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Hear and Now: Max Richter's Memoryhouse

Max Richter's Memoryhouse

17/05/2014

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, Max Richter's Memoryhouse

Max Richter's Memoryhouse, Hanna Tuulikki in Composers' Rooms and John Cage's HPSCHD.

Tom Service introduces the first ever live performance of Max Richter's Memoryhouse, Composers' Rooms visits Hanna Tuulikki and John Cage's HPSCHD is heard on the Nonesuch label.

Tom Service introduces the first ever concert performance of Memoryhouse, Max Richter's post-rock influenced first album. A set of eighteen variations, the album's eighteen tracks take us on a musical journey from 'Europe, After the Rain' to 'Last Days' with memories of a love story played out during the Bosnian war, the sound objects of John Cage and an ode to the Netherlands' composer Jan Sweelinck among the many references. That's followed by a meeting with the Glasgow-based composer and visual artist Hanna Tuulikki in Hear and Now's ongoing series of Composers' Rooms, and a last look at some of the pioneering recordings released on the American Nonesuch label. Tonight the spotlight falls on John Cage's HPSCHD, a work conceived in 1967 in collaboration with the University of Illinois department of computer science.

Max Richter: Memoryhouse
Max Richter (piano, celeste, keyboards)
Katherine Manley (soprano)
Eva Thorarinsdottir (violin)
Paul Grennan (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
André de Ridder (conductor)

Max Richter: On the Nature of Daylight
BBC Symphony Orchestra,
André de Ridder (conductor)

c. 11.20pm
Composers' Rooms: Hanna Tuulikki
with Sara Mohr-Pietsch

c. 11.35pm
Concluding our survey of early electronic releases by the American Nonesuch label:
John Cage: HPSCHD for harpsichord and computer-generated sound tapes.

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