Details
October Gallery
24 Old Gloucester Street
Bloomsbury
London
WC1N 3AL
England
Programme
Thomas Metcalf – Photogenia
Jean-Louis Agobet – Eclisses
Elliott Carter – Epigrams
GĂ©rard Grisey – Talea
Performers
Mad Song
Programme Note
Mad Song perform a characteristically varied programme of music from the last 40 years. The programme opens with two premieres: the first ever performance of Thomas Metcalf's Photogenia, specially written for the ensemble, and the UK premiere of Jean-Louis Agobet's Eclisses.
The second half of the concert then treads more familiar ground with two pieces drawing on ancient sources. Epigrams, a piano trio by the American composer Elliot Carter, is modelled on the ancient Greek literary form. Finally, the concert concludes with Grisey's virtuosic Talea, the title of which refers to the repeated rhythmic structures that underpin much medieval music.
