OMG.
Xenakis, Nomos gamma (15 mins)
Rachmaninov, The Isle of the Dead (20 mins)
Xenakis, Aïs (18 mins)
Shostakovich, Symphony No.9 in E flat major (25 mins)
Leigh Melrose baritone
Colin Currie percussion
BBC Symphony Orchestra
David Robertson conductor
Yow, but this programme WORKED !!!! I never thought of Rachmaninov as a modernist but there is he, sculpting sound years before the Rite of Spring ans Sibelius 7. You expect that from Xenakis, but Robertson gets tit out of Rachmaninov ? Wow !
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