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Description

An accompaniment to Joris Ivens’s 1929 film Regen ('Rain').

Details

Categories
Duration
15 minutes
Premiere

New Music Players, Bath Festival, 1st June 2001

Scoring
1 Flute, 1 B-flat Clarinet, 1 Piano, 1 Violin, 1 Violoncello
Composition date
2001

Recordings

Dark Formations New Music Players, Richard Casey (piano), New Music Vocal Ensemble 25th June 2012 Metier MSV 28530

Performances

23 March 2021 Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton

London Sinfonietta, conducted by Patrick Bailey

Performance on YouTube (extract)

22 March 2021 Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London

London Sinfonietta, conducted by Patrick Bailey

Performance on YouTube (extract)

17 June 2016

Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton

Orchestra of Sound and Light
Ed Hughes, conductor
with students from Dorothy Stringer High School, Brighton

2 June 2015

Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt, Germany

Students from the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst

9 May 2012

Institut für Neue Musik der Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, Germany

2 November 2008

International Symposium: Composing for the Films
Internationale Hanns Eisler Gesellschaft e.V., Eisenbahnstrasse 21, 10997 Berlin

Ensemble Klangexekutive cond. Manuel Nawri

10 December 2007

Birmingham Conservatoire

New Music Players cond. Patrick Bailey

3 May 2007

The Jerusalem Music Center, Israel

Israel Contemporary Players cond. Xu Yi An

2 May 2007

The Studio, Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel

Israel Contemporary Players cond. Xu Yi An

8 December 2004

Pavilion Theatre, Brighton Dome

The New Music Players

4 November 2004

Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham University

The New Music Players

23 October 2004

Cheltenham Contemporary Concerts

The New Music Players