London Symphony Orchestra | Rufus Isabel Elliot: I knapped the stone til it was gone / I laid it on the forest floor @LondonSymphonyOrchestra | Uploaded August 2024 | Updated October 2024, 23 hours ago.
The world premiere of Rufus Isabel Elliot's new work recorded at LSO St Luke's on the 13 January 2024.
Performers
Mira Benjamin violin
Chihiro Ono viola
Daniel Shao flute
Sam Walton percussion
#ContemporaryMusic #ChamberMusic #WorldPremiere
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Programme Note
Between the leaves – once a generation – we caught a glimpse of the figure naive, and scarred across with curved branching shadows silently stepping wide arches through pathless forest.
We gave chase. Relentless, exhausted, staggering, we saw it flickering. We sacrificed it in the hazel grove.
We pulled it back up. It was all line and shape.
We saw it flickering
We saw it
We saw it flickering hungry, cold, cut across —
We walked through the forest with it.
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Biography
Rufus Isabel Elliot (it/its) is a composer and musician originally from Tower Hamlets, living now in North West Scotland. Rufus has written funerary music for doomed spaceships and orchestral music about rotting seaweed. It cares about honesty and openness. Its work is concerned with testimony, the conditions in which one speaks out, and how those stories are passed on.
Its music is ‘fluid and ambitious’ (The Wire), ‘stunningly intimate’ (The Quietus), and ‘achingly fragile’ (The Scotsman).
So far this year, Rufus has enjoyed working on a new work for Tectonics Festival, and a new collaborative work with artists Miek Zwamborn and Rutger Emmelkamp of Knockvologan Studies, Isle of Mull.
The world premiere of Rufus Isabel Elliot's new work recorded at LSO St Luke's on the 13 January 2024.
Performers
Mira Benjamin violin
Chihiro Ono viola
Daniel Shao flute
Sam Walton percussion
#ContemporaryMusic #ChamberMusic #WorldPremiere
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Twitter: twitter.com/londonsymphony
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/london-symphony-orchestra
Website: lso.co.uk
Apple Music: geni.us/yH0sXY
Spotify: spoti.fi/291cCk0
LSO Live: lsolive.lso.co.uk
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Programme Note
Between the leaves – once a generation – we caught a glimpse of the figure naive, and scarred across with curved branching shadows silently stepping wide arches through pathless forest.
We gave chase. Relentless, exhausted, staggering, we saw it flickering. We sacrificed it in the hazel grove.
We pulled it back up. It was all line and shape.
We saw it flickering
We saw it
We saw it flickering hungry, cold, cut across —
We walked through the forest with it.
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Biography
Rufus Isabel Elliot (it/its) is a composer and musician originally from Tower Hamlets, living now in North West Scotland. Rufus has written funerary music for doomed spaceships and orchestral music about rotting seaweed. It cares about honesty and openness. Its work is concerned with testimony, the conditions in which one speaks out, and how those stories are passed on.
Its music is ‘fluid and ambitious’ (The Wire), ‘stunningly intimate’ (The Quietus), and ‘achingly fragile’ (The Scotsman).
So far this year, Rufus has enjoyed working on a new work for Tectonics Festival, and a new collaborative work with artists Miek Zwamborn and Rutger Emmelkamp of Knockvologan Studies, Isle of Mull.
