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2021-10-21 08:28:12
Royal Festival Hall, LondonBuilt around a new piece by the 85-year-old composer unlike anything he has written before, this was an exhilarating occasion Earlier this month, Steve Reich celebrated his 85th birthday. The Colin Currie Group and Synergy Vocals are marking this landmark in the life of one of the greatest living composers with a European tour, which includes the first performances of his latest work, composed for them and jointly commissioned by a consortium of concert halls including the Southbank Centre. Traveler’s Prayer was composed last year, begun before and completed during the pandemic. It’s a setting not of the Hebrew Traveller’s Prayer itself, but of three short Old Testament passages that are often added to it, and Reich sets them for four voices in long sinuous vocal lines, often doubled and coloured by the instrumental ensemble, and making extensive use of intertwining canons and their inversions and retrogrades. Reich […]
2021-09-01 09:04:01
Finns to the fore: the Philharmonia's new season showcases new principal conductor, Santtu-Matias Rouvali, and featured artist, violinist Pekka Kuusisto
[…] featured artist for the season and he reappears as soloist in Sibelius' Violin Concerto, music by Vivaldi (guess what) and conducting the premiere of a new piece by Isobel Waller-Bridge, as well as curating the Philharmonia's Music of Today series with works by Gabriella Smith, John Luther Adams and Anna Thorvaldsdottír. Philip Glass' film environmental film Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance will be screened in the Royal Festival Hall with the score played live with conductor Michael Riesman, Synergy Vocals and the Philip Glass Ensemble. The film is part of the orchestra's Human / Nature: Music for a Precious Planet series which looks at how composers across the centuries have responded to the natural world, and exploring the ways today's composers are addressing the global climate crisis. Other new works in the season include the premieres of Gabriel Jackson's The Promise and Richard Blackford's Vision of a Garden performed as part of conductor David Hill's concert with […]
2021-05-22 08:42:40
Fiendish, but fantastic: after a long relationship with the composer, percussionist Colin Currie has recorded both of HK Gruber's percussion concertos
[…] disc with The Scene of the Crime, a disc of duets with Håkan Hardenberger featuring four works written for the duo by Brett Dean, Joe Duddell, Tobias Broström and Daniel Börtz, alongside Heptade by André Jolivet (1904-1974), which was written in 1971 for the French trumpeter Maurice André. In turn, this disc was followed by Colin Currie & Steve Reich Live at Fondation Louis Vuitton which featured Colin along with the Colin Currie Group and Synergy Vocals, with the composer joining Colin for Clapping Music. Whereas the new disc features the more maverick works of HK Gruber, a composer who it is hard to pin down. Having the Colin Currie Records label gives Colin more flexibility and enables him to feature more challenging works and to broaden the base of recorded percussion music. Colin has played percussion from quite a young age. He cannot quite […]
2020-06-10 23:00:00
DG and Decca concerts part 1
[…] piano and direction John Antes: String Trio No. 2 George Gershwin: Lullaby Samuel Barber: String Quartet op. 11 Ruth Crawford Seeger: String Quartet 1931 Leonard Bernstein: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano Joan Tower: A Cadeau The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Henrik AndriessenRacconto dall´InfernoDe StaatArvo PartTabula RasaCristina ZavalloniLos Angeles POReinbert de Leeuw Steve Reich Variations for Winds, Strings and Keyboards Three Movements for Orchestra Theillim Synergy Vocals Los Angeles Master Chorale Los Angeles PO Stefan Asbury Bela BartokContrasts for violin, clarinet and pianoAntonin DvorakPiano Quintet op. 81The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln CenterWilliam Walton Portsmouth Point Overture Edward Elgar Cello Concerto Paul Watkins BBC SO Jiri Belohlavek Benjamin BrittenFour Sea Interludes from "Peter Grimes"Bohuslav MartinuPiano Concerto No. 4 "Incantations"Sergei ProkofievSymphony No. 5Ivo Kahanek pianoBBC SOJiri BelohlavekFrederick Delius A Song of Summer Michael Tippett Triple Concerto Daniel Hope violin Philip […]