Kathryn Tickell(Northumbrian pipes and fiddle) Bath Festival England 2011.05.30 broadcast on BBC Radio 3 HD Stream "Here and Now" 2011.07.23 FLAC master

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Traditional musician Kathryn Tickell performs world premieres of new music based on Northumbrian folk tunes by composers Howard Skempton, Peter Maxwell Davies and Michael Finnissy. Recorded at the 2011 Bath Festival, the programme features world premiere performances of three BBC commissions, inspired by the traditional music of the North East of England, and each taken in new directions by some of the UKs most respected composers.

Kathryn Tickell is a traditional Northumbrian piper, and as well as performing the new works, plays traditional tunes and her own compositions on the Northumbrian pipes and fiddle. Sara Mohr Pietsch travels to Kathryn's rural home in Northumbria to meet her and find out what inspired this melding of traditional tunes and contemporary composition.

Kathryn Tickell (Northumbrian pipes & fiddle)
Joanna MacGregor (piano)
Navarra Quartet


Traditional repertoire from Northumbria and the Highlands, alongside:


01 Introduction/talk

02 Two traditional tunes

03 Talk

04 Howard Skempton - Here's the Tender Coming (world premiere / BBC commission)

Close the coalhouse door/Father Murphy - in there somewhere

05 Talk/pipes demo

06 Michael Finnissy - A-lang Felton Lonnen (world premiere / BBC commission)

07 Talk

08 Edge of light

09 Talk

10 Alasdair Nicolson: Songs and Drones for the Harp Tree, Jock o’Hazeldean


11 Talk

12 James MacMillan - Memento, Walfrid on his arrival at the Gates of Paradise, 25th May 1967


13 Talk

14 Peter Maxwell Davies - Hadrian's Villa, Hadrian's Wall (world premiere / BBC commission)

15 Talk/Your confluence/Reel