Saunders

Cyan

April '22
... name of a street nearby (were the picture was taken, at a hill beyond in Summer 2010)

Hasenquelle

a track by Marco Lucchi reworked by Mean Flow

luglio 2022

Mean Flow & Marco Lucchi - minimalismo in modo ionio (studio preparatorio)

https://kalaminerecords.com/merle-bardenoir/

Glamourie - Behind The Veil Of Cloud

BBlls

Recording from 2020 Melankolina sessions.

SEULASET

Wormit Acid (live recording)

Hypnos for bass flute or tenor recorder and tape 
Written in 2018 and revised in 2020
Recording from the premiere of version for bass flute: 28.01.2023, Grusomhetens Teater, Oslo, Norway.
Alessandra Rombolá – bass flute, Martyna Kosecka - electronics, Michal Sykora – mix

Hypnos is a dream; Hypnos is a passage through the mosaic of memories and flashes of the closed eye state. It disputes the concepts of time flow, sleepiness, and variable points of focus. The piece is written in the Dastgāh-e Māhur Persian scale and explores certain harmonic states and motivic groups that are the characteristic components of a dream, my Persian dream.

Hypnos(2018, rev. 2020) for bass flute and tape

For Alto Flute, Viola and Steel-Stringed Guitar with 4 Radios and Music Box.
Performed by Musikfabrik.
Commissioned by the Arts Council of Great Britain, Ars Musica Brussels and Ensemble Q-02.
First performed 20 september 1997, De markten, Brussels, by Ensemble Q-02.

Rebecca Saunders: Quartet / Into The Blue / Molly's Song 3 - Shades Of Crimson / Dichroic Seventeen

Molly's Song 3 - Shades Of Crimson (1995-96)

Concerto for Violin Solo and Orchestra

Recording performed by ORF Wien Modern, Carolin Widmann and Sylvain Camberling

First performed at Darmstadt Summer Course 14. August 2016, Radial System Berlin and Weimar Festspiel by Carolin Widmann, Sylvain Cambreling, Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and dancers from Sasha Waltz and Guests. 
Choreography by Antonio Rúz.

https://issuu.com/editionpeters/docs/ep_12015r__rebecca_saunders__still_

Still (2011)

For Soprano and Ensemble
Recording performed by Juliet Fraser and Klangforum Wien, conducted by Bas Wiegers.
Commissioned by SWR, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and Casa da Musica Porto. 
First performed by Juliet Fraser and Klangforum Wien, conducted by Titus Engel at Donaueschingen Musiktage, 14 October 2016.

View score - 
https://issuu.com/editionpeters/docs/ep14188_online

Skin (2015-16)

for Soprano
Recording performed by Juliet Fraser
May 2018 at The Gaol, Louth, Ireland
Text from James Joyce's Ulysses, Molly Bloom's monologue
Commissioned by Hitzacker Sommertagen and first performed by Sarah Sun in August 2017

O (2017)

for Percussion Duo and Orchestra.
Recording performed by Christian Dierstein, Dirk Rothbrust and the Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Enno Poppe at Ultraschall Berlin, January 2018.
Commissioned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Wien Modern
First performed 10 May 2014, Witten Days for new Chamber Music Festival, by Christian Dierstein, Dirk Rothbrust and the WDR Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Peter Rundell

View score -  https://issuu.com/editionpeters/docs/ep_14042_saunders_void_score_pcl

Void (2013-14)

For Piano, Accordion, Choir And Orchestra
Recording performed by Nicholas Hodges, Rolf Hind, Teodoro Anzellotti, SWR symphony orchestra and the SWR Choir.

Commissioned by ARD & BMW MusicaViva Composition Prize.
First performed 17 October 2004, Donaueschinger Musiktage, by Nicolas Hodges, Teodoro Anzelotti, and the SWR Vocalensemble and Sinfonieorchester, conducted by Hans Zender

Rebecca Saunders: Choler, Crimson, Miniata

Miniata (2004)

BhUtadhAtrI in Sanskrit language means “sleep, earth and supporter of being”.

This composition uses two different systems: the first is based on a dense textile weave that determines a strict, logical structure, moving from the highest note to the lowest of the trumpet; the second is based on the harmonics and overtones of the changing chords produced by the first system. The harmony is based on perfect intervals – perfect fourth, fifth, octaves – that are de-tuned by overlapping microtones, resembling the drones of Indian music. The two systems are woven together into a monolithic soundscape that develops from quiet to loud, overlapping different patterns as the music grows from a few notes into an enormous chord.

The work is commissioned by the contemporary music festival “Gaida” and Lithuanian Composer’s Union.

The world premiere was performed on 19 October in 2018 by the Lithuanian Ensemble Network, conducted by Vykintas Baltakas. Trumpets: Laurynas Lapė, Aurimas Jankevicius, Andrius Stankevicius, Linas Rupšplaukis, and Vilius Surdokas.

BhUtadhatrI

the Sea They Think They Hear
for soprano, flute, harp, piano, violin, viola and violoncello | 2021

Written for and performed by the Wet Ink Ensemble and Gelsey Bell
Recorded at Scholes Street Studio
Mix and Mastering by Murat Çolak

Text

The ocean, deep blue-green.
What we learn in the middle of the night is that the world makes us flinch. (Michel Serres, The Five Senses: Philosophy of Mingled Bodies)
Sounds an ocean, drinks it in.

Then everything became worse for the wear, damaged, used and used-up and ultimately destroyed.
More and more I made up for what was lost, I slowly improved myself, and I considered myself healed. (Ingeborg Bachmann, Malina)

I found myself trapped in a nightmare, standing alone at the sea. Everyday becoming more and more.
White and yellow and gray and horizonless. (Tove Jansson, The Summer Book)

the Sea They Think They Hear (2021)

Berlin-based British composer
www.rebeccasaunders.net

O (2017)

Rebecca Saunders

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