Sound Lounge for Tuesday 28 August 2012

7.00

In the centenary year of John Cage’s birth and the sixtieth anniversary of the premiere of 4’33” James Gardner explores the world of The Loudest Silence (RNZ) (R)

8.00 A Resonance of Emerald

Auckland CO/Peter Scholes

On the proverbial of the premiere of her opera, Len Lye, Eve de Castro-Robinson talks to Tim Dodd about titles, colours, texts and art in relation to her music

CASTRO-ROBINSON: Knife Apple Sheer Brush; Chaos of Delight II; Commemoration for solo cello; These boots (are made for dancing); A Resonance of Emerald; Len Songs; Noah’s Ark

(rec in the Concert Chamber, ATH, by RNZC)

9.30 Proms 2012

Joanna MacGregor (pno), Cynthia Millar (ondes Martenot), National Youth Orch of Great Britain/Vasily Petrenko

VARESE: Tuning Up
MUHLY: Gait (BBC commission) (premiere)
MESSIAEN: Turangalîla Symphony
MEREDITH: HandsFree

(BBC/EBU)

11.45 New Music Dreams

CAGE: Etudes Boreales
Friedrich Gauwerky (cello)
Wergo WER 6693