#2592: New Music for the Concert Hall

The Warp Record label’s glitch-tronica and the avant brow-furrowing sounds of contemporary musical heavyweights lock horns in a symphonic smack-down for this New Sounds. From a new two-disc compilation of recordings from concerts between 2003 and 2005 by the London Sinfonietta - Warp Works & Twentieth Century Masters, we’ll hear arrangements of electronic music by Aphex Twin, paired with prepared piano music by John Cage. Now, the London Sinfonietta is not the first group to take on arrangements of music by Aphex Twin (Richard D. James.) This so-called Intelligent Dance Music has also been tackled recently by the new music band Alarm Will Sound, who eagerly exploited this intersection of classical and electronic music on “Acoustica.” Although the London Sinfonietta’s sound is a bit more stripped down, it is still just as engaging and subversive. Plus, music by John Adams and Steven Mackey.

PROGRAM # 2592, New Music for the Concert Hall (First aired on Tues. 10/10/06)

ARTIST(S)	RECORDING	CUT(S)	SOURCE
London Sinfonietta	Warp Works And Twentieth Century Masters	Aphex Twin: Prepared Piano Piece 1& 2 [4:30] John Cage: Sonata XII, from Sonatas & Interludes for Prepared Piano [2:30] Aphex Twin: Polygon Window [6:00]	Warp #144 www.warprecords.com *
John Adams	The Dharma At Big Sur / My Father Knew Charles Ives	The Dharma At Big Sur [26:00]	Nonesuch #79857 ** www.nonesuch.com*
Steven Mackey	Heavy Light	Ritual, excerpt [11:00]	New World #80615** www.newworld records.org *

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