Prom 50: White, Barry, Rzewski & Feldman
With the 麻豆官网首页入口 SSO under Ilan Volkov. John White: Chord-Breaking Machine. Gerald Barry: No other people. Frederic Rzewski: Piano Concerto (soloist: Rzewski). Feldman: Coptic Light.
麻豆官网首页入口 SSO and Ilan Volkov live at the 麻豆官网首页入口 Proms with Gerald Barry, Feldman's Coptic Light and the World Premiere of Frederic Rzewski's Piano Concerto with the composer as soloist.
Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Andrew McGregor
John White: Chord-Breaking Machine
Gerald Barry: No other people. (UK premiere)
Frederic Rzewski: Piano Concerto (麻豆官网首页入口 commission: world premiere)
Feldman: Coptic Light
Frederic Rzewski (piano)
麻豆官网首页入口 Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor)
Ilan Volkov brings his spirit of adventure to this late night Prom, featuring music as beautiful as it is ground breaking.
The 麻豆官网首页入口 Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs music by a quartet of visionary and idiosyncratic composers, including two premieres. John White's Chord-breaking Machine could be seen as belonging to a tradition of experimental English minimalists, deconstructing musical material into its constituent parts and reforming as repetitive machine structures; Irish maverick Gerald Barry's No Other People, tonight receiving its first UK performance, also draws on repetition and seemingly simple musical figures, but here to create strongly contrasting canvases of bold, wild and stark music.
Frederic Rzewski's 麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 3-commissioned Piano Concerto, tonally kaleidoscopic and stylistically far reaching, receives its world premiere, with the composer as soloist. And the concert concludes with Morton Feldman's late masterpiece, Coptic Light, a meditation for orchestra: a beatific and spiritual end to this late-night Prom.
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Clips
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John White: Chord Breaking Machine - Preview Clip
Duration: 01:05
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Feldman: Coptic Light - Preview Clip
Duration: 01:05
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Frederic Rzewski: Piano Concerto - Preview Clip
Duration: 01:05
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Gerald Barry: No other people. - Preview Clip
Duration: 01:10
Music Played
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John White
Chord-breaking machine for orchestra
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Gerald Barry
No other people for orchestra
Orchestra: 麻豆官网首页入口 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov. -
Frederic Rzewski
Concerto for piano and orchestra
Orchestra: 麻豆官网首页入口 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov. -
Morton Feldman
Coptic light for orchestra
Orchestra: 麻豆官网首页入口 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.
Broadcast
- Mon 19 Aug 2013 22:15麻豆官网首页入口 Radio 3
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