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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Robert McCarney
Zero Hour
Frank Martin : Le Vin Herbé (1941)
Bohuslav Martinů : Field Mass (1939)Charles Mackerras
Luigi Dallapiccola : Canti di Prigionia (1941)Hans Zender
Francis Poulenc : C'est le joli printemps (1942)
Nikos Skalkottas : Largo Sinfonico (1944)
Harold Truscott: Elegy (1943)
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 .
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twentieth century music .
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