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³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ CO/Hazlewood

³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Concert Orchestra and Charles Hazlewood explore issues of chance, with a new piece where 12 composers each write one minute of music. Plus Mozart, Schnittke, Matthews, Ives.

Petroc Trelawny presents a concert given in the Queen Elizabeth hall in which ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Concert Orchestra and Charles Hazlewood explore issues of chance in music. The programme includes a new piece by 12 composers who have had an association with the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Concert Orchestra, where each composer writes one minute of music. The order of composers is determined by the roll of a die and each composer sees the last 12 bars of the previous composer's section and then continues the piece at their will.

Also featuring:

Mozart: A Musical Dice Game
Schnittke: Moz-Art a la Haydn
Matthews: To Compose Without the Least Knowledge of Music
Ives: The Unanswered Question
Stravinsky: Jeu de cartes

Followed by music by past winners of the RPS awards, which celebrates its twentieth anniversary in 2009.

Tchaikovsky:
Was I not a little blade of grass?
Joan Rodgers – Singer 1997
Roger Vignoles
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Elgar: Organ Sonata
Thomas Trotter, organ
Instrumentalist prize, 2001
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Tracks 1-4

2 hours, 15 minutes

Last on

Thu 7 May 2009 19:00

Broadcast

  • Thu 7 May 2009 19:00