Future Renaissance (2020)
Weekly radio show on Resonance FM
Future Renaissance was a weekly radio show on Resonance FM exploring contemporary composers and performers making new music with historical instruments.
Special Episodes
Special Number Three
The composer Anna Meredith joins me to introduce a complete performance of her work Anno, a reworking of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.
Special Number Two
Two works by the Icelandic Baroque violinist and sound artist, Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir: an immersive, binaural sound art piece, I Play Northern Lights, and a work for voices, He(a)r, interspersed with music by Anna Þorvaldsdóttir and Hildur Guðnadóttir.
Special Number One
The first of three special episodes, each exploring a longer work. This week: highlights from the 2015 opera, You Us We All, by Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond) and Andrew Ondrejcak.
Series Two
Episode Twelve
Music by Nico Muhly, Squarepusher, Valgeir Sigurðsson, and others. My guest is the organist James McVinnie.
Episode Eleven
Music by John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin), Akiko Ushijima, Susanna Borsch, and Rob Bentall. My guest is the viola da gamba player Mark Summers
Episode Ten
Music by Anna Thorvaldsdottir, John Lely, and Toyohiko Satoh. My guest is the composer and improviser, Christoph Schiller
Episode Nine
Music by Stefan Thut, Heresy of the Free Spirit, and Stevie Wishart. My guest is the composer and vocalist Stef Conner.
Episode Eight
Music by Pierre-Yves Martel and Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson. My guest is the recorder player Lucia Mense.
Episode Seven
Music by Sarah Davachi, Kate Moore, and Linda Catlin Smith. My guest is the lutenist Jozef van Wissem.
Episode Six
Music by Louis Andriessen, James Yorkston and Susan Kuo. My guest is the composer Patricia Alessandrini.
Episode Five
Music by Valgeir Sigurðsson, Hlynur Vilmarsson, Lucia Mense, and others. My guest is the American composer Henry Birdsey.
Episode Four
A track from Sarah Davachi’s new album, plus music by Cyril Bondi, Pierre-Yves Martel, and Christoph Schiller. My guest is the harpsichordist Jane Chapman.
Episode Three
Music by Isaiah Ceccarelli, Jozef Van Wissem, and Hildur Guðnadóttir. My guest is the composer, Sarah Angliss.
Episode Two
Music by Stevie Wishart, Paul Whitty, Ùlfur Hansson and others. My guest is the composer Michael Wolters.
Episode One
Music by Christoph Schiller, Pierre Yves Martel, John Cage, and a track Jóhann Jóhannsson’s last, unfinished film score. My guests are the recorder ensemble, Block 4 Recorders.
Series One
Episode Twelve
Music by Jo Thomas, Sarah Angliss and Marianne Schuppe. My guest is the composer and hurdy-gurdy player, Stevie Wishart.
Episode Eleven
Music by Gerd Lünenbürger, Cyril Bondi & d’Incise, and others. My guest is the lutenist Peter Söderberg.
Episode Ten
Music by George Benjamin, Michael Nyman, Ryuichi Sakamoto and others. My guest is the viola da gamba player and founding member of Fretwork, Richard Boothby.
Episode Nine
Recompositions of Baroque and Renaissance music by Anna Meredith, Jonny Greenwood, Cassandra Miller and others. My guest is the curator of the Royal College of Music’s Museum of Instruments, Professor Gabrielle Rossi Rognoni.
Episode Eight
Music by Edmund Finnis, Isang Yun, Dobrinka Tabakova and others. My guest is the harpsichordist and contemporary music specialist, Goska Isphording.
Episode Seven
Music by Sohrab Uduman, Simon Emmerson, and others. My guest is the Baroque violinist, and artistic director of the Icelandic ensemble Nordic Affect, Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir.
Episode Six
Music by Larry Goves, Kathryn Butler, and Alex Groves. My guest is the harpsichordist Robin Bigwood, who talks about his work performing Bach on synthesisers with the Art of Moog.
Episode Five
Harpsichord music by John Cage, and Steve Reich arranged for lute. My guest is the composer and nyckelharpa player, Rob Bentall.
Episode Four
Music by Jim Jarmusch and Jozef van Wissem, Maria Sigfúsdóttir and others. My guest is the composer Sarah Davachi.
Episode Three
Music by Kaija Saariaho, Stephen Crowe, Sarah Angliss and others. My Guest is the harpsichordist, Mahan Esfahani.
Episode Two
Music by Luc Ferrari, Magnus Granberg, Anna Thorvaldsdottir and others. My guest is the recorder player, Tabea Debus.
Episode One
Music by Jozef van Wissem, Marianne Schuppe, Louis Andreissen, and others. My guest is viola da gamba player, Liam Byrne.