Sound Lounge for Friday 19 February 2016
7:00 WOMAD Taranaki 2015
Thirteen programmes of live performances from artists recorded at the Festival held in New Plymouth last March.
Public Service Broadcasting live at WOMAD 2015 Photo: Michael Flynn
(7) Public Service Broadcasting
A live performance from English electronic soundscape duo. On their first visit to New Zealand, founding member, soundscape composer and guitarist J Wilgoose Esquire and his drummer, Wrigglesworth, delivered an impressive multi-media show featuring material from their two albums. The duo have established a reputation for searching out old British and American films, wartime propaganda reels, documentaries and crackly radio broadcasts and legally sampling the dialogue to create their own distinctive homage to the past, re-contextualized for a contemporary audience (RNZ)
8:20 Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez Photo: Nationaal Archief
Robin Maconie looks at Pierre Boulez's peers and influences
Six programmes (3) (RNZ)
CAGE: Sonata IV; Interlude I, from Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano - Boris Berman (prepared pno) (Naxos 8.559042)
BOULEZ: Le Marteau sans maître for alto voice and six instruments, to poems by René Char - Hilary Summers (mezzo), Emmanuelle Ophèle (alto fl), Marie-Thérèse Ghirardi (gtr), Odile Auboin (vla), Vincent Bauer (vibraphone), Samuel Favre (xylorimba), Michel Cerutti (percussion), soloists of the Ensemble InterContemporain/Pierre Boulez (DG 477 5327)
STRAVINSKY: Movements for piano & orchestra - Paul Crossley (pno), London Sinfonietta/Esa-Pekka Salonen (Sony SK 45797)