Betsy Jolas: language, breath, and living sound

Available for 28 days

In a programme first broadcast earlier this year, Gillian Moore celebrates the organic aliveness encountered in the music of the French-American composer Betsy Jolas, who was born in Paris in 1926. On the way to a full performance of her 1977 trumpet concerto Onze Lieder, we’ll be pacified by lullabies, skirt the literary worlds of Joyce and Baudelaire and discover the important role that languages - both real and invented - played for some of the 20th century's finest composers. Produced by Sam Phillips A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 3