Earth Music Bristol
Earth Music Bristol was launched on November 18th, the beginning of 8 days of concerts, exhibitions, talks, essays and short stories. Most of the concerts were broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, alongside ‘The Essay’, also on Radio 3, and ‘The Story’ recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 4 during December.
Audience and radio-listener’s responses were magnificent and everyone who took part felt it to be a great success. BBC Radio 3 are already discussing plans with Edward (Founder and Artistic director), for the next festival planned for early 2013.
String Quartet No. 4, and
Leonardo for classic orchestra.
As part of an ongoing project between Cowie and Schott, London, many of his earlier
works are being revised or re-written to form an integral part of a major Schott
promotion and publication of their Cowie Catalogue. The 4th String Quartet has just
been released, and Leonardo will follow in early 2012.
Particle Partita
The score is now complete and violinists, Jack Leibeck and Brian Foster are in rehearsal
stage. The initial ‘talk-and-look’ meeting in Oxford was filmed by the Institute
of Physics’ film-team, as part of an on-going IOP project to film the entire project
from start to finish. Performances are being planned in 2012 for Hamburg, CERN, Oxford
University and later in the USA.
Edward with Peter Hill and Laurence Rose, in discussion with BBC’s Petroc Trelawney
during an interval talk, Earth Music Bristol
Cowie Portrait CD
Signum Classics are to release a new CD featuring 4 Cowie works for voices and instruments,
and voices a capella. The works featured are Gesangbuch for 24 voices and 13 instruments
(1975-7); The Soft Complaining Flute (6 sopranos and baroque flute)(2002);Lyre Bird
Motet for 24 voices (2003); and Bell Bird Motet for 24 voices (2011).