Performances:
MAYMING - Seaming To - Voice/Semay Wu - Cello
English born Cardew draws from JS Bach's keyboard partitas and solo string writing in this 11 minute bass clarinet solo. The piece (1977) is prefaced with a poem by Mao Tse Tung, "Piercing the blue of heaven, your barbs unblunted, The skies would fall but your strength supporting" (1934/35), an epic set of variations.
Shabaka Hutchings and Lucy Railton performs IANNIS XENAKIS's - Charisma
This piece written in 1972 also bears a phrase alongside the title, a Greek inscription from Homer's The Iliad, "then the soul like smoke moved into the earth, grinding". A harsh, distorted and haunting expression from the 20th C giant and seminal composer Xenakis.
A cycle of pieces featuring the recorded voices of well-known celebrities (Mother Theresa, Morton Feldmann & Billie Holiday) giving speeches, interviews or readings. The piano behaves like a coarse sonic-doppelgänger of the voice, so that speech and music are confronted and compared.
Kerry Yong performs LUIGI NONO's .....sofferte onde serene...
Kerry Yong performs LUIGI NONO's .....sofferte onde serene...
A classic from the 70s, melds the recorded piano-sounds of pianist Maurizio Pollini with live-piano, evoking the soundscape of the lagoons and bells of Venice.
