Hear and Now - New British Chamber Music

Ivan Hewett presents a programme of new British chamber music with electronics. Jonathan Harvey: Ricercare una melodia (5:07) RedArch Duo Christopher Redgate (oboe) Paul Archbold (electronics) Redgate & Archbold: Improvisation (8:29) RedArch Duo Christopher Redgate (oboe) Paul Archbold (electronics) Jonathan Harvey: String Quartet no.1 (18:15) Arditti String Quartet (From the complete set of 4 Harvey String Quartets on the Aeon label. Due for UK release via Harmonia Mundi later in the year) Christopher Fox: Broadway Boogie (8.00) RedArch Duo Christopher Redgate (oboe) Paul Archbold (electronics) Package - rediscovery of Birtwistle's Chronometer (interviews with Lieven Bertels, who tracked down the only surviving 4-track tape of Chronometer & got it remastered for CD/DVD; and with Peter Zinovieff, one of the pioneers of British electronic music, who 'realised' this piece according to Birtwistle’s instructions) Harrison Birtwistle: Chronometer (extracts) Harrison Britwistle / Peter Zinovieff From the CD/DVD ‘Recovery / Discovery’ (SAM 0801) Edwin Roxburgh: At the Still Point of the Turning World (15:05) RedArch Duo Christopher Redgate (oboe) Paul Archbold (electronics) James Weeks: Burnham Air (11:49) RedArch Duo Christopher Redgate (oboe) Paul Archbold (electronics)