Sound Lounge for Friday 26 February 2016
7:00 WOMAD Taranaki 2015
Thirteen programmes of live performances from artists recorded at the Festival held in New Plymouth last March
(8) Trinity Roots' afternoon 'picnic' concert shapeshifted between gently undulating grooves, soul-baring anthems, and full on psyche-rock jams. But at the core was the dynamic of three players who seemed to operate on a level of musical telepathy. From the tail of the fish to the tip, Aotearoa has been swept up in the music of Trinity Roots, a boil-up of ingredients that seemed to embody the very essence of our home, land and sea, and serve as an invocation to that same environment (RNZ)
Trinity Roots live at WOMAD 2015 Photo: Michael Flynn
8:00 Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez Photo: Nationaal Archief
Robin Maconie looks at Pierre Boulez's peers and influences
Six programmes (4) (RNZ)
MESSIAEN: Mode de valeurs et d'intensités, from Four Rhythmic Studies - Hakon Austbø (pno) (Naxos 8.554090)
BERIO: Differences for ensemble and tape - members of the Contempoartsensemble/Mauro Ceccanti (Arts Music 47135)
VARÈSE: Offrandes, Chanson de Là-Haut (Vicente Huidobro); La Croix du Sud (José Juan Tablada) for soprano and chamber orchestra - Rachel Yakar (sop), Ensemble InterContemporain/Pierre Boulez (Sony SMK 45844)
BOULEZ: Figures, Doubles, Prismes - BBC SO/Pierre Boulez (Erato 8573-84248)
MESSIAEN: Fourth & Fifth movements, Gagaku; Miyajima and the torii in the sea, from Seven Haiku, Japanese Sketches for piano solo and small orchestra - Joela Jones (pno), Cleveland Orch/Pierre Boulez (DG 453 478)