RESOUNDING ECHOES with Robert McCarney

Zero Hour

Hello, good afternoon, and welcome to Zero Hour, today's episode of Resounding Echoes.

If you talk of technique then the listener finds you faultless - cold as a calculator - like some sort of mathematician who has strayed into the fine arts. It's not that it worries me much, but I don't like the idea that people could think of my music as an algebra problem ...

Listen — Robert McCarney: Zero Hour (Resounding Echoes)
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Resounding Echoes: Zero Hour

Copyright © 24 November 2024 Robert McCarney,
León, Spain

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Zero Hour

Frank Martin: Le Vin Herbé (1941)
RIAS Kammerchor; Scharoun-Ensemble / Daniel Reuss

Bohuslav Martinů: Field Mass (1939)
Czech Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra / Charles Mackerras

Luigi Dallapiccola: Canti di Prigionia (1941)
New London Chamber Choir / James Wood; Ensemble Intercontemporain / Hans Zender

Francis Poulenc: C'est le joli printemps (1942)
Pierre Bernac, baritone; Francis Poulenc, piano

Nikos Skalkottas: Largo Sinfonico (1944)
Malmö Symphony Orchestra / Nikos Christodoulou

Harold Truscott: Elegy (1943)
National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland / Gary Brain

The music at the very start (Supercalla) and end (Harpychord - full version) of this programme has been created specially for the Resounding Echoes series by Swiss composer Daniel Schorno.

There's further information about Robert's Resounding Echoes series here.

You can read more articles here about twentieth century music.

The background image on this page consists of Tracks in the snow (February 2004) by Keith Bramich.

 

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