#4415: Anna Clyne, Irene Buckley, Linda Buckley
Hear two unconventional violin concertos, music for film, and a sound installation for this New Sounds by London-born Anna Clyne, and Irish sibling composers Irene and Linda Buckley.
Listen to a recent work called The Seamstress by London-born, American-based Grammy-nominated composer Anna Clyne, which calls for violin and electronics and a full orchestra. Built on folk fiddling, it has the feel of a dance/film score and uses a 12-tone row. The recording features violin acrobatics by Jennifer Koh, and the whispered voice of Irene Buckley reading WB Yeats' poem A Coat.
Irene Buckley is herself a composer who creates works at the intersection of composition and music technology. Listen to her score for the old silent film The Fall of the House of Usher. Then, hear an unconventional violin concerto by her sister, Linda Buckley, who merges her classical training with the worlds of post punk, folk and ambient electronica. Linda's work, called “Exploding Stars,” alludes to folk fiddling, and is for violinist Darragh Morgan, electronics, and no orchestra. Finally, listen to a co-composition by Irene and Linda Buckley, "Passages," written for an installation in Cork and part of the 2015 “Sounds for a Harbor Festival,” meant to evoke the sea and the sounds of the water. - Caryn Havlik
Program #4415: Anna Clyne, Irene Buckley, Linda Buckley (First aired 10/01/2020)
ARTIST: Darragh Morgan | Linda Buckley
WORK: Linda Buckley: Exploding Stars [1:00]
RECORDING: From Ocean's Floor
SOURCE: NMC Recordings
INFO: nmcrec.co.uk/recording/oceans-floor
ARTIST: Jennifer Koh, violin; Irene Buckley, recitation | BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakami Oramo, cond.
WORK: Anna Clyne: The Seamstress [21:24]
RECORDING: Mythologies
SOURCE: AVIE Records AV2434 | Due out Oct. 24, 2020
INFO: avie-records.com | https://orcd.co/av8ajxo
ARTIST: Irene Buckley; James McVinnie, organ
WORK: Irene Buckley: Waiting [5:36]
RECORDING: From “The Fall of the House of Usher” score
SOURCE: Vimeo
ARTIST: Darragh Morgan | Linda Buckley
WORK: Linda Buckley: Exploding Stars [8:15]
RECORDING: From Ocean's Floor
SOURCE: NMC Recordings
INFO: nmcrec.co.uk/recording/oceans-floor
ARTIST: Irene and Linda Buckley
WORK: Passages [14:41]
RECORDING: soundcloud.com/irishcomposers
SOURCE: This performance not commercially available.
INFO: soundcloud.com/irishcomposers
