Sensenta

An episode that moves from a modern Miserere towards ever more minimal pieces.

Playlist:
01:00 James McMillan – Miserere
13:26 Jaakko Mäntyjärvi – Agnus Dei in Combinationibus
28:43 John Cage – Five
33:59 John Cage – Ear from EAR (antiphonies)
36:19 John Cage – Four2 (Version 2)
42:15 John Cage – Five (version for 5 clarinets)
46:09 John Cage – Five2
50:26 Gregg Kowalsky – They Drove Me Into The Marshes
John Cage – Five (version for 5 clarinets)
John Cage – Five2
Gregg Kowalsky – X-XI
John Cage – Five
Gregg Kowalsky – Tendrils

Sources:
Miserere, 2013, CORO COR16014 (uitv. The Sixteen)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRr9tRXupZg (uitv. Utrechtse Studentencantorij)
The Choral Works I, 1980, Mode ‎– mode 71 (uitv. Ensemble Ars Nova)
The Fives, 2002, Megadisc Classics MDC 7815
Through The Cardial Window, 2006, Kranky krank094
Tape Chants, 2009, Kranky KRANK131

Sensenta is a programme about long attention spans. Every episode slowly changes hue, and every next episode picks up where the last one left off. This a creates a musical serial, a chain of episodes, touching on different genres at it goes. You’re welcome to join in and give us your opinion. Where should this chain go next? Send us an e-mail at harrold@concertzender.nl, or follow Sensenta on social media.