 New Waves - Series 1
Four series of 6 x 60’ lunchtime concerts, recorded
at St George’s Brandon Hill, Bristol, featuring young
artists working the the cream of young contemporary composers.
The series (24 programmes in all) featured many world and British
premieres.
Presented by Chris de Souza
Produced by Judith Roles
Programme 1 tx 5/01/94
James MacMillan and the Lyric Quartet
MacMillan: Visions of a November Spring
Prokofiev: String Quartet No. 2 in F major
Programme 2 tx 12/01/94
John Woolrich with Robert Plane (clarinet), Philip Dukes (viola), Sophia Rahman
(piano)
J.S. Bach: Capriccio on the departure of his beloved brother
Kurtag: Hommage a R. Sch.
Woolrich: A Farewell
Schumann: Marchenerzahlungen (Fairy Tales)
Programme 3 tx 19/01/94
Judith Weir and the Pembridge Ensemble
Weir: Distance and Enchantment
Brahms: Piano Quartet in C minor, Op.60
Programme 4 tx 26/01/94
Peter Paul Nash with Graham Scott (piano)
Mozart: Sonata in E flat, K282
Ravel: Oiseaux tristes (from Miroirs)
Nash: Rain (world Premiere)
Chopin: Polonaise-Fantaisie, Op.61
Programme 5 tx 2/02/94
Dominic Muldowney with Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Simon Haram (saxophones)
and Scott Mitchell (piano)
Eisler: Hollywood Elegies
Muldowney: Songs from The Good Person of Sichuan (world premiere)
Muldowney: In a Hall of Mirrors
Muldowney: In Paris with You (world premiere)
Schoenberg: Brettl-Lieder
Programme 6 tx 9/02/94
Steve Martland and the Cees van Zeeland/Gerard Bouwhuis piano duo
Stravinsky: Agon
Martland: Dance Works (world premiere)
New Waves - Series II
Programme 1 tx 25/05/94
Thomas Ades with Lynsey Marsh (clarinet), Anthony Marwood (violin), Louise
Hopkins (cello)
Stravinsky: Tango, Waltz and Ragtime (from The Soldier’s Tale)
Norgard: Lin
Soproni: Musica da camera No.2 (Capricorn Music)
Ades: Catch (world premiere)
Programme 2 tx 1/06/94
Elena Firsova with Ashildur Haraldsdottir (Flute) and Nigel Clayton (piano)
Dutilleux: Sonatine
Firsova: Spring Sonata
Firsova: Starry Flute
Prokofiev: Sonata in D, Op.94
Programme 3 tx 8/6/94
Mark Anthony Turnage with Martin Robertson (saxophones) and Anthony Grey (piano)
Turnage: Sarabande
Florent Schmitt: Legende
Mondonville, arr. Robertson/Grey: Sonata No.2 in F
Turnage: Entranced
Michael Henry: Say Ave for Me
Fraser Trainer: Equinal Dancing (world premiere)
Programme 4 tx 22/6/94
Simon Holt with the Kreutzer Quartet
Holt: Danger of the Disappearance of Things
Janacek: String Quartet No.2 (Intimate Letters)
Programme 5 tx 29/6/04
Karen Tanaka with Kontraste
Tanaka: Tristesse
Martinu: Promenades
Tanaka: Jardin des herbes
Bach: Trio Sonata in C minor, BWV1079 (from The Musical Offering)
Programme 6 tx 6/07/94
Robert Saxton with Jane Atkins (viola) and Andrew West (piano)
Lutyens: Sonata for solo viola
Saxton: Invocation, Dance and Meditation
Christian Alexander: How Hearts may beat (world premiere)
Saxton: Chacony (piano, left hand)
Britten: Lachrymae
New Waves Series III, 1995
Another series of innovative concerts recorded at St
George’s Brandon Hill, Bristol,
featuring young contemporary composers working with young artists.
Presented by Chris de Souza
Produced by Judith Roles
Programme 1 tx 6/2/95
Sally Beamish with The Gaudier Ensemble
Beamish: Into the Furnace
Berwald: Septet
Programme 2 tx 13/2/95
Gerald Barry with Rolf Hind (piano)
Barry: Triorchic Blues
Piano solo from `Things that gain by Being Painted’
Swinging Tripes and
Trillibubkins’
Webern: Variations, Op.27
Ives: 3-Page Sonata
Barry: Sur les pointes
Ligeti: 2 Studies for piano (Rainbow; Devil’s Staircase)
Programme 3 tx 20/2/95
Adrian Jack with The Joachim Trio
Faure: Romance in B flat for violin and piano, Op.28
Jack: Piano Trio
Faure: Romance in A for cello and piano
Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor
Programme 4 tx 27/2/95
Diana Burrell with Louise Hopkins (cello) and Carole Presland (piano)
Janacek: Pohadka
Burrell: Heron
Lutoslawski: Sacher Variation for solo cello
Martinu: Sonata for cello and piano
No.1
Programme 5 tx 6/3/95
Colin Matthews with The Brindisi Quartet
Berg: String Quartet Op.3
Matthews: String Quartet No.1
Programme 6 tx 13/3/95
Benedict Mason with the Albion Brass Consort
Frigyes Hidas: 5 x 5
Vagn Holmboe: Brass Quintet, Op.79
Mason: Brass Quintet
New Waves Series IV 1995
The fourth and last series of six concerts in which young contemporary
composers worked with young artists.
Presented by Chris de Souza
Produced by Judith Roles
Gavin Bryars and Mark Anthony Turnage with Martin Robertson (saxophone) and
Tony Gray (piano) rec 12/1/95
Bryars: Allegrasco
Turnage: Two Elegies Framing a Shout (world premiere)
John Anthony Lennon: Distances
Within Me
Julian Anderson with Robert Plane (clarinet), Clio Gould (violin), Sophia
Rahman (piano) rec.26/1/95
Janacek: Violin Sonata
Anderson: The Bearded Lady
Alexander Goehr: Piano Trio
Nicola Lefanu with Nicholas Clapton (countertenor) and the Lyric Quartet rec
9/2/95
Byrd: Ye sacred Muses
Dowland: Sorrow, come
Lefanu: Cancion de la luna (world premiere)
Schubert: String Quartet in A minor
Michael Berkeley with Alice Coote (mezzo-soprano) and Julius Drake (piano)
rec 23/2/95
Schumann: Frauenliebe-und-leben, Op.42
Berkeley: Speaking Silence
Martin Butler with the Bingham Quartet rec 9/3/95
Stravinsky: 3 Pieces for string
quartet
Butler: Bluegrass Variations for violin
Butler: Three Little Folk Games
for piano (world premiere)
Bartok: 4 Duos for 2 violins
Butler: Songs and Dances from a Haunted Place
Rudi van Dijk with Anthony Marwood (violin) and Kyoko Hashimoto (piano) rec
23.3.95
Ravel: Sonata for violin
Rudi van Dijk: Violin Sonata
Stravinsky: Duo concertante
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