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Hear and Now: Muhly, Riley, Adams

04/06/2011

Muhly, Riley, Adams

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, Muhly, Riley, Adams

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents minimalist music by Nico Muhly, Terry Riley and John Adams.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents minimalist music. Nico Muhly: Seeing Is Believing. Terry Riley: ArchAngels; John Adams: Chamber Symphony. Cello Octet Amsterdam, Aurora Orchestra.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents minimalist and post-minimalist music by three generations of American composers.
Nico Muhly: Seeing Is Believing 
Thomas Gould (electric violin)
Aurora Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Collon
Terry Riley: ArchAngels
Cello Octet Amsterdam
John Adams: Chamber Symphony
Aurora Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Collon

Nico Muhly is a rising star in contemporary composition - his new opera Two Boys opens in London on 24th June. He worked as an assistant to Philip Glass, one of the first generation of American Minimalists, and his music might be called "post-minimalist", as it employs the repeating patterns of minimalism but adds rich harmonies and complex textures, as in this concerto for electric violin.
Terry Riley is another Minimalist pioneer, and his cello octet ArchAngels uses different string tunings to create a darkly resonant soundworld.
John Adams' Chamber Symphony combines the unlikely influences of Arnold Schoenberg and classic American cartoon music (one movement is called Roadrunner) to make an action-packed rollercoaster-ride of manic virtuosity.

(Music recorded in recent concert performances at King's Place, London and at the Sounds New Festival, Canterbury.).

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