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Tom Service introduces items from a Birmingham Contemporary Music Group concert alongside work by composers with links to the region, plus 'Sounding Change' with Laura Bowler.

Tom Service introduces items from a Birmingham Contemporary Music Group concert alongside work by composers with links to the region, plus 'Sounding Change' with Laura Bowler.

As well as the BCMG performances the programme also features music from Joe Cutler, Simon Hall, Andy Ingamells and Maya Verlaak, Ryan Latimer, Annie Mahtani, Michael Wolters and Paul Norman.

BCMG perform music from "both ends of the globe, taking in composers from across the history of the group".

BCMG
Collette Overdijk (violin)
Mark O'Brien (clarinet)
Ulrich Heinen (cello)
John Reid (piano)

Ma Xiao-Quin: Back To The Beginning - Sililoquies & Dialogues
Julian Anderson: Capriccio for solo piano
Charlotte Bray: Midnight Interludes for clarinet & piano
Oliver Knussen: Eccentric Melody for solo cello
Fumiko Miyachi: Hedge
Harrison Birtwistle: Roddy's Reel for bass clarinet and on-line audience.

1 hour, 59 minutes

Last on

Sat 24 Jul 2021 22:00

Music Played

  • Ma Xiao-Qing

    'Back to the Beginning' (from Soliloquies and Dialogues)

    Performer: Colette Overdijk.
  • Joe Cutler

    September Music

    Orchestra: Orkest de Ereprijs. Conductor: Wim Boerman.
    • Joe Cutler: Hawaii Hawaii Hawaii.
    • Birmingham Record Company.
    • 1.
  • Simon Hall

    Allusion-Illusion

    Performer: Simon Hall.
    • Simon Hall: Voyage Foog, Phat Moog.
    • Birmingham Record Company.
    • 4.
  • Andy Ingamells

    Tape Piece: Pt. 1 "Masking Tape"; Pt. 2 "Clear Tape"; Pt. 3 "Gaffer Tape"

    Composer: Maya Verlaak. Performer: Andy Ingamells. Performer: Maya Verlaak.
    • Tape Piece.
    • Birmingham Record Company.
    • 1-3.
  • Julian Anderson

    Capriccio (for solo piano)

    Performer: John Reid.
  • Charlotte Bray

    Midnight Interludes (for clarinet and cello)

    Performer: Mark O'Brien. Performer: John Reid.
  • Liza Lim

    How Forests Think: I. Tendril & Rainfall

    Ensemble: ELISION Ensemble.
    • Lim: How Forest Think & Cassidy: The Wreck of Former Boundaries.
    • Huddersfield Contemporary Records.
    • 1.
  • Liza Lim

    How Forests Think: II. Mycelia

    Ensemble: ELISION Ensemble.
    • Lim: How Forest Think & Cassidy: The Wreck of Former Boundaries.
    • Huddersfield Contemporary Records.
    • 2.
  • Liza Lim

    How Forests Think: III. Pollen

    Ensemble: ELISION Ensemble.
    • Lim: How Forest Think & Cassidy: The Wreck of Former Boundaries.
    • Huddersfield Contemporary Records.
    • 3.
  • Liza Lim

    How Forests Think: IV. The Trees

    Performer: Carl Rosman. Ensemble: ELISION Ensemble.
    • Lim: How Forest Think & Cassidy: The Wreck of Former Boundaries.
    • Huddersfield Contemporary Records.
    • 4.
  • Clara Iannotta

    Dead Wasps In The Jam-jar (ii)

    Ensemble: Klangforum Wien.
    • Clara Iannotta: Moult.
    • Kairos.
    • 4.
  • Kaija Saariaho

    Oltra mar (Across the Sea) - I. Depart (Departure)

    Choir: Tapiolan Kamarikuoro. Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jukka鈥怭ekka Saraste.
    • Saariaho: Cinq reflets de L'Amour de loin, Nymphea Reflection & Oltra mar.
    • Ondine.
    • 11.
  • Kaija Saariaho

    Oltra mar (Across the Sea) - VII. Arrivee (Arrival)

    Choir: Tapiolan Kamarikuoro. Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jukka鈥怭ekka Saraste.
    • Saariaho: Cinq reflets de L'Amour de loin, Nymphea Reflection & Oltra mar.
    • Ondine.
    • 18.
  • Andy Ingamells

    Tape Piece, Pt. 2 "Clear Tape"

    Composer: Maya Verlaak. Performer: Andy Ingamells. Performer: Maya Verlaak.
    • Tape Piece.
    • Birmingham Record Company.
    • 11.
  • Ryan Latimer

    Mills Mess

    Orchestra: Brno Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mikel Toms.
    • Sinfonia Series Vol 1.
    • Ablaze Records.
    • 7.
  • Annie Mahtani

    Racines tordues

    Performer: Annie Mahtani.
    • ELECTROCD.
  • Andy Ingamells

    Tape Piece, Pt. 2 "Clear Tape" (Performed on WHSmith Clear Tape)

    Composer: Maya Verlaak. Performer: Andy Ingamells. Performer: Maya Verlaak.
    • Tape Piece.
    • Birmingham Record Company.
    • 5.
  • Oliver Knussen

    Eccentric Melody (for solo cello)

    Performer: Ulrich Heinen.
  • Fumiko Miyachi

    Hedge

    Performer: Renate Sokolovska. Performer: Mana Shibata. Performer: Stanley Kaye-Smith. Performer: Iris van den Bos. Performer: Laura Farre-Rozada. Performer: Boglarka Gyorgy. Performer: Ed Pether. Performer: Nathanael Gubler. Performer: James Heathcote. Performer: Tom Pickles. Conductor: Michael Coleby.
  • Michael Wolters

    Catalogue d'Emojis (1st movement: "Smileys and People")

    Ensemble: Cobalt Duo.
    • Michael Wolters & Paul Norman: Catalogue d'Emojis.
    • Birmingham Record Company.
    • 1.
  • Andy Ingamells

    Tape Piece, Pt. 3 "Gaffer Tape" (Performed on Icon Craft Gaffer Tape)

    Composer: Maya Verlaak. Performer: Andy Ingamells. Performer: Maya Verlaak.
    • Tape Piece.
    • BIRMINGHAM RECORD COMPANY.
    • 12.
  • Harrison Birtwistle

    Roddy's Reel

    Performer: Mark O'Brien. Performer: Melvin Tay.

Broadcast

  • Sat 24 Jul 2021 22:00

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