Double concert: Alessandra Pompili and Nicolas Horvath
All-night gong baths and raga concerts at London's singular festival for transformative sound and sustained listening.
A unique double concert by two of the world's most gifted and innovative pianists, with music by Gurdjieff, Hovhaness, Glass, Riley and more
First, "Listening Inward"
Alessandra Pompili plays music by Hovhaness and Gurdjieff. She is a specialist in Hovhaness’s music which incorporated music from ancient Asian and Armenian music traditions into orchestral and chamber music formats.
Gurdjieff’s music emphasised presence as its major feature.
The concert is a strong invitation to listeners to spiritual attunement and depth experience.
Second, Nicolas has built an international reputation on marathon performances of astonishing stamina and tenderness, and on a lifelong commitment to championing living composers
The programme moves through Philip Glass and Terry Riley, the two figures who taught a generation that repetition could be a form of devotion, and sets them alongside Lawrence Ball, Keith Barnard, Jean Catoire, Melaine Dalibert, Denis Levaillant, Michael Vincent Waller and Jürg Frey — composers working in slow time, luminous harmony and patient unfolding.
The concert is part of the 12th Planet Tree Music Festival. Full details can be found here.
