Richard Ayres: Nos. 31 "NONcerto for Trumpet", 36 "NONcerto for Horn" & No. 37b

Featuring

Roland Kluttig
Wim Timmermans
Marco Blaauw
hr-Sinfonieorchester
Asko Ensemble
Ensemble Musikfabrik

Richard Ayres

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Ayres perceives music as 'picture-sounds' and 'a theatre without a text, but a theatre with a narrative', with the meaning completed by the listeners.

Composer Biography

Richard Ayres was the controversial winner of the 1994 Gaudeamus Composition Prize, with one critic dismissing his work as 'inscrutable'.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Ayres advocates an 'accumulative view of history', believing that anything that exists in the present can be used, rather than a linear view of past and present.

Compositional Technique

In Ayres's 'NONcerti', the relationship between soloist and ensemble is at odds with tradition, as the soloist often seems surprised to be in the spotlight rather than leading.

Compositional Technique

Richard Ayres invented the 'NONcerto' form in 1995, which he describes as an 'un-concerto' or 'uncertain concerto', often exploring themes of failure.