Sound Lounge for Friday 11 September 2015 Sound Lounge

7:00 Alex Taylor

Kenneth Young talks with the New Zealand composer, poet, blogger, and performer Alex Taylor.

Alex Taylor Photo: Gareth Watkins / Lilburn Trust / Wallace Arts Trust

KA’ISA BEECH: The Storm; IMAMOVIC: Sarajevo Nights
New Zealand Guitar Quartet
Ode CDMANU 5153

8:00 BBC Proms 2015

Evelyn Glennie Photo: BBC

Thirty-six programmes

(9) Evelyn Glennie (percussion), Philip Smith (pno) and electronic tape

ABE: Prism Rhapsody; GLENNIE/SHEPPARD: Orologeria Aureola; WEE: Dithyrambs (world première); PSATHAS: View from Olympus (world première of this new version) (recorded in Cadogan Hall, London by the BBC)

Returning to the Proms for the first time since 2007, award-winning Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie celebrates her 50th birthday with a musical party. She performs alongside pianist Philip Smith, showcasing not only her expressive virtuosity and versatility in works by John Psathas and Keiko Abe, but also her skill as a composer, in Orologeria aureola, a joint composition for Halo (metallic ‘handpan’) and tape. The performance also features a world premiere for Aluphone – an instrument invented only in 2011 and introduced at the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony by Glennie herself. (BBC)

9:10 Happy 80th Birthday Arvo Pärt

Arvo Pärt Photo: Estonian Foreign Ministry

PART: Lamentate
Ralph van Raat (pno), Netherlands Radio Chamber Phil/JoAnn Falletta
Naxos 8.572525
Inspired by the sculpture Marsyas by Anish Kapoor

PART: Fratres
Cellists of the Berlin Phil
ECM 817 764