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Hear and Now: Goehr, Maxwell Davies, Vivier

23/06/2012

Goehr, Maxwell Davies, Vivier

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, Goehr, Maxwell Davies, Vivier

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents works by Goehr and Maxwell Davies. Plus Vivier's Lonely Child.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces works by Goehr and Maxwell Davies performed by the Nash Ensemble, and in the Hear and Now 50 Barbara Hannigan champions Claude Vivier's Lonely Child.

Tom Service introduces Alexander Goehr's Clarinet Quintet and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies's The Last Island performed by the Nash Ensemble, and in this week's instalment of the Hear and Now 50, soprano Barbara Hannigan celebrates Claude Vivier's profoundly moving work for soprano and orchestra, Lonely Child. Vivier conceived the piece as one single melody, with the entire orchestra "transformed into a timbre", to create "great beams of colour". Writer Paul Griffiths puts the piece in context, noting the influence of Stockhausen but stressing the unique soundworld of Vivier. 


FULL PROGRAMME
Alexander Goehr: Clarinet Quintet 
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: The Last Island
Nash Ensemble
Lionel Friend (conductor)

The Hear and Now 50
Claude Vivier: Lonely Child 
Marie-Danielle Parent (soprano)
Orchestre Metropolitain de Montreal
Serge Garant (conductor).

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