Editor’s note: Audio for this program is no longer available due to rights restrictions.
Can a work of modern classical music be both "attractive" and "dissonant?" Extra Eclectic host Steve Seel explores this question with the Piano Concerto by Thomas Ades. It's a great example of how modern music at its best can be a lot of fun on multiple levels at once. Also featured is a performance from the 2023 BBC Proms. The first hour of the program is all English featuring composers Ryan Latimer, Jane Antonia Cornish, Michael Nyman and Gavin Bryars.
Episode Playlist
Mills Mess
Ryan Latimer
Antiarkie
Royal Academy of Music Manson Ensemble
Oliver Knussen, conductor
4:34
Scattered Light
Jane Antonia Cornish
Into Silence
Hamilton Berry, cello
4:35
Piano Concerto
Thomas Ades
Concert Recording
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski, conductor
Kirill Gerstein, piano
25:20
By Beauteous Softness (After H. Purcell)
Thomas Ades
Echo
Ruby Hughes, soprano
4:44
Music after a While
Michael Nyman
If
Fretwork
11:50
A Native Hill: The Pool
Gavin Bryars
Bryars: A Native Hill
The Crossing
Donald Nally, conductor
3:17
In Delius' Sleep
Harold Budd
Harold Budd: She is a Phantom
Zeitgeist
Harold Budd, piano
4:41
Suite for Cello and Orchestra (after C. Debussy)
Sally Beamish
reVisions
Tapiola Sinfonietta
Gabor Takacs-Nagy, conductor
Steven Isserlis, cello
20:01
Duet No. 1, Chorale Pointing Downwards
Nico Muhly
first things first
Nadia Sirota, viola
10:08
Truro Canticles
Dobrinka Tabakova
Dobrinka Tabakova: Kynance Cove, On the South Downs, and Works for Choir
Truro Cathedral Choir
Christopher Gray, conductor
Joseph Wicks, organ
12:00
Cerulean: Lullaby
David Biedenbender
Ex Machina
Donald Sinta Quartet
5:48
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