direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London TOM SWIFT (tenor)
GÜNTER REICH (baritone) SIDONIE GOOSSENS (harp) BBC SINGERS director JOHN POOLE BBC CHORAL SOCIETY
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader ELI GOREN conductor PIERRE BOULEZ Part 1
Bartok Cantata Profana (sung in German)
Bernard Rands Aum
Boulez Rituel : In memoriam Maderna (BBC commission: world premiere)
' Ceremony of remembrance - whence the many returns over the same formulae, while outlines and perspectives change. 'Ceremony of extinction, ritual of disappearance and survival: thus are the images imprinted on musical memory - present/ absent, in uncertainty.'
(PIERRE BOULEZ)