Sound Lounge for Friday 11 September 2015
7:00 Alex Taylor
Kenneth Young talks with the New Zealand composer, poet, blogger, and performer Alex Taylor.
KA’ISA BEECH: The Storm; IMAMOVIC: Sarajevo Nights
New Zealand Guitar Quartet
Ode CDMANU 5153
8:00 BBC Proms 2015
Thirty-six programmes
(9) Evelyn Glennie (percussion), Philip Smith (pno) and electronic tape
ABE: Prism Rhapsody; GLENNIE/SHEPPARD: Orologeria Aureola; WEE: Dithyrambs (world première); PSATHAS: View from Olympus (world première of this new version) (recorded in Cadogan Hall, London by the BBC)
Returning to the Proms for the first time since 2007, award-winning Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie celebrates her 50th birthday with a musical party. She performs alongside pianist Philip Smith, showcasing not only her expressive virtuosity and versatility in works by John Psathas and Keiko Abe, but also her skill as a composer, in Orologeria aureola, a joint composition for Halo (metallic ‘handpan’) and tape. The performance also features a world premiere for Aluphone – an instrument invented only in 2011 and introduced at the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony by Glennie herself. (BBC)
9:10 Happy 80th Birthday Arvo Pärt
PART: Lamentate
Ralph van Raat (pno), Netherlands Radio Chamber Phil/JoAnn Falletta
Naxos 8.572525
Inspired by the sculpture Marsyas by Anish Kapoor
PART: Fratres
Cellists of the Berlin Phil
ECM 817 764
10:00 Sonic World of Cinema
CLINT MANSELL: Selection from the soundtrack for the film Requiem for a Dream
Kronos Quartet
Nonesuch 796112
10:15 SOUNZ Contemporary Award 2015 nominee
ROSS HARRIS: Piano Quintet
Stephen De Pledge (pno), New Zealand String Quartet
RNZ
FINCH/KEITA: Ceffylau
Catrin Finch (harp), Seckou Keita (kora)
Astar Artes
10:45 New Music Dreams
GUIDI/MORGAN/LOBO: This is the Day (album)
Giovanni Guidi Trio
ECM 2403