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Radio 3 in Concert: The London Sinfonietta and Sound Intermedia at the Royal Festival Hall

The London Sinfonietta and Sound Intermedia at the Royal Festival Hall

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 in Concert, The London Sinfonietta and Sound Intermedia at the Royal Festival Hall

Music by Steve Reich, Julius Eastman, Julia Wolfe, Mira Calix and Anna Clyne.

The London Sinfonietta and Sound Intermedia perform Steve Reich's Reich/Richter, Julius Eastman's Joy Boy, Mira Calix's Nunu, Julia Wolfe's Tell me everything, and Anna Clyne.

Leading contemporary music group London Sinfonietta joins forces with renowned sound designers Sound Intermedia at the Royal Festival Hall for an intriguing New York-focussed evening. 

Beginning his composing career in the vanguard of Minimalism in 60s New York, Steve Reich has long-been a hugely influential international figure. His 2019 Reich/Richter is a mesmeric, pulsating and colour-shifting score designed as a soundtrack for the abstract images of visual artist Gerhard Richter’s film Moving Picture. 

Julia Wolfe's Tell me everything, from 1994, was inspired by hearing the jolly cacophony of a South American band on a cassette tape. 'It was joyful and unwieldy,' she says. 'There were so many times while writing this piece that I broke into laughter — wondering can I really write this, can it really go on like this?'

Unpredictable, provocative, charismatic and visionary, Julius Eastman's short life spiralled out of control in the 1980s and he died at the age of 49 in 1990. His 1974 Joy Boy for small ensemble shimmers and slowly morphs as musical layers are added in a process Eastman described as 'organic composition'. Tonight the London Sinfonietta perform it twice in two different instrumental combinations.

Born in 1969, British-based Mira Calix, visual artist and musician, also died too young, only last year. Her Nunu is based on audio and video sampling and mixing of a collection of insects including cicadas, cockroaches, crickets and beetles.   

The concert also includes a premiere from London-born, New York-based Anna Clyne, one of today's most in-demand composers who collaborates with many of the   world's leading orchestras, choreographers, filmmakers, and visual artists.

Recorded last week and introduced by Martin Handley.

Julia Wolfe: Tell me everything 
Julius Eastman: Joy Boy 
Mira Calix: Nunu 
Anna Clyne: Fractured Time (world premiere)
Julius Eastman: Joy Boy 

8:20pm
Interval music (from CD)
John Cage: In a landscape
Alexei Lubimov (piano)

8:30pm
Steve Reich:  Reich / Richter 

Sound Intermedia 
London Sinfonietta 
Manoj Kamps (conductor)

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