Performance on 3 - Something Rich and Strange

Presented by Petroc Trelawny. A concert given at the Barbican, London, featuring the music of Iannis Xenakis, described by Olivier Messiaen as 'a hero unlike any other'. Xenakis's very original music has many complex rhythmic patterns, polyphonic melodies and distinct instrumental and vocal textures and draws on his training as an architect and his work as assistant to Le Corbusier. In his piece Nuits, voices explore the phonetic sounds of Sumerian and ancient Persian. Christian Lindberg (trombone) Rolf Hind (piano) BBC Singers BBC Symphony Orchestra Martyn Brabbins (conductor) Stephen Betteridge (conductor) Xenakis: Tracees; Anastenaria; Sea-Nymphs; Mists; Nuits; Troorkh; Antikhthon Followed by music from alumni of Chetham's School of Music to celebrate its fortieth anniversary: Britten: Hymn to the Virgin Choir of Westminster Cathedral Hyperion CDA 66220 Track 17 Byrd; Et salutaris hostia Choir of Winchester cathedral David Hill, conductor Hyperion CDA66837 Track 17 Johann Strauss II Overture: Die Fledermaus Wayne Marshall, organ (of Peterborough Cathedral) Virgin Classics VM5617032 Track 2