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Yet Unheard

The London Sinfonietta begins its Southbank Centre season with a concert of music by established and emerging black composers.

Live from the Royal Festival Hall.

Andrew McGregor presents the first concert of the London Sinfonietta new season with a programme of music by established and emerging black composers, co-curated by leading composer and new music thinker George Lewis.

Partly inspired by the seismic changes in society over the summer, this varied and powerful programme addresses a range of under-represented points of view: Hannah Kendall鈥檚 unsettling Verdala explores the experience of the British West Indian Regiment in the First World War in her typically uncompromising and richly textured style, while Courtney Bryan鈥檚 intensely rhythmic Sanctum explores the sound of improvisation in Holiness-preaching traditions.
The exciting music of Cuban composer Tania Le贸n begins the second half of the programme, while George Lewis鈥� energetic Assemblage provides a taste of what鈥檚 to come in his upcoming commission for the London Sinfonietta.

Jason Yarde: Rude awakening arr. Kerry Yonge;
Leila Adu-Gilmore: Freedom Suite: Negative Space (mov I) and Ghost Lullaby (mov II);
Hannah Kendall: Verdala

Interval

Tania Le贸n: Indigena
George Lewis: Assemblage
Courtney Bryan: Sanctum

Elaine Mitchener, vocalist
London Sinfonietta
Vimbayi Kaziboni, conductor

2 hours, 28 minutes

Last on

Wed 28 Oct 2020 19:30
麻豆社 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Jason Yarde

    Rude Awakening

    Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: Vimbayi Kaziboni.

  • Leila Adu-Gilmore

    Freedom Suites

    Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: Vimbayi Kaziboni.

  • Hannah Kendall

    Verdala

    Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: Vimbayi Kaziboni.

  • Emahoy Tsegu茅-Maryam Gu猫brou

    The Homeless Wanderer

    Performer: Emahoy Tsegu茅-Maryam Gu猫brou.
    • 脡thiopiques 21: Piano Solo.
    • Buda Musique.
    • 1.

  • Jonathan Bailey Holland

    Synchrony

    Ensemble: Radius Ensemble.
    • Radius Ensemble Records.

  • Tania Le贸n

    Indigena

    Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: Vimbayi Kaziboni.

  • George Lewis

    Assemblage

    Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: Vimbayi Kaziboni.

  • Courtney Bryan

    Sanctum

    Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: Vimbayi Kaziboni.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Diabelli Variations Op.120 (Excerpt)

    Performer: Alfred Brendel. Performer: Jelly Roll Morton.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Frederic Rzewski

    Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues (North American Ballads no.4)

    Performer: Frederic Rzewski. Performer: Jelly Roll Morton.
    • NONESUCH.

  • Jennifer Walshe

    Like Glass in a Mirror on a WIndow Pane

    Performer: Jelly Roll Morton. Ensemble: Cassiopeia Winds.
    • Contemporary Music Centre of Ireland.

  • Steve Reich

    Vermont Counterpoint

    Performer: Pierre-Andr茅 Valade.
    • ADDA.

  • John Adams

    Am I in your light? (Doctor Atomic)

    Singer: Julia Bullock. Orchestra: 麻豆社 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Adams.
    • NONESUCH.

Broadcast

  • Wed 28 Oct 2020 19:30
    麻豆社 Radio 3