essercizi per gravicembalo: B 小调奏鸣曲，K.27 Sonate en Si Mineur, K.27: Allegro 达尼埃尔·拉法尔 Danielle Laval, 穆齐奥·克莱门蒂 Muzio Clementi - 名手之道，作品 44 Gradus ad Parnassum, Op.44: 第 2 首，C 大调，流畅而快速地 II. Pièces en ut Majeur: Veloce 郎朗, 克劳德·德彪西 Claude Debussy - 儿童园地，L. 113 Children's Corner, L.113: 第 1 首，博士练习曲 I. Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum 江崎昌子, 卡尔·车尔尼 Carl Czerny - 钢琴流畅练习曲，作品 849 30 Études de mécanisme, Op.849: 第 13 首 XIII / 第 26 首 XXVI 马西米利亚诺·杰诺特 Massimiliano Génot, 卡尔·车尔尼 Carl Czerny - 钢琴快速练习曲，作品 299 The School of Velocity, Op.299: 第 26 首 XXVI / 第 37 首 XXXVII / 第 39 首 XXXIX / 第 36 首 XXXVI 帕斯卡·罗杰 Pascal Rogé, 克里斯蒂娜·欧提兹 Cristina Ortiz, 夏尔·迪图瓦 Charles Dutoit, 乐团：伦敦小交响乐团 London Sinfonietta, 卡密尔·圣桑 Camille Saint-Saëns: 动物狂欢节，R. 125 Le carnaval des animaux, R.125: 第 3 首，野驴 III. Hémiones (animaux véloces) / 第 11 首，钢琴家 XI. Pianistes 玛格丽特·奥特维尔 Margaret Otwell, 弗里德里希·布格缪勒 Franz Burgmüller - 钢琴进阶练习 25 首，作品 100 25 Études faciles et progressives, Op.100: 第 2 首，阿拉伯风 II. L'arabesque / 第 5 首，天真烂漫 V. Innocence / 第 7 首，清澈的溪水 VII. Le courant limpide 弗拉基米尔·菲尔兹曼 Vladimir Feltsman, 罗伯特·舒曼 Robert Schumann - 少儿曲集，作品 68 Album für die Jugend, Op.68: 第 1 首，旋律 I. Melodie / 第 2 首，士兵进行曲 II. Soldatenmarsch / 第 8 首，粗犷的骑士 VIII. Wilder Reiter / 第 10 首，快乐的农夫 X. Fröhlicher Landmann, von der Arbeit zurückkehrend 伊沃·波格雷里奇 Ivo Pogorelich, 弗雷德里克·肖邦 Frédéric Chopin - 第 2 号钢琴奏鸣曲，作品 35 Piano Sonata No.2, Op.35: 第 4 乐章，终曲，急板 IV. Finale. Presto 巴拉兹·索科莱 Balazs Szokolay, 穆齐奥·克莱门蒂 Muzio Clementi - 六首小奏鸣曲，作品 36，第 1 首，C 大调小奏鸣曲 6 Piano Sonatinas, Op.36, No.1, Sonatina in C major: 第 1 乐章，快板 I. Allegro

Hannah Rankin grew up on a sheep farm near Loch Lomond. Earlier this year she made history by becoming the first Scottish woman to win a boxing world title when she became the IBO (International Boxing Organisation) super-welterweight champion. She’s recently returned from winning her first big fight in America. But, as she tells Michael Berkeley, she is just as likely to be found in the woodwind section of an orchestra as she is in a boxing ring, because Hannah is also a highly accomplished bassoonist. She studied at the Royal Scottish Conservatoire and the Royal Academy of Music, and now teaches in schools and performs with the London Sinfonietta, at the St Petersburg Ballet Theatre, and the London Coliseum. With her fellow Royal Academy of Music alumni she founded the Coriolis Quintet. Known on the professional boxing circuit as the Classical Warrior, Hannah explains how she balances her two lives, in the ring and on the stage, and what it’s like building up to a really big fight. She chooses music by Mendelssohn and by Sibelius from early in her musical career, which reminds her of northern landscapes, and operas by Humperdink and by Tchaikovsky - composers who share her love of the bassoon. And we hear music that transports Hannah back to summers shearing sheep on the family farm. Producer: Jane Greenwood A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3

In this week's episode, JAZZIZ online editor Matt Micucci joins Backstage Pass host Brian Zimmerman to review the 10 Albums You Need To Know for November 2019! Also discussed in this podcast: gnarly beards, college film majors, jazz bagpipes and more! Here's the full list of albums discussed in this episode: Bria Skonberg, Nothing Never Happens (self-released) Release date: November 1 Jeff Goldblum and the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This (Decca) Release date: November 1 Jon Batiste, Chronology of a Dream: Live at the Village Vanguard (Verve) Release date: November 1 Keith Jarrett, Munich 2016 (ECM) Release date: November 1 Dave Douglas, Engage (Greenleaf) Release date: November 8 Kyle Eastwood, Cinematic (Jazz Village) Release date: November 8 David S. Ware, Théâtre Garonne, 2008 (AUM Fidelity) Release date: November 15 Marius Neset and London Sinfonietta, Viaduct (ACT) Release date: November 22 Bobby Watson, Vincent Herring, Gary Bartz, Bird at 100 (Smoke Sessions) Release date: November 29 Various Artists, If You’re Going to the City: A Tribute to Mose Allison (Fat Possum) Release date: November 29 Feature photo of Bria Skonberg by Dario Acosta --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brian-zimmerman/support

Got them back to school blues? Not us, we love September and we've got some tasty art treats to placate you with this autumn: Lee Krasner at the Barbican, Olafur Eliasson at the Tate Modern, and the BP Portrait Award. We then get into the nitty gritty of who is Super-Curator HUO (Hans Ulrich Obrist) and his insane work ethic and distaste for sleep. We ponder if creatives are now expected to be working to such extreme levels of productivity, and what do we lose because of this? Our September artist focus is the queen of the line, Bridget Riley. Now in her 88th year, this British artist hasn't stopped teasing our optic nerves since the 1960s. Ahead of a major retrospective exhibition coming to the Hayward Gallery this autumn, we've taken a moment to reflect on her epic career. SHOW NOTESLee Krasner at the Barbican (sadly now closed): https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2019/event/lee-krasner-living-colour Olafur Eliasson 'In Real Life' until 5 January 2020 at the Tate Modern: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/olafur-eliasson Will Gompertz's review of 'In Real Life': https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48965313 Olafur Eliasson and Minik Rosing 'Ice Watch': https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/olafur-eliasson-and-minik-rosing-ice-watchVisit the Art Newspaper podcast episode on 26 July 2019 that includes an interview with Eliasson. Instagram recommendations: @campbell.hectorSky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-qiang: https://www.netflix.com/title/80097472 Bauhaus 100: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0007trf Bauhaus Rules with Vic Reeves: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0007tqs 'Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else' by David Balzer: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Curationism-Curating-Took-World-Everything/dp/0745335977Hans Ulrich Obrist's morning ritual on Nowness: https://www.nowness.com/story/hans-ulrich-obrist-morning-ritual and via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/aug/28/hans-ulrich-obrist-tastemakers-maria-balshaw-fabien-riggall-inspirations BP Portrait Award until 20 October 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery: https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/bp-portrait-award-2019/exhibition/Vanessa Garwood: http://www.vanessagarwood.com/about/ 'Messengers' by Bridget Riley at the National Gallery: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/messengers-by-bridget-riley-a-new-work-at-the-national-galleryBridget Riley's exhibition coming to Hayward Gallery 23 October 2019 - 26 January 2020: https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/hayward-gallery-art/bridget-rileyBridget Riley: Learning from Seurat: https://courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/what-on/exhibitions-displays/archive/bridget-riley-learning-from-seurat London Sinfonietta are commissioning a piece of music inspired by Bridget Riley: https://www.londonsinfonietta.org.uk/homage-bridget-riley A Financial Times interview with Riley: https://www.ft.com/content/aac6af02-deb4-11e8-b173-ebef6ab1374a

Attribution: Roberto Fabbriciani and Roberto Paci Dalò, in “Usmaradio” for the radio program “Voci” by Roberto Paci Dalò, recorded at Usmaradio, Summer 2019, cc by-sa al Una conversazione appassionante e rivelatrice con uno dei più grandi musicisti della scena internazionale. Roberto Fabbriciani ci trasporta dal mondo della musica a quello del suono sottolineando l'importanza della cultura elettronica anche per un mondo acustico e strumentale. Tanti racconti "backstage" nella sua collaborazione con Gigi Nono e Aldo Clementi disegnando percorsi e ricerche di cruciale importanza per il nostro presente. ° Roberto Fabbriciani è internazionalmente riconosciuto tra i migliori interpreti. Originale ed artista versatile, Roberto Fabbriciani ha innovato la tecnica flautistica moltiplicando con la ricerca personale le possibilità sonore dello strumento. Ha collaborato con alcuni tra i maggiori compositori del nostro tempo: Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Sylvano Bussotti, John Cage, Elliot Carter, Niccolò Castiglioni, Aldo Clementi, Luigi Dallapiccola, Luis De Pablo, Franco Donatoni, Jindřich Feld, Brian Ferneyhough, Jean Françaix, Giorgio Gaslini, Harald Genzmer, Adriano Guarnieri, Toshio Hosokawa, Klaus Huber, Ernest Krenek, György Kurtág, György Ligeti, Luca Lombardi, Giacomo Manzoni, Bruno Maderna, Olivier Messiaen, Ennio Morricone, Luigi Nono, Goffredo Petrassi, Henri Pousseur, Wolfgang Rihm, Jean-Claude Risset, Nino Rota, Nicola Sani, Giacinto Scelsi, Dieter Schnebel, Salvatore Sciarrino, Mauricio Sotelo, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Toru Takemitsu, Isang Yun, molti dei quali gli hanno dedicato numerose ed importanti opere. Con Luigi Nono ha lavorato a lungo, presso lo studio sperimentale della SWF a Freiburg, aprendo e percorrendo vie nuove ed inusitate per la musica. Ha suonato come solista con i direttori Claudio Abbado, Roberto Abbado, Bruno Bartoletti, Luciano Berio, Ernest Bour, Bruno Campanella, Aldo Ceccato, Riccardo Chailly, Sergiu Comissiona, José Ramón Encinar, Peter Eötvös, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Gabriele Ferro, Daniele Gatti, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Michael Gielen, Cristóbal Halffter, Djansug Kachidse, Bernhard Klee, Vladimir Jurowsky, Peter Maag, Bruno Maderna, Diego Masson, Ingo Metzmacher, Riccardo Muti, Marcello Panni, Zoltán Peskó, Josep Pons, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Arturo Tamayo, Lothar Zagrosek, e con orchestre quali l’Orchestra della Scala di Milano, l’Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, le Orchestre della Rai, London Sinfonietta, LSO, RTL Luxembourg, BRTN Brussel, Orchestre Symphonique de la Monnaie, WDR di Colonia, SWF Baden-Baden, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Bayerischer Rundfunks, Münchener Philharmoniker. Ha effettuato concerti presso prestigiosi teatri ed istituzioni musicali: Scala di Milano, Filarmonica di Berlino, Royal Festival Hall di Londra, Suntory Hall di Tokyo, Sala Cajkowskij di Mosca, Carnegie Hall di New York e Teatro Colon di Buenos Aires ed ha partecipato a festivals quali Biennale di Venezia, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Ravenna, Londra, Edimburgo, Parigi, Bruxelles, Granada, Luzern, Warsaw, Salisburgo, Wien, Lockenhaus, Donaueschingen, Köln, München, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Tokyo, Cervantino. Ha inciso numerosi dischi molti dei quali premiati dalla critica ed è stato docente di flauto presso il Conservatorio “L. Cherubini” di Firenze e dei corsi di alto perfezionamento presso l’Università Mozarteum di Salisburgo. E’ autore di opere musicali e testi didattici adottati nei percorsi della didattica musicale internazionale, editi da Ricordi e Suvini Zerboni. Tra le sue recenti composizioni: Glacier in Extinction; Alchemies; Cantus; Suoni per Gigi; Quando sorge il sole; Zeus joueur de flûtes; Figaro il Barbiere (liberamente da Rossini); Grande, grande amore; Alluvione; Conversazione su Tiresia (di Andrea Camilleri).

Pictured: William Goldman Matthew Bannister on William Goldman, the Hollywood screenwriter behind a string of hits including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All The President's Men and The Princess Bride. John Large, the respected nuclear engineer who highlighted the safety risks facing the industry. Richard Baker, the long serving BBC television newsreader who also presented classical music programmes, including the Proms, on radio. Dr. Sarah Ntiro, the first woman in East Africa to get a university degree. Patsy Rodgers who was known as the King of Tory - Ireland's most remote inhabited island. Correction: in this Last Word edition it was broadcast that Richard Baker was the first newsreader on BBC television. This is incorrect: Richard Baker in fact introduced the newsreader John Snagge, who was the first person to read a news bulletin for BBC television on 5th July 1954. Interviewed guest: Harlan Coben Interviewed guest: Ellin Stein Interviewed guest: Shaun Burnie Interviewed guest: Andrew Baker Interviewed guest: John Rendel Interviewed guest: Rita Achiro Producer: Neil George Archive clips from: Nationwide, BBC One 04/12/80; Saturday Live, Radio 4 08/01/11; The Last King of Ireland, RTE 27/07/18; Marathon Man, directed by John Schlesinger, Paramount Pictures / Robert Evans Company 1976; Night Waves, Radio 3 26/11/92; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, directed by George Roy Hill, Twentieth Century Fox 1969; The Princess Bride, directed by Rob Reiner, Act III Communications 1987; 50th Anniversary of BBC Television News, BBC One 05/07/04; Midweek, Radio 4 15/06/83; Walton: Façade, London Sinfonietta, Radio 3 03/06/77; Up All Night, 5 Live, 12/04/11; File On Four: The Future Of Nuclear Energy, Radio 4 04/11/86.

Our special guest this episode is Markus Stockhausen, born in 1957, trumpeter and composer is well-known as a versatile artist, at home in many genres. For 25 years he performed with his father the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, who wrote numerous works for him. As a trumpeter he performs on the international stage and he has composed among others for the 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic, the London Sinfonietta, the Metropole Orkest, the Swiss jazz Orchestra and the Camerata Bern, the Hamburger Symphoniker and for the Norddeutsche Philharmonische Akkordeonorchester. In 2005 he was awarded the WDR-Jazz Prize as the best improviser. He gives courses on “Intuitive Music and More” and for the last ten years he has been giving seminars on “Singing and Silence”. He is particularly interested in “Transformation through Sound”. For more information visit www.markusstockhausen.de or www.bobreeves.com/61 for the show notes for this episode.

This is a conversation with Paul Byrne of the Greystones Guide (www.greystonesguide.ie) From journalism to cinema critic, passion for music and photography to creating a unique source for the Greystones community.. -------------------------------------------------- Tunes selected by Paul: (click on titles to open in Spotify) Beach Boys: Good Vibrations Donna Summer: I Feel Love David Bowie: Golden Years (The Jeremy K. ​Sole Remix) The Beatles: Tomorrow Never Knows` Glen Campbell: Wichita Lineman Talking Heads: This Must Be The Place Henryk Gorecki: Symphony No. 3 [London Sinfonietta] Support this podcast

Två norska världsstjärnor i veckans Musikrevyn - vi har träffat violinisten Vilde Frang och lyssnat på gossopranen Aksel Rykkvins sista skiva innan målbrottet. Veckans skivor: WALTON, SYMPHONIES 1 & 2 Symfonier 1 & 2 av William Walton Bournemouth symfoniorkester Kirill Karabits, dirigent Onyx ONYX4168 LIGHT DIVINE Musik av G F Händel, Tomaso Albinoni och Jean-Philippe Rameau Ensemblen MIN Aksel Rykkvin, gossopran Mark Bennett, trumpet Lazar Miletic, ensembleledare Signum Classics SIGCD526 RAUTAVAARA Musik för cello och piano av Einojuhani Rautavaara Tanja Tetzlaff, cello Gunilla Süssman, piano Ondine ODE1310-2 THE GERSHWIN MOMENT Musik av George Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue och Pianokonsert i F Kirill Gerstein, piano St Louis symfoniorkester David Robertson, dirigent Myrios Classics MYR022 Sofia möter: Vilde Frang. I veckan gjorde den norska stjärnviolinisten Vilde Frang en bejublad insats i Bartoks första violinkonsert i Stockholms konserthus. Sex år efter sitt stora internationella genombrott med Wienerfilharmonikerna känns varje konsert fortfarande som den första, säger hon. Med Musikrevyns Sofia Nyblom pratar hon om hur trött hon är på indelningen i manliga och kvinnliga violinister och varför hon inte gillar att vara för uppklädd på scen. Referensen: Nutid vs dåtid Panelen jämför Kirill Karabits och Bournemouth symfoniorkesters inspelning av William Waltons symfonier med premiärinspelningen av andra symfonin från 1964 med Cleveland-orkestern, dirigerad av George Szell. Och så ställs pianisten Kirill Gersteins aktuella inspelning av George Gershwins Rhapsody in blue mot pianosolisten Peter Donohues inspelning med London Sinfonietta från 1986. Andra i programmet nämnda och rekommenderade inspelningar: William Waltons två symfonier med BBC:s symfoniorkester under ledning av Edward Gardner, utgivna på Chandos. William Waltons första symfoni med London symfoniorkester, dirigerad av Andre Previn eller Sir Colin Davis.

Panelen öser beröm över violinisten Isabelle Faust i Bach sonater, golvas av operan "En florentinsk tragedi" och noterar ett fördjupat allvar när Islands symfoniorkester tar sig an Dag Wirén. Veckans skivor: DAG WIRÉN Musik av Dag Wirén, bl a serenad för stråkorkester och symfoni nr 3. Islands symfoniorkester Rumon Gamba, dirigent Chandos Chan 5194 JS BACH SONATER FÖR VIOLIN OCH CEMBALO Violin- och cembalosonater av Johann Sebastian Bach Isabelle Faust, violin Kristian Bezuidenhout, cembalo Harmonia Mundi HMM 90225657 EINE FLORENTINISCHE TRAGÖDIE Opera av Alexander von Zemlinsky Radions symfoniorkester i Wien Bertrand de Billy, dirigent Sångare: Wolfgang Koch, Heidi Brunner, Charles Reid m.fl. Capriccio C5325 Referensen: Panelen jämför med en tidigare inspelning av Eine Florentinische Tragödie som gavs ut 1997 på Decca. Concertgebouw-orkestern i Amsterdam spelar under ledning av Riccardo Chailly. Johan möter: Den amerikanske dirigenten David Zinman ligger bakom en av de mest säljande klassiska inspelningarna någonsin, Henryk Goreckis tredje symfoni med London Sinfonietta från 1991. Musikrevyn träffade Zinman i Berlin i en intervju där han minns vännen Leonard Bernstein och en udda inspelning av Djungelboken. Andra i programmet nämnda och rekommenderade inspelningar: Dag Wiréns Serenad för stråkorkester med orkestern Academy of Saint-Martin-In-The-Fields under ledning av Neville Marriner, inspelad 1977 och utgiven på Argo. Dag Wiréns Serenad för stråkorkester med Radiosymfonikerna under ledning av Esa-Pekka Salonen, BIS, 1984.

As Will & Grace is revived twenty years after its premiere, TV critic Louis Wise discusses how the ground-breaking sitcom about two gay men and their best girl pal comes across in 2018. Disney and Pixar's new film Coco is about a Mexican boy who travels through the Land of the Dead to unlock a family mystery. We consider the evolution of Disney films, how they depict and reflect international cultures, and also ask where they sit in the wider animation landscape. The London Sinfonietta, world renowned contemporary classical ensemble, will perform at the Royal Festival Hall on 24th of this month, 50 years to the day since their first concert, at the same venue. Since then they have commissioned more than 300 pieces of music from composers such as Sir Harrison Birtwistle and Steve Reich. They have also worked with musicians such as Thom Yorke from Radiohead and Mica Levi. Artistic director and chief executive, Andrew Burke, leads Samira through the history of the London Sinfonietta, in four pieces of music closely associated with the ensemble.Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Julian May.

Episode 58 features composer Joël-François Durand. Durand also designs and manufactures high-end tonearms for record players. His music has been commissioned and performed by many leading ensembles and orchestras in Europe, the US, Brazil, and South Korea, including Ensemble Intercontemporain, London Sinfonietta, Contrechamps, Arditti Quartet, ASKO, Nieuw Ensemble among many others.   In this podcast we talk about his studies with renowned masters, path to music composition, designing tonearms, personal stories and much more!   To learn more about Joël-François Durand please visit: http://www.joelfdurand.com/ http://durand-tonearms.com/   https://www.facebook.com/OffThePodium... © Off The Podium, 2017

Martyn Brabbins on life as a conductor, neglected works and a concert of premieres with London Sinfonietta.

I programmet diskuteras bl.a. Tapiolas Sinfoniettas tolkning av Stravinsky, orkestermusik av Ginastera med Juanjo Mena på pulten samt kammarmusik av Bruch. I mindre skala behandlar två Sibelius-verk. I panelen Aurélie Ferriere, David Björkman samt hedersgästen Trygve Nordwall som tillsammans med programledaren Johan Korssell betygsätter följande skivor: IGOR STRAVINSKY Pulcinella-svit, Apollon Musagète och Konsert för stråkorkester i D-dur Tapiola Sinfonietta Masaaki Suzuki, dirigent Bis BIS 2211ALBERTO GINASTERA Pampeana nr 3, Ollantay op 17 och Estancia op 8 BBC filharmoniker, Manchester Juanjo Mena, dirigent Lucas Somoza Osterc, baryton Chandos CHAN 10884MAX BRUCH Stråkkvartett nr 1 c-moll, Svenska danser och Pianokvintett g-moll Goldner-kvartetten Piers Lane, piano Hyperion CDA 68 120 FELIX MENDELSSOHN Elias Marlis Petersen m.fl. solister RIAS Kammarkör Akademin för tidig musik, Berlin Hans Christoph Rademann, dirigent Accentus Music ACC 30356 I mindre skala Johanna Paulsson och Alexander Freudenthal jämför stor med liten Sibelius. I programmet serveras varierande versioner av Finlandia och Valse Triste. Vi hör bl.a. Sibelius barnbarnsbarn Lauri Porra, framföra Finlandias hymn på elbas.  Andra i programmet nämnda eller rekommenderade inspelningar: Stravinskys Pulcinella-svit med London Sinfonietta under Esa-Pekka Salonen på Sony. Stravinskys Apollon Musagète med Leningrads filharmoniker ledd av Jevgenij Mravinsky på Melodija; med Berlins filharmoniker under ledning av Herbert von Karajan på DG samt alla Stravinskys egna inspelningar på Sony. Ginasteras Estancia (slutet) med Simon Bolivar-orkestern dirigerad av Gustavo Dudamel på DG. Goldnerkvartetten spelar Pierné och Viernes stråkkvartetter på Hyperion. Mendelssohns Elias med Soile Isokoski m.fl, Collegium Vocale, Gent, Chapelle Royal, Paris samt Champs Elysées-orkestern dirigerade av Philippe Herreweghe på Harmonia Mundi; Renée Fleming m.fl, Edinburghs festivalkör samt Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment ledda av Paul Daniel på Decca samt med Rosemary Joshua m.fl. tillsammans med Gabrieli Consort and Players under ledning av Paul McCreesh på märke Signum.  Johan sveper över albumet Neglected Works for piano, med musik av idel kvinnliga tonsättare framförd av pianisten Bengt Forsberg och inspelad på dB Productions.

I programmet diskuterar panelen bl.a. grammis-vinnaren med musik av Anders Hillborg samt Emilio de Cavalieris opera Rappresentatione di anima et di corpo. I Johans val hör vi Mahlers sjua med Chailly. I panelen Anna Nyhlin, Bengt Forsberg och Hanna Höglund som tillsammans med programledaren Johan Korssell betygsätter följande skivor: ANDERS HILLBORG Sirens, Cold heat, Beast sampler, O dessa ögon Eric Ericsons kammarkör, Radiokören, Kungliga filharmonikerna, Stockholm Sakari Oramo, David Zinman & Esa-Pekka Salonen, dirigenter Bis BIS 2114  JOHANNES BRAHMS Pianokonserterna Daniel Barenboim, piano, Staatskapelle, Berlin Gustavo Dudamel, dirigent DGG 479 4899 EMILIO DE CAVALIERI Rappresentatione di anima et di corpo Marie-Claude Chappuis, Johannes Weisser m.fl Staatsopernchor, Berlin, Concerto Vocale, Akademin för tidig musik, Berlin René Jacobs, dirigent Harmonia Mundi 902200-01 IGOR STRAVINSKY Verk för piano och orkester Alexej Gorlatch, piano, Berlin-radions symfoniorkester Alondra De La Parra, dirigent Sony 88875121562 Johans val  Johan Korssell spelar valda delar ur och ger sin syn på en DVD innehållande Mahlers sjunde symfoni, framförd av Gewandhaus-orkestern, Leipzig, under Riccardo Chailly. Utgiven på Accentus.Andra nämnda/rekommenderade inspelningar: Stravinskys pianoverk med Jean-Efflam Bavouzet och Sao Paolos symfoniorkester ledda av Yan-Pascal Tortelier på Chandos samt med pianisten Paul Crossley tillsammans med  London Sinfonietta under ledning av Esa-Pekka Salonen på Sony Classical. 

„Muzikiniame pastiše“ – orkestras „London Sinfonietta“. Antroje laidos dalyje kviesime pasiklausyti lapkričio 3 d. gimusio XIX a. italų kompozitoriaus Vincenzo Bellini muzikos.

La música de Saint-Säens responde a un fuerte apego al perfeccionismo de la forma, es verdad, de ahí a veces esas cansinas críticas a su academicismo. Pero lo importante es que el conjunto de su obra ni es tan ecléctico ni le falta belleza, además de estar concebido con gran perfección técnica. ¡Escuchen y lo comprobarán!Intérpretes:Habanera, op.83: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Charles Dutoit El carnaval de los animales:  Cristina Ortiz y Pascal Rogé (pianos); Antony Pay (clarinete); Sebastian Bell (flauta); Christopher van Kampen (cello); Robin McGee (contrabajo);  London Sinfonietta; Charles DutoitIntroducción y Rondó caprichoso, op.28: Kyung Wha Chung (violín); Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Charles DutoitLa Rueca de Omfalia, op.31:  Philharmonia Orchestra; Charles Dutoit       Escuchar audio

Philip is a composer from the UK who is currently based in Berlin. His commissions have included the Bregenz Festival in Austria, the BBC Singers , and the BBC Symphony Orchestra . Other works have been written for and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Sinfonietta, Rambert Dance Company, and the Cheltenham International Music Festival. You can listen to more of his music at www.philipvenables.com.In our conversation we discuss his background in the natural sciences, the new music scene in London and the UK, and his collaboration with the ex-boxer/poet Steven J Fowler.

Fabien is a French composer who is currently living in Berlin. He studied composition with Gérard Grisey at the Paris Conservatoire. His works have been performed by the Ensemble Recherche, the London Sinfonietta, the Ensemble Modern of Frankfurt, and the Berlin Radio Symphony orchestra (among others). He won the 2004 Förderpreis from the Ernst von Siemens Foundation for music. He is currently Assistant Professor of Composition at Columbia University in New York (USA) and senior professor for composition at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold in Germany. You can listen to more of his music at www.fabienlevy.net.In our conversation we talk about his past life working for a bank, composers who write music at different paces, and his experience teaching and living in New York. The piece played in this interview is titled Danse Polyptote and was performed by Teodoro Anzellotti & Jean-Guihen Queyras.

One of Poland's most significant 20th century composers, Henryk Górecki led a quiet revolution against the Soviet authorities through his inimitable style of mystical minimalism. We'll dedicate an hour to his music and life. Hosted by Seth Boustead Produced by Jesse McQuarters Symphony No. 3 (excerpts)— London Sinfonietta, David Zinman, Conductor, Dawn Upshaw, Piano Preludes (excerpts) — Stephen de Pledge, p. Scontri — Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra Beatus Vir (excerpts) — Czech Phil Prague Philharmonic Choir/John Nelson, Nikita Storojev, Miserere (excerpt) — Krakow Choral Society, Krakow State Philharmonic/Roland Bader

Abiogenesis:  Mineral, Animal, Vegetable.  Princeton's wordnet defines it:  "a hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter".  It is one of many questions that buoy origin myth; for me it is just fascination.Perhaps from a viewpoint of experience alone, using only information that one has sensed, a sort of solipsistic genesis could suggest where other life comes from and where humans come from.  Still, an assumption has to be made and credibility lent because no one (I've met) can reliably remember their own origin.  Funny thing, that.  This is the sixth episode.  Six was my favorite number in Latin. This episode in honor of Tom Twilley:  biology instructor extraordinaire.Track Listing:"#","Name","Artist","Album""1","Abiogenesis Introduction","Giosue Etranger","Abiogenesis""2","Paradise Circus","Massive Attack","Heligoland""3","In the Morning of the Magicians","The Flaming Lips","Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots""4","Le Carnaval des animaux : VII. Aquarium","Camille Saint-Saëns","Symphony No. 3 "Organ" / Le Carnaval des animaux (Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, London Sinfonietta, feat. conductor: Charles Dutoit)""5","Sea Ghost","The Unicorns","Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?""6","If","Islands","Return to the Sea""7","Elope","Clues","Clues""8","Le Carnaval des animaux : XII. Fossiles","Camille Saint-Saëns","Symphony No. 3 "Organ" / Le Carnaval des animaux (Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, London Sinfonietta, feat. conductor: Charles Dutoit)""9","The Flood in Your Old Town","Candy Bars","On Cutting Ti-Gers in Half and Understanding Narravation""10","House of Cards","Radiohead","In Rainbows""11","12:51","The Strokes","Room on Fire""12","The Wanton Song","Led Zeppelin","Physical Graffiti""13","Le Carnaval des animaux : XIV. Finale","Camille Saint-Saëns","Symphony No. 3 "Organ" / Le Carnaval des animaux (Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, London Sinfonietta, feat. conductor: Charles Dutoit)""14","Jung on Alchemy and the Esoteric Sort","Giosue Etranger","Abiogenesis""15","Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)","Arcade Fire","Funeral""16","Le Carnaval des animaux : XIII. Le Cygne","Camille Saint-Saëns","Symphony No. 3 "Organ" / Le Carnaval des animaux (Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, London Sinfonietta, feat. conductor: Charles Dutoit)""17","Genius of Love","Tom Tom Club","Tom Tom Club""18","Hearts","oOoOO","oOoOO""19","Topless Party","Piero Umiliani","Svezia, inferno e paradiso""20","Dance Yrself Clean","LCD Soundsystem","This Is Happening""21","Let's All Go Home and Find a Nice White Woman to Make Love To","Giosue Etranger","Abiogenesis"Lyrics, as usual, are in the m4a ID3 tag for lyrics.

The castaway in this week's Desert Island Discs is the General Director of the South Bank, Nicholas Snowman. Very much a man of the arts, and a determined apostle of all things new, he founded the University Opera Society when he was at Cambridge and the London Sinfonietta when he left. He then moved to Paris, where he was appointed Artistic Director of the Pompidou Centre.His latest post at the South Bank has attracted considerable controversy, with one critic describing his concert programme as "seriously unattractive". He'll be discussing his vision of the South Bank's musical future with Sue Lawley and talking about his achievement of establishing, for the first time, a resident orchestra in Britain's largest arts centre.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: String Quintet No 4 In G Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: Smiley's People by John Le Carre Luxury: Coffee machine