Margriet Hoenderdos Hunker, schor & hasselaar  UK Premiere
Ian Power    BYE BYE LOVE World Premiere
William Dougherty   dreams of imagined homelands   World Premiere
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Ingrid Laubrock   Drilling*  UK Premiere

Ingrid Laubrock tenor saxophone*
Cory Smythe piano*
Adam Linson electronics*
Ilan Volkov conductor
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Known for her sparse, probing chamber works, Margriet Hoenderdos’s piece for symphony orchestra opens this second concert from the BBC SSO, and highlights a voice that’s been neglected since her death in 2010. ‘Love of life, or of others, is an abject experience,’ writes Ian Power. ‘The abject response to human body fluids is viscerally similar, bringing an uncomfortable awareness of the body, and mortality.’ In his new work, musicians and listeners are drawn together to ‘share an unease about what is meaningful and what might be waste.’

Fellow US composer William Dougherty’s piece explores nostalgia by means of a damaged 1907 wax cylinder recording of Home, Sweet Home, a popular tune in the United States throughout the American Civil War and after. Finally, saxophonist and composer Ingrid Laubrock’s Drilling is from a series of pieces inspired by dream diaries and composed in a quasi-dreamlike state, as a haunting, slow harmonic progression becomes increasingly corrupted by electronics and detuned piano chords.  Ilan Volkov conducts.