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Sound Festival, Steve Reich's eightieth birthday and composer Eddie McGuire's My Music

Jamie MacDougall chats to the organisers of Aberdeen's Sound Festival, plus he celebrates Steve Reich's eightieth birthday, and composer Eddie McGuire chooses his My Music.

Jamie chats to the organisers of Aberdeen's Sound festival of new music and hears about invented instruments and a concert with Simon Callow. He's also celebrating composer birthdays; Steve Reich's 80th and Ned Rorem's 93rd! Scottish composer Eddie McGuire packs in his choices for this week's My Music as well as pieces by James MacMillan, Graham Fitkin, Louis Andriessen and Eric Whitacre.

1 hour, 55 minutes

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Sun 23 Oct 2016 21:00
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio Scotland

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Music Played

  • Eric Whitacre

    Go lovely Rose

    Performer: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.

  • Jerome Moross

    The Big Country

    Performer: The London Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Stanley Black.

  • Louis Andriessen

    De Staat Choir 2

    Performer: London Sinfonietta, Synergy Vocals. Conductor: David Atherton.

  • Graham Fitkin

    Mapping

    Performer: Ruth Wall. Performer: Graham Fitkin.

  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in G flat D. 899 No 3

    Performer: Dinu Lipatti.

  • Steve Reich

    Drumming, Part 4

    Performer: Steve Reich and Musicians.

  • Sir James MacMillan

    Symphony No 4

    Performer: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Donald Runnicles.

  • Leroy Anderson

    TrumpeterÂ’s Lullaby

    Performer: Ian Sutherland Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Ian Sutherland.

  • Steve Reich

    Piano Phase

    Performer: Mahan Esfahani.

  • Trad.

    Five Variants of ‘Dives and Lazarus’

    Music Arranger: Ralph Vaughan Williams. Performer: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.

  • Frank Bridge

    Pensiero

    Performer: Paul Coletti, Leslie Howard.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no. 8 (Op.93) in F maj, 2nd mvt.

    Performer: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. Conductor: David Zinman.

  • Hugh Roberton

    The Old Woman

    Author: Joseph Campbell. Performer: Glasgow Orpheus Choir. Conductor: Hugh Roberton.

  • Alan Rawsthorne

    The Cruel Sea

    Performer: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Philharmonic. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.

  • Leonard Rosenman

    Theme from Rebel Without A Cause

    Performer: George Cates & His Orchestra.

  • Leonard Rosenman

    East Of Eden

    Performer: Dick Jacobs and his Orchestra.

  • Van Phillips

    Journey Into Space (Opening Sequence and Effects, 1959)

    Performer: Queen’s Hall Light Orchestra. Conductor: Sidney Torch.

  • Ned Rorem

    Spring Music – Aubade

    Performer: Beaux Arts Trio.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento No.14 in B flat major, K.270

    Performer: SCO Wind Ensemble.

  • Steve Reich

    The Desert Music, Third Movement Part One

    Performer: Steve Reich and Musicians.

  • Oliver Davis

    Dance Concerto for Violin , piano and strings, last mvt.

    Performer: Karenza Peacock, Huw Watkins, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Bateman.

  • Samuel Barber

    Concerto for violin and orchestra (Op.14), 2nd mvt.

    Performer: Isaac Stern, New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Trio Quel fior che all’ alba ride HWV 200, ‘E’un fior la vita’

    Performer: Mary Bevan, Sophie Bevan, Benjamin Bevan, London Early Opera.
    • Handel In Italy Vol.2.

  • Steve Reich, Radiohead

    Radio Rewrite Nos. 1 & 2

    Performer: Ensemble Signal.

Broadcast

  • Sun 23 Oct 2016 21:00
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio Scotland