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Ivors Classical Awards

Kate Molleson and Tom Service present this year's Ivors Classical Awards celebrating achievements in contemporary classical composition.

Kate Molleson and Tom Service present this year's Ivors Classical Awards, recorded on Tuesday 12th November at BFI Southbank.

The Ivors Classical Awards is one of the highlight's of the UK's contemporary music scene. It's also a great chance to catch up on what's in the air across the spectrum of new music with a wide range of categories from chamber, orchestral, choral and stage music to community projects and sound art.

On the shortlist of 36 composers there are works which reflect a variety of important and topical themes: Julian Anderson’s ECHOES – commissioned for Classical Pride – and Philip Venables’ music theatre piece The Faggots and their Friends Between Revolutions both focus on sexuality and queer communities, whilst Joanna Marsh’s Batter My Heart, Oliver Leith’s Hallelujah Amen and Cassandra Miller’s The City, Full of People focus on religion and spirituality. Some of the nominated works use music as a form of activism and to raise awareness of important topics, including Hannah Conway’s FLY/WORK/GROW which highlights the devastating impact of temporary accommodation and homelessness has on child health and development. Nature and climate change is also a regular theme within contemporary classical music and sound art. Nominated works with this theme include Christian Mason’s environmental cantata The Singing Tree, Gavin Higgins’ Horn Concerto – which celebrates his relationship with forests and love of woodlands – and Tiding II (silentium) by Lisa Illean which focuses on the ocean. Other works inspired by the ocean and water are Benjamin Tassie’s A Ladder is Not the Only Kind of Time, Dan Jones’s Each Tiny Drop and Duncan MacLeod’s Orasaigh.

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Music Played

  • Brian Irvine

    A Children's Guide to Anarchy (An Easterhouse Children's Manifesto)

    Ensemble: Red Note Ensemble. Choir: Oakwood Primary School Pupils.

  • Rebecca Saunders

    The Mouth

    Performer: Newton Armstrong. Singer: Juliet Fraser.

  • Dan Jones

    Each Tiny Drop

  • Joanna Marsh

    Batter My Heart

    Conductor: Nicholas Shaw. Choir: The Choir of Lincoln's Inn.

  • Cassandra Miller

    The City, Full of People

    Conductor: Paul Hillier. Choir: Chamber Choir of Ireland.

  • Richard Blackford

    Songs of Nadia Anjuman

    Performer: Elizabeth Watts. Ensemble: Britten Sinfonia.
    • NIMBUS.

  • Hilda Paredes

    The Hearing Trumpet

    Conductor: Aaron Holloway-Nahum. Ensemble: Riot Ensemble.

  • Laurence Osborn

    TOMB!

    Ensemble: 2 Ensemble. Ensemble: GBSR Duo.

  • Jonathan Dove

    Itch

    Performer: Canadian Opera Company Chorus. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia.

  • Philip Venables

    The Faggots and their Friends Between Revolutions

    Ensemble: Ensemble cast at HOME Theatre.

  • Bushra El-Turk

    Woman at Point Zero

    Performer: Dima Orsho. Performer: Carla Nahadi Babelegoto. Ensemble: ensemble ZAR.

  • Ryan Latimer

    Pound of Cure

    Ensemble: Britten Sinfonia.

  • Christian Mason

    The Singing Tree

    Ensemble: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. Ensemble: Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart. Ensemble: Finchley Childrens Music Group.

  • Rufus Isabel Elliot

    the stones in the river by our camp in the forest / the space on the ground wher

    Performer: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Maayan Franco.

  • Edward Gregson

    Viola Concerto 'Three Goddesses'

    Performer: Rachel Roberts. Orchestra: London Festival Orchestra. Conductor: George Vass.

  • Matthew Herbert

    The Horse

    Performer: Matthew Herbert. Performer: Momoko Gill. Performer: Hugh Jones. Performer: Eoin McCaul. Performer: Gracel Delos. Orchestra: London Contemporary Orchestra.
    • MODERN RECORDINGS BMG.

  • Julian Anderson

    ECHOES

    Performer: DavΓ³ne Tines. Conductor: Oliver Zeffman. Choir: LGBTQ+ Community Choir. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

  • Cassandra Miller

    I Cannot Love Without Trembling

    Performer: Lawrence Power. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: John StorgΓ₯rds.

  • Brett Dean

    In spe contra spem

    Performer: Emma Bell. Performer: Elsa Dreisig. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.

  • Gavin Higgins

    Concerto for horn and orchestra; III [EXTRACT]

    Performer: Ben Goldscheider. Conductor: Jaime MartΓ­n. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales.

  • Errollyn Wallen

    Brukdown

    Ensemble: Bone-afide.
    • DOYEN.

  • Archie John

    Canticle in the Fish's Belly

    Performer: Anna Kwiatkowska. Performer: MikoΕ‚aj PaΕ‚osz. Performer: Adam Kosmieia.

  • Gavin Bryars

    Quintet for harpsichord and String Quartet

    Performer: Mahan Esfahani. Ensemble: Viano Quartet.

  • Stuart MacRae

    Draw the Veil

    Performer: Rolf Hind.

  • Lisa Robertson

    Is It Too Soon To Start Talking About All This?

    Performer: Rolf Hind.

  • Mika Pelo

    Broken

    Performer: Rolf Hind.

  • Ben Lunn

    Viva!

    Performer: Rolf Hind.

  • Yehuda Yannav

    Piece for a Pianist Pondering the Pandemic

    Performer: Rolf Hind.

  • Rylan Gleave

    The Void Above

    Performer: Rolf Hind.

  • Elaine Mitchener

    Herein the News

    Performer: Rolf Hind.

  • Frances‐Marie Uitti

    Uitti Mashup

    Performer: Rolf Hind.

  • Matthew King

    When Birds Do Sing

    Performer: Rolf Hind.

  • Sadie Harrison

    Barkarolle

    Performer: Rolf Hind.

  • Greg May

    Tree

    Performer: Rolf Hind.

Broadcast

  • Sat 16 Nov 2024 22:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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