Audio – Leigh Melrose

A section from the world premeiere of Whiteley by Elena Kats-Chernin at Opera Australia. In this “mad” scene Brett rages, raves and then crumples with and regret and fear [NSFW language!]

"Patrick White has disowned me"

The final monologue of Clov from György Kurtág’s eagerly awaited opera Fin de Partie in a production by Pierre Audi, conducted by Markus Stenz at La Scala, Milan 2018.

"On m'a dit..."

A section of the world premiere of Louis Andriessen’s new opera Theatre of the World in a production by Pierre Audi, conducted by Reinbert de Leeuw with the LA Philharmonic.

The Death of Kircher

World premiere of Elliott Carter’s On Conversing with Paradise with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group conducted by Oliver Knussen at Snape Maltings, Aldebrough.

On Conversing with Paradise

A live performance of Matthias Pintscher’s Songs of Solomon’s Garden with the BBCSSO. Matthias and I have performed this wonderful piece many times with Ensemble Intercontemporain and other groups over the past few years, including a performance last year of his most recent and expanded version Shirim with the Rotterdam Philharmonic.

Songs of Solomon's Garden

Live recording of Xenakis’ Aïs from the BBC Proms with Colin Currie and the BBCSO and which was taken to the Berlin Festival. It is written for a baritone soloist at the edges of extended technique as the range is from soprano high C down to bottom E. Not suitable listening for those of nervous dispositions!

Aïs

A performance of Detlev Glanert’s orchestral setting of Brahms’ Vier ernste Gesange interspersed them with his own preludes, with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vasily Petrenko.

Vier ernste Gesange