Saturday 14 July 2018
9:30 Oliver Knussen tribute
Oliver Knussen Photo: wikicommons
To pay our respects to Oliver Knussen, who sadly passed away this week at the age of 66, we're going to play this wonderful 2012 programme that the BBC has kindly made available to us:
Oliver Knussen talks to Sara Mohr-Pietsch about a career that took him from wunderkind to internationally renowned composer and conductor. This selection of his music, spanning four decades, was recorded at last year's Total Immersion weekend at the Barbican celebrating Knussen's sixtieth birthday. (BBC)
KNUSSEN: Flourish With Fireworks; Choral, Op 8 for winds; Symphony No.3, Op.18
BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Oliver Knussen
ALEXEJ GERRASSIMEZ: Piazonore; EVELYN GLENNIE: A little Prayer; SAM PERKIN: Fugue
Alex Petcu (percussion), Michael McHale (piano), Ioana Petcu-Colan (violin)
RTE Lyric CD151
ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER: A Selection from the album Age Of
Daniel Lopatin (electronics)
WARP BRC 570
11:05 Relevant Tones - In The Field: Big Ears Festival
Seth Boustead and producer, Sarah Zwinklis are taking a road trip to Knoxville, Tennessee. Regarded as one of the most unique, boundary-defying and eagerly anticipated cultural gatherings – “a music festival with a rare vision” (The New York Times) – Big Ears Festival returns in 2018 with perhaps its most multi-faceted and diverse line up to date. Spanning four days – Thursday, March 22 – Sunday, March 25 – the festival will feature over 100 performances, including Bang on a Can, Brooklyn Rider, and International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), in venues throughout downtown Knoxville, Tennessee. (WFMT)
Big Ears Festival, Knoxville Photo: Supplied
