Steve Reich at 80

​Steve Reich, ever popular with audiences and performers alike, has created some of his most exciting and innovative repertoire in working with other musicians; notably with the American ensembles Bang On A Can and Eighth Blackbird.  Our programme fuses Reich’s ‘Double Sextet’ – a work commissioned by Eighth Blackbird and featuring live musicians and stereo recording performed simultaneously - with music by each of the founders of Bang On A Can, creating a adrenalin fuelled concert of pulsating minimalism and experimentalism.

Michael Gordon - ac dc
Julia Wolfe - Compassion
David Lang - These Broken Wings
Steve Reich - Double Sextet

Storytelling

‘Storytelling’ embraces the way music draws together musicians, composers and audiences from diverse cultures across the world; at a time when many links are being explored in the relationship between the UK and India following the UK-India Year of Culture in 2017. The programme brings together music exploring european folk traditions with two works influenced by Indian classical music: a world premiere by Jeremy Thurlow and an explosive collaborative work by composer Jasmin Kent Rodgman and Dr K. violinist Alice Barron. 

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies – Dances from the Two Fiddlers 
Sadie Harrison – Bell Music for St Casimir 
Thomas Simaku – My Beautiful Morea 
Kaija Saariaho - Oi Kuu 
Howard Skempton – The Durham Strike 
Jasmin Kent Rodgman – Recitations (violin and loop pedal)
Jeremy Thurlow – New Work (World Premiere) 
Thomas Albert –Thirteen Ways 

Frederic le Bel - Prologue: Le Vide *+
Johannes Berauer - Crossing Tilak *+
Pierre Boulez – Derive
Ewan Campbell - Il Tremore *+
Neil Carey – A Child of Bethlehem
Stef Conner - The Ruin *+
Stef Conner – Inter Amorem *+
Arne Gieshoff - Frozen Mobile *
Eloise Nancie Gynn - Genesis...Seed*+
Aaron Holloway-Nahum - Expressions of Sea Level *+
Daniel Kidane - Constant Tides *+
Denise Lee - Of your remoter heaven
Steven Mackey - Micro-Concerto
Frederic Rzewski - Pocket Symphony +
Daniel Saleeb - Die Nacht +
Dimitri Scarlato - Les Fragments Exposee *+
Dimitri Scarlato - Clowns are Afraid Too (with chorus and children's orchestra) *
Joseph Schwantner - Music of Amber +
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Dr. K Sextett
Benjamin Tassie - Antithesis *
Chou Wen-chung – Ode to Eternal Pine
James Whittle - "for who digs hills because they do aspire" *+
Nathan Williamson – Loss


Arrangements
Ludwig van Beethoven (arr. G Rundell) - Sonata Pathetique, Rondo
Leonard Bernstein (arr. R. Eckland) - West Side Story 
Maurice Ravel (arr. G. Rundell) - Tombeau de Couperin
Maurice Ravel (arr. R. Philips) - Bolero


Works for smaller ensemble 
Olivier Messiaen - Quartet for the End of Time
Tom Armstrong - Subterrania +
Daniele Cristiano Lafrate - Fragments *
Oscar Colomino Bosch - Through the Wound *

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Works for members of the Sextet, with voice
Darren Bloom – Eve +
Amy Bryce – Mahnung *+
Ewan Campbell – Exeunt +
Ewan Campbell – Ineunt +
Sadie Harrison – Aster +
Liz Johnson – Gigerlette *+
Neil Luck – Priapic Whatever *+
Norberto Oldrini – Jedem Das Seine *+
Joseph Phibbs – Moon Songs
Jasmin Kent Rodgman – Langsamer Walzer *+
Dimitri Scarlato – Nachtwandler *+
Arnold Schönberg – Pierrot Lunaire +
Andrew Thomas – Einfältiges Lied *+
James Whittle – The Undemanding Lover *+

* Written for Dr K. Sextet
+ Recorded by Dr K. Sextet