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Hear and Now: Rhodri Davies's Common Objects

Rhodri Davies's Common Objects

08/09/2012

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, Rhodri Davies's Common Objects

Rhodri Davies's Common Objects ensemble plus Terry Riley's minimalist masterpiece, In C.

Zoë Martlew presents music from Rhodri Davies's Common Objects ensemble at the Sounds New Festival. Plus in the Hear and Now 50, Terry Riley's icon of musical minimalism, In C.

Harpist Rhodri Davies leads gwrthrychau cyffredin (Common Objects), an ensemble of composers and improvisers whose music often begins with a graphic score. Recorded at the Canterbury Sounds New Festival and presented by Zoë Martlew in conversation with Angharad Davies. And in the latest instalment of the Hear and Now 50 singer and conductor Paul Hillier is joined by conductor Richard Bernas to celebrate Terry Riley's icon of musical minimalism and monument to the experimental atmosphere of 60's West Coast America, In C.

Rhodri Davies: lle y bwriaf angor 
Heledd Francis Wright: Chwarddiad cawraidd i'r cwmwl 
Angharad Davies: Cofnod Pen Bore 
Common Objects: Gwrthrych No. 3 

gwrthrychau cyffredin 
Rhodri Davies, harps
Angharad Davies, violin
Heledd Francis Wright, flutes
Matthew Lovett, electronics

Terry Riley: In C
Terry Riley, Director and saxophone 
Members of the Center of the Creative and Performing Arts in the Sate University of New York at Buffalo.

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