Three pieces – three locations – three cultures

Charles Ives – Three quarter-tone pieces for 2 pianos
1924
America

Karlheinz Stockhausen – Klavierstucke X
1954 – 61
Germany

Charles Camilleri – Times of Day
1950 – 60
Malta

Performers:

Nigel Bartram, Stanislaw Hansel, Simon-Mary Vincent and John Stead.

Programme:

These three pieces offer a look at the artistic and aesthetic concerns of three composers in the 20th. Century. Charles Ives is more known for his wonderfully evocative ‘Three Places in New England’, but here we see him exploring the newer world of microtonal music. The pianos are tuned a quarter tone apart, so when played together, as a duet, we are offered a far wider palette of colours and sonorities. Karlheinz Stockhausen remains one of the most influential composers of the 20th. Century, and in his Klavierstucke X, the boundaries of performance technique and music composition are stretched, and advises the pianist to wear half-fingered mitts to aid the performance of ‘cluster glissandi’ … Finally the Maltese composer Charles Camilleri offers us, in ‘Times of Day’ , a journey through a day filled with influences from as far a field,as Asia, Africa and France, lit with the colours of the Mediterranean.

J.S. 2024

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Hull Minster

Our next concert at the Minster is in September ( date to be announced ) and will include Jonathan Harvey’s ‘ Mortuos Plango Vivos Voco ‘ for 8 channel tape, John Stead’s ‘ … another mighty angel … ‘ for 4 channel tape ( newly re-mixed for 8 channel diffusion ), Fetes Lointaines for piano by Frederic Mompou (1920), and a new work for piano and electronics by Simon-Mary Vincent.