Saturday, 31 December 2011
Last year I put together a lengthy look at good stuff I’d seen, heard and read. To close this year, here are some much briefer notes on some of the best things I encountered in the last 12 months. Richard Craig, Inward — Without a doubt the best disc of new music I’ve heard this year, […]
Information about ‘Into the Lion’s Den: Helmut Lachenmann at 75’ an article by Chris Swithinbank published in the July issue of the modern music journal Tempo.
By Chris
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Posted in News
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Also tagged musicology
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Ahead of Trio Atem’s performance at Kings Place next week, I thought I would share this essay on the work which brought them together: Helmut Lachenmann’s temA. It is a work that I imagine will have been a reference point or at least in the backs of composers’ minds as they wrote for the wonderful […]
By Chris
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Posted in Musings
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Also tagged temA
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A Talk About Helmut Lachenmann’s Gran Torso For those of you in Manchester, I am giving a talk with the wonderful Quatuor Danel this Thursday on Lachenmann’s first string quartet, Gran Torso. The talk runs from 14:30 to 16:00 at the University of Manchester (map), but is preceded at 13:10 by a free lunchtime concert […]
As the end of the year approaches, here are some of the best things that I have read, seen and heard in the past twelve months. Two major, large-scale performances this autumn made an impact on me. The London Sinfonietta’s concert of Lachenmann at the Southbank Centre in October was one. I already knew the […]
By Chris
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Posted in Odds & Ends
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Also tagged A Town Called Panic, Amir Nizar Zuabi, Aurélio Edler-Copês, Centre Acanthes, Dogtooth, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Joanna Newsom, London Sinfonietta, musikFabrik, My Son My Son What Have Ye Done, Olafur Eliasson, Quatuor Diotima, Rebecca Saunders, ShiberHur, Southbank Centre, Tony Judt, Washington Phillips, Werner Herzog
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