Thursday 26 March 2009

Panufnik @ Purcell Room


Sang tonight with Fever Pitch choir, who performed Zen Love Song for jinashi shakuhachi (an 'archaic' Japanese overblown flute) and double choir by Roxanna Panufnik. Kiku Day's concert New Music for Zen Flute was both meditational - Sinubi (Mourning) by Takahashi Yuji - and thought-provoking - a mild ear-assault (at times) of Night Flying Winter Cranes for jinashi shakuhachi and electronics by Mogens Christensen (World premiere). 
Contemporary classical music? Interesting...