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28th January, 2012 - London
The Barbican Centre in London hosted the BBC's 'TOTAL IMMERSION in Jonathan Harvey's music performing 16 works.
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Also, the BBC Symphony Orchestra
On October the 13th & 15th, 2011 the Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle premiered the eighty minute WELTETHOS. Listen to the piece on the Berlin Philharmonic web site available in their archives.
A new recording of BIRD CONCERTO WITH PIANO SONG has been released on the NMC label. The work is available as a CD or an mp3 download on their web site.
- Read a review from the BBC Music Magazine.
The aeon CD "Speakings" was awarded the Prix Caecilia de l'Union de la Presse Musicale Belge, 2011. This is the second year running Harvey has won this award.
New CD of chamber music from the Dynamis Ensemble. Details at Stradivarius.
New CD release featuring: The Angels, Ashes Dance Back, Marahi & The Summer Cloud's Awakening. Details at Hyperion Records.
A 70th Anniversary Box Set of Harvey's work is available from Sargasso Music.
Jonathan was awarded the Prince Pierre de Monaco Composition Prize in 2009 for the orchestral work Speakings, in the same year he became the only British composer since its inception in 1970 to win the Charles Cros Grand Prix du Président de la République for a life's work (previous winners included Messiaen, Lutowslawski, Carter, Boulez, Xenakis, Ligeti, Kurtag and Kagel) and in 2010 the St. Caecilia Prize of the Belgian Musical Press Union for the CD of the Complete Quartets played by the Arditti Quartet.
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'Harvey's music - ecstatic, inspired, filled now with contemplative rapture, then suddenly with exuberant, joyful dance, and always beautiful - has long stirred me. Among contemporary composers there is none except Stockhausen who can so regularly "with sweetness, through mine ear, dissolve me into extasies, and bring all Heav'n before mine eyes".
Andrew Porter, The Times Literary Supplement 19/11/99
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