BCMG conducted by Martyn Brabbins

Martyn Brabbins, photo by Sasha Gusov

CBSO Centre, Birmingham

Come early at 6pm – BBC Radio 3 will record an edition of its acclaimed programme Discovering Music

Conductor	Martyn Brabbins
Piano	Rolf Hind *
Soprano	Donatienne Michel-Dansac +

Programme
Denys Bouliane	Du fouet et du plaisir *
Phillippe Leroux	Voi(rex) +
(Electronics: Jonathan Green)
Julian Anderson	Poetry Nearing Silence
György Ligeti	Piano Concerto *

Julian Anderson describes his Poetry Nearing Silence as a ‘divertimento’, but it also takes a cool look at relationships, human and musical. When BCMG invited the composer to complete the programme, his choice fell on works by two slightly older contemporaries, together with Ligeti’s Piano Concerto, where musical strains from Europe, Asia and the Caribbean cavort in wild exactness. From the Canadian Denys Bouliane - a Ligeti pupil, like Anderson - comes a work intriguingly titled Of the Whip and of Pleasure. The Frenchman Philippe Leroux’s Voi(rex) is a dramatic showpiece in which the soprano’s voice seems to spread through the ensemble.

Paul Griffiths

This concert is due to finish at approximately 9.30pm

Click here to read about BCMG's Insight Event, Martyn Brabbins and Julian Anderson in conversation with Stephen Newbould on Sunday 16 November.

A Music Maze and Zigzag Ensemble workshop link to this programme.

Contact Details

Sat 22nd November 2008, 8:00pm

CBSO Centre - March 2011

In Advance: £14 (£8 concessions, £5 under 16s) / On-door: £15 (£9 concessions, £6 under 16s)
Berkley Street
B1 2LF [map link]
Tel : 0121 767 4050