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IRCAM Festival BBC SSO & Ircam; Sounds Like Music

City Halls : Grand Hall

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Ircam, the famous Paris-based research and performance centre for new music, collaborates with a British orchestra for the first time in this exciting week of concerts and workshops exploring the astounding sound worlds opened up when the latest technology meets acoustic instruments.

Each of our two big concerts is divided into several sections, with intervals between them, so you can choose to attend one or more parts as you wish.

Listeners can choose which sections of the evening to try, but in truth everything is unmissable!

After the incredibly evocative and moving Stockhausen tape masterpiece, Gesang der Jünglinge (Song of the Children), the Scottish Ensemble makes a guest appearance with two pieces by Xenakis, who could create a unique sound-world using only acoustic instruments.

Leading French trumpet virtuoso Laurent Bômont performs a piece with live electronics by Yan Maresz, and then one of the true originals of electro-acoustic music, Trevor Wishart, performs some of his extraordinary compositions.

The excerpts from Jonathan Harvey’s recent opera Wagner Dream make a powerfully dramatic end to an extraordinary week.

Presented by Roger Wright, Controller BBC Radio 3 and Director BBC Proms, together with Jonathan Harvey, the concert will be recorded for future broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

For more information please go to:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/music/bbcsso/webforms/ircam_brochure.pdf

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Featuring:

The Scottish Ensemble

Laurent Quenelle - Guest Director

 

Laurent Bômont - Trumpet

 

Trevor Wishart - Electronics

 

Claire Booth - Soprano

 

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Ilan Volkov - Conductor

Roger Wright - Presenter

 

Jonathan Harvey - Presenter

 

Works:

Stockhausen - Gesang der Jünglinge

 

Xenakis - Ittidra

 

Xenakis - Aroura

 

Yan Maresz - Metallics

 

Trevor Wishart - Electro-acoustic compositions

 

Jonathan Harvey - Excerpts and 2 Interludes from Wagner Dream (UK Premiere)

 

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