Composer of the Week - Jonathan Harvey (1939-) - Episode 2

Donald Macleod in the company of British composer Jonathan Harvey. Harvey's instrumental and chamber works, beginning with two minutes of musical madness for prepared piano and tape, based on the finale of Chopin's Piano Sonata in B flat minor. This is followed by a musical depiction of the god Shiva in his guise as Nataraja, Lord of the Dance. Then a memorial to Harvey's friend Peter Gibbs, ex-RAF pilot and leader of the BBC Scottish Orchestra, who died in a mysterious plane crash; The Riot, an exhilarating trio for flute, clarinet and piano (the name is an anagram of the Dutch group for whom it was written - Het Trio); and a recent work, Harvey's String Trio, whose energising spark, the composer tells us, is the collision of two different musical moods - the sacred and the folkoristic. Homage to Cage, à Chopin (und Ligeti ist auch dabei - 1998) for piano and tape Florian Hoelscher (piano) Neos 10828 Tr 6 Nataraja (1983) for flute and piano Pirmin Grehl (flute/piccolo) Florian Hoelscher (piano) Neos 10828 Tr 1 Flight-Elegy (1983/9) for violin and piano Julie-Anne Derome (vioin) André Ristic (piano) Atma ACD2 2254 Tr 9 The Riot (1993) for flute/piccolo, bass clarinet and piano Het Trio: Harrie Starreveld (flute/piccolo) Harry Sparnaay (bass clarinet) René Eckhardt (piano) Sargasso SCD28044 Tr 1 String Trio (2004) Irvine Arditti (violin) Ralf Ehlers (viola) Lucas Fels (cello) Aeon AECD 0975, CD 2 Tr 1.