Mad Song play Grisey, Carter, Metcalf, & Agobet
Mad Song play a wide-ranging programme of music from the last 40 years culminating in Grisey's epic Talea.
Tickets £5 - £15 (excluding booking fee),
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.
Thomas Metcalf: Photogenia (2025) (World Premiere)
Jean-Louis Agobet: Eclisses (2008) (UK Premiere)
Elliot Carter: Epigrams (2012)
Gérard Grisey: Talea (1986)
