Traveller Song
Tom Service presents new music in performance, including Jurg Frey's Second String Quartet and Cassandra Miller's Traveller Song.
Tom Service with the latest new music in performance. This week, a live recording of Apartment House from a concert given at London's Wigmore Hall in March including Jurg Frey's Second String Quartet and a rare performance of German composer Michael von Biel's String Quartet with Accompaniment, music which like that of Helmut Lachenmann achieves a musique concrete sound world but with acoustic instruments. Also tonight, from the 2019 Warsaw Autumn festival, a performance of Cassandra Miller's Traveller Song, an exploration of the composer's "singing impulses" while singing along to an Alan Lomax recording of a Sicilian cart driver. The musicians of Plus Minus Ensemble play alongside overlaid recordings of Miller's voice in a piece she describes having a "quasi-shamanistic keening". There's new electronic music from Isambard Khroustaliov, and continuing our series of New Music Biennial recordings from the last ten years we hear Arlene Sierra's Urban Birds for piano, disklavier and electronics from 2014.
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Isambard Khroustaliov
Quixotic Algorithmic Hubris
Performer: Isambard Khroustaliov.- Shanzhai Acid.
- Limited Noise.
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Arlene Sierra
Urban Birds
Performer: Xenia Pestova Bennett. Performer: Sarah Nicolls. Performer: Kathleen Supov茅. Performer: Jos茅 Miguel Fern谩ndez. -
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Anna-Louise Walton
Wobble
Ensemble: Ensemble for New Music Tallinn. -
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Michael von Biel
String Quartet with Accompaniment
Performer: Colin Alexander. Ensemble: Apartment House. -
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Classical Mechanics
Porphyry
Performer: Classical Mechanics.- Sealand.
- Non-Classical.
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Cassandra Miller
Traveller Song
Ensemble: Plus-Minus Ensemble. -
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Helen Grime
3 Whistler Miniatures
Ensemble: Claremont Trio.- Queen of Hearts.
- Tria Records.
- 9-11.
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Orlando Gibbons
Versus MB4
Ensemble: Apartment House. -
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J眉rg Frey
String Quartet No.2
Ensemble: Apartment House. -
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Jack Sheen
Sub Three
Ensemble: Octandre Ensemble.- SN Variations.
Broadcast
- Sat 21 May 2022 22:00蜜芽传媒 Radio 3
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