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Fragments and Sounding Change from Ukraine

Tom Service presents music by Kaija Saariaho and Tristan Murail performed by Wales's new music ensemble, Uproar. Composer Natalia Tsypryk talks about composing in Ukraine.

Tom Service presents the best in new music performance. This week's programme includes live recordings from Wales鈥檚 new music ensemble, Uproar - recorded earlier this year at Galeri Caernarfon and including Kaija Saariaho鈥檚 Lichtbogen, which was inspired by the Northern Lights, and Tristan Murail鈥檚 Winter Fragments. The Ivors Composer Awards are celebrating their twentieth anniversary and during the weeks leading up to an exclusive New Music Show dedicated to the awards on Saturday 19th November, we'll broadcast a work by a previous winner - this week, Skin by Rebecca Saunders. There are new releases of music by Kotoka Suzuki and John Luther Adams and this week's "Sounding Change" is presented by Natalia Tsypryk - a London based Ukrainian composer who talks about composition happening in Ukraine at the moment and about her own piece which she created using the sound of the air raid sirens she recorded in Kyiv this summer.

1 hour, 59 minutes

Last on

Sat 22 Oct 2022 22:00

Music Played

  • Kotoka Suzuki

    厂补驳颈蝉艒

    • Starkland.
  • Kaija Saariaho

    Lichtbogen

    Ensemble: UPROAR Ensemble. Conductor: Michael Rafferty.
  • Tristan Murail

    Winter Fragments

    Ensemble: UPROAR Ensemble. Conductor: Michael Rafferty.
  • Kotoka Suzuki

    Automata

    • Shimmer Tree.
    • STARKLAND.
  • Rebecca Saunders

    Skin

    Singer: Juliet Fraser. Orchestra: Klangforum Wien. Conductor: Bas Wiegers.
    • NMC.
  • Kevin Volans

    Baobab

    Performer: Darragh Morgan.
  • John Luther Adams

    Sila: The Breath of the World

    Ensemble: Sila Ensemble. Ensemble: JACK Quartet. Ensemble: The Crossing. Conductor: Donald Nally.
    • CANTALOUPE.

Broadcast

  • Sat 22 Oct 2022 22:00

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