As part of Memory Unwrapped and Steve Reich’s 90th celebrations, the Solem Quartet perform Reich’s Different Trains, joined by Alice Zawadzki for her own songs, alongside music by visionary Kate Bush in a uniquely modern dialogue.
Aurora Orchestra’s Principal Players bring together three masterpieces of chamber music, each alive with the memory of a time long past.
As part of Memory Unwrapped and Kings Place’s celebration of Steve Reich at 90, Phaedra Ensemble’s Slow Changeexplores memory and transformation through Reich’s minimalism, Coltrane’s Africa, and the UK premiere of Thorvaldsdottir’s Enigma.
What is it about the music of Spanish Renaissance master Tomás Luis de Victoria that lifts it above other composers? He seems - inexplicably – just to weave from better quality cloth. In the first few bars of ‘Alma Redemptoris mater’, you palbably feel the difference. Writers talk of the spirituality of his music but what does actually mean? As a sort of musical El Greco, there seems to be something in the aural brushwork that adds depth and spice, alongside an extraordinary joy and reverence in the text.