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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Varese 360 (1)
Resident at Southbank Centre
Friday 16 April 2010
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Edgard Varèse: Ionisation for 13 percussionists
Edgard Varèse: Density 21.5 for solo flute
Edgard Varèse/Chou Wen-chung: Dance for Burgess for chamber orchestra
Edgard Varèse: Ecuatorial for bass & ensemble
Interval
Edgard Varèse/Chou Wen-chung: Etude pour Espace
Edgard Varèse: Déserts for wind, piano, percussion & tape
David Atherton conductor
Cathie Boyd staging, director, video, lighting
Sir John Tomlinson bass
EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble
Jonathan Golove cello theremin
Natasha Farny cello theremin
Sound Intermedia
Pippa Nissen video
Zerlina Hughes lighting
Dan Ayling stage manager
In this concert, the London Sinfonietta performs music which Varèse wrote between 1930 and 1960. Included are some of his most characterful and best known works, from the wailing sirens and pounding industrial soundscapes of Ionisation for 13 percussionists to Density 21.5, in which a solo flute seems to call out to the universe and the dark and strange evocation of an ancient Mayan prayer in Ecuatorial. This concert presents Varèse as a sonic explorer whose music is uncomprisingly futuristic, while seeming to have existed since the beginning of time.
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