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UPROAR WITH NEW WELSH MUSIC 2021 is a brand new project from Wales' New Music Ensemble, UPROAR in collaboration with BBC Radio 3, celebrating some of the most exciting voices in new music.  
Commissioned and composed during lockdown, five composers have created five unique and diverse compositions, inspired by their own experiences over the year.

Performed by eight of UPROAR’s talented musicians UPROAR WITH NEW WELSH MUSIC 2021 programme will immerse you in a world where the composers have reimagined a future under the sea; transport you on their love of running and walking across familiar paths; through to the repetitive experiences of life and the power of love and death. 

As well as a platform for new voices from Wales, UPROAR WITH NEW WELSH MUSIC 2021 will also introduce listeners to works by two international composers; the Italian composer Francesco Filidei’s Finito ogni gesto and the Icelandic composer, Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Entropic Arrows. 

Broadcast - Saturday 3rd April | 10 pm


30 mins – Lust & Lustre - Claire Victoria Roberts (Wales); followed by Shadow Play - Ashley John Long (Wales).

1hr 8 mins – Voices on the Air - Mark Bowden (Wales)

1hr 45mins – Entropic Arrows - Anna Thorvaldsdottir (Iceland).

Broadcast - Saturday 17 April. | 10pm


11 minutes – Lavernock Loops - Robert Fokkens (Wales)

54 minutes – Finito ogni gesto - Francesco Filidei (Italy)

1hr 46 minutes – The Causeway - Sarah Jenkins (Wales)




ABOUT THE MUSIC - INTERVIEWS WITH COMPOSERS

Mark Bowden’s Voice on the Air is a compelling and eerie look at the future, where a community lives under the sea, isolated from the outside world and communicating only by screens. This is a reworking of a duet from his new opera Sea Change for Welsh National Opera.

Sarah Jenkins’s The Causeway is inspired by childhood walks across the St Helens Duver Causeway on the Isle of Wight, the experience of walking, remembering and being close to loved ones.  

In Ashley John Long’s Shadow Play the music is repeated or echoed between instruments, sometimes transformed or extended like shadow images.

Claire Victoria Roberts’ Lust and Lustre contrasts passionate, romantic melody with glistening

textures, posing the question: ‘Which is it that blinds us the most, lust, or glimmering, gleaming, lustrous light? ‘

Robert Fokkens has woven data from his running app into his new piece, Lavernock Loops, which was inspired by his daily exercise routine during lockdown, where he would run along the rocky clifftops from Penarth to Lavernock.

Filidei’s Finito ogni gesto is a moving memorial to one of Italy’s leading cultural figures, the poet Edoardo Sanguineti,

Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Entropic Arrows erupts from a violent explosion of sound, descending to calm pure harmonies as the piece progresses.



UPROAR CREDITS

Joanna Shaw, Flute
Michael Whight, Clarinet
Carys Evans, Horn
Julian Warburton, Percussion
Miranda Fulleylove, Violin
Philippa Mo, Violin
Fiona Winning, Viola
Deni Teo, Cello

Michael Rafferty, Conductor

Suzanne Carter, Marketing
Caroline Tress, Administration



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