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The Ivors Classical Awards 2023

The Ivors Classical Awards 2023, hosted by Hannah Peel and Tom Service - a celebration of the best new music and sound art by British, Irish or UK resident composers.

The Ivors Classical Awards 2023 - a celebration of the best new classical music and sound art by British, Irish or UK resident composers.

Hannah Peel and Tom Service hosted this year's awards ceremony at BFI Southbank on Tuesday evening.

Previously known as The Ivors Composer Awards and before that the British Composer Awards, the event is always lively and topical and is a brilliant introduction to the world of new music. 11 Ivor Novello Awards will be presented to eight category winners and three Gift of the Academy Award winners. One of the Gift of the Academy Awards goes to the much-loved composer John Rutter who will be awarded the prestigious Academy Fellowship,

The nominated works paint a picture of the topics and issues that are important to people today, ranging from the disco era鈥檚 safe spaces for LGBTQIA+ individuals (Jasper Dommett Disco! Disco! Good! Good?) to sugar plantations and the writings of Ocean Vuong (Hannah Kendall shouting forever into the receiver and Even sweetness can scratch the throat). Some of the composers have used their works to tell the stories of real people, including artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz (Philip Venables Answer Machine Tape, 1987) and JFK鈥檚 sister Rosemary Kennedy (Brian Irvine Least Like The Other: Searching for Rosemary Kennedy), whereas others gain inspiration from ancient texts (Bushra El-Turk Ka and Athanasia Kontou Antigone: Pure in her crime).
Poetry plays an important role in some of the nominated pieces, including Thomas Ad猫s鈥� 狈枚惫茅苍测别办 which is a setting of seven poems by four Hungarian poets, Omri Kochavi鈥檚 Kishtatos | 拽讬砖转转讜住 which features a new text by Israeli poet Amira Hess and Naomi Pinnock鈥檚 Landscape takes inspiration from Louise Gl眉ck鈥檚 set of five poems. Similarly, Elliptics by Emily Howard is a setting of a poem with the same name by Michael Symmons Roberts, and Comme l鈥檈spoir/you might all disappear by Josephine Stephenson is based on a short French poem by Antoine Thiollier. Scientific literature is also linked to some of the nominated works, with Brett Dean鈥檚 In This Brief Moment using The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin as a starting point, and Newton Armstrong was influenced by Rachel Carson鈥檚 In The Sea Around Us for his work The Book of the Sediments.

1 hour, 59 minutes

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Sat 18 Nov 2023 22:00
蜜芽传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Matthew Herbert

    Estuary Sound Ark

    Performer: Matthew Herbert.

  • Harry Castle

    Heroes

    Choir: Mount St Mary's College Choir. Orchestra: Mount St Mary's College Orchestra.

  • Toby Young

    It Takes a City

    Choir: Armonico Consort. Director: Christopher Monks.

  • Ned Bigham

    Together and Apart

    Orchestra: West Sussex Youth Orchestra. Choir: West Sussex Youth Choir.

  • Dobrinka Tabakova

    Swarm Fanfares

    Orchestra: Halle Youth Orchestra. Conductor: Delyana Lazarova.

  • Philip Venables

    Answer Machine Tape, 1987

    Performer: Zubin Kanga.

  • Larry Goves

    Crow Rotations

    Singer: Juliet Fraser. Ensemble: House of Bedlam.

  • Matthew Grouse

    Silberblau

    Performer: Sasha Savaloni.

  • Newton Armstrong

    The Book of the Sediments

    Singer: Juliet Fraser.

  • Josephine Stephenson

    Comme L'espoir / You Might All Disappear

    Performer: Laura Snowden. Singer: H茅lo茂se Werner.
    • Phrases.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 2.

  • Jasper Dommett

    Disco! Disco! Good! Good?

    Ensemble: Riot Ensemble. Conductor: Aaron Holloway-Nahum.

  • Hannah Kendall

    Even Sweetness Can Scratch The Throat

    Ensemble: Manson Ensemble. Conductor: Geoffrey Paterson.

  • William Marsey

    Why Do You Grieve

    Ensemble: Ozero Ensemble. Conductor: Oliver Zeffman.
    • Live at the Science Museum.
    • Platoon.

  • Thomas Ad猫s

    狈枚惫茅苍测别办

    Performer: Joseph Havlat. Performer: Graham Mitchell. Singer: Katalin K谩rolyi. Ensemble: Ruisi Quartet.

  • Joby Talbot

    Like Water for Chocolate

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

  • Jasdeep Singh Degun

    Orpheus

    Orchestra: Opera North Orchestra.

  • Brian Irvine

    The Scorched Earth Trilogy

    Singer: Doreen Curran. Singer: Francesco Giusti. Singer: Eamonn Mulhall. Singer: Owen Gilhooly. Singer: Brandan Collins. Singer: Megan O'Neill. Choir: The Independent Theatre Workshop Children's Chorus. Orchestra: Irish National Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Fergus Sheil.

  • Tom Coult

    Violet

    Singer: Anna Dennis. Singer: Richard Burkhard. Singer: Frances Gregory. Singer: Andrew Mackenzie-Wicks. Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: Andrew Gourlay.

  • Brian Irvine

    Least Like the Other: Searching for Rosemary Kennedy

    Performer: Stephanie DuFresne. Singer: Amy N铆 Fhearraigh. Director: Aoife Spillane-Hinks. Orchestra: Irish National Opera Orchestra.

  • Duncan MacLeod

    Machair

    Performer: Duncan MacLeod.

  • Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian & Crewdson

    Rites of Crossing Water

  • Olivia Louvel

    LOL

    Performer: Olivia Louvel.

  • Athanasia Kontou

    Antigone: Pure In Her Crime

    Singer: Rosie Middleton. Orchestra: Ensemble 10/10. Conductor: Clark Rundell.

  • Alex Paxton

    ilolli-pop

    Performer: Alex Paxton. Ensemble: Dreamusics.
    • 颈濒辞濒濒颈鈥�-鈥媝辞辫.
    • Nonclassical.

  • Bushra El-Turk

    Ka

    Performer: Vivi Vassileva. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Gregor A. Mayrhofer.

  • Angela Elizabeth Slater

    Through the Fading Hour

    Ensemble: Foyle Future First. Conductor: Brett Dean.

  • Tansy Davies

    What just happened

    Orchestra: Norwegian Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Karen Kamensek.
    • Tansy Davies: Nature.
    • NMC.
    • 4.

  • Omri Kochavi

    Kishtatos

    Choir: 蜜芽传媒 Singers. Conductor: Owain Park.

  • Naomi Pinnock

    Landscape

    Choir: Exaudi. Conductor: James Weeks.

  • Ben Nobuto

    Sol

    Choir: National Youth Choir Fellowship. Conductor: Ben Parry.
    • NYC Young Composers 4.
    • NMC.

  • Anna Thorvaldsdottir

    ARCHORA

    Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Eva Ollikainen.
    • Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Archora & Aion.
    • Dorian Sono Luminus.
    • 1.

  • Brett Dean

    Cello Concerto

    Performer: Alban Gerhardt. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.

  • Emily Howard

    Elliptics

    Singer: Claire Booth. Singer: Hugh Cutting. Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vimbayi Kaziboni.
    • Emily Howard: The Anvil.
    • Delphian.

  • Brett Dean

    In This Brief Moment

    Singer: Jennifer France. Singer: Patrick Terry. Choir: CBSO Chorus. Choir: Hall茅 Choir. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.

  • Simon Knighton

    Sound Sculpture No. 7

    Orchestra: Southbank Sinfonia. Conductor: Toby Thatcher.

  • John Rutter

    Gloria

    Performer: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble. Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • Gloria: The Sacred Music of John Rutter.
    • Collegium.
    • 3.

  • Tansy Davies

    Re-Greening

    Orchestra: The National Youth Orchestra.
    • Tansy Davies: Nature.
    • NMC.
    • 7.

  • Hannah Kendall

    Shouting Forever Into the Receiver

    Orchestra: Ensemble Modern. Conductor: Vimbayi Kaziboni.

  • Matthew Herbert

    The Horse is Prepared / The Horse is Quiet

    Orchestra: London Contemporary Orchestra. Conductor: Matthew Herbert.
    • The Horse.
    • Modern Recordings.
    • 5-6.

Broadcast

  • Sat 18 Nov 2023 22:00
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3

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