Tuesday 15 July 2014, 8pm
An evening of chamber works by the celebrated maverick English composer Laurence Crane, performed by Apartment House. The concert marks the release of a double CD of Crane’s music on the Another Timbre label.
APARTMENT HOUSE
Apartment House are one of the world’s premier ensembles for experimental music, and have championed Laurence Crane’s work since the mid-90’s. In 2011 Apartment House received the Royal Philharmonic Society award for outstanding contribution to Chamber Music and Song 2011, when they were described as “one of the most innovative and exciting chamber ensembles in Europe”.
For tonight’s performance the musicians will be:
Anton Lukoszevieze / cello
Philip Thomas / piano
Andrew Sparling / clarinet
Nancy Ruffer / flute
Gordon MacKay / violin
The programme will consist of several pieces from the new CD, including ‘Sparling’, ‘Ethiopian Distance Runners’, ‘Seven Short Pieces’, ‘Estonia’ and ‘Come back to the Old Specimen Cabinet, John Vigani, John Vigani’.
Laurence Crane lives and works in London, and his music has regularly been broadcast, recorded and performed across the world.
His output consists mainly of music written for the concert hall, although his list of works also includes pieces written for film, radio, theatre, dance and installation. He is particularly closely associated with the British ensemble Apartment House, who have to date given around forty performances of his works.
‘In Laurence Crane's music the material chosen is familiar; mostly consonant, often tonal, triads, elementary chords, old well-used intervals rescued from a previous unjust ignorant redundancy. The familiar sound or image is abstracted by being placed in a new, clean and often isolated context, like a museum glass case. Its innate value is respected by it remaining alone, unornamented and unaffected during the course of the piece by any development or transformation; the image staying as and where it is by being gently reiterated or prolonged so that it holds our full attention.'- Tim Parkinson
