Sound Lounge for Friday 22 July 2016
9:00
NZTrio and Julien Bliss Chamber Music New Zealand tour
Ross Harris Photo: Gareth Watkins/Lilburn Trust/Wallace Arts Trust
It’s the 75th anniversary of one of the world’s greatest chamber works – Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, which NZTrio are touring together with star British clarinettist, Julian Bliss. They tell us what they love about it and about the other work they’ll be performing on tour – Ross Harris’s new chamber work, There may be Light.
ROSS HARRIS: Piano prelude, A Landscape With Too Few Lovers
Henry Wong Doe (pno)
RATTLE 400467
MESSIAEN: Movement 3, Abime des Oiseaux, from Quartet for the End of Time
Ensemble Liaison
Melba MR 301 132
Katharina Gross and Arnold Marinissen from Amsterdam present their cello-based electronic projects, cellomondo, and Nebula.
GROSS & MARINISSEN: Nebula; JAKHONGIR SHUKUR: Aks Sado; JONATHAN HARVEY: Ricercare una melodia
Katharina Gross (cello), Arnold Marinissen (electronics, percussion)
Katharina Gross and Arnold Marinissen Photo: http://www.grossmarinissen.net/pics/
New Zealand String Quartet
The NZSQ’s overseas tour – beginning at the Salisbury Festival and ending at the Festival of the Sound in Ontario, Canada
ROSS HARRIS: Variation 25
New Zealand String Quartet
Atoll ACD 118
Zombies on the Horizon
Zombies on the Horizen. Art by Lyell Cresswell. Photo: Supplied
NZSM students presenting works at the Zombies on the Horizon festival in Wellington
REUBEN JELLEYMAN: Nucleosynthesis_Binaural
GEORGE AITKEN: St Thomas of Canterbury College
10:00
POULENC: Clarinet Sonata in Bb
Julian Bliss (cl), Julien Quentin (pno)
Label: EMI 5 85639
ALEXANDER GOEHR: Marching to Carcassonne Op 74
Peter Serkin (pno), London Sinfonietta/Oliver Knussen
Naxos 8.573052
11:00 New Music Dreams
Huerco S. - For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have) Photo: album cover art
HUERCO S.: For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)
Brian Leeds (producer)
Probito PRB 018