BCMG NEXT | Looking for a melody

Sun 26 May 2024, 4.30pm

CBSO Centre, Birmingham

This is a free event, but booking is required

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Looking for a melody

Our 23-24 NEXT performers present true classics from the contemporary repertoire:

Jonathan Harvey’s Ricercare una melodia, a canon sung along themselves by the soloist, first in simple fugato, then in augmentation: at half speed, then quarter speed, and finally four times slower, and lower.

George Crumb's Vox Balaenae, imagining the voices of whales, with astonishingly simple but striking sound effects, is an ode to nature and a warning against destroying it.

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BCMG NEXT 23-24

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Jonathan Harvey	Tombeau De Messiaen for solo piano and electronics. 9'
Jonathan Harvey	Ricercare una melodia for flute and delay system, 11'
George Crumb	Vox Balaenae for flute, cello and piano, 20'
Jonathan Harvey	Little Duo for violin and cello, 3'
Jonathan Harvey	Flight Elegy for violin and piano, 10'