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Andy B
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|  Posted 01-03-2012 at 19:29
Heard on Radio 3 tonight, should be on Listen Again shortly
Composer of the Week Sally Beamish
Last broadcast today, 12:00 on BBC Radio 3
Sally Beamish talks to Donald Macleod about the effect of moving to Scotland on her music, and the strong sense of culture and community she found there.
The lively and responsive musical scene have fed into her work, and she has drawn on the inspiration of Scotland's landscape and its musical traditions, from Scottish fiddle playing to music for bagpipes.
For the piece The Imagined sound of sun on stone for saxophone and chamber orchestra she described visualising the beam of light which enters Maes Howe as like a stylus 'playing' the sound out of the stone.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01c9rl9
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| Posted 01-03-2012 at 19:55
Any exposure for this can only be good , hopefully it will eventually be picked up by archaeo film makers who still occupy an 80's soundscape where either a pad of "celtic" synth strings accompany a pentatonic melody on a harp or portentous horns and tymps are the backing for "ceremonies " .
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On 2012-03-01 19:29, Andy B wrote:
Heard on Radio 3 tonight, should be on Listen Again shortly
Composer of the Week Sally Beamish
Last broadcast today, 12:00 on BBC Radio 3
Sally Beamish talks to Donald Macleod about the effect of moving to Scotland on her music, and the strong sense of culture and community she found there.
The lively and responsive musical scene have fed into her work, and she has drawn on the inspiration of Scotland's landscape and its musical traditions, from Scottish fiddle playing to music for bagpipes.
For the piece The Imagined sound of sun on stone for saxophone and chamber orchestra she described visualising the beam of light which enters Maes Howe as like a stylus 'playing' the sound out of the stone.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01c9rl9
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| Posted 12-03-2012 at 18:11
Here's the CD if you missed that
This is the second recording by BIS of Sally Beamish's music, and the four pieces it contains confirm utterly her high standing. Her work is thoughtfully lyrical, intense, individual, and instinctively dramatic.
... finally there's the saxophone concerto The Imagined Sound of Sun on Stone (1999), whose starting point is a Swedish herding call - used as a kind of ritornello - but which is drenched in a plethora of references primeval, religious, mystical and contemporary, music at once hard and soft edged. Fine playing from the soloist, John Harle, in this work and throughout the disc by the Swedish Chamber Orchestra under Ola Rudner.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000542I2/megalithicmyst0a
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