Just added two new additions to my rotation/library of classical-music for re-listening this morning, after first hearing them earlier this week on Wednesday on RNZ Concert when tuning in for a while to cope with the annoying roadwork noise that's been foisted on us for the next few weeks (!)
1) Kaija Saariaho - On Fire (From Notes on Light)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9ugRbOUdao
Admittedly not something to everyone's taste, but was quite appropriate "grungy rage against the intrusion" type music
(And also reminded me of watching movies on a plane with a cheap headset for some reason - Maybe given that I had to do that very thing, as that's the sort of headset I have hooked up for use with my work laptop to get acceptable mic-input for all the Teams calls that we inevitably need to make)
2) Doreen Carwithen - Suffolk Suite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXKJuZ2kaS8
This "most English" of pieces (i.e. with similar echoes of the general style employed by Vaughn Williams / William Walton [1][2] / Benjamin Britten) caught me by surprise, especially with that lush sweeping opening movement, and became an instant "must add to good music list".
To then hear that it had apparently been written for "a school orchestra" is even more surprising! (Then again, comparing the standard of orchestras I was involved in "back in my day", and the equivalent ones you hear now... eh... *ahem*)
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