Daniele Ghisi I. Blumen from ‘Weltliche’ (UK premiere)
David FennessyThe room is the resonator
Daniele Ghisi III. August from ‘Weltliche’ (UK premiere)
Liza Lim One and the Other (UK premiere)
Julia Wolfe East Broadway
Cassandra Miller Daylonging, Slacktide
Interval
Clarence Barlow 1981
Euchar Gravina Dwawar (“ħsejjes iduru, iduru”) (world premiere)
Memories and fragments of the past take on new forms in this concert curated by Euchar Gravina, with works that reimagine old music, weathered recordings and emotive sounds.
Daniele Ghisi’s Weltliche transforms Bach’s secular cantatas into something transcendent, while Clarence Barlow refracts music by Clementi, Schumann and Ravel through mathematical structures to create a new work from historical fragments.
Cassandra Miller and Liza Lim draw on Georgian and Swedish folk traditions, and nostalgia shapes pieces by Julia Wolfe and David Fennessy.
The concert finishes with Euchar Gravina’s new work which draws on recently rediscovered 1930s recordings of music and variety sketches, some of the earliest made in Malta. These weathered artefacts – with all their imperfections, quirks and incidental details – become material in transformation, their spinning, whirling human intricacies shaping sound in the present.
David Alberman violin
Chihiro Ono viola
Colin Alexander cello
Mark Knoop piano
Joyce Lam 