Flare is a short, sharp, alarm-call kind of piece for orchestra which I wrote last month and which has just received its premiere by the Ghent University Symphony Orchestra conducted by Steven Decraene in Cambridge last week. It went very well and I’m looking forward to further performances in Ghent next month.
Music by Jeremy Thurlow
With this year being the 100th anniversary of Messiaen’s birth, there’s lot of Messiaen in the air, and one of the most interesting things I’ve been asked to do recently is present Radio 3’s CD Review ‘Building a Library’ feature on the first and (in my opinion) the greatest of Messiaen’s organ cycles, La Nativité de notre Seigneur. The programme will be broadcast on Saturday 31st May, and can also be heard on the Radio 3 website for the following week, using ‘Listen Again’.
