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The script of storms

Tom Service presents new Lockdown commissions for the Riot Ensemble, and a powerful setting of Iraqi poet Fawzi Karim for soprano and orchestra by Michael Hersch.

Tom Service presents the best in new music performance, including some new Lockdown commissions for the Riot Ensemble, and the world premiere of a powerful setting of Iraqi poet Fawzi Karim for soprano and orchestra by Michael Hersch.
Matt Rogers: Working for the Pea Fox
Tom Lessels (clarinets)
Laurence Crane: Estonia
Royal Northern Sinfonia conducted by James Weeks
Michael Hersch: The script of storms
Ah Young Hong (soprano)
成人快手 Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tito Mu帽oz
Riot Ensemble new solo commissions:
Aidan Teplitzky: Penn and/or Teller
Sam Wilson (percussion)
Oliver Brignall: Always interrupted
Ruth Rosales (bassoon)
Carmen Ho: Unknown
Claudia Racovicean (piano)
Anna Korsun: Marevo (WP)
(for two singing saws, two violins, two cellos and keyboard)
Ensemble Modern conducted by Lin Liao
Ezko Kikoutchi: D鈥橦ypnos
We Spoke
Tim Parkinson: HeadPhoneHead; Here Comes A Monster; They've Got A Good View Of The Shard
George Barton and Siwan Rhys (voices)

Michael Hersch's The script of storms sets nine poems by Fawzi Karim (1945-2019), Iraqi poet and painter. Born in Baghdad in 1945, he lived in Lebanon and then London. Michael Hersch writes: 鈥淜arim鈥檚 world is a remarkable and disquieting place; a landscape of empathy, beauty, but also war and unspeakable horror... his experience of the 1958 coup he witnessed in Iraq as a boy haunts his poetry.鈥 This is a dark and powerful new work, with graphic descriptions of war. It was recorded in concert at the 成人快手 Maida Vale studios in January.

1 hour, 59 minutes

Last on

Sat 15 Aug 2020 22:00

Music Played

  • Matt Rogers

    Working for the Pea Fox

    Performer: Tom Lessels.
  • Laurence Crane

    Estonia

    Performer: Royal Northern Sinfonia.
  • Michael Hersch

    The script of storms

    Performer: 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rafael Munoz. Singer: Ah Young Hong.
  • Aidan Teplitzky

    Penn and/or Teller

    Performer: Sam Wilson.
  • Oliver Brignall

    Always interrupted

    Performer: Ruth Rosales.
  • Anna Korsun

    Marevo

    Performer: Ensemble Modern.
  • Carmen Ho

    Unknown

    Performer: Claudia Racovicean.
  • Ezko Kikoutchi

    D'Hypnos

    Performer: We Spoke.
  • Tim Parkinson

    Headphonehead

  • Tim Parkinson

    Here comes a monster

  • Tim Parkinson

    They've got a good view of The Shard

Broadcast

  • Sat 15 Aug 2020 22:00

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