Sound Lounge for Friday 11 March 2016

7:00 WOMAD Taranaki 2015

Thirteen programmes of live performances from artists recorded at the festival held in New Plymouth last March 2015

(10) Richard Thompson

Thompson and his Electric Trio delivered one of the most incendiary shows of the weekend, drawing on a back catalogue dating back to his teenage years in the 1960s when he founded Fairport Convention (recorded at Brooklands Park, New Plymouth by RNZ)

8:05 Contemporary Award Winners

TAVENER: The Protecting Veil - Steven Isserlis (cello), London SO/Gennady Rozhdestvensky (Virgin VC 7 91474)

BOLCOM: Songs of Experience, Volume 2, Part 4, The Voice of the Ancient Bard; My Pretty Rose Tree; Ah! Sun-Flower; The Lilly - Thomas Young (ten), Nmon Ford (bar), University of Michigan Combined Choruses University of Michigan Chamber Choir, University of Michigan SO & Contemporary Directions Ensemble/Leonard Slatkin (Naxos 8.559216-18)

 

 

 

9:00 Pierre Boulez

Robin Maconie looks at Pierre Boulez's peers and influences
Six programmes
(6) (RNZ)

BOULEZ: Mémoriale, In memoriam Igor Stravinsky, for solo flute and eight instruments - Sophie Cherrier (fl), members of the Ensemble InterContemporain/Pierre Boulez (Warner 0927 49987)

RAVEL: Three Poems of Stéphane Mallarmé, Soupir; Placet futile; Surgi de la croupe et du bond - Jill Gomez (sop), members of the BBC SO/Pierre Boulez (Sony SMK 64107)

BOULEZ: …Explosante-Fixe… - realization directed by Andrew Gerzso, Sophie Cherrier, Emmanuelle Ophèle, Pierre-André Valade (fls), Ensemble InterContemporain/Pierre Boulez (DG 445 833)

DAVID BEHRMAN: On The Other Ocean - David Beherman (electronics), Maggi Payne, Arthur Stidfole Ellipsis Arts CD3670

10:05 Sonic World of Cinema

MORRICONE: A selection from the soundtrack to the film, Hateful Eight
Czech National SO/Ennio Morricone
Decca 476 9489

From The New Zealand Festival 2016
Eva Radich talks to Gareth Farr about his WWI-themed work Relict Furies which has its NZ premiere on Tuesday 15 March.

TCHAIKOVSKY: Sérénade Mélancolique
Clara Rockmore (theremin), Nadia Reisenberg (pno)
DELOS 911014

LAURIE SPIEGEL: Appalachian Grove I - Laurie Spiegel (electronics)
HOLGER CZUKAY: Boat-Woman-Song - Holger Czukay (tape loops, electronics)
Ellipsis Arts CD3670

11:00 New Music Dreams

AUDIBLE 3: Baby Planet Nuclei
John Kennedy (drum machine, percussion, CD players), Marc Chesterman (sampler), Paul Winstanley (turntable, fx processor, electric bass), Greg Malcolm (gtr)