Canadian-born composer Philip Przybyło (2000) has Polish roots: his parents emigrated from Poland to Canada in the nineties. At the age of 18, Philip moved to the Netherlands, where he studied with Richard Ayres, Wim Henderickx, Jorrit Tamminga, Maya Verlaak and Willem Jeths. Last year, he won the Tera de Marez Oyens Award. A new work of his – featuring a remarkable mix of live and pre-recorded bass clarinets – will premiere in the autumn of 2025: “bloodshot mangroves. starved reeds”. This work can be heard at the Gaudeamus Festival and the Basklarinet Festijn.
What music should everyone hear at least once in their life, according to music makers, composers and musicians in our country? In this programme, you’ll hear music selected by creators, composers and musicians in the Netherlands – their ‘desert island discs’: pieces they would love to share with the world, and that play an important role in their work and lives. You can listen to the complete conversation on the podcast Muziekmakers der Nederlanden.
Playlist
- CD Richter in Warsaw: The Scriabin Recital
Alexander Scriabin – Sonata No. 9, op. 68
Sviatoslav Richter, piano
8’03” - CD The Velvet Underground & Nico
John Cale, Lou Reed – Venus in Furs
The Velvet Underground & Nico
5’16” - CD James Tenney – Harmonium
James Tenney – Harmonium #1
Scordatura Ensemble: Bob Gilmore, keyboards / Elisabeth Smalt, viola / Alfrun Schmid, voice
10’35” - Composer’s own recording
Tomasz Sikorski – Diario ’87, for Tape & Reciting Voice
Tomasz Sikorski
7’40” - CD My Piano
Paweł Mykietyn – Shakespeare’s Sonnets: III. Music to hear, why hear’st thou music sadly?”
Anna Stempin-Jasnowska, piano / Agata Zubel, soprano
4’24” - CD In the Alps
Richard Ayres – In the Alps – Act I: Scene Three, Act I: Interlude I
Barbara Hanningan / Netherlands Wind Ensemble
7’18” - Composer’s own recording
Philip Przybyło – W Klepsydrze for cello, vibraphone and harp (2023)
Score Collective conducted by Mirari Etxeberria Guerrero
6’54”
