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Biber: Battalia a 10 in D

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Goebbels: Schlachtenbeschreibung (UK premiere)

Roderick Williams (baritone)

London Sinfonietta

Sian Edwards (conductor)

Goebbels: Songs of Wars I Have Seen (world premiere)

Matthew Locke: The Tempest (excerpts)

Sian Edwards (conductor).

The premiere of a new work by Heiner Goebbels, Songs of Wars I Have Seen.

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Simon Holt: Minotaur Games

Philip Hammond: Die ersten Blumen

Ian White: Island

Kevin Volans: Cello Concerto

Gavriel Lipkind (cello)

Gregory Rose (conductor)

Morton Feldman: Piano

Stephen Gutman (piano).

A concert of contemporary music given by the Ulster Orchestra at the Sonorities Festival.

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Tim Souster: Hambledon Hill

James MacMillan: Memento

Christopher Fox: 1-2-3

Michael Alcorn: Leave No Trace.

Stephen Montague: String Quartet No 1

Smith Quartet

Gary Carpenter: After Braque

Ensemble 10/10

Clark Rundell (conductor).

Tom Service introduces music for string quartet from the 2006 Sonorities Festival.

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Ian Gardiner: L'escalier en spirale

Gary Carpenter: Sonatinas

Howard Skempton: Piazza

Kenneth Hesketh: Ein Lichtspiel

Christian Forshaw (alto saxophone)

Clark Rundell (conductor)

Anna Meredith: Flak

London Sinfonietta

Sound Intermedia

Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor).

Ivan Hewett introduces new music with a visual element and music from Liverpool.

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James Saunders: #121006 (for 2 dictaphones, radio, theremin, bic lid, Feedback set up, CD and mini speakers, and long hacksaw blade)

Markus Trunk: the rhythm mostly, but also the simple and natural words (for 3 wind instruments)

John Lely: The Harmonics of Real Strings (for cello)

Tim Parkinson: Quartet (4 percussionists)

Apartment House:

Anton Lukoszevieze (cello)

Andrew Sparling (clarinet)

John Lely, Tim Parkinson, James Saunders (auxiliary instruments, electronics).

Robert Worby presents a programme of music performed by the ensemble Apartment House.

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Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and sessions

Sara Mohr Pietsch and Robert Worby introduce highlights from the festival.

5/5. Featuring music from Fred Frith performed by the composer with the Arditti Quartet, Dutch ensemble Insomnio playing music by Tim Hodgkinson and Martijn Padding, and sound artist Janek Schaeffer demonstrating his installation Extended Play.

Frith: Lelekovice

Frith: Fell; Allegory

Fred Frith (guitar)

Frith: Cold (working title)

Hodgkinson: Nomos-Yozu

Padding: Eight Metal Strings

Ulrich Pohl (conductor).

With music by Fred Frith, Tim Hodgkinson and Martijn Padding.

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Rushton: The Shops

Darren Abrahams (tenor)

Richard Burkhard (baritone)

Phyllis Cannan (alto)

Anna Dennis (soprano)

Louise Mott (mezzo-soprano)

Paul Reeves (bass)

The Opera Group

Patrick Bailey (conductor).

Ivan Hewett presents a performance of a new humorous chamber opera The Shops.

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They concentrate on how his work developed and how it has taught us how to re-approach the musical experience. The programme features music recorded at the festival performed by the London Sinfonietta under Diego Masson, as well as a look forward to the UK premiere of Nono's ground-breaking opera Prometeo.

Nono: Variazione canoniche sulla serie dell'op 41 di Arnold Schoenberg; Incontri; No hay caminos, hay que caminar...Andrej Tarkowskij; Prometeo (excerpt)

Diego Masson (conductor).

Tom Service and Christopher Fox look at the life and work of Italian composer Luigi Nono.

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Robert Worby presents Hear and Now's annual electronic music event, co-curated with the Sonic Arts Network.

This year the theme is Food, with the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra amplifying raw vegetables, Charles Amirkhanian weaving concrete poetry from favourite food names and Parkinson Saunders playing a quartet for plastic cups.

Lee Patterson and Helena Gough create soundscapes from frying eggs and roasting seeds.

Plus noise/body art by Randy HY Yau and Sudden Infant.

~Hear And Now's annual electronic music event, featuring the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra.

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Sharp/Marclay: Improvisation

Elliott Sharp (guitar, soprano saxophone, electronics)

Christian Marclay (turntables, electronics)

Barrett: Adrift

Sarah Nicolls (piano)

Richard Barrett (electronics)

Tchaikovsky, arr. Oswald: Violin Concerto

Jon Rose (violin)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Bailey, arr. Burn: Three

Rhodri Davies (harp)

Angharad Davies (violin)

Nikos Veliotis (cello).

Exploring improvisation in modern classical music, with composer Richard Barrett.

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Kevin Volans, Jill Richards (piano duo)

Volans: Nine Beginnings; Cicada; Mr Handel's Return (world premiere); Shiva Dances (world premiere).

South African composer Kevin Volans and Jill Richards perform his music for two pianos.

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With contributions from music writer Paul Griffiths.

BBC Singers

Psappha

Nicholas Kok (conductor)

Vivier: Et je reverrai cette villa etranger; Glaubst du und die Unsterblichkeit der Seele; Journal.

A concert celebrating the work of Claude Vivier, the Canadian composer killed in 1983.

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Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and sessions

Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and sessions

Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and sessions

Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and sessions

Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and sessions

Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and sessions

Enno Senft and the London Sinfonietta under by Pierre-Andre Valade give the UK premiere of Michael Jarrell's Droben Schmettert Ein Greller Stein for double bass and ensemble. And in a series of concerts given in Glasgow, the Diotima Quartet perform Jonathan Harvey's fourth String Quartet with electronics developed at IRCAM, a European institute for musical science.

Plus Pedro Rebelo from the Sonic Arts Research Centre in Belfast discussing recent winners from the 2007 International Rostrum of Electroacoustic Music.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces works that blend instruments with electronics.

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Charlotte Seither: Music for Orchestra

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Andre de Ridder (conductor)

Enno Poppe: Thema mit 840 Variations

Mark Knoop (piano)

Seither: All'aperto

BBC Singers

Celso Antunes (conductor)

Poppe: Obst

Seither: Gran Passo

Iris Ter Schiphorst: Zerstoren II

Andre de Ridder.

New orchestral and piano music by German composers Enno Poppe and Charlotte Seither.

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Colin Matthews: The Island (world premiere)

Claire Booth (soprano)

Nash Ensemble

Paul Watkins (conductor)

Alexander Goehr: Clarinet Quintet (world premiere, BBC commission)

Michael Collins (clarinet)

Nash Ensemble.

With new music releases on CD and works by composers Colin Matthews and Alexander Goehr.

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Larry Goves: My Name is Peter Stillman. That is not my real name

Jonathan Green: Into Movements

Michael Clarke: Emmeshed II

Sarah Nicholls (piano)

Sam Hayden: Schismatics

Yannis Kyriakides: Hyperamplified

Anne La Berge (flute)

Mieko Kanno (violin)

Claire Edwardes (percussion)

Plus an interview with Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid. Tom Service talks to Miller about his new book Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture.

Highlights of concerts from the 2007 BMIC Cutting Edge Series, with music by Larry Goves.

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Julian Anderson: Stations of the Sun

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Rolf Hind: Maya-Sesha (world premiere)

Rolf Hind (piano)

Detlev Glanert: Concerto for two pianos (world premiere)

Philip Moore, Simon Crawford-Phillips (pianos)

Martyn Brabbins (conductor).

A concert given at Glasgow's City Halls, with concertos by Rolf Hind and Detlev Glanert.

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Unsuk Chin: Concerto for violin and strings

Hae-Sun Kang (violin)

BBC Philharmonic

James MacMillan (conductor)

Unsuk Chin: Miroirs des temps (BBC Commission)

Hilliard Ensemble

Chris Dench: Passing bells: night

Philip Mead (piano).

The BBC Philharmonic in music by Unsuk Chin. Plus Philip Mead in a work by Chris Dench.

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Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and sessions

Henryk Gorecki: Three Dances

Guto Puw: Oboe Concerto

Piers Hellawell: Agricolas for clarinet and orchestra (World Premiere)

Pawel Szymanski: Quasi una sinfonietta

David Cowley (oboe)

Robert Plane (clarinet)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Michal Dworzynski

Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces recordings from the 2008 Vale of Glamorgan festival.

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Plus sound artist Bill Fontana talking about his new installation Speeds of Time 2008 at Tate Britain.

Robert Worby presents a tribute to the late composer Mauricio Kagel.

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Hiba Al Kawas (soprano)

Wafaa Safar (ney)

Bassem Alkhouri (qanun)

Nieuw Ensemble

Garry Walker (conductor)

Franco Donatoni: Refrain 1

Nouri Iskandar: Mawal Kurdeli

Rachida Ibrahim: Music for Ney and Chamber Orchestra

Saed Haddad: On Love 1

Tan Dun: Circle with four trios, conductor and audience

Rasheed Al-Bougaily: Deewaan

Hiba Al Kawas: Araftu Beirut.

A concert focusing on new music by Middle-Eastern composers.

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Chris Newman: Songs

Watch Em Bend 2:16

Time Continues 3:24

Good Day after Good Orgasm 1:46

Adam de la Cour (voice)

Michael Finnissy (piano)

Diana Burrell: One Man Band 6:07

Mark Knoop (piano, percussion and accordion)

Performance artist Sheila Ghelani talks to Alwynne Pritchard

(music - The Wanderer by Dion and Don't Fence Me In by Bing Crosby)

Chris Fox: Generic Composition No. 3 for solo cello 4:25

Alex Waterman (cello)

Trond Reinholdtsen: 13 Music Theatre Pieces 11:55

Plus Minus Ensemble:

Vicky Wright (clarinet)

Tom Pauwels (elec guitar)

Mark Knoop (piano, accordion)

Roderick Chadwick (piano)

Joanna Bailie and Matthew Shlomowitz (auxilliary)

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The Vacuum Cleaner: Live Talk (excerpt)

Michael Finnissy: Dust 2;23

Adam de la Cour, Andrew Toovey, Matthew Shlomowitz & Alex Waterman (vocals)

Tape That: Mixed Pickles 5:36

Joanna Bailie: On And Off 9.42

Plus-minus Ensemble

Review of Rational Rec by Felicity Mukherjee

Alwynne Pritchard reports on the Rational Rec multimedia night at Spitalfields Festival.

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Monica Brett-Crowther; Elizabeth McCormack (mezzo-soprano)

Simon Johnson (trombone)

Scott Dickinson, Andrew Berridge (violas)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Clement Power (conductor)

Nigel Osborne: Woman - reworked arias from the composer's operas 32:43

Anna Meredith: Barchan - for trombone and orchestra (BBC commisssion, world premiere) 10:39

Nigel Osborne: East 13:20

Nigel Osborne: Transformations 1 - for two solo violas 10:28

Marina Adamia: The Birth of Enkidu. 9:53

A concert featuring works by Nigel Osborne and a BBC commission by Anna Meredith.

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The first piece is performed by Neil Luck and Matthew Knowles, who will prepare, as instructed by the composer, by fasting and remaining solitary for four days beforehand.

Gold Dust 5:17

Neil Luck (guitar) Matthew Lee Knowles (piano)

Meeting Point 8:09

Seth Josel (guitar) Phil Minton (vocals) Maja Ratkje (vocals)

Unlimited 20:18

Twentytwentyone (Laptop quartet)

Connection 15:18

Frank Gratkowski, Ian Mitchell, Dave Ryan, Andrew Sparling (bass clarinet) Robin Hayward (tuba)

Intensity 15:10

Reinhold Friedl (inside Piano), Phil Minton (vocals), Mark Wastell (perc), Marc Weiser (electronics), Seth Josel (guitar), Michael Vorfeld (perc), Nikos Veliotis (cello), Maja Ratkje (theremin), Aleksander Kolkowski (violin), Dave Ryan, Ian Mitchell, Andrew Sparling, Frank Gratkowski (bass clarinet), Gordon MacKay, Patrycja Kujawska, Mai Kawabata, Sara Hubrich (stroh violin), Anton Lukoszevieze (stroh cello), Robin Hayward (tuba), Twentytwentyone (laptop quartet)

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Arrival 5:00

All Performers

Upwards 12:00

Cranc (violin, cello, harp), Mark Wastell (tamtam, objects), Reinhold Friedl (inside piano), Michael Vorfeld (percussion )

Communion 14:00

Onstage: Reinhold Friedl (inside piano), Michael Vorfeld (percussion ), Anton Lukoszevieze (cello), Gordon MacKay, Mai Kawabata, Lina Lapelyte (laptop), Patricia Kujawska, Alex Kolkowski (Stroh violin)

In Gallery: Bass clarinet quartet: (Frank Gratkowski, Andrew Sparling, David Ryan, Ian Mitchell), Robin Hayward (tuba), Phil Minton, Maja Ratkje (voices), Seth Josel (e. gtr)

It 9:35

Frank Gratkowski (sax), Robin Hayward (tuba), Rhodri Davies (harp), Anton Lukoszevieze (cello), David Berhman (violin & laptop), Arturas Bumsteinas (laptop)

Set Sail For The Sun 21:53

With premieres, live concerts and studio sessions from the best new music groups.

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Helena Rasker (contralto)

Oliver Knussen (conductor)

Kathinka Pasveer (sound projection)

Igor Kavulek (sound engineer)

Drei Lieder 18:58

Klang for tape 'Urantia' (world premiere) (19:49)

Zodiac (UK premiere) (34:58)

Five Star Signs; Five More Starsigns.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a programme of music by Karlheinz Stockhausen.

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Peter Tornqvist: Crossing Images (34:43)

Thomas Stronen (drums)

Tim Harries (bass)

Jan Bang (live sampling)

London Sinfonietta: (Daniel Pailthorpe (flute) Duncan Prescott (clarinet) John Orford (bassoon) Charles Mutter (violin) Lionel Handy (cello)

Andrew Toovey: Fast Net (7:30)

Anna Meredith: Axe Man (2:35)

John Orford (bassoon with fuzz box FX)

Iain Ballamy: Gold Acre (world premiere) (22:35)

London Sinfonietta: Daniel Pailthorpe (flute) Duncan Prescott (clarinet) John Orford (bassoon) Charles Mutter (violin) Lionel Handy (cello)

Richard Causton: Sleep (2:50)

Group Improv (9:40)

All performers

Tom Service presents a concert of new jazz played by Arve Henriksen (trumpet) and ensemble

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Plus Tom Service on the role of awards in new music ahead of the 2008 British Academy of Composers Awards ceremony in London.

Mark Simpson: Nur Musik, for oboe and ensemble 9:42

Jonathan Small (oboe)

William Marshall: The River Is the Unconscious Thief and Destroyer of Its Surroundings 4:48

Gary Carpenter: Closing Time, for tenor and ensemble 15:30

Jeffrey Lloyd Roberts (tenor)

John Casken: The Dream of the Rood, for four voices and ensemble 29:20

Hilliard Ensemble

Clark Rundell (conductor).

Ivan Hewett presents recordings by Liverpool-based Ensemble 10/10.

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Written in 1973-74, Inori is based on prayer-like gestures interpreted on stage by a mime and a dancer. The expressive movements, performed by the two silent soloists and drawn from a variety of religious practices, are mirrored in the response of two orchestral groups.

Robert is also joined by Stockhausen authority Robin Maconie to discuss the piece.

Stockhausen: Inori(68:46)

Kathinka Pasveer (dancer-mime)

Alain Louafi (dancer-mime)

David Robertson (conductor)

The BBC Symphony Orchestra perform Karlheinz Stockhausen's meditative work Inori.

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Semper Dowland, semper Dolens - the first of two premieres from this year's other featured composer, Harrison Birtwistle - is a reflection on the work of John Dowland, sung by tenor Mark Padmore.

Oliver Knussen: Coursing (5:15)

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

Oliver Knussen (conductor)

Elliott Carter: String Quartet No 5 (18:22)

Carter: Fratribute (2:54) and Sistribute (1:01)

Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)

Birtwistle: Semper Dowland, semper dolens (45:16)

Mark Padmore (tenor)

London Sinfonietta

Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor).

Aldeburgh Festival: Music by Oliver Knussen, Elliott Carter and Harrison Birtwistle.

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Helen Grime: A Cold Spring (world premiere) 9:56

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

Oliver Knussen (conductor)

Elliott Carter: On Conversing with Paradise (world premiere) 11:46

Leigh Melrose (baritone)

Harrison Birtwistle: The Corridor (world premiere) 48:27

Euridice - Elizabeth Atherton (soprano)

Orpheus - Mark Padmore (tenor)

London Sinfonietta

Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor).

Aldeburgh Festival: World premieres by Helen Grime, Elliott Carter and Harrison Birtwistle

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Chin: Xi for ensemble & electronics (22:54)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov

Chin: Piano Concerto (24:55)

Andrew Zolinsky (piano)

BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya

Akrostichon-Wortspiel (15:47)

Ensemble InterContemporain conducted by Kazushi Ono

Piia Komsi (soprano)

CD: Deutsche Grammophon 477 511-8

Fantaisie mécanique (12:37)

Ensemble InterContemporain conducted by Patrick Davin

A portrait of Unsuk Chin, including her Piano Concerto presented by Ivan Hewett

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Donatienne Michel-Dansac (soprano)

Rolf Hind (piano)

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Denys Bouliane: Du fouet et du plaisir (for piano and ensemble) 17:24

Philippe Leroux: Voi(rex) - for voice, six instruments and electronics 24:35

Gyorgy Ligeti: Concerto for piano and orchestra. 25:56

Ivan Hewett is joined by Julian Anderson to discuss music by Bouliane, Leroux and Ligeti.

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Peter Wiegold: La Belle Epoque 7:24

Martin Butler (piano)

Peter Wiegold (electric piano)

excerpts from 'Shuffle I: Postcards' 9:41

musical  ??postcards', around the theme of 'shuffle' or 'swing', submitted by Six Sound and Music shortlist composers.

Peter Wiegold: Earth and Stars (UK premiere) 19:14

notes inegales/Peter Wiegold

Christian Marclay: Shuffle (excerpt) 20:12

notes inegales/Peter Wiegold.

Tom Service presents works by Peter Wiegold and Christian Marclay.

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Johannes Maria Staud: Fur Balint Andras Varga (3:57)

Luke Bedford: Chiaroscuro (8:46)

Thomas Larcher: My Illness is the Medicine I Need (13:54)*

Ed Bennett: for Marcel Dzama (11:10

Patricia Rozario (soprano)*

Fidelio Trio

Recorded on the 12th of December 2009, Wigmore Hall

Olga Neuwirth: Remnants of Songs...an Amphigory (30:37)*

Rebecca Saunders: Traces (15:43)

Antoine Tamestit (viola)*

Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

Peter Eotvos (conductor)

New music by Ed Bennett, Luke Bedford, Thomas Larcher, Olga Neuwirth and Rebecca Saunders.

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Richard Barrett and fORCH: part of fOKT 6

Morla: This May Not Have Happened

Morla and the Smith Quartet

And from the Bangor New Music Festival, a fully-composed orchestral work that travels from Mozart's Requiem to an imagined Utopia:

Pwyll ap-Sian: Gwales

BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Grant Llewellyn.

Ed McKeon presents new music by fORCH, Morla and Pwyll ap-Sian.

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Scenes From Old Age (world premiere)

Michael Finnissy (piano)

Abstract

Kurbis Ensemble, James weeks (director)

Four Students

Format (world premiere)

Chris Newman (voice)

MichaelFinnissy (piano).

Ivan Hewett presents the music of Berlin-based British composer and singer Chris Newman.

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Simon Holt: The Torturer's Horse

Michael Berkeley: Three Rilke sonnets

David Matthews: Horn Quintet

Mark-Anthony Turnage: A Constant Obsession

Claire Booth (soprano)

Mark Padmore (tenor)

Richard Watkins (horn)

Nash Ensemble

Lionel Friend (conductor)

Recorded at Wigmore Hall, London on 23rd March.

The Nash Ensemble perform new music by Holt, Berkeley, Matthews and Turnage.

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Niels Marthinsen: The Monkey

Bent Sørensen: Deserted Churchyards

Per Nørg倀rd: Momentum

Simon Steen-Andersen: Praesens

Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen: Tonkraftwerk

Jakob Kullberg (cello)

ŀrhus Sinfonietta

Søren K. Hansen (conductor).

Ivan Hewett presents recent Danish music from the 2011 Sounds New festival in Canterbury.

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Philip Cashian: Bone Machine

Laurence Crane: Movement for 10 Musicians

Martin Suckling: Candlebird

Christopher Fox: KK

Bryn Harrison: Six Symmetries

Colin Matthews : Night Rides

Leigh Melrose (baritone)

London Sinfonietta

conducted by Nicholas Collon

Plus, Christopher Fox considers the use of the humble cowbell in contemporary music, from Boulez to the Rolling Stones.

This concert was part of the South Bank Centre's Festival Of Britain 60th anniversary celebrations in May 2011.

In the adventurous spirit of the orginal 1951 festival, it looks to the future with several world premieres (by Colin Matthews, Martin Suckling and Philip Cashian). Christopher Fox's piece KK is scored for saxophone and five cowbells, which prompts his talk for this programme about the use of this simple percussion instrument in some of the most subtle and complex contemporary music, such as the work of Pierre Boulez, as well as it's simultaneous employment to drive a hard beat in rock classics like the Rolling Stones' Honky Tonk Woman.

Robert Worby presents a concert of new British music.

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Steve Reich: City Life

BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Sound Intermedia

conducted by Jean-Micha뀀l Lavoie

Voices recorded on the streets of New York City are woven into an extended instrumental piece, with verbal phrases giving rise to melodic and rhythmic shapes.

~Hear And Now Fifty': featuring signal works from the second half of the last century. Film-maker Sophie Fiennes explains why she chose Gy怀rgy Ligeti's Atmosph耀res for the soundtrack of a film about artist Anselm Kiefer, and Paul Griffiths explains its significance in Ligeti's development of cloud-like musical structures. Followed by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra's performance of the work, conducted by Jonathan Nott.

Trevor Wishart: Globalalia

This multi-channel electronic piece uses syllables taken from 26 different languages, to create a series of elaborate variations on the sounds of language itself.

Producer PHILIP TAGNEY.

Ivan Hewett introduces music by Steve Reich, Ligeti and Trevor Wishart.

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In the next in our Hear And Now Fifty series, featuring signal works from the second half of the last century, novelist and poet Mark Haddon explains what it is about Elliott Carter's String Quartet No.3 that reminds him of an argumentative family meal, and Paul Griffiths explains Carter's use of metric modulation, followed by the Arditti Quartet's full performance of the work.

Mihyun Woo - Metamorphose

Clement Power (conductor)

Clement Power & Thomas Blunt (conductors)

Arditti Quartet.

Tom Service presents music by Mihyun Woo, Sir Harrison Birtwistle and Elliott Carter.

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Anthony Payne - A Day in the Life of a Mayfly

Sally Beamish - The Sins *

Peter Maxwell Davies - Eight Songs for a Mad King **

Jonathan Best, actor*

Kelvin Thomas, baritone**

Psappha.

Psappha perform music by Sally Beamish, Anthony Payne and Peter Maxwell Davies.

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b 27 June 1932

Horn Trio

Pirani Trio

String Quartet No 2

Piatti Quartet

New Work for solo piano (BBC Commission - world premiere)

Joanna MacGregor (piano)

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Emily Howard - Zatopek!

commissioned by Second Movement

Michael Wolters - The Voyage

commissioned by Stan's Cafe

David Bruce - Fire

commissioned by The Opera Group.

Robert Worby presents the music of Hugh Wood performed at the Bath Festival, plus 20x12.

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Ivan Hewett presents music by Hans Abrahamsen and Michael Nyman.

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Plus the latest instalment of new compositions from the PRS/Music Foundation's 20x12 project for Olympic year, commissioning 20 12-minute works from around the UK. This week's works are Technophonia by Oliver Searle (working with Drake Music Scotland), Our Day by Conor Mitchell (working with Opera Northern Ireland) and TAT-1 by fiddler and composer Aidan O'Rourke (working with Creative Scotland)

Hugh Wood: From the Pisan Cantos LXXXI (BBC commission, world premiere)

Giles Swayne: Magnificat

Judith Bingham: London Haiku (BBC commission, world premiere)

Lauri Supponen: The Dordrecht Humaphone (BBC commission, world premiere)

David Hill (conductor)

20 x 12 commissions:

Aidan O'Rourke: TAT-1

Adrian Searle: Technophonia

Conor Mitchell: Our Day.

The BBC Singers in new choral works by Judith Bingham, Hugh Wood and Lauri Supponen.

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Marko Nikodijevic: GHB/Tanzaggregat

Laurence Crane: West Sussex Folk Material

Richard Ayres: No. 9 MacGowan

Richard Ayres: No. 46

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Ilan Volkov, conductor

And in the latest instalment of the Hear and Now Fifty, cellist Frances-Marie Uitti champions the music of Giacinto Scelsi, the Italian composer from an aristocratic background whose music looks to the east for inspiration. Uitti plays the 1960s 'Ygghur', Sanskrit for 'catharsis', the final part of Scelsi's autobiographical 'La Trilogia'. With commentary from Paul Griffiths.

Giacinto Scelsi: Ygghur

Frances-Marie Uitti, cello.

Music by Richard Ayres, Laurence Crane, and Marko Nikodijevic. Plus Scelsi's Ygghur.

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And Ilan Volkov, the new Chief Conductor of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, has also propelled the festival to the front rank, and expanded its scope to include large-scale compositions. In this programme, Robert Worby talks to critic and long-time Icelando-phile, Hilary Finch to find out more about the thriving Dark Music Days and Icelandic music, including works recorded at this year's festival.

Plus, in the latest instalment of the Hear and Now Fifty, Four Tet's Kieran Hebden explains why Silver Apples of the Moon by the American composer Morton Subotnick stands out for him as a classic of early electronic music. Wire magazine's Rob Young provides some background to the work, which was created on a Buchla synthesizer at the San Francisco Tape Music Center, and the first piece of music to be composed for two sides of an LP.

Giacinto Scelsi: Hymnos

Ilan Volkov, conductor

Atli Ing　lfsson: Mani

Hugi Gudmundsson: Orkestur

Morton Subotnick: Silver Apples of the Moon (part A).

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Aaron Cassidy: A Painter of Figures in Rooms

James Weeks [conductor]

Julian Joseph: The Brown Bomber

Ross Anderson [Trombone]

Jackson Mathod [Trumpet]

Patrick Clahar [Clarinet]

Mark Hodgson [Bass]

Mark Mondesir [Drums]

Julian Joseph [Piano]

Gavin Higgins: What Wild Ecstasy

Paul Hoskins [conductor]

Liz Liew and Andy Leung: XX/XY

Liz Chi Yen Liew [violin]

Andy Leung [electronics]

Fran Bartlett [cello]

Dennis Kwong Thye Lee [xiao]

Bernie Gardner [drums]

Urban Youth Junk Band [percussion]

Mark-Anthony Turnage: Beyond This

Prisoners and staff from HMP Lowdham Grange.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch with highlights from New Music 20x12 - part of the Cultural Olympiad.

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Ivan Hewett with commissions from Sheema Mukherjee and Richard Causton, plus Gavin Bryars.

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John Cage: Music for Thirteen

Frank Denyer, Maya Dunietz (piano)

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Alvin Lucier: I Am Sitting in a Room (original recording).

Music by John Cage and Alvin Lucier.

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Qigang Chen: Yuan

Philip Glass: Violin Concerto

Chloe Hanslip, violin

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Clark Rundell, conductor

And this week's Hear and Now Fifty, novelist and critic Philip Hensher makes the case for Per Norgard's Symphony No.2, one of the first works in which the Danish composer used his own 'infinity series' to determine melody and form. With commentary from Paul Griffiths.

Per Norgard: Symphony No. 2

Clark Rundell, Conductor.

Ivan Hewett presents music performed at the 2012 Vale of Glamorgan Festival.

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Tom Service with new music by Reimann and Pintscher, plus Stravinsky's Requiem Canticles.

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Magnus Lindberg: Souvenir for ensemble (2010)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Matthias Pintscher (conductor)

Kaija Saariaho: Adrianna Songs (2006) [UK premiere]

Patricia Bardon (mezzo-soprano)

Gerard Grisey: Partiels, for 18 musicians (1975)

Ensemble Court-Circuit, Pierre-Andr退 Valade (conductor)

Mark Andre: ...hij...1 (2008/10) [UK premiere] BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Matthias Pintscher (conductor).

Tom Service introduces three orchestral works written within the last six years.

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Heiner Goebbels: Suite for Sampler and Orchestra

Junge Deutsche Philharmonie

Peter Rundel (conductor)

From approximately 10.40pm:

Wolfgang Rihm: Jakob Lenz

Jakob Lenz: Andrew Shore (baritone)

Pastor Oberlin: Jonathan Best (bass-baritone)

Christoph Kaufman: Richard Roberts (tenor)

ENO Orchestra conducted by Alex Ingram

Directed by Sam Brown

English National Opera's production at Hampstead Theatre, recorded last April.

Ivan Hewett presents music by Heiner Goebbels and Wolfgang Rihm.

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Also in tonight's programme is a recording of Toru Takemitsu's Tree Line, a work for chamber orchestra from 1988 inspired by a row of acacias that were visible from the composer's study window.

Presented by Tom Service in conversation with Dai Fujikura.

Music by Elliott Carter, Alvin Lucier, John Zorn, Felipe Lara and Dai Fujikura.

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And we pay tribute to the great French composer, Henri Dutilleux who died towards the end of last month at the age of ninety seven. His haunting orchestral work Timbres, espace, movement is inspired by a Van Gogh's "The Starry Night." As the artist wrote at the time of painting it: "I have a terrible need for religion. And so I go outside at night and paint the stars."

Tom Service presents music by Benedict Mason and a world premiere from Brian Ferneyhough.

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Ivan Hewett introduces music by Elisabeth Lutyens, Priaulx Rainier and Robin Holloway.

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Sebastian Currier: Microsymph (UK premiere)

Mark Bowden: Heartland Concerto (Concert world premiere)

Julian Warburton (percussion)

Sebastian Currier: Quanta (European premiere)

Qigang Chen: Enchantements oubli退s

BBC National orchestra of Wales

Richard Baker (conductor).

Tom Service presents orchestral music by Sebastian Currier, Qigan Chen and Mark Bowden.

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Karlheinz Stockhausen: Klavierstucke I-IV; Kontra-Punkte; Klavierstuck VII

Nicolas Hodges (piano)

Guildhall New Music Ensemble

Richard Baker (conductor).

Robert Worby presents music by Stockhausen and Boulez in conversation with Paul Griffiths.

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Missy Mazzoli: Orizzonte

Bruce Brubaker (piano)

Daniel Bjarnason: Bow to String

Nico Muhly: Cello Concerto

Valgeir Sigurdsson: Dreamland

Oliver Coates (cello)

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Philip Glass: Mad Rush

Bruce Brubaker (piano).

Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces music Nico Muhly, Valgeir Sigurdsson and Philip Glass.

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Tom Service is joined by Andrew McGregor for a round-up of the latest new music releases.

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Kaja Bjorntvedt: Skye Light

Sungji Hong: Black Arrow

Elizabeth Winters: Image Unfolding

Karen Gourlay: Dreamscape

Shiva Feshareki: she cried

Eve Beglarian: Until It Blazes

Kaija Saariaho: Spins and Spells

Pauline Oliveros: Bye Bye Butterfly

Sophie Viney: Sonatina in 7 & 5 (World Premiere)

Recorded at The Forge, London, last October

Grace Mason: The Bitter Cut for viola and ensemble

Matthias Wiesner (viola)

Members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Michael Seal (conductor)

Lucinda Rimmer: Felucca on the Nile for cello and ensemble

Clare Hinton (cello)

Duncan Ward (conductor)

@bbcradio3 #womensday.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces music by the group rarescale and visits Judith Weir.

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Hans Abrahamsen: String Quartet No.3

Vertavo Quartet

Recorded at the Barbican, London, last Saturday

Marko Nikodijevic: gesualdo dub / raum mit geloschter figur

Pauline Post (piano)

Asko/Schoenberg Ensemble

Reinbert de Leeuw (conductor)

Mauro Lanza: Der Kampf zwischen Karneval und Fasten

Arditti Quartet

JACK Quartet

James Clarke: 2012-S

Hans Abrahamsen: Piano Concerto

Brigitta Muntendorf: Sweetheart, Goodbye!

Nicola Grundel, vocals

Reinbert de Leeuw (conductor).

Highlights from the 2012 Witten Days for New Chamber Music.

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Andrew McGregor and Sara Mohr-Pietsch report from the 2013 British Composer Awards.

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Andrew McGregor and Sara Mohr-Pietsch report from the 2014 British Composer Awards.

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Andrew McGregor and Sara Mohr-Pietsch report from the 2015 British Composer Awards.

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Also tonight, the second of four archive features celebrating the 40th edition this year of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Andrew Kurowski talks to Robert Worby about the festival's 'Electronic Soundworlds' of the 1980 and 90s, including Iannis Xenakis's Taurhiphanie, and Luigi Nono's La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura, recorded by the BBC in 1995 and performed by Irvine Arditti (violin) and Andr退 Richard (sound diffusion).

Image (c) Justyna Wichowska.

New music for piano, including works by Kate Moore, Laurence Crane and Bryn Harrison.

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Nico Muhly: Outrage (World Premiere)

BBC Singers

David Lang: David: "man-made" (World Premiere)

SOPercussion, BBC Symphony Orchestra

Paola Prestini: Oceanic Verses (European Premiere)

Hila Plitman (soprano), Christopher Burchett (baritone), Helga Davis (vocalist), Claudio Prima (vocalist), BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra

Jayce Ogren (conductor)

Nico Muhly: Drones and Piano (UK Premiere)

Bruce Brubaker (piano and electronics)

Philip Glass: Etude No.5

Bruce Brubaker (piano).

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music by Nico Muhly, in conversation with the composer.

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Elliott Carter: Conversations (world premiere)

Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)

Colin Currie (percussion)

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

Oliver Knussen (conductor)

Charlotte Bray: Caught in Treetops

Alexandra Wood (violin)

Charlotte Bray: Replay (world premiere)

Cheltenham Festival Academy Soloists

Robert Saxton: A Yardstick to the Stars

Ligeti: Etudes

Nancarrow: Studies

Jurgen Hocker (player-piano).

Tom Service presents contemporary music from the 2011 Aldeburgh and Cheltenham Festivals.

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Birmingham Contemporary Music Group:

Natalia Zagorinskaia (soprano)

Katalin Karolyi (mezzo-soprano)

Stephen Richardson (bass)

Thomas Ades (conductor)

Ligeti: Sippal, Dobbal, Nadihegeduvel (with pipes, drums and fiddles)

Gerald Barry: Beethoven

Ades: Living Toys

Gyorgy Kurtag: Messages of the Late Miss RV Troussova.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch with music from the Aldeburgh Festival, including Kurtag and Ligeti.

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Cage: String Quartet in Four Parts

Birtwistle: Tree of Strings (UK premiere)

Ades: In Seven Days (Piano Concerto with Moving Image)

Nicolas Hodges (piano)

Tal Rosner (video artist)

London Sinfonietta

Thomas Ades (conductor).

Music from the Aldeburgh Festival 2008, including works by Birtwistle and Ades/Rosner.

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Experience a thrilling history of spectral music presented by one of its leading exponents, Tristan Murail. When the reclusive Italian composer and mystic Giacinto Scelsi died in 1988, he left a body of work and a notational method so remarkable and unique that a quarter of a century later its impact on the musical world is being felt more strongly each year. His violin concerto Anahit is a stunning large-scale piece revolving around a single pitch but achieving a hugely expressive canvas through Scelsi's deep exploration of the anatomy of sound, allowing the ears to hear every tiny nuance.

For its Scelsi Revisited project, one of Europe's leading contemporary music ensembles Klangforum Wien has enabled spectral composer Tristan Murail to gain unprecedented access to Scelsi's archives in Rome and write a new works based on his findings.

And in Composers' Rooms, this week Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits Roxanna Panufnik.

Highlights from Klangforum Wien's event at Aldeburgh 2014, with music by Tristan Murail.

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Aldo Clementi: BLUES (Fantasie su Frammenti di Thelonius Monk)

Mark Knoop (piano)

Aldo Clementi: Texture

Benjamin Marks (trombone)

Aldo Clementi: Fantasia su frammenti di Michelangelo Galilei

Anders Forisdal (guitar)

at Spitalfields Festival.

Hans Abrahamsen: Schnee

London Sinfonietta conducted by Andre de Ridder at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London.

Aldo Clementi: Lento

Segue

Aldo Clementi: B.A.C.H.

Aldo Clementi: Dodici Variazioni

Aldo Clementi: Dedica

Anders Forisdal (guitar), Severine Ballon (cello), Richard Haynes (clarinet) of Elision at Spitalfields Festival.

Ivan Hewett presents new music by Aldo Clementi and Hans Abrahamsen.

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Fanfare from Arden Must Die

HK Gruber (conductor)

Mozart

Adagio in B minor (excerpt)

Mitsuko Uchida (piano)

PHILIPS CD 4126162

Adagio (Autoportr䀀t) Op 75

3 pieces from ‘Arden must die' Op 21a (1967)

Fugue on the notes of Psalm IV Op 38b (1976)

Turmmusik Op 85

Nigel Robson (tenor)

World Premiere - BBC Radio 3 Commission

Sara Mohr-Pietsch profiles British composer Alexander Goehr.

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Full programme:

Laurie Tompkins: Dear Dope (2014)

Maya Verlaak: Dance III (2016/17)

Oliver Leith: Veil, from Hand Coloured (2014)

Paul McGuire: Panels (2014)

Eleanor Cully: Deer Tracks (2016/17, world premiere)

Louis d'Heudieres: Laughter Studies 6 (2017, world premiere)

Jack Sheen (director)

Salvatore Sciarrino: Studi per l'intonazione del mare

Michel van Goethem (countertenor)

Orchestra of flutes, saxophones and percussion

Marco Angius (director).

Tom McKinney presents a concert of new music by new ensemble An Assembly.

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Plus, Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits Errollyn Wallen for the latest edition of Composers' Rooms.

Beast sampler (World premiere)

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Stockholm, Sakari Oramo (conductor)

The Strand settings

Agneta Eichenholz (soprano)

Vaporised Tivolo

members of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Stockholm

Violin Concerto

Carolin Widmann (violin)

O dessa ogon

Hannah Holgersson (soprano),

Strings of The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Stockholm

Sakari Oramo (conductor).

Ivan Hewett interviews Swedish composer Anders Hillborg and introduces his music.

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John Luther Adams: Ilimaq (extract)

Glenn Kotche (percussion) with electronics by the composer

Laura Bowler's new music theatre piece is an immersive commentary on the effects of climate change, inspired by a recent journey she made to the Antarctic.

Laura Bowler: `Antarctica` (BBC Radio 3 and Manchester Camerata Commission)

Laura Bowler (Voice)

Sam Redway (Actor)

Danielle Henry (Actor)

Ryan Pace (Actor)

Manchester Camerata conducted by Jessica Cottis

Mason Bates: `Liquid Interface`

San Francisco Symphony conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas

Brett Dean: `Fire Music`

BBCSO and Sakari Oramo

Manchester Camerata explores climate change in Laura Bowler's new work.

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Adlestrop

Jane Manning (Soprano)

Jane's Minstrels

String Quartet No. 1

Tippett String Quartet

Time's Arrow

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Andrew Davis (conductor)

String Quartet No. 2

Allegri String Quartet.

Ivan Hewett talks to composer Anthony Payne about his distinguished career.

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Robert Worby presents a birthday concert given last month at Caf退 Oto in East London by the award-winning group, hailed as, 'one of the most innovative and exciting chamber ensembles in Europe.' Robert talks to the cellist, Anton Lukoszevieze, Apartment House's founder and director, about the ensemble and its innovative programming. Tonight's concert is a typically eclectic mix: there's music from the 1960s by the Lithuanian-born New Yorker George Maciunas which explores the boundaries of music and performance art, a 20-minute work of proto-minialism by the Dane Henning Christiansen, and a seminal score from the 1950s avant-garde by John Cage.

Jennifer Walshe: This is Why People OD on Pills

Luiz Henrique Yudo: CHINESE WALL PAPER Version I

George Maciunas: Solo for Balloons; Music for Everyman

Luiz Henrique Yudo: CHINESE WALL PAPER Version II

Laurence Crane: 20th Century Music

Henning Christiansen: fluxorum organum Part II

George Maciunas: Solo for Violin (Gordon Mackay - violin)

John Cage: Concert for Piano and Orchestra - Aria

(Philip Thomas - piano, Lore Lienberg, mezzo).

Apartment House perform music by George Maciunas, John Cage and Henning Christensen.

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Brian Ferneyhough: Exordium

Phillip Neil Martin: An Outburst of Time (part of the RPS/BBC Radio 3 Encore project)

Harrison Birtwistle: The Triumph of Time

Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Elgar Howarth

Paul Max Edlin: Frida Sketches (World premiere)

The Encore project is a collaboration between the Royal Philharmonic Society and BBC Radio 3 designed to give repeat performances and broadcasts of works by living British Composers which otherwise might be lost from view.

A performance given by the Arditti Quartet at the 2012 Sounds New festival in Canterbury.

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Annum per annum [1980]

Lorenzo Ghielmi (organ)

The Deer's Cry [2007]

Ars Nova Copenhagen, Paul Hillier

Collage on the theme B-A-C-H / III: Ricercare [1964]

Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow (conductor)

Solfeggio [1963]

Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, T倀nu Kaljuste (conductor)

Passio [1982] (excerpt: Dicit eis Pilatus "Regem vestrum... ...Quod scripsi, scripsi")

Tonus Peregrinus, Antony Pitts (conductor)

Orient & Occident [2000]

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, T倀nu Kaljuste (conductor)

The Lord's Prayer [1997]

Nunc dimittis [2001]

Wiltener S䀀ngerknaben, Johannes Stecher.

Ivan Hewett and Antony Pitts reflect on the music of Arvo Part as the composer turns 80.

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Dobrinka Tabakova: Centuries of Meditations

Arvo P䀀rt: Adam's Lament

Dobrinka Tabakova: Concerto for Cello and Strings (UK premiere)

Arvo P䀀rt: Stabat Mater

Tallinn Chamber Orchestra with the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber

Choir conducted by Kristian J䀀rvi

soloists: Kristina Blaumane (cello) and Ceri Wynne Jones (harp).

Ivan Hewett features music by Arvo Part and Dobrinka Tabakova.

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Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces new works performed at a concert in this year's Festival by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and talks to two of the composers involved - Guto Puw (the Festival's Artistic Director) and Andrew Lewis.

Andrew Lewis: Danses acousmatiques - Torquetum (pas de cinq) (extract)

From the album 'Miroirs obscurs' (empreintes DIGITALes IMED 0789)

Guto Pryderi Puw: Hologram (R3 commission: world premiere)

Andrew Lewis: Number Nine Dream (world premiere)

Adrian Williams: Cello Concerto (R3 commission: world premiere)

conducted by Grant Llewellyn

Continung the Welsh theme, Sara also joins composer and harpist Rhodri Davies for a tour of his installation 'Room Harp', part of the exhibition 'all art is, is rhythm' at the Hatton Gallery in Newcastle's Great Northern Museum.

John Butcher/Rhodri Davies: Scrogg (extract)

From the album 'CARLIOL' (ftarri-220)

Works by Guto Puw, Andrew Lewis, Adrian Williams, from 2010's Bangor New Music Festival.

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Kevin Volans: White Man Sleeps (excerpt)

Kevin Volans & Robert Hill (harpsichords), Margriet Tindemans (viola da gamba), Robyn Schulkowski (percussion)

Alexander Goehr: ... a musical offering (J.S.B. 1985)...

London Sinfonietta

Oliver Knussen (conductor)

Gerald Barry: The Intelligence Park (excerpt)

Almeida Ensemble

Robert Houlihan (conductor)

Poul Ruders: Concerto in Pieces

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Andrew Davis (conductor).

For Baroque Spring, works inspired by the Baroque by Goehr, Volans, Ruders and Barry.

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From Hull's City Hall, a concert curated by Will Gregory to celebrate Basil Kirchin.

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Jac van Steen (conductor)

Henze: Symphony No 8 26:39

Holt: Troubled Light 22:12

Hoddinott: Lizard 25:28

Jac van Steen conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Henze, Holt and Hoddinott.

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Eric Tanguy: Affettuoso in memoriam Henri Dutilleux

Julian Anderson: Shir Hashirim

Thierry Pecou: Les liaisons magn退tiques

Kenneth Hesketh: Graven Image

Dutilleux: Le temps l'horloge

Elizabeth Atherton (soprano)

Pascal Roph退 (conductor).

Ivan Hewett presents the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in music inspired by Dutilleux.

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Eleven Gates' for orchestra

Clark Rundell (conductor)

Residuum (after Dowland)' for 2 violins, cello and orchestra

Anthony Hermus (conductor)

Falling Angel' for ensemble

...lontano in sonno...' for voice and orchestra

Hannah Holgersson (soprano)

Spine' for chamber orchestra (includes cimbalom)

Panopticon' for string sextet and cimbalom

Hebrides Ensemble & Psappha.

Ivan Hewett presents the BBC Philharmonic in music by Anders Hillborg and Tansy Davies.

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Oliver Waespi: Viaduct (13:54)

James MacMillan (conductor)

Elizabeth Winters: The Serious Side of Madness (12:00)

MacMillan: A Deep but Dazzling Darkness for violin and orchestra (22:36)

Chantal Juillet (violin)

Louis Johnson: Swinside Study (11:16)

Maxim Bendall: The Circumference of the Ocean (12:38)

The BBC Philharmonic performs music by young composers and James MacMillan.

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Ilan Volkov conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in the first UK performances of works by Rebecca Saunders, Johannes Schollhorn, Franck Bedrossian and Ann Cleare, including Rebecca Saunders 'Alba' with trumpeter Marco Blaauw. Recorded at Glasgow's City Halls in November 2014

Plus a new recording of Rebecca Saunders's Solitude for solo cello, performed by Severine Ballon

Johannes Schollhorn: D䀀mmerung-Schmetterlinge (UK Premiere)

Rebecca Saunders: Traces

Franck Bedrossian: Itself (UK premiere)

Ann Cleare: ph䀀sphors (...of ether) (UK premiere)

Rebecca Saunders: Alba (for trumpet and orchestra)* (UK premiere)

*Marco Blaauw (trumpet)

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Rebecca Saunders: Solitude (for solo cello)

S退verine Ballon (cello).

BBC SSO performs Rebecca Saunders, Johannes Schollhorn, Franck Bedrossian and Ann Cleare.

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Matthias Pintscher conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a concert recorded at Glasgow's City Halls.

Joan Magran退 Figuera's ...secreta desolaci　n... references Wagner's Parsifal, while another German musical revolutionary, Helmut Lachenmann, uses silences and large orchestral forces in Tableau, a work described as "mesmerising, startling and occasionally forbidding". Jay Schwartz's Delta combines "physics with the poetic and aesthetic dimensions of sound" and Salvatore Sciarrino's flute concerto, with soloist Matteo Cesari, offers a fragile soundworld on the edge of silence.

Plus, the latest of Hear and Now's series Modern Muses, features the composer Liza Lim and cellist Severine Ballon, and there's a chance to hear one of Liza Lim's most significant large scale works, The Compass, for solo flute, didgeridoo and orchestra.

Joan Magrane Figuera: ...secreta desolacion... (UK premiere)

Salvatore Sciarrino: Libro notturno delle voci* (UK premiere)

Jay Swartz: Delta - Music for Orchestra IV

Helmut Lachenmann: Tableau

*Matteo Cesari (flute)

Matthias Pintscher (conductor)

Liza Lim: The Compass

Carin Levine (flute), William Bartin (didgeridoo)

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Christoph Poppen (conductor).

Music by Salvatore Sciarrino, Helmut Lachenmann, Joan Magrane Figuera and Jay Schwartz.

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John McCabe: Joybox

Sally Beamish: Cello Concerto No.2: The Song Gatherer

Robert Cohen (cello)

James MacMillan: Hodie Puer Nascitur

Glasgow Chamber Choir

Anthony Payne: Time's Arrow

Martyn Brabbins (conductor).

Music by John McCabe, Sally Beamish, Anthony Payne and James MacMillan.

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Music to include:

Pierre Boulez: Dialogue de l'Ombre Double

Alain Billard, clarinet

Ircam computer music design, Andrew Gerzso

Ircam sound realisation, Gilbert Nouno, J退r退mie Henrot

Xenakis: Aroura

Scottish Ensemble

Guest Director, Laurent Quenelle

Maresz: Metallics

Laurent B䀀mont, trumpet

Ircam computer music design, Xavier Chabot

Harvey: Excerpts & 2 Interludes from Wagner Dream

Claire Booth, soprano

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Ilan Volkov

Ircam computer music design: Gilvert Nouno; sound engineer: J退r退mie Henrot

Robert Worby with music from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's IRCAM collaborations.

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Elizabeth Layton (violin)

Franck Ollu (conductor)

Michel van der Aa: Here (enclosed) for chamber orchestra and soundtrack (2003); Imprint for baroque orchestra (2005); Memo for solo violin and portable cassette recorder (2003); Second Self for orchestra and soundtrack (2004).

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform works by Dutch composer Michel van der Aa.

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Matthias Pintscher conducts the BBC SSO in music by Pierre Boulez and two UK premieres.

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Howard Skempton: Lento

Cornelius Cardew: Bun no. 1

Christian Wolff: Spring

Morton Feldman: Piano and Orchestra

John Tilbury (piano)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov

Also in this programme, a review of recent CD releases of New Music.

Album: Sounding Music

Artists: AMM

CD: Matchless Recordings MRCD77

Album: Old School/John Cage

Artists: Zeitkratzer

CD: zeitkratzer records zkr 0009

Album: Music for Piano and Strings by Morton Feldman

Artists: The Smith Quartet with John Tilbury

DVD: Matchless Recordings MRDVD-01

The BBC SSO and John Tilbury (piano) in music by Skempton, Cardew, Wolff and Feldman.

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Brett Dean conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Australian composers, from a concert recorded in April at Maida Vale studios.

Plus the latest in Hear and Now's series of Modern Muses, with the Australian-born composer Kate Moore and cellist Ashley Bathgate, and Betsy Jolas's 90th birthday is celebrated with the premiere of her latest work commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic.

Meale: Clouds now and then

Thomas Meadowcroft: Peacemaker Tattoo

Lisa Illean: Land's End (European premiere)

Georges Lentz: 'Caeli enarrant ...' III

Thomas Meadowcroft (Revox)

Anthony Pateras (Revox)

Brett Dean (conductor)

Betsy Jolas: A Little Summer Suite (World premiere)

Berlin Philharmonic, Simon Rattle (conductor)

by kind permission of the Berlin Philharmonic

Brett Dean: Engelsflügel (European premiere)

Anthony Pateras: Immediata* (European premiere)

*Thomas Gould (violin)

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Brett Dean (conductor).

With the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Australian music, and Betsy Jolas at 90.

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The programme also features music by Hanna Tuulikki and Lucy Duncombe, "Tidesongs", music for multi-layered voice and vocal processing, inspired by the tidal languages of the East Coast from Shetland to Suffolk and by the poetry of Alec Finlay, which has been enjoying performances in Hull as part of "Somewhere Becoming Sea" and at "FLOERS" in Dunbar.

BCMG

Marie-Christine Zupancic (flute)

Claire Booth (soprano)

Robert Murray (tenor)

Conducted by Oliver Knussen

Harrison Birtwistle: Chorale from a Toyshop 1

Stravinsky: Two Poems of Balmont; Three Japanese Lyrics

Jo Kondo: Three Songs Tennyson Sung

Harrison Birtwistle: Chorale from a Toyshop 2; Dear Dusty Moth

Jo Kondo: Standing

Harrison Birtwistle: Komachi

Oliver Knussen: O Hototogisu - fragment of a Japonisme (world premiere)

Takemitsu: Tree Line

Birtwistle: Chorales from a Toyshop 1, 2, 3 (2016-7) (world premiere of No.3)

Hanna Tuulikki/Lucy Duncombe: Tidesongs

Performed by Lucy Duncombe and Hanna Tuulikki.

Tom McKinney introduces music from BCMG recorded at the 2017 Aldeburgh Festival.

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Judith Weir: Blue Green

Luke Bedford: In Black Bright Ink (world premiere)

Richard Baker: Hwyl fawr ffrindiau (world premiere)

Melinda Maxwell: Solo improvisation

Howard Skempton: Field Notes

John Woolrich: Swan Song (world premiere)

Zoe Martlew: Broad St Burlesque (world premiere)

BCMG.

The BCMG plays Judith Weir, Luke Bedford, Richard Baker, Howard Skempton and John Woolrich

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Ivo Nilsson: Rapidit

Klangforum Wien

Isabelle Menke (voice)

Beat Furrer (conductor)

aus freier Lust...verbunden ..

Angelos Kritikos

Trombone Unit Hannover.

Tom Service presents recent UK premieres of music by Austrian composer Beat Furrer.

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Beat Furrer: Xenos

London Sinfonietta

Beat Furrer (conductor)

Beat Furrer: Presto

Michael Cox (flute)

John Constable (piano)

Naomi Pinnock: Words (world premiere)

Omar Ebrahim (baritone)

Dai Fujikura: Recorder Concerto

Jeremias Schwarzer (recorder)

Ensemble Resonanz

Peter Rundel (conductor)

Beat Furrer: enigma

BBC Singers

Nicholas Kok (conductor)

Beat Furrer: Nuun

Rolf Hind & Zubin Kanga (pianos)

Royal Academy of Music Manson Ensemble

Beat Furrer (conductor).

Tom Service presents music by Beat Furrer, Naomi Pinnock and Dai Fujikura.

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Beatriz Ferreyra: Rio De Los Pကjaros (1998-99)

Beatriz Ferreyra: Echos (1978)

Beatriz Ferreyra: Senderos de luz y sombras (UK Premiere).

Featuring the music of Argentinian electroacoustic composer Beatriz Ferreyra.

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Recorded at an Ulster Orchestra BBC Radio 3 Invitation Concert for Hear and Now

Donal Sarsfield: Between Wood and Water for string orchestra and tape

with Darragh Morgan (violin), Ulster Orchestra, David Brophy (conductor)

Ryan Molloy: Third Epistle to Timothy

Donnacha Dennehy: Elastic Harmonic

with Darragh Morgan (amplified violin), Ulster Orchestra, David Brophy (conductor)

David Fennessy: This is how it feels (Another Bolero)

Ulster Orchestra, David Brophy (conductor).

Ivan Hewett introduces four recent Irish works performed at Belfast's Sonorities 2013.

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James Clarke: Echolalia (World premi耀re)

Helmut Zapf: Fragmente for Clarinet and String trio

Urus Rojko: Atemaj

Andrea Cavallari: Ordine e disordine

Gerhard Staebler: INTERNETx3/SCRAP

Gwyn Pritchard: Capriccio Inquieto

Philip Cashian: Caprichos

Gwyn Pritchard (director).

A concert of new music by seven composers, performed by the Uroboros Ensemble.

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Luciano Berio: Passaggio

Luisa Castellani (soprano)

Students from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Luciano Berio (conductor)

Recorded at the Barbican Centre in 1990 as part of the BBC's Berio at the Barbican

From approx. 11pm

Salvatore Sciarrino: The Killing Flower (Luci mei traditrici)

Duchess: Amanda Forbes

Duke: George Humphreys

Guest: William Towers

Servant: Michael Bennett

Music Theatre Wales Ensemble

Michael Rafferty (conductor)

Recorded last month at the Buxton Opera House as part of the Buxton Festival.

Ivan Hewett introduces music by Luciano Berio and Salvatore Sciarrino.

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As part of BBC Radio 3's season of programmes marking the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Ivan Hewett reports on the city's vibrant new music scene today. He speaks to musicians from the old East, composer Helmut Oehring and ensemble director Thomas Bruns; and from the old West side, composers Enno Poppe and Reinhold Friedl, and festival director Matthias Osterwold. British composer Rebecca Saunders, who has settled in the city, proves that Berlin is still a magnet for foreign musicians. And from the new Noise scene, Sudden Infant explains why, in Berlin, noise is beautiful.

Interviews with:

Matthias Osterwold (artistic director, Maerzmusik)

Thomas Bruns (artistic director, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin)

Helmut Oehring (composer)

Rebecca Saunders (composer)

Enno Poppe (composer)

Reinhold Friedl (composer and director of Zeitkratzer)

Music:

Zeitkratzer/Nicolai: 5 Min (8:09)

Zeitkratzer and Carsten Nicolai

CD: Electronics (3-CD set, Zeitkratzer Records ZKR0004 Track 2)

Rebecca Saunders: Blaauw (9.40)

Marco Blaauw (double-bell trumpet)

CD: (Wergo WER6694 2 Track 1)

Enno Poppe: Interzone (extract) (14:50)

Omar Ebrahim (voice)

Neue Vocalsolisten

Ensemble Mosaik

Jonathan Stockhammer (conductor)

CD: (Kairos 0012552KAI Track 12)

Hildur Gudnadottir: Erupting Light (1:00)

Hildur Gudnadottir (cello & electronics)

CD: Without Sinking (Touch TO:70 Track 3)

Sudden Infant: Zipper Ripper (0:45)

CD: Psychotic Einzelkind (Blossoming Noise NB036CD Track 11)

Sudden Infant: Ecstatic Ectoplasmic Eruption (4:19)

CD: Invocation of the Aural Slave Gods (Blossoming Noise BN006CD Track 5)

Helmut Oehring: Dokumentaroper (extract) (12:00)

Salome Kammer (voice)

Ulrike Zech (mezzo)

Christina Schonfeld (deaf-mute actress)

Gerlinde Demel (deaf-mute actress)

Gabriela Arndt (deaf-mute actress)

Torsten Ottersberg (live electronics)

Conducted by Roland Kluttig

CD: (Wergo WER 6534-2)

Ivan Hewett reports on Berlin's new music scene, twenty years after the fall of the Wall.

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Also tonight, music by another British composer of today deeply inspired by Berlioz, Benedict Mason, and his site-specific work for the Baarsporthalle at Donaueschingen and commissioned for the festival by Southwest German Radio. From the same concert we also hear an orchestral work by a long-overlooked Swiss composer, Hermann Meier, and our Sound of the Week comes from the Dutch composer Carlijn Metselaar who takes us into the undergrowth for the snapping of twigs and branches.

David Sawer: Swansong (1989)

Nick Dear (text)

Robert Lang (speaker)

Eric Hill (guitar)

Imogen Barford (harp)

Sophia Preston (double bass)

Rolf Hind (piano)

Jeremy Sams (accordion)

Simon Limbrick (percussion)

Finchley Children's Music Group

Rupert Bawden, Ronald Corp (conductors)

Hermann Meier: Stück für gro߀es Orchester und Klavier vierh䀀ndig (1965)

Benedict Mason: Ricochet (2018)

SWR Symphonieorchester

Peter Rundel (conductor)

Tom Service introduces a broadcast of David Sawer's 1989 work for radio, Swansong.

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Rands has held teaching positions at many leading universities and music schools across the US and is himself a onetime pupil of Dallapiccola, Berio and Boulez. His brand of post-Impressionist elegance combined with rhythmic vigour has resulted in residencies with many of the United States' top orchestras. Rands says that he writes his music 'to be as honest and as deeply personal as I can', and this is evident in his 'Chains like the sea'. The work is inspired by a poem by Dylan Thomas, as Rands uses the sounds of bells to map out life, from birth to death.

And in Composers' Rooms, Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores the urban workspace which the composer Emily Hall shares with a community of other musicians and visual artists.

Bernard Rands: Danza petrificada

BBC Philharmonic, Clark Rundell (conductor)

Bernard Rands: Cello Concerto

Johannes Moser (cello)

Composers' Rooms: Emily Hall and her urban workspace

Hans Werne Henze: Heliogabalus Imperator

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Oliver Knussen (conductor)

Bernard Rands: Chains like the sea

BBC Philharmonic, Clark Rundell (conductor).

Ivan Hewett marks the 80th birthday of leading contemporary composer Bernard Rands.

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Nicholas Daniel (oboe, oboe d'amore, cor anglais)

Diego Masson (conductor)

Simon Holt: Capriccio Spettrale (revised version: premiere) (12:08)

Richard Causton: Chamber Symphony (world premiere) (22:27)

Bruno Maderna: Oboe Concerto No 1 (19:09)

Vic Hoyland: Hey Presto!... moon - flower - bat (world premiere) (17:11)

The Birmingham Contemporary Music Group play Simon Holt, Richard Causton and Vic Hoyland.

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Jo Kondo: Standing

Stefan Wolpe: Piece in Two Parts for Six Players

Oliver Knussen: Requiem - Songs for Sue

Jo Kondo: Three Songs Tennyson Sung (world premiere)

Morton Feldman: The Viola in My Life II

Harrison Birtwistle: Silbury Air

Claire Booth (soprano)

Christopher Yates (viola)

BCMG, conductor Oliver Knussen

This concert was recorded last weekend in Brimingham, home of the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group- bcmg. It includes two works by leading Japanese composer Jo Kondo, who is celebrated for his delicately minimal soundworld.

Oliver Knussen's conducting and composing career has often taken him to the US and to Japan, fuelling an interest in the composers living and working in those countries. He is a long-standing champion of the music of Jo Kondo, whose new Sound Investment commission, Three Songs Tennyson Sung, for soprano and 7 instruments is unveiled in this concert. Kondo's music has been compared to the pointillist painting technique of Georges Seurat. He pays great attention to the colour and sonority of individual notes and instruments.

Knussen's Requiem - Songs for Sue, is a memorial piece for his wife Sue Knussen, which sets poetry by Rilke, Emily Dickinson, Machado and WH Auden. The American Morton Feldman's quiet, slowly unfolding music has a kinship with Jo Kondo. Harrison Birtwistle's classic piece Silbury Air was inspired by the mysterious earthwork called Silbury Hill.

The BCMG perform Jo Kondo, Morton Feldman, Stefan Wolpe and Oliver Knussen.

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Plus the third part of Hear and Now's archive feature on the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival at 40, in which Andrew Kurowski talks to Robert Worby about the Festival's changing perspectives, including recordings of Claudia Molitor's Paper Cut by Apartment House from the 2008 Festival and Rebecca Saunders' String Quartet by the Arditti Quartet at the 2012 Festival.

The Sound of the Week comes from electronic composer/DJ Lee Gamble, who has been inspired by aural hallucinations..

BCMG @ 30

Ond?ej Adကmek: Sinuous Voices (2004/09)

Rebecca Saunders: Into the Blue (1996)

Emilio Pom

In Birtwistle's two recent chamber operas, the tragic moment when Orpheus turns to look at Eurydice is the subject of The Corridor (2009), while in The Cure (2015) Jason implores his sorceress lover Medea to help his ailing father, Aeson.

Behind the production are some of Birtwistle's most trusted collaborators: librettist David Harsent, designer Alison Chitty, soprano Elizabeth Atherton and tenor Mark Padmore.

Recorded at the Linbury StudioTheatre, Covent Garden and presented by Tom Service in conversation with Harrison Birtwistle.

Harrison Birtwistle: The Corridor; The Cure

Eurydice/Medea..... Elizabeth Atherton (soprano)

Orpheus/Jason/Aeson...... Mark Padmore (tenor)

London Sinfonietta

Geoffrey Paterson (conductor)

(Co-commissioned and co-produced by the Aldeburgh Festival and The Royal Opera, with additional support from the London Sinfonietta)

Photo (c) Clive Barda.

Harrison Birtwistle's The Corridor and The Cure, with Elizabeth Atherton and Mark Padmore.

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Lasse Thoresen: Solbon (sunrise)

Craig Farr: Music for an(y) occasion

BIT20 and Nordic Voices

Rolf Wallin: Twine

BIT 20

Peter Ablinger: Studien nach der Natur

Nordic Voices.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces music from Norway with BIT20 Percussion and Nordic Voices.

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Gerhard Stäbler: Von Branntwein und Finsternissen

Gerhard Stäbler: Internet 1.9

Mark Knoop (piano)

Baltazar & Habbestad: Unruhischer Räume

Bjørnar Habbestad (elecroacoustic Flute)

Pascal Baltazar (computer)

Jennifer Walshe: This is why people O.D. on pills

Rolf Borch (clarinet)

Watch Tor Kristian Liseth's accompanying film (link below)

Kunsu Shim: 33 things

MoHa!

Anders Hana (guitar/keyboard):

Morten J. Olsen (drums/laptop).

Sara Mohr-Pietsch with music from Norway's Borealis Fesitval, from Kings Place, London.

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For five days each March, the composers, sound artists, improvisers and musicians of Borealis take over Bergen's art galleries, concert halls and warehouse spaces and 'rearrange the furniture of the musical world'. Pushing the settees around in tonight's programme are Norwegian Sigurd Fischer Olsen and Argentinian Santiago D퀀ez-Fischer. They introduce their world premieres in conversation with Sara Mohr-Pietsch, who also talks to composer and artist Jennifer Walshe about her manifesto for a new school of composition, 'The New Discipline'.

Sigurd Fischer Olsen: Sserenades

Santiago D퀀ez-Fischer: 　yelos desgarrar la tela del presagio

Sofia Jernberg (vocal)

BIT20 Ensemble

Peter S. Szilvay (conductor).

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Jan Martin Smørdal: Cell piece - reverse alarm variations (2018)

Catherine Lamb: Prisma Interius VII

Raven Chacon: The Journey of the Horizontal People (2016

Kristine Tjøgersen - Mist退rios do Corpo (2017)

Knut Vaage: Svev

Valen Trio.

Kate Molleson reports from the Borealis festival for experimental music in Bergen, Norway.

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Ivan Hewett talk to Matthias Pintscher about a work which encompassed more than 30 years of Boulez's composing life.

Although based on a text by Stephan Mallarm退, as Matthias Pintscher says: "Mallarm退's words in Pli selon pli don't really tell stories. Instead they offer abstract images that allow our imaginations to create our own experiences and associations.... Boulez takes us by the hand and leads us into this astonishingly beautiful garden and we are free to walk around it in any direction we choose."

Also in the programme, Une page d'退ph退m退ride, pour piano, one of Boulez's latest compositions is played by Hideki Nagano (piano)

Presented by Ivan Hewett

Boulez: Pli selon pli (Portrait de Mallarm退) for soprano and orchestra

Marisol Montsalvo (soprano)

Matthias Pintscher conductor (and Artist-in-Association).

BBC SSO under Matthias Pintscher in Boulez's Pli selon pli for soprano and orchestra.

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Brett Dean: Carlo (New version, UK Premiere)

BBC Singers; BBC Symphony Orchestra

David Robertson (conductor)

Philip Glass: Music in Twelve Parts (Excerpt)

The Philip Glass Ensemble; Michael Riesman (director)

Brett Dean: Fire Music (BBC co-commission, UK Premiere)

David Robertson (conductor).

Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces music by Brett Dean and Philip Glass.

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Brett Dean and Amanda Holden: Bliss

Harry Joy - Peter Coleman-Wright

Betty Joy - Merlyn Quaife

Honey B - Lorina Gore

Alex Duval - Barry Ryan

David .....David Corcoran

Lucy - Taryn Fiebig

Johnny Davis - Kanen Breen

Reverend Des/Police Officer/Nurse - Shane Lowrencev

Aldo/Nigel Clunes - Henry Choo

Mrs Dalton - Milijana Nikolic

Nurses - Sharon Olde, Jane Parkin

Police Officer/Betty's Doctor - Stephen Smith

Neighbour/Asylum Doctor - Malcolm Ede

Managing Directors - Malcolm Ede, Christopher Hillier, David Lewis, Sam Roberts-Smith, Sam Sakker

Opera Australia

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Elgar Howarth - conductor

Recorded at the Edinburgh International Festival in September 2010.

11.50pm

Brett Dean: Komarov's Fall

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Andre de Ridder - conductor.

Brett Dean's opera Bliss, performed at the 2010 Edinburgh Festival.

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Ferneyhough: Second String Quartet

Quatuor Diotima

Ferneyhough: Pl怀tzlichkeit (UK premiere)

BBC SO, BBC Singers,

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Ferneyhough: Carceri d'Invenzione III

Ferneyhough: Missa Brevis

BBC Singers, James Morgan (conductor)

Ferneyhough: La Terre est un Homme

This concert spans the broad gamut of

Ferneyhough's fertile invention, from the Missa Brevis for 12 solo singers of 1969 to the UK premiere of Pl怀tzlichkeit , a 20-minute masterpiece for large orchestra. The programme also includes a rare chance to hear the third part of his Carceri d'Invenzione cycle, a seminal work of the 1980s inspired by Piranesi's etchings of imagined dungeons and infernal places of imprisonment. Discover the multiform artistic influences and ideas behind the work of a composer who represents the antithesis of the predictable, the enemy of the routine.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins performs music by Brian Ferneyhough.

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David Horne: Daedelus in Flight

Clark Rundell (conductor)

Joe Duddell: Nightswimming

Rie Nakajima: new work

Gordon Crosse: L'Enfant Sauvage

Dov Goldberg (clarinet)

Tim Williams (cimbalom)

Philip Grange: Focus and Fade

Clark Rundell (conductor).

Robert Worby with music by David Horne, Joe Duddell, Gordon Crosse and Philip Grange.

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Playlist:

Howard Skempton - Only The Sound Remains (extract)

Christopher Yates (viola)

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

Rolf Hind - A Single hair, a jasmine petal, seven mattresses, a pe

Thomas Simaku: Soliloquy for bass clarinet (excerpt)

Sarah Watts (bass clarinet)

Martin Suckling: What shall I give ?

Mr McFall's Chamber, with Nicholas Mulroy (tenor)

Kerry Andrew: Fall

Joyful Company of Singers, Peter Broadbent (conductor)

Kerry Andrew: Rhymes and Charms for Flyaway Things

John Powell Singers, John Powell (conductor) with Christopher Cromar (piano)

Dai Fujikura: away we play

Juice

Julian Joseph: Shadowball

Cleveland Watkiss (vocals), The Julian Joseph Quintet, Students from Jubilee Primary School, Hackney and Kingsmead Community School, Hackney

Graham Fitkin: PK

BBC Concert Orchestra, Keith Lockhart (conductor)

Emily Hall: The Nightingale and the Rose

Streetwise Opera

~Hear And Now 50:

Howard Skempton: Lento

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Huw Watkins: Violin Concerto

Alina Ibragimova (violin), BBC Symhony Orchestra, Edward Gardner (conductor).

A preview of the 2011 British Composer Awards. Hear and Now 50: Howard Skempton's Lento.

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Andr退 de Ridder conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a concert of premieres by four British-based composers, recorded in March at the Maida Vale studios.

Plus the latest in our series of diary pieces from composers Mira Calix and Larry Goves on the progress of their year long compositional project, "Exchange and Return".

Ian Vine: Writing on Water (Jennifer George [flute] / Ian Vine [piano, guitars, and electronics])

Lloyd Moore: Diabolus in Musica (world premiere)

Michael Langemann: Five Movements for Orchestra (world premiere)

Ian Vine: violet (world premiere)

Ian Vine: alizarin sun (London premiere)

Gavin Higgins: Dancing at the Edge of Hell (world premiere)

Ligeti: Ramifications (London Sinfonietta / Andr退 de Ridder [conductor])

BBC SO/Andre de Ridder perform Lloyd Moore, Michael Langemann, Ian Vine and Gavin Higgins.

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Hugh Wood: String Quartet No. 1

Giles Swayne: String Quartet No. 3

Castalian String Quartet

And in the latest instalment of the Hear and Now Fifty, pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard champions the music of maverick German composer Helmut Lachenmann and his 1980s work for ensemble Mouvement (- vor der Erstarrung); conductor Richard Bernas explains how the use of unconventional playing techniques created a rich and highly crafted soundworld the composer has described as musique concr耀te instrumentale.

Helmut Lachenmann: Mouvement (- vor der Erstarrung)

Ensemble Modern

Franck Ollu (conductor)

Recorded at the Aldeburgh Festival last month.

String Quartets by Giles Swayne, Hugh Wood, and Michael Nyman, plus Lachenmann's Mouvement

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Bryn Harrison: Repetitions in Extended Time (opening extract)

Plus Minus

Interview with Bryn Harrison, Aisha Orazbayeva and Mark Knoop

Bryn Harrison: Approaching the Receiving Memory

Aisha Orazbayeva (violin)

Mark Knoop (piano)

Elizabeth Arno (producer).

Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces Bryn Harrison's new work Receiving the Approaching Memory.

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Chris Mayo: The Llano Curve

Mark Bowden: Sudden Light

Anna Meredith: Barchan (Donal Bannister, trombone)

Emily Hall: Love Songs (Mara Carlyle, vocal)

Charlie Piper: Kick up the Fire

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Andrew Gourlay (conductor).

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales performs music by the Camberwell Composers' Collective

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The programme includes in-depth interviews with the composers about their different approaches to composing, as well as the full sets performed in the concert.

Carl Stone is a senior figure in American electronic music, and a pioneer in live computer music. He samples short clips from existing musics, and uses this material to create a rich and constantly changing textural music.

People Like Us (aka Vicki Bennett) also samples other music, but her approach is collage-based and more like a dream narrative exploring a particular theme - in this concert, she performs her extended work called The Mirror.

Robert Worby presents electronic music by Carl Stone and People Like Us

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Plus the latest in the series Modern Muses which looks behind some of the key composer-performer partnerships of our times. Jazz drummer Peter Erskine was one of Mark-Anthony Turnage's musical heroes who he'd first heard as the drummer in Weather Report in the late 70s. They talk about meeting in the 1990s and how and why Turnage re-wrote the drum part in his ground-breaking Blood on the Floor with Erskine's input. Ever since, a close musical friendship has flourished, resulting in further Erskine-inspired music.

Modern Muses: Peter Erskine and Mark-Anthony Turnage

Philip Thomas (piano).

Ivan Hewett reviews recent releases of new music with Zoe Martlew and Tom McKinney.

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The BBC SSO performs works by Charlotte Bray, John Hopkins, Diana Burrell and Thomas Hyde.

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Adrien Trybucki: Magma

Christophe Bertrand: Madrigal

Patrick Gigu耀re: Le sel de la terre

Thallein Ensemble

Atelier XX/21

members of Ensemble Court-Circuit

Mark-Anthony Turnage: Contusion

Darren Bloom: Five Brief Lessons

Joseph Phibbs: String Quartet No.1

Piatti Quartet

French new music experts Ensemble Court-Circuit join ensembles from the conservatoires of Birmingham and Lyon to perform works by some of the most inventive French contemporary composers celebrating micro-tonality and the physicality of sound. And from the UK, the Piatti Quartet showcase new quartets by British and American composers.

Also tonight, a new piece for junk electronics by Vitalija Glovackyte recorded at a Kammer Klang concert in London.

Tom McKinney presents new music from the Cheltenham Festival.

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Gabriel Jackson: Sanctum est verum lumen

Ligeti: Lux aeterna

Michael Zev Gordon: Allele

Tallis: Spem in alium

New London Chamber Choir

Conducted by James Weeks

Plus Sir Peter Maxwell Davies conducts the BBC Philharmonic in his own imaginative and witty mix of old and new, his foxtrot for orchestra on a pavan by John Bull, 'St Thomas Wake'.

Playlist:

Peter Maxwell Davies: In Nomine II (excerpt)

London Sinfonietta / David Atherton

Decca 475 6166. Disc 1 Track 10

Peter Maxwell Davies: In Nomine V (excerpt)

Decca 475 6166. Disc 1 Track 12

Concert items:

Recorded at the Cheltenham Festival on the 10 July 2010

Beethoven: Piano Sonata in E minor Op. 90, 1st movt (excerpt)

Andras Schiff (piano)

ECM 476 6189. Track 1

Goehr: String Quartet No. 3 (excerpt)

Lindsay String Quartet

Wergo WER 60093 (LP) S2/1

Tye: Dum transisset II (excerpt)

Hesperion XX

Astree E8708. Track 15

Brian Ferneyhough: Dum transisset I-IV (excerpt)

Arditti String Quartet

BBC Recording

Peter Maxwell Davies: St Thomas Wake

BBC Philharmonic / Peter Maxwell Davies

Collins Classics 13082. Track 7

Choral works by Gabriel Jackson, Gyorgy Ligeti, Michael Zev Gordon - and Thomas Tallis.

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Rolf Hind: Horse Sacrifice

Param Vir: Hayagriva

Rolf Hind: Sit, Stand, Walk (world premiere)

Jonathan Harvey: Sringara Chaconne

Also tonight, Sara reports on Rolf Hind's meditation course for musicians at the Guildhall School.

Music inspired by Eastern philosophy, by Rolf Hind, Param Vir and Jonathan Harvey.

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There's also the first of two reports from Australian broadcaster Julian Day on cutting-edge Australian composers and new-music performers who are living and working in Europe.

Ivan Hewett presents.

Peter Sculthorpe: Earth Cry

Nigel Westlake: String Quartet No.2

William Barton: Hypersonic

Matthew Hindson: Didgeribluegrass

Goldner String Quartet

William Barton (didgeridoo)

Nigel Westlake: Entomology

Tall Poppies Ensemble.

The Goldner String Quartet plays music by leading Australian composers.

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HK Gruber: Manhattan Broadcasts

Jennifer Higdon: river sings a song to trees (from CityScape)

John Woolrich: Whitel's Ey

Richard Rijnvos: NYConcerto

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Garry Walker, conductor

John Snijders, piano

Also, Robert takes part in a London Soundwalk, led by soundscape composer Hildegard Westerkamp.

Robert Worby introduces cityscapes in music, from Gruber, Woolrich, Higdon and Rijnvos.

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Ivan Hewett talks to Colin Matthews about three dazzling orchestral scores, recorded especially for tonight's Hear and Now in MediaCity, Salford as part of the Royal Northern College of Music's recent In Focus series.

Premiered at the BBC Proms in 2010, Colin Matthews's Violin Concerto is daring in its anti-heroic quality as the solo violin floats above an orchestral haze conjured up with typically brilliant orchestration. Threnody - dedicated to the memory of Toru Takemitsu - and Broken Symmetry date from the 1990s and form part of a much larger cycle. Colin Matthews describes Broken Symmetry as like a machine going out of control.

Also tonight, Philip Glass's Icarus at the Edge of Time; discover the boy who challenges the awesome power of a black hole and the unyielding forces of Einstein's theory of general relativity. Originally created as part of a spectacular science fiction film created and directed by AL and AL and based on a stunning book by the world-renowned theoretical physicist Brian Greene the BBC Philharmonic give this UK premiere with Brian Greene as the narrator.

Colin Matthews: Violin Concerto; Threnody; Broken Symmetry

Daniel Pioro (violin), BBC Philharmonic, Clark Rundell (conductor)

c. 11.00pm Modern Muses

Michael Nyman and contralto Hilary Summers discuss a 20-year musical collaboration, including Nyman's 2014 'War Work'.

c. 11.20pm

Philip Glass: Icarus at the Edge of Time

Brian Greene (narrator), BBC Philharmonic, Duncan Ward (conductor)

Image of Colin Matthews (c) Maurice Foxall.

Ivan Hewett talks to composer Colin Matthews and introduces music by Philip Glass.

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Luciano Berio: Chamber Music

Per Nørg倀rd: Harp Concerto No. 2: Through Thorns (UK premiere)

Thomas Ad耀s: The Origin of the Harp

Gerald Barry: Feldman's Sixpenny Editions (World Premiere)

Tunde Jegede (kora)

Allison Bell (soprano)

Helen Tunstall (harp)

London Sinfonietta

conductor Thomas Ad耀s

The works are interspersed with traditional kora music played by Tunde Jegede.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch with music by Luciano Berio, Per Norgard, Thomas Ades and Gerald Barry.

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Anton Lukoszevieze (cello)

Chordos String Quartet

Egidija Medeksaite: Oscillum (cello and live-electronics) 12:23

Extract from 'El Rue Rue' (Four voiced Sutartine)

Performed by A Gurskiene, G Rimsaite, Daudytes, A Fokas

1993 CD Lituanus JACD065 Track 3

Ricardas Kabelis: Invariations (string quartet) UK premiere 16:03

Arturas Bumsteinas: Heap of Language (after Robert Smithson - solo cello, string quartet and live electronics) - world premiere 10:08

George Maciunas: In Memoriam to Adriano Olivetti (string quartet and cello) 5:09

Rytis Mazulis: 14 Canons (solo cello and live electronics) - world premiere 13:57

Bronius Kutavicius: Anno cum tettigonia (string quartet and electronics) - UK premiere 16:17

Zoe Martlew with a concert of contemporary Lithuanian music from Kings Place in London.

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American minimalists Terry Riley and David Lang are programmed alongside young Irish composers, and the concert ends with an extended work for traditional Irish singer and ensemble by Donnacha Dennehy.

David Lang: Forced March

Linda Buckley: Do You Remember the Planets

Terry Riley: Ancient Giant Hairy Nude Warriors Racing Down the Slopes of Battle

Jonathan Nangle: our headlights blew softly into the black

Donnacha Dennehy: Grက Agus Bကs

Iarla O'Lionကird (sean n　s singer)

Crash Ensemble conducted by Alan Pierson.

Crash Ensemble plays Terry Riley, David Lang, Linda Buckley and Donnacha Dennehy.

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Tom McKinney presents highlights from the CrossCurrents Festival at Birmingham University.

Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and sessions

Artist Tacita Dean describes filming Cage's partner Merce Cunningham performing a new dance solo to the work; Richard Bernas puts the piece into the context of the 1950s New York art scene; plus an archive recording of Cage himself explaining some of the ideas that led him to compose a piece for a performer who makes no sound.

Ukeoirn O'Connor: One Song

Jennifer Walshe (voice) 2'05`

The Dowager Marchylove: The Wasistas of Thereswhere

Jennifer Walshe (voice) 15'34`

John Cage: 2'52`

A unique realisation for radio by Robert Worby and Felix Carey 2'52`

Michael Pisaro: melody, silence

Michael Pisaro (guitar) 16'05`

Detleva Verens: Scintillia

Jennifer Walshe (voice) 4'32

Violetta Mahon: Dream Diaries

Ensemble Ascolta 16'53`

Robert Worby presents Jennifer Walshe and Wandelweiser playing at Cut and Splice 2011.

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Distractfold's programming aims to reveal the hidden sonorities within instruments and objects through processing, and explore the temporal and spatial dislocation of sound through loudspeakers. Tonight we hear acoustic and spatially diffused electroacoustic works by Steven Kazuo Takasugi, Denis Smalley, Fabrice Fitch, Helena Gough and Mauricio Pauly. And from nearby Hall退 at St Michael's we listen in on some of the sound installations that were on offer throughout the weekend including works by Adam Basanta and Christina Kubisch, whose Electrical Walks has also been specially recreated as a binaural online experience for BBC Radio 3 listeners.

Steven Kazuo Takasugi: The Man Who Couldn't Stop Laughing - music theatre for amplified quartet and playback (2012-14, UK Premiere)

Denis Smalley: Empty Vessels - spatially diffused electroacoustic work (1997)

Fabrice Fitch: Agricola IXe - for bass clarinet and string trio (2016)

Helena Gough: Silt - spatially diffused electroacoustic work (2007)

Mauricio Pauly: Charred Edifice Shining - for amplified string trio with performative electronics (2017)

Elsa Justel: Gwerz - 8-channel electroacoustic work (2002)

Cut and Splice is a partnership between BBC Radio 3 and Sound and Music, the national charity for new music. First broadcast in March 2017.

Recordings from the 2017 Cut and Splice festival, including Steven Kazuo Takasugi.

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Robert Worby presents recordings from the 2017 Cut & Splice festival of experimental music and sound art, which was curated and performed by the new music ensemble Distractfold. The event was staged at Hall退 St Peter's, a Grade II-listed deconsecrated church in the former industrial district of Ancoats, Manchester.

Distractfold's programming aims to reveal the hidden sonorities within instruments and objects through processing, and explore the temporal and spatial dislocation of sound through loudspeakers. Tonight we hear acoustic and spatially diffused electroacoustic works by Steven Kazuo Takasugi, Denis Smalley, Fabrice Fitch, Helena Gough and Mauricio Pauly. And from nearby Hall退 at St Michael's we listen in on some of the sound installations that were on offer throughout the weekend including works by Adam Basanta and Christina Kubisch, whose Electrical Walks has also been specially recreated as a binaural online experience for BBC Radio 3 listeners.

Steven Kazuo Takasugi: The Man Who Couldn't Stop Laughing - music theatre for amplified quartet and playback (2012-14, UK Premiere)

Denis Smalley: Empty Vessels - spatially diffused electroacoustic work (1997)

Fabrice Fitch: Agricola IXe - for bass clarinet and string trio (2016)

Helena Gough: Silt - spatially diffused electroacoustic work (2007)

Mauricio Pauly: Charred Edifice Shining - for amplified string trio with performative electronics (2017)

Elsa Justel: Gwerz - 8-channel electroacoustic work (2002)

Cut and Splice is a partnership between BBC Radio 3 and Sound and Music, the national charity for new music. First broadcast in March 2017.

Recordings from the 2017 Cut and Splice festival, including Steven Kazuo Takasugi.

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And in the Hear And Now 50 series, composer and rock musician Tyondai Braxton explains why he is so inspired by the Po耀me 退lectronique by Edgard Var耀se, while Gillian Moore tells the story of Var耀se's long struggle to create a futuristic music that he finally achieved in this work, composed for an array of hundreds of loudspeakers at the 1958 Brussels World Fair.

Robert Worby presents music by Jennifer Walshe and Wandelweiser from Cut and Splice 2011.

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Dai Fujikura: Secret Forest (UK premiere)

Larry Goves: Things that are blue, things that are white and things that are black (World Premiere)

Aldo Clementi Triplum

Also a report on the exhibition of John Cage's artworks at the Baltic in Gateshead, and a preview of this year's Soundwaves Festival in Brighton (please scroll down for a link to more info).

In the report on the John Cage exhibition excerpts of the following can be heard...

John Cage: 10'40.3' from 26'1.1499' for a string player version for violoncello solo

John Cage: etudes boreales for percussionist using a piano

John Cage: harmony XXIV for violoncello and piano

John Cage: harmony XIII for violoncello and piano

Performed by Friedrich Gauwerky (violoncello) and Mark Knoop (piano)

Taken from the new CD on Wergo (WER 6718 2)

John Cage: Fontana Mix

Eberhard Blum (flute)

CD: Hat Hut (hat ART CD 6125)

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music by Dai Fujikura, Larry Goves and Aldo Clementi.

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Stephen Elcock: Hammering

Robin Walker: The Stone King

David Sawer: the greatest happiness principle

David Sawer: Piano Concerto

Emily Howard: Magnetite

Rolf Hind, piano

BBC Philharmonic

James MacMillan, conductor.

Ivan Hewett presents music by David Sawer, Robin Walker, Stephen Elcock and Emily Howard.

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Chiyoko Szlavnics

Inner Voicings (2014) (Premiere)

Klangforum Wien, Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Wolfgang Rihm

Sound as Will, for trumpet and ensemble (2014) (Premiere)

Marco Blaauw (trumpet)

Peter Ablinger

POINTS AND VIEWS (2014) (Premiere)

1. Tintelstrahldruck, 6,40 x 6,40m, 16 parts

2. Ensemble, 2 Pianos, 2 Loudspeakers, 16 parts (2014)

Ensemble Modern, Jonathan Stockhammer (director)

approx 11.10pm

Modern Muses, Hear and Now's downloadable series exploring some of the key composer performer partnerships of our time. This week, as part of Radio 3's Classical Voice season, David Lang and vocalist Shara Worden talk about their collaboration on death speaks; Lang's 21st-century take on Schubert song was inspired by Shara Worden's voice, at once rooted in classical and indie pop music.

Then from the 2015 Borealis Festival, Bergen:

Johannes Kreidler

Living in a Box for large ensemble and sampler

BIT20 Ensemble, Jessica Cottis (director).

Tom Service presents highlights from the 2014 Donaueschingen and Borealis Music Festivals.

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Founded in 1921 by a committee which included Richard Strauss and Ferrucio Busoni, this festival held each October in the small south-western German town of Donaueschingen, is one of the most important events in the international contemporary music calendar.

In Malin B倀ng's new piece the orchestra is acted on by processes of rapprochement and rejection, confrontation and merging and considers how a few can influence and manipulate the opinion of a majority. Ivan Fedele works with the musicians' breathing and the emergence and expiry of sounds. Marco Stroppa focuses on a poem by William Butler Yeats in his concerto for electronics and orchestra: a tender declaration of love to the creatures of nature. And in Isabel Mundry‘s scoring of an interview with a refugee called Mouhanad she demonstrates both a private and a wider political concern.

Tom Service talks to the festival's artistic director, Bj怀rn Gottstein about this music and also about some of the key cultural currents at work in music today.

Ivan Fedele: Air on Air for basset horn and orchestra (2018)

Malin B倀ng: splinters of ebullient rebellion (2018) for orchestra

Isabel Mundry: Mouhanad for a cappella choir (2018)

Marco Stroppa: Come Play With Me for electronics and orchestra

Michele Marelli, basset horn

IRCAM

SWR Vocal Ensemble, Florian Helgathand (conductor)

SWR Symphony Orchestra, Pascal Roph退 (conductor)

Tom Service presents music by Malin Bang and Marco Stroppa.

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Tom Service presents a handful of last year's Festival highlights including the microtonal adventures of a trombone octet by Georg Friedrich Haas, Orm Finnendahl's intriguing mix of the human, electronic and mechanical, and an epic for electronics and ensemble from Olga Neuwirth inspired by Herman Melville, Venice and Luigi Nono.

Georg Friedrich Haas: Trombone Octet

Hanover Trombone Unit

Orm Finnendahl: AST

Mosaik Ensemble

Enno Poppe (director)

Olga Neuwirth: Le Encantadas o le avventure nel mare delle meraviglie

Ensemble intercontemporain

Matthias Pintscher (director).

Tom Service presents highlights from the 2015 Donaueschingen Musiktage.

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Plus, composer Jennifer Walshe's set from The New Experimentalists concert from earlier this year at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.

And, in Composers' Rooms, Sara is at the Cambridgeshire home of Alexander Goehr.

Fumes

Flute concerto

Adam Walker (flute)

Heart of Darkness - suite

with Simon Callow (narrator)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Duncan Ward (conductor).

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents the BBC NOW performing at the 2014 Vale of Glamorgan Festival.

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Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and sessions

Photo by Brian Roberts.

Tom McKinney presents Elaine Mitchener's powerful music theatre piece Sweet Tooth.

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Lee Gamble: Karstics Part 1 (world premiere)

David Geoghegan (trumpet)

Matt Palmer (trumpet)

Sasha Koushk-Jalali (tuba)

Eliane Radigue: Occam XXI

Angharad Davies (violin)

Eliane Radigue: Occam River XV (world premiere)

Dominic Lash (double bass)

Eliane Radigue: Occam XVII

Lee Gamble: Karstics Part 2

Robert Ames (viola)

Oliver Coates (cello)

Sasha Koushk-Jalali (tuba).

New music by Lee Gamble and Eliane Radigue, performed in a cave in Derbyshire.

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There's also the second of two reports from Australian broadcaster Julian Day on cutting-edge Australian composers and new-music performers who are living and working in Europe.

Presenter Ivan Hewett is joined in the studio by Daryl Buckley, artistic director of Elision Ensemble.

Michael Finnissy: Aijal

Liza Lim: Invisibility

David Lumsdaine: Kangaroo Hunt

John Rodgers: Amor (from Inferno)

Percy Grainger: Random Round

Michael Finnissy: Red Earth

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Martyn Brabbins (conductor).

Ivan Hewett presents the Elision Ensemble in new music by Australian composers.

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The Harmony of Morning (excerpt) 2:47

John Oliver Chorale

From CD KOCH 371782 Tk 3

Piano Sonata 22:32

Charles Rosen (piano)

From CD ETCETERA KTC 1008 Tk 2

Concerto for orchestra (excerpt) 1:42

London Sinfonietta

Oliver Knussen

From CD Virgin Classics VC 7915032 Tk 1

Penthode 19:22

Ensemble Intercontemporain

Pierre Boulez (conductor)

From CD ERATO ECD 75553 Tk 9

Quartet for strings no. 2 (excerpt) 0:34

Juilliard String Quartet

From CD Sony B 0000027J7

Adagio Tenebroso 17:30

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Oliver Knussen (conductor)

From CD Deutsche Grammophon DG 4596602 Tk 9

Ivan Hewett talks to composer Elliott Carter, who celebrates his 100th birthday in 2008.

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And in this week's episode in the Hear and Now Composers' Rooms series, Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits the new Master of the Queen's Music, Judith Weir.

Tom Service presents the BBC SSO performing music by Elliott Carter.

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Ivan Hewett presents a tribute to Elliott Carter and music from Eliane Radigue.

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Carter's 'Symphonia sum fluxae pretium spei' is a product of his ninth decade. It's a three-movement, forty-five minute orchestral tour de force inspired by seventeenth-century English poet Richard Crawshaw's conceit of observing human life from a bubble floating in the air. An image from William Carlos Williams's 'Rain' permeates Carter's 2002 'Boston Concerto'. 'As the rain falls so does your love bathe every open object of the world' provokes shimmering orchestration from Carter and a dedication to his wife, Helen.

Next month Ian Wilson celebrates reaching a mere half century. 'Causeway' is the final part of a trilogy reflecting aspects of Wilson's native Northern Ireland. Here, Northern Ireland's geology is the starting point and Wilson uses electronically-generated samples to evoke shifting tectonic plates, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions which pervade the orchestral texture, including a concertante group of flute, oboe, horn and trumpet.

And in Composers' Rooms, Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits Liza Lim's Manchester home.

Presented by Ivan Hewett

Elliott Carter: Boston Concerto

Diego Masson, conductor

Elliott Carter: Symphonia sum fluxae pretium spei

Ryan Wigglesworth, conductor

Liza Lim: Diabolical Birds

Zurich New Music Ensemble

Jürg Henneberger, conductor

Ian Wilson: Causeway

Ulster Orchestra

JoAnn Falletta, conductor.

Poetry-inspired music by Elliott Carter and a recent work, Causeway, by Ian Wilson.

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Music by Emily Howard, words by Selma Dimitrijevic after a short story by Robert Silverberg.

Dan Ayling - director

Nicholas Morris - The Invisible

Anna Dennis - The Other Invisible

Anne Mason - Mother / The Judge / Client 1 / Walker 2

Peter Savidge - Father / Brothel Owner / Clerk 4 / Walker 1

Caryl Hughes - Sister / Clerk 1 / Prostitute 2 / Vendor

Daniel Norman - Guard 1 / Clerk 3 / Client 2 / Ticket Buyer

Nathan Vale - Guard 2 / Clerk 2 / Prostitute 1 / Ticket Seller

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

Richard Baker - conductor

Chamber Opera in one act

Aldeburgh Festival commission, world premiere.

Also in the programme, from commercial disc:

"Threnos" (2015)

Lucy Goddard (mezzo soprano)

Simon Whiteley (bass)

"Leviathan" (2014-15)

Scapegoat

Photo credit - Stephen Cummiskey.

Emily Howard's new opera, To See The Invisible, recorded at the Aldeburgh Festival.

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Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and sessions

The Emulsion Sinfonietta perform:

Hans Koller: Happy Mountain (premiere)

Chris Montague: Beamish

Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian: Muted Lines (premiere)

Trish Clowes: Tap Dance (for Baby Dodds) (premiere)

Percy Pursglove: He, whose dreams will never unfold (for DP) (premiere)

Bobbie Jane Gardner: Tapeworm

Joe Cutler: Karembeu's Guide to the Complete Defensive Midfielder

Anna Olsson: The Woodcarver (premiere)

Iain Ballamy: Chantries

Colin Stetson: Sorrow - A reimagining of Gorecki's 3rd Symphony.

Colin Stetson (saxophones and contrabass clarinet), Matt Bauder and Dan Bennett (saxophones and clarinet), Megan Stetson (voice), Sarah Neufeld and Tobias Preisig (violin), Niamh Molloy (cello), Justin Walter (keyboard), Shahzad Ismaily (synthesizer), Ryan Ferreira and Grey Mcmurray (guitar), Greg Fox (drums)

[recorded at Bates Mill Blending Shed during the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival].

Jazz saxophonist Trish Clowes talks to Sara Mohr-Pietsch about her Emulsion V project.

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Jaan Raats: Concerto for Eight Pianists on Four Pianos op.126 (2005)

Ulo Krigul: Aquaspherics (2010)

Erkki-Sven Tuur: Crystallisatio for 3 flutes, glockenspiel, strings and live electronics (1995)

Tallinn Chamber Orchestra/Tonu Kaljuste

Urmas Sisask: Voices of the Universe op.88 (2002)

Arvo Part: Fur Alina (1976)

Lauri Vainmaa (piano).

The Estonian Piano Orchestra in concert at the 2011 Eeste Fest in London.

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Plus 'Composers' Rooms': in the first of a major new series of conversations with composers in their workspaces, Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits Oliver Knussen at his home in Suffolk, talking to him about the objects which surround him in his kitchen-cum-study, from miniature owls to posters of Berg and Stravinsky, and how they influence the music he writes.

Thomas Bensdorp: For the amusement of all good children who can neither read nor run

Curious Chamber Players

Martjin Padding: HOP

Ereprijs

Composers' Rooms: Oliver Knussen

Philippe Manoury: In Situ

Ensemble Modern

WDR Symphony Orchestra

Fran瀀ois-Xavier Roth (conductor)

Peter Adriaansz: Phrase

Ensemble Klang.

Tom Service presents new music from two European festivals: Gaudeamus and Donaueschingen.

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Exchange and Return involved Mira Calix sharing and exchanging her artistic experiences, practices and background, rooted in dance music and experimental electronic music, with two composers who come from a more formal classical background. Larry Goves and Tansy Davies in return, taught Mira Calix the fundamentals of writing for and orchestrating real instruments.

~Hear And Now has been following the project across the year, and was present at the Britten Studios in Aldeburgh for the final concert, where the music composed across the year was performed.

Performers:

Peter Sparks (Clarinet)

Catrin Win Morgan (Violin)

Haruko Motohashi (Violin)

David Aspin (Viola)

Oliver Coates (Cello)

Sarah Nicholls (Piano)

Sarah Cresswell (Percussion)

Mira Calix & Larry Goves (Live Electronics).

Sara Mohr Pietsch presents music from Mira Calix, Larry Goves and Tansy Davies.

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They also discuss the influence of American maverick John Cage, and introduce two of his early works - Six Short Inventions and Imaginary Landscape No 1, played by Apartment House.

John Cage: Six Short Inventions (7:19)

John Cage: Imaginary Landscape No 1 (7:28)

Christopher Fox: Comme ses Paroles (74:24)

Anton Lukoszevieze (cello)

James Weeks (conductor)

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents experimental music by John Cage and Christopher Fox.

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Including music from the Principal Sound festival performed by Explore Ensemble, the latest in Hear and Now's Modern Muses series with composer Laurence Crane and percussionist H倀kon Stene, and Radio 3's Embedded Composer in 3, Matthew Kaner, joins Robert to review new music releases.

Enno POPPE: Gel怀schte Lieder

FELDMAN: Spring of Chosroes

GRISEY: Talea

ROMITELLI: Domeniche alla periferia dell'impero

Nicholas Moroz & Arne Gieshoff (artistic directors)

New releases with Matthew Kaner:

Mark BOWDEN: Lyra - 3rd movement (extract)

Oliver Coates (cello)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Grant Llewellyn (conductor)

NMC D214

Hans ABRAHAMSEN: Three Little Nocturnes - no.3

Arditti Quartet

Frode Haltli (accordion)

ECM 2496

Angharad DAVIES/Tisha MUKARJI: For Lucio II

Angharad Davies (violin)

Tisha Mukarji (piano)

ANOTHER TIMBRE AT99

Peter ADRIAANZ: Enclosures - no.1

Trio Scordatura

ERGODOS ER25

Image (c) Shelia Burnett.

Robert Worby presents Explore Ensemble at the 2016 Principal Sound Festival.

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As part of Radio 3's 70th season, the German composer and artist Florian Hecker creates a major new electroacoustic work inspired by the pioneering spirit of the Third Programme. "Inspection - Maida Vale Project" uses computer generated sound, a synthetic voice, and sound processed through a legendary piece of vintage equipment, the EMS Vocoder 5000, used by the original BBC Radiophonic Workshop at Maida Vale in the 1970s. In partnership with BBC Research and Development, Hecker's new multi-channel surround sound piece will be presented in 360 degree binaural sound via the Radio 3 website, in the BBC's first ever live binaural broadcast.

Alongside the new work, Florian Hecker curates a programme of music by other composers, exploring the analysis and transformation of sound.

A new work by Florian Hecker for the BBC's first-ever live binaural broadcast.

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Conlon Nancarrow: String Quartet No.3 (1987)

Tom Chiu: RETROCON (2015)

Julian Anderson: String Quartet No.2 "300 Weihnachtslieder" (2014)

Michael Gordon: Clouded Yellow (2010)

Pauline Oliveros: Dream Time (1995); Bye Bye Butterfly (1965); Trog Arena (1989); Deep Hockets; I of IV (1966).

Flux Quartet in Nancarrow, Chiu, Anderson and Gordon. Plus a tribute to Pauline Oliveros.

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(photo of Ed McKeon by Katya Evdokimova)

David Sawer: Byrnan Wood (20:46)

Jac Van Steen (conductor)

Arlene Sierra: Aquilo (10:30)

Huw Watkins: Piano Concerto (21:47)

Huw Watkins (piano)

Christian Jost: Cocoonsymphonie (23:56)

The BBC NOW performs music by four international composers: Sawer, Sierra, Watkins, Jost.

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Robert Worby presents Francisco Lopez performing live from London's Cafe Oto.

Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and sessions

Frank Zappa: 200 Motels

Claron McFadden, soprano

Tony Guilfoyle (Frank)

Richard Strange (Narrator, Rance)

Ian Shaw (Mark)

Brendan Reilly (Howard, Cowboy Burt)

Sophia Brous (Groupie 1, Larry the Dwarf)

Diva Zappa (Groupie 2, Lucy)

Jessica Hynes (Good Conscience)

Jay Rayner (Bad Conscience, Ginger)

Scott Thunes (Jeff)

London Voices

Southbank Sinfonia

BBC Concert Orchestra

Jurjen Hempel, conductor.

Tom Service presents the UK premiere of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels.

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Fr退d退ric Aquaviva's £p؀@n®di؀$n (LPOANRDIOSN) is a concerto for town and voice, using collaged ambient recordings from the streets of London and Paris, and the virtuoso voice of Lore Lixenberg. The title is an amalgamation of the letters featured in the two cities.

Iain Chambers' House Of Sound is a sound work that time-travels from the sounds of medieval London to the present day.

Fr退d退ric Acquaviva's piece is a co-production between BBC Radio 3 and Radio France.

Iain Chambers' piece was commissioned by West Deutsche Rundfunk.

City-inspired radiophonic compositions by Iain Chambers and Frederic Acquaviva

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Tom Service talks to Helmut Lachenmann who turns 80. Plus Peter Evans at Baltic 39.

Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and sessions

Pierre Boulez: Domaines

Robert Plane (clarinet)

Eric Tanguy: Eclipse

Pascal Dusapin Extenso

Otto Tausk (conductor)

Pascal Dusapin: Niobe

Claire Booth (soprano)

Philharmonia Voices

Franck Ollu (conductor).

Ivan Hewett with music by Boulez, Eric Tanguy, Pascal Dusapin and Bernard Parmegiani.

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In the fourth of our new series Composers' Rooms, Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits Dai Fujikura at his London studio inside a converted fire station.

And to mark the 50th birthday this year of the American Nonesuch label, a look back at one of its pioneering early electronic albums, Morton Subotnick's Silver Apples of the Moon, in a feature that includes contributions from Four Tet's Kieran Hebden and writer Rob Young.

Elliott Sharp: Occam's Razor for double string quartet

Elysian Quartet and Nuntempa

Robert Ashley String Quartet Describing the Motion of Large Real Bodies for string quartet and electronics

Elysian Quartet and 42 electronic artists directed by James Dooley

Earle Brown: December 1952

Thallein Ensemble directed by Howard Skempton

Morton Subotnick: Silver Apples of the Moon (Part B).

Robert Worby presents music from the 2014 Frontiers Festival in Birmingham.

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by the Royal Philharmonic Society and BBC Radio 3 that offers performances of works that have

been unjustly neglected from the concert stage.

Ensemble 10/10's concert also featured world premieres from Liverpool associated composers, Stephen Pratt and Graham Warner.

And Ivan introduces the latest instalment of the Hear and Now Fifty, musician and writer David Toop celebrates Toru Takemitsu's soundtrack for Masaki Kobayashi's 1964 chiller Kwaidan, based on Lefcadio Hearn's retelling of Japananese ghost stories; film scholar Peter Grilli describes how the composer worked closely with the director and recording technicians to create a soundworld that was integral to the drama of the film.

Programme details:

Stephen Pratt On Reflection (wp)

Graham Warner Viroconium Cornoviorum (wp)

Gary Carpenter Azaleas (An RPS/BBC Radio 3 ENCORE work)

~Hear And Now Fifty Toru Takemitsu's soundtrack for Masaki Kobayashi's 1964 chiller Kwaidan

Gary Carpenter One Million Tiny Operas About Britain

Hans Abrahamsen Herbstlied

Rebecca-Jane Lea (soprano)

Louise Ashcroft (mezzo-soprano)

Ensemble 10/10 conducted by Clark Rundell

Recorded at The Cornerstone, Liverpool Hope University Creative Campus, in November 2011.

Ensemble 10/10 marks Gary Carpenter's 60th birthday. Plus Hear and Now 50: Takemitsu.

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Gavin Bryars: At Portage and Main

Thierry Pecou: L'Arbre aux fleurs

Francois Narboni: Rigodon

(recorded at King's Place, London, on 14 May 2012)

Hugues Dufourt: Hommage a Charles Negre

Guildhall New Music Ensemble, conducted by Pierre-Andre Valade.

French music from Percussions Claviers de Lyon, and Pauline Oliveros in Hear and Now 50.

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Sarah Leonard (soprano)

Alison Wells (mezzo-soprano)

John White and Roger Hamilton (conductors)

John White: Symphonies 3 and 4

Charlotte Bray: Dos poemas de amor

Nicola LeFanu: Songs without Words

Nadja Gabriela Plein: Three Moons

David Lumsdaine: A Tree Telling of Orpheus.

Robert Worby introduces music from Gemini's festival held last summer in London.

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In Composers' Rooms, Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits the home of Claudia Molitor on the Sussex coast.

Haas - Introduktion und Transsonation

Klangforum Wien

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Haas - Saxophone Concerto

Marcus Weiss (saxophone)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Haas - String Quartet No.2

Arditti Quartet.

Robert Worby presents a focus on the music of Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas.

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Watch 'Viola, Viola' (link below)

George Benjamin: Piano Figures

George Benjamin: Viola Viola

George Benjamin: At First Light

George Benjamin: A Mind of Winter

George Benjamin: Palilmpsests

Claire Booth soprano

Paul Silverthorne viola

Eniko Magyar viola

Royal Academy of Music Manson Ensemble

London Sinfonietta

George Benjamin (conductor/piano)

Written for London Sinfonietta, At First Light is a classic illustration of Benjamin's dazzling sonic landscapes. The world of Turner's painting 'Norham Castle, Sunrise' is stunningly evoked through musical colours, textures and inventive harmonies.

A Mind of Winter illustrates a different side to Benjamin's musical flair, of setting voice with orchestral ensemble, as the soprano blends with the crystalline world of Wallace Stevens' poem The Snow Man. This performance of A Mind of Winter also highlights Benjamin's skills as a distinguished coach. The next generation of performers from the Royal Academy of Music Manson Ensemble will take their place on stage alongside London Sinfonietta.

The concert ends with the explosive orchestral Palimpsests, a gripping and dynamic work fusing violent brass against translucent wind and strings.

Tom Service interviews composer George Benjamin and introduces a concert of his music.

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George Crumb: Haunted Landscape (17:04)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

George Crumb: Makrokosmos Volume 1 (12 fantasy pieces after the Zodiac for amplified piano) (27:43)

Joanna McGregor (piano)

George Crumb: Ancient Voices of Children (22:31)

Louis Watkins (soprano)

Anna Patalong (mezzo-soprano)

Guildhall New Music Ensemble

Richard Baker (conductor).

Tom Service talks to and introduces music by American composer George Crumb.

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Tom McKinney talks to Gerald Barry about his latest work prior to its European premiere at London's Barbican Centre at the end of November. Inspired by Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass, Alice's Adventures Under Ground is a burlesque with the darkest of undertones: a game of croquet is conflated with 19th-century piano exercises, punctuated by the sounds of a guillotine, and a tune is stolen from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. All are brought together in a madcap celebration of the furthest reaches of both language and music.

Before Alice, there's a chance to hear Gerald Barry's earliest operatic experiment in a first broadcast of a take on La Traviata which he made for Irish Radio in 1980.

Gerald Barry: La Traviata for Actors and Megaphones

Peig Monahan, S退amus Forde, Gerald Barry (actors)

rec. 1980

Gerald Barry: Alice's Adventures Under Ground (European premiere)

Barbara Hannigan - Alice

Allison Cook - Red Queen, Queen of Hearts, Duchess, Mock Turtle

Hilary Summers - White Queen, Dormouse, Tiger Lily, Mock Turtle, Cook

Allan Clayton -: White King, White Rabbit, Mad Hatter, Tweedledum, Frog Footman, Fawn

Peter Tantsits - March Hare, Tweedledee, Mock Turtle, Fish Footman

Mark Stone - White Knight, Cheshire Cat, Mock Turtle, Soldier

Joshua Bloom - Humpty Dumpty, King of Hearts, Red Knight, Mock Turtle

Britten Sinfonia

Thomas Ad耀s conductor.

The European premiere of Gerald Barry's opera Alice's Adventures under Ground.

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Gerald Barry: La jalousie taciturne; Wiener Blut; Kitty Lie Over Across From the Wall; Day; From The Intelligence Park

Nicolas Hodges (piano)

Clark Rundell (conductor)

Recorded at MediaCityUK, Salford, in January

Mark Simpson: The Immortal (world premiere)

Mark Stone (baritone)

EXAUDI

Manchester Chamber Choir

Juanjo Mena (conductor)

Recorded at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, last week.

Ivan Hewett presents music by Mark Simpson and Gerald Barry played by the BBC Philharmonic

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Wolfgang Rihm: Brahmsliebewalzer

Edward Pick (piano)

Benjamin Schweitzer: Lichtspielszene

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Andr退 de Ridder (conductor)

Barbara Heller: Anschlüsse

Torsten Rasch: Le Serpent Rouge (BBC Commission - wp)

Yeree Suh (soprano)

Andr退 de Ridder (conductor).

Ivan Hewett focuses on German music, including Benjamin Schweitzer and Torsten Rasch.

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Georg Friedrich Haas: in vain

London Sinfonietta, Emilio Pomarico (conductor)

Ligeti: Violin Concerto

Ilya Gringolts (violin),

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov (conductor).

London Sinfonietta in GF Haas's in vain and the BBC SSO in Ligeti's Violin Concerto.

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Born on the 10th October 1938 in Wisconsin, but resident in Germany since 1969, Gloria Coates is a leading figure in American contemporary music and has been instrumental in bringing American concert music to Europe. At the age of nine she began experimenting with tone clusters and glissandos, techniques that have characterised her music ever since. Sometimes described as a post-minimalist, her oeuvre includes chamber works, song, electronic musique concrete and a total of sixteen symphonies (the highest number of symphonies ever written by a woman composer) leading her to be described as 'the greatest woman symphonist'.

In this concert Ilan Volkov and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform the UK premiere of Gloria Coates' first symphony 'Music on Open Strings', a work that caused a sensation when premiered at the Warsaw Autumn Festival in 1978, and has each section of the orchestra tuned to an unconventional set of pitches. The UK premiere of 'Symphony No.7', dedicated to those who brought down the Berlin wall 'in PEACE', and the World Premiere of 'Symphony No.11'.

Also in tonight's show we have two pieces by Italian composer Salvatore Sciarrino recorded at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2018.

Kate Molleson presents three symphonies by American composer Gloria Coates.

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The programme also includes two other important British works from the '60s, Alexander Goehr's Pastorals (performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra) and Sir Harrison Birtwistle's Tragoedia (performed by the Melos Ensemble).

Works by Goehr and Birtwistle, and Maxwell Davies's Eight Songs for a Mad King.

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Brian Ferneyhough: Prometheus

Northern Sinfonia Wind

Alexander Goehr: To These Dark Steps/The Fathers are Watching

BCMG Sound Investment commission (world premiere)

Christopher Gillett (tenor)

Members of CBSO Youth Chorus

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

Oliver Knussen (conductor)

Three Constructions after Kurt Schwitters.

An Alexander Goehr premiere, plus works by Brian Ferneyhough and Christopher Fox.

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Alexander Goehr: Clarinet Quintet

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: The Last Island

Lionel Friend (conductor)

Claude Vivier: Lonely Child

Marie-Danielle Parent (soprano)

Orchestre Metropolitain de Montreal

Serge Garant (conductor).

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents works by Goehr and Maxwell Davies. Plus Vivier's Lonely Child.

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A meditation on Shakespeare's King Lear, presented by English Touring Opera, the production features Roderick Earle as Lear, Nigel Robson as Gloucester and Lina Markeby as Cordelia, with contemporary ensemble Aurora conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth.

The text for the opera is selected, distilled and re-arranged from Shakespeare's King Lear by the composer and the late Shakespeare scholar Sir Frank Kermode who passed away earlier this year. It emphasises one aspect of the great play: King Lear and the Earl of Gloucester, men who in their prime committed errors of judgment, bringing upon themselves their own tragic destinies.

by Alexander Goehr

Lear (King of Britain) - Roderick Earle

Goneril (Lear's eldest daughter) - Jacqueline Varsey

Regan (Lear's second daughter) - Julia Sporsen

Cordelia/Fool (Lear's youngest daughter/fool) - Lina Markeby

Earl of Gloucester (Lear's vassal) - Nigel Robson

Edgar (Gloucester's son) - Adrian Dwyer

Edmund (Gloucester's bastard) - Nicholas Garrett

Knight/Servant (Lear's retainer) - Jeffrey Stewart

Servant/Captain - Adam Tunnicliffe

Aurora Orchestra

Ryan Wigglesworth - Conductor

James Conway - Director.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Alexander Goehr's new opera Promised End.

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Totti (7:17)

MFV (5:16)

Danse Real (5:07)

Compress (3:43)

Touching Seen (8:15)

Mistaken Identity (4:40)

(Interval)

Soft Wac (3:00)

Torn Edge (8:39)

The Cone Gatherers (9:37)

Close Hold (6:54)

Vamp (4:25)

Loudish (1:03)

Zoe Martlew introduces the Graham Fitkin Band in concert at Kings Place in London.

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Including conversation with composer Julian Anderson and writer Paul Griffiths.

Paul Silverthorne (viola)

London Sinfonietta

Royal Academy of Music Manson Ensemble

George Benjamin (conductor)

Gerard Grisey: Les espaces acoustiques.

Tom Service presents a complete performance of Gerard Grisey's Les espaces acoustiques.

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Part of Radio 3's ongoing celebration of composers from the UK's black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, in conjunction with this week's Diversity and Inclusion in Composition conference at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, where Daniel Kidane was among the guest speakers.

The Knife of Dawn explores the life and mind of Guyanese poet and political activist Martin Carter as he fights for his country's independence from Britain. It's set in 1953, when Carter was imprisoned for 'spreading dissension'. In this, her operatic debut, Hannah Kendall sets five of Carter's own poems, 'In a Great Silence'; 'Listening to the Land'; 'This is the Dark Time My Love'; 'The Knife of Dawn' and 'Not Hands Like Mine', which have been drawn into a moving new libretto by Tessa McWatt.

Tom Service presents the world premiere of Hannah Kendall's new opera The Knife of Dawn.

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Recorded at Glasgow's City Halls, Andre de Ridder conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and their invited guests, the Danish String Quartet, in works by the Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen.

The concert features the Danish String Quartet, currently members of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme, in Abrahamen's First String Quartet, 10 Preludes, written in 1973 and featuring the full range of human expression, from violence to peaceful resolution, as well as his beautifully crafted 2010 orchestral re-working of the same piece, Ten Sinfonias. In between, a performance of his poignant Double Concerto with the violinist Baiba Skride and her sister, the pianist Lauma Skride, for whom the piece was written.

Also in the programme, the next in a series of pieces commissioned from previous winners of the BBC Proms Inspire Competition, performed by members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. This week, a piece for clarinet and ensemble by Thomas Gibbs, who won the senior category in 2013.

Abrahamsen: String Quartet No.1

Abrahamsen: Double Concerto (UK Premiere)

Baiba Skride (violin)

Lauma Skride (piano)

Andre de Ridder (conductor)

Gibbs: Verwandlung (World Premiere)

Abrahamsen: Ten Sinfonias (UK Premiere)

Andre de Ridder (conductor).

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performs music by Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen.

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Hans Werner Henze: Lucy Escott Variations

Jan Philip Schulze (piano)

Hans Werner Henze: Los Caprichos

Mark-Anthony Turnage: Two Portraits

Kenneth Hesketh: Netsuke Fragments

Detlev Glanert: Enigmatic Landscape

Robert Zuidam: Music for Two Pianos

Richard Utley, Huw Watkins (pianos)

Hans Werner Henze: Liebeslieder

Anssi Karttunen (cello)

Hans Werner Henze: Overture zu einem Theater

Oliver Knussen (conductor).

A concert in celebration of the music of German composer Hans Werner Henze.

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Simon Armitage's re-imagining of the classic fairy tale with music by Matthew Kaner

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Harrison Birtwistle: Cortege

Harrison Birtwistle: Five Distances for 5 Instruments

Harrison Birtwistle: Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum

David Atherton, conductor

Harrison Birtwistle: In Broken Images (UK premiere)

And in the Hear and Now 50, composer, writer and Russophile Gerard McBurney nominates the austere and uncompormising Octet by Galina Ustvolskaya, which changed his ideas of twentieth-century Russian music. And Gillian Moore, Head of Classical Music at the Souhtbank Centre puts the work into the context of the mid-twentieth century Soviet Union.

Galina Unstvolskaya: Octet

Lyn Fletcher, Susie Meszaros, Christopher Tombling, Maya Iwabuchi (violins)

Sue Bohling and Margaret Tindale (oboes)

William Stephenson (piano)

Graham Cole (timpani).

Harrison Birtwistle: Cortege, Five Distances, Carmen Arcadiae.

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Oliver Knussen conducts the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group in an all-Birtwistle programme, including early works Tragoedia, Cantata and Silbury Air, plus Four Poems by Jaan Kaplinski and the more recent Fantasia upon all the Notes.

And Sara Mohr-Pietsch continues her Composers' Rooms series with a visit to the London home of Mark-Anthony Turnage.

Harrison Birtwistle:

Cantata *

Fantasia on all the notes

4 Poems by Jaan Kaplinski *

Katrine Baerts (soprano) *

Oliver Knussen (conductor).

Tom Service presents a celebration of the 80th birthday of Harrison Birtwistle.

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Birtwistle: Five Distances for Five Instruments

Birtwistle: Oboe Quartet

Birtwistle: Duets for Storab

Carter: Poems of Louis Zukofsky (UK premi耀re)

Birtwistle: Tragoedia

Nash Ensemble

Claire Booth (soprano)

Lionel Friend (conductor).

Tom Service celebrates the composing career of Harrison Birtwistle.

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Tribute is paid to the late Pauline Oliveros and includes her rarely heard 'The Wheel of Time', performed by The Riot Ensemble. The programme also features music from the Austrian group Nikel and improvisations for guitar and trombone by duo, Archer Spade.

Pauline Oliveros: The Autobiography of Lady Steinway; The Wheel of Time (UK Premiere)

The Riot Ensemble conducted by Arron Hollway-Nahum

Enno Poppe: Fleisch (UK Premiere)

Ann Cleare: the square of yellow light that is your window (UK Premiere)

Nikel:

Yaron Deustche (electric guitar)

Patrick Stadler (saxophones)

Brian Archinal (percussion)

Antoine Francoise (piano)

Alfred Reiter (sound engineer)

Lauren Sarah Hayes: Mini Savior Opt. (World Premiere)

Lauren Sarah Hayes (hybrid analogue and digital live electronics)

Archer Spade: Improvisation

Nick Millevoi (guitar)

Dan Blacksberg (trombone).

Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby are live from Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

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Kraftwerk: Ruckzuck; Spule 4; Strom; Atem; Klingklang; Megaherz

Performed by zeitkratzer:

Frank Gratkowski, flute/clarinets

Elena Kakaliagou, french horn

Hilary Jeffery, trombone

Reinhold Friedl, harmonium/piano

Didier Ascour, guitar

Maurice de Martin, drums

Lisa Marie Landgraf, violin

Burkhard Schlothauer, violin

Elisabeth Coudoux, cello

Ulrich Phillipp, double bass

James Dillon: Tanz/haus: triptych 2017 (World Premiere)

Performed by the Red Note Ensemble:

Jacqueline Shave, violin

Robert Irvine, cello

Stephen Gutman, piano

Ruth Morley, flute

Tim Lines, clarinet

Nikita Naumov, double bass

Tom Hunter, percussion

Ida Løvli Hidle, accordion

Geoffrey Paterson, conductor.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby present live from the 2017 Huddersfield Festival.

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Alexander Goehr: Duos

Heiner Goebbels: Walden

Ensemble Klang; Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

Keir Neuringer (narrator).

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group perform works by Heiner Goebbels and Alexander Goehr.

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FULL PROGRAMME

Lachenmann: Zwei Gefuhle

Lachenmann: Accanto

Franck Ollu (conductor)

Hans Abrahamsen: Winternacht

London Sinfonietta

Oliver Knussen (conductor).

Music by Helmut Lachenmann. Plus the Hear and Now 50: Hans Abrahamsen's Winternacht.

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Lachenmann: Schreiben (23:02)

Lachenmann : Ausklang for piano & orchestra (50:42)

London Sinfonietta

Brad Lubman (conductor)

Rolf Hind (piano)

Tom Service introduces two orchestral works by German composer Helmut Lachenmann.

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Photo (c) Dimitri Djuric.

Music by three Danish composers: Henning Christiansen, Else Marie Pade and Per Norgard.

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Larry Goves: sinew

Matthew Sergeant: this was not a film about a drowning man (world premiere)

Larry Goves/Matthew Welton: Poppy

Larry Goves: deaf John's dark house

Ian Vine: X

Larry Goves: riviniana and the vermilion border

Matthew Welton: Writing 21

Simon Holt: brief candles

Goves: talking microtonal blues

Performed by the ensemble 'house of bedlam' and poet Matthew Welton

(recorded at a Cutting Edge concert in the Warehouse, London)

Plus Anne-Hilde Neset reviewing the book Playing With Words: the spoken word in artistic practice.

Robert Worby explores the spoken word in new music and sound art.

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Howard Skempton: Only the Sound Remains for viola and chamber ensemble (world premiere); Roundels of the Year for choir; Two Cello Interludes; The Voice of the Spirits for choir; Two Guitar Interludes; Rise Up, my Love for choir

Charlie Usher: Slow Pan for piano and chamber ensemble

Christopher Yates (viola); Ulrich Heinen (cello); James Woodrow (guitar); Malcolm Wilson (piano)

EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

James Weeks (conductor)

Recorded at the CBSO Centre, Birmingham, last February.

New music by Howard Skempton performed by the BCMG and EXAUDI.

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This edition of Hear and Now features music by Howard Skempton in recent recordings from the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Clark Rundell, including the song cycle The Moon is Flashing featuring tenor James Gilchrist, and from the new-music ensemble Psappha.

Howard Skempton is also the subject of this week's Composers' Rooms with Sara Mohr-Pietsch, as she talks with him in his workspace at his home in the West Midlands.

And the cellist Anton Lukoszevieze plays music for multi-tracked cellos by the Lithuanian experimental composer Joseph Kudirka.

Howard Skempton:

The Light Fantastic; Lento; The Moon is Flashing*

James Gilchrist (tenor)*

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Clark Rundell (conductor)

Gleams and Fragments; Gemini Dances; Winter Sunrise

Joseph Kudirka:

Wyoming Snow

Anton Lukoszevieze (cello).

Robert Worby presents recordings of music by Howard Skempton.

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Aaron Strootman: Shambling emerge

Kluster5

Sciarrino: Quartetto no.7

Arditti Quartet

Christian Marclay: To be continued UKP

Ensemble Babel

Anna Meredith: Songs for the M8

United Instruments of Lucilin

Sciarrino: Il sogno di Stradella UKP

Divertimento Ensemble

Hanna Hartman: THE BOILER ROOM UKP

Mimitabu

Robert Worby and Tom McKinney present music from Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

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Richard Barrett's fiftieth year is commemorated with the world premiere of his new work Mesopotamia; and Jonathan Harvey - composer in residence at this year's festival - has his seventieth year marked with a performance of Bhakti, his reflective and spiritual exploration of Sanskrit hymns widely recognised as one of the most influential works of the 1980s.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch with highlights from 2009's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

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Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces a new work by Richard Barrett, performed at the HCMF 2011.

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Ganz nah (UK premiere)

Romaine Bolinger (violin)

Lora-Evelin Vakova-Tarara (piano)

Small Worlds (world premiere)

John Butcher (saxophone)

Klaus Lang (organ)

Umbrations (UK premiere)

Ensemble Modern & Arditti Quartet

Brad Lubman (conductor)

Improvisation

Im Begriffe (UK premiere)

Geoffrey Paterson (conductor).

Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby present highlights from Huddersfield 2017.

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Johann Svensson: Amperian Loops III

James Dillon: String Quartet no.9 (WP)

Sara Glojnaric: sugarcoating #2

Eliane Radigue: Occam Delta XV (UKP)

Joachim Sandgren: Corps Etrangers

Christian Marclay: Fade To Slide

Ensemble Babel

Photograph: ensemBle baBel performing at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2018

© Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, taken by Graham Hardy

Robert Worby and Tom McKinney with music from the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

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Programme:

Nick Morrish Rarity: Life of lines II

United Instruments of Lucilin

Clara Ianotta: Dead wasps in a Jam-jar III

Arditti Quartet

Rebecca Saunders: Yes (UKP)

Juliet Fraser (soprano)

Musikfabrik conducted by Enno Poppe

Robert Worby and Tom McKinney with further highlights from Huddersfield

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Christopher Trapani: PolyCHROME

Ensemble Modern conducted by Brad Lubman

Enno Poppe: Gel怀schte Lieder

Explore Ensemble

Carola Bauckholt: Laufwerk

Dai Fujikura: Zawazawa

Dai Fujikura: Sawasawa

Ria Ideta (marimba)

Polish Radio Choir conducted by Maria Piotrowksa-Bogalecka

Christian Weber & Joke Lanz: Improvisation

Christian Weber (double bass)

Joke Lanz (turntables).

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival highlights presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.

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Bernhard Lang: DW24

Bowler: FFF

Ensemble PHACE

Daverson: Elusive Tangibility II

Romitelli: La Sabbia del tempo

Explore Ensemble

Klaus Lang: Tehran dust; Improvisations

Polwechsel & Klaus Lang (organ).

Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby present highlights from HCMF.

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Huw Watkins:

Anthem

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Garry Walker (conductor)

Speak Seven Seas

Robert Plane (clarinet)

Philip Dukes (viola)

Huw Watkins (piano)

Remember

Ruby Hughes (soprano)

Modern Muses: Krzysztof Penderecki and violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter

3 Welsh Songs

Partita

Lesley Hatfield (violin)

Double Concerto

Josephine Knight (cello)

Garry Walker (conductor).

Composer Huw Watkins talks to Tom Service about his chamber and orchestral music.

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This programme includes music that Ian has specially recorded for this broadcast, as well as CD and archive recordings. He joins presenter Robert Worby to discuss the music and his ongoing thoughts about performance practice.

Elliott Carter: 90+

Karlheinz Stockhausen: Klavierstuck X

Rebecca Saunders: Mirror, mirror, on the wall

Pascal Dusapin: A Quia

Orchestre De Paris, conducted by Christoph Eschenbach

Michael Finnissy: Alkan-Paganini

Brian Ferneyhough: Quirl

plus, short works written specially for Ian's 50th by Michael Spencer, Evan Johnson, Patricia Sucena de Almeida, Wieland Hoban and Paul Obermayer.

Ian Pace (piano)

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Sebastian Fagerlund: Drifts

Pကll Ragnar Pကlsson: Quake, for cello and chamber ensemble

Haukur T　masson: Piano Concerto No 2

Magnús Bl怀ndal J　hannsson: Adagio

Haukur T　masson: In the Seventh Heaven

S怀unn Thorsteinsd　ttir (cello)

V퀀kingur Ӏlafsson (piano)

Iceland Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dan퀀el Bjarnason.

Also from the festival, Riot Ensemble premiere Bကra G퀀slad　ttir's Seven heavens and combined forces from Poland and Iceland play Finnur Karlsson's new composition named after a Green Karlstad sofa. And Trio Hl怀kk essay their haunting 'hidden one', light harp.

Photo by Odd Stefan.

Tom Service reports from Iceland's Dark Music Days with a concert of new orchestral music.

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Boulez: D退rive 1

Tristan Murail: Treize couleurs du soleil couchant; Feuilles

Artur Zagajewski: brut

Arte Dei Suonatori

Dominik Po?o?ski (cello)

Sebastian Hilli: Reachings

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andr退 de Ridder

Kate Moore: Fern

Slagwerkgroep Den Haag and Amsterdam Sinfonietta.

From the International Rostrum of Composers 2017, new music for orchestra and ensemble.

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Image (c) Claus Langer/WDR.

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Claude Viver: Orion

Elliott Carter: Adagio tenebroso

James Dillon: Siorram

Scott Dickinson (viola)

James Dillon: Via Sacra

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Ivan Hewett presents orchestral music by Claude Vivier, Elliott Carter and James Dillon.

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Plus the Arditti Quartet play Brian Ferneyhough's 3rd String Quartet, and in Composers' Rooms Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits the Berlin home of the young German composer Tom Rojo Poller.

James Dillon: Andromeda

Noriko Kawai (piano); BBC SSO; Steve Schick (conductor)

Hector Parra: L'absencia (UK Premiere recording)

James Dillon: Physis (World Premiere recording)

Brian Ferneyhough: String Quartet No 3

Morton Feldman: Piano Four Hands

John Tilbury, Philip Thomas (piano).

Robert Worby presents music by James Dillon, Hector Parra and Morton Feldman.

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The string quartet is often said to be one of the most challenging mediums to write for, and anyone attempting it today is standing on the shoulders of giants, going back to Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn.

But James Dillon and Jonathan Harvey can certainly claim authority in this medium, each of them having written several substantial string quartets, and their latest quartets are featured in this programme, with Dillon's new quartet recorded here in its very first performance, from the 2009 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Harvey's fourth quartet, recorded at the same event, extends the medium with a virtuosic electronic part, transforming the string sounds and projecting them to all corners of the concert hall. As the composer describes it, "All sorts of psychic metamorphoses are undergone by the string sound; it seems to enter into spaces like the centre of the earth..."

The programme also includes Harvey's Scena for violin and orchestra, in which the solo violin takes on a dramatic role like an operatic singer; and Hilda Paredes' violin solo in memory of another violinist, Thomas Kakuska.

Hilda Paredes: In Memoriam Thomas Kakuska

Irvine Arditti (violin)

James Dillon: String Quartet no.5 (World Premiere)

Jonathan Harvey: Scena

Elizabeth Layton (violin)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov

Jonathan Harvey: String Quartet no.4

New music by James Dillon and Jonathan Harvey played by the Arditti Quartet.

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It is divided into three parts, and performed in the City Halls in Glasgow; Part One in the Grand Hall, Part Two for solo percussion, in the Fruit Market, and Part Three in the Grand Hall again. The nine works in order are: Part 1: East 11th St NY 10003 (1982), L'ECRAN parfum (1988), Viriditas (1994), La femme invisible (1989); Part 2: La coupure (1989-2000); Part 3: L'ouvre au noir (1990), Eileadh squaibe (1990), Introitus (1989-1990), Oceanos (1985-1996). Presented by Tom Service.

Tom Service presents the world premiere of James Dillon's epic cycle Nine Rivers.

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Symphonic Study (World Premiere)

For Sonny (World Premiere of new arrangement)

A Deep but Dazzling Darkness for solo violin, ensemble and tape (Scottish Premiere)

Exsultet for brass quintet

The Keening (World Premiere)

Laura Samuel - violin

James MacMillan - conductor

Recorded at City Halls, Glasgow.

James MacMillan conducts his own music with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

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Brian Elias

Peroration (conclusion) (2:42)

CD: NMC D025, tr. 7

Elizabeth Lutyens

The Valley of Hatsu-Se (Op. 62) (beginning) (4:45)

Jane Manning (soprano)

Jane ??s Minstrels

Robert Manasse (flute)

Dov Goldberg (clarinet)

Adrian Bradbury (cello)

Dominic Saunders (piano)

Roger Montgomery (conductor)

[rec. Purcell Room 25.02.10]

Harrison Birtwistle

Nenia: The Death of Orpheus (excerpt) (2:14)

The Matrix

Alan Hacker (director)

CD: SRCD.306, tr. 3

Judith Weir

King Harald ??s Saga, Act 3 (exceprt) (1:38)

CD: Novello Records NVLCD109, tr. 18

Anthony Payne

Scenes from the Woodlanders (excerpt) (3:00)

Jane ??s Minstrels/Roger Montgomery

CD: NMC D130, tr. 2

Horn Trio (broadcast premiere) (16:25)

Jane ??s Minstrels:

Roger Montgomery (horn)

Susanne Stanzeleit (violin)

Dai Fujikura

Love Excerpt (world premiere) (3:34)

[text: Harry Ross]

David Sawer

Caravan (world premiere) (3:31)

[text: Hugo Ball]

Dov Goldberg (bass clarinet)

Philip Neil Martin

Window (world premiere) (2:14)

[text: Rainer Maria Rilke]

Marina Gillam (violin)

James MacMillan

The Beneficiaries (world premiere) (0:57)

[text: Les Murray]

Deirdre Gribbin

Are you the Dream Catcher? (world premiere) (8:00)

Colin Matthews

Marginalia (world premiere) (3:27)

[text: Sir Joshua Reynold ??s  ??Discourses ?? with annotations by William Blake]

Jane Manning & Marina Gillam (voices)

Robert Manasse (alto flute)

Cheryl Frances-Hoad

Don ??t ! (world premiere) (2:46)

[text: Blanche Ebbutt  ??Don ??t for Wives ??]

Robert Manasse (piccolo)

Personal Stereo (excerpt) (1:45)

Jane Manning (soprano) + tape

[BBC archive, rec. 1996]

Richard Rodney Bennett

Nightpiece (excerpt) (3:25)

[BBC archive, rec. 1972]

Arnold Schoenberg

Der Kranke Mond (from Pierrot Lunaire) (2:14)

Vesuvius Ensemble

CD: Forum FRC 9016 tr. 7

Olivier Messiaen

L ??amour de Piroutcha (from Harawi) (3:28)

David Miller (piano)

CD: Unicorn-Kanchana DPK(CD)9034

Ivan Hewett talks to iconic soprano Jane Manning about her inspirational career.

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Jeremy Dale Roberts: The Dancer on the Shore

Kreutzer Quartet

Bridget MacRae (cello)

Recorded at Wilton's Music Hall in London in May

Also in the programme are Jeremy Dale Roberts's Winter Music and his Oggetti - Ommaggio a Morandi.

Ivan Hewett presents the world premiere of Jeremy Dale Roberts's The Dancer on the Shore.

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John Cage: ear for EAR (Antiphonies); Concerto for Prepared Piano; Improvisation III

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and guest musicians

Ilan Volkov (conductor); John Tilbury (piano)

Gyorgy Kurtag: Officium Breve in memoriam Andreae Szervanszky

Keller Quartet

John Cage: She Is Asleep

Lore Lixenberg (voice); Philip Thomas (piano)

University of Huddersfield Percussion Ensemble.

Music by John Cage and Gyorgy Kurtag.

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Stewart Lee, Tania Chen and Steve Beresford perform John Cage's Indeterminacy.

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John Corigliano: Fantasia on an ostinato

Stephen McNeff: Heiligenstadt

Colin Matthews: Grand Barcarolle

Brett Dean: Testament

Clark Rundell (conductor)

Clarence Barlow: Variazioni e un pianoforte meccanico

John Snijders (player piano).

Ivan Hewett with music by John Corigliano, Stephen McNeff, Colin Matthews and Brett Dean.

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John Harbison: Emerson 13:51

Peter Child - Pantomime 15:22

John Harbison - Chorale Cantata 10:00

Kay Rhie: Moromoto ni/Cherry Tree 7:18

John Harbison - The Flower-Fed Buffaloes 21:28

BBC Singers

Lontano

conducted by Odaline de la Martinez

(part of the London Festival of American Music, recorded Oct. 4th at St Giles Cripplegate)

Sara Mohr-Pietsch with a concert celebrating the 70th birthday of composer John Harbison.

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John Tavener: Love Duet from The Play of Krishna (World Premiere)

Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano),

John Mark Ainsley (tenor).

In Alium

Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano).

Mahကmကtar

Abida Parveen (voice),

Manchester International Festival Sacred Sounds Choir.

If Ye Love Me (World Premiere)

MIF Sacred Sounds Choir.

The Death of Ivan Ilyich (World Premiere)

Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone),

Steven Isserlis (cello).

Tecwyn Evans (conductor).

Music by John Tavener, presented by Tom Service in conversation with composer Judith Weir.

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John Zorn: Orchestral Variations

John Zorn: La Machine de l'ꀀtre (Allison Bell, soprano)

John Zorn: Supp䀀ts et Suppliciations (BBC Commission, world premiere)

John Zorn: Kol Nidre

John Zorn: Aporias (Stephen Drury piano; members of the Choristers of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Tom Service with a concert celebrating the birthday of John Zorn.

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Jonathan Harvey: Song Offerings

Claire Booth, soprano

Nash Ensemble

Lionel Friend, conductor

Jonathan Harvey: Summer Clouds Awakening

Latvian Radio Choir/James Wood

Jonathan Harvey (electronics), Carl Faia (electronics), Clive Williamson (synthesizer), Ilona Meija (flute) & Arne Deforce (cello)

And in the latest instalment of the 'Hear and Now Fifty', the American film editor and sound designer Walter Murch nominates 'Symphonie pour un homme seul' by Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry, music he first heard on the radio as a schoolboy and which influenced his subsequent work in the field of film sound. Author and journalist Rob Young puts the work in context of post-war Paris and Schaeffer's early experiments at French Radio which led to the birth of musique concrete.

Tom Service presents Jonathan Harvey's Song Offerings and Summer Clouds Awakening.

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Harvey: Body Mandala; Speakings; ... towards a pure land

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra,

Conductor Ilan Volkov.

~Hear And Now Fifty

Harvey: Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco

Composers' Rooms: Tansy Davies

Nonesuch at Fifty

Wuorinen: Time's Encomium

In 2005-8, as Composer in Association with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Jonathan Harvey composed a trilogy of works for the orchestra and their then Chief Conductor Ilan Volkov. This Glasgow Trilogy was first heard together in the planned order of performance at the 2011 Edinburgh Festival, and it's a recording of that performance that you can hear tonight, There's also a second chance to hear the Hear and Now Fifty feature on Harvey's most famous work - Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco.

Continuing her series of visits to Composers' Rooms, Sara Mohr-Pietsch travels to Kent, and the Georgian home studio of Tansy Davies.

And the second work in Hear and Now's series celebrating the fiftieth birthday of the Nonesuch record label is another electronic classic: Time's Encomium (1968-69) by Charles Wuorinen, commissioned by Nonesuch especially for LP, which in 1970 became the first electronic work to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch celebrates the music of Jonathan Harvey, with his Glasgow Trilogy.

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Mauricio Kagel's eight Pieces of the Compass Rose, played by the London Sinfonietta.

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Louis d Heudieres: Laughter Studies

Juliet Fraser, Jennifer Walshe (vocalists)

Rebecca Saunders: Vermilion

Distractfold - Rocio Bolanos (clarinet), Alice Purton (cello), Daniel Brew (electric guitar)

Lee Fraser: Stheno (electroacoustic work)

Michelle Lou: Untitled three part construction

Distractfold - Alice Purton (amplified cello), Linda Jankowska, Emma Richards (objects)

Improvisation: Zinzia - Parts I, II and III

Oscilanz - Laura Cannell (fiddle & recorders), Ralph Cumbers (trombone & electronics), Charles Hayward (drums).

New and improvised music from an event at London's Cafe OTO curated by Kammer Klang.

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John Wall Cphon (2005)

Ruaidhr퀀 Mannion & Antoine Fran瀀oise - Hommage without permission (2016), for piano and electronics

Michael Finnissy: Above Earth's Shadow (1985) for solo violin and ensemble

Oscar Perks (solo violin)

Perks Ensemble

Mark Knoop (conductor)

John Wall: Untitled

John Wall (live electronics)

Hannes Dufek: band/linie/horizont lb (UK premiere)

Jaime Wolfson (piano, radio, dictaphones)

Image (c) Dimitri Djuric.

From Cafe Oto in London, music by Michael Finnissy and electronic composer John Wall.

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FRESH KLANG

Josephine Stephenson: if nomen boat 2

Eloisa-Fleur Thom (violin)

Josephine Stephenson (electronics)

Christopher Fox: Catalogue IrraisonÀ(c) (1999-2001)

Exaudi Vocal Ensemble

James Weeks, director, speaker

Christopher Fox, speaker

MODERN MUSES 20

Michael Hersch and Patricia Kopatchinskaja talk about how they worked together on the Violin Concerto.

Larry Polansky: Sweet Betsy from Pike (2005); Eskimo Lullaby (2005)

for voice and the Lou Harrison National Just Intonation Resonator guitar

Ictus:

Liesa Van der Aa (violin)

Tom Pauwels (guitar)

Christopher Trapani: Wayfaring Stranger (2015); Freight Train (2015)

For voice, violin and guitar

Tom Pauwels (guitar).

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Ictus and Exaudi in a Kammer Klang from Cafe Oto in London.

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From a Kammer Klang concert earlier this month at London's Caf退 Oto, there are two world premieres:

Cassandra Miller: Tracery : Hardanger

Juliet Fraser (soprano)

Cassandra Miller: Traveller Song

Ensemble Plus-Minus

Also new music by Lisa Illean, and a solo by sound artist Christine Sun Kim.

And from last November's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival: a virtuosic violin solo, Haare by Enno Poppe; a piece for cello and video called String Jack by Michael Beil; and a major ensemble piece by Marcin Stanczyk, Some Drops, featuring Marco Blaauw (trumpet) with Ensemble Musikfabrik

Image (c) Dimitri Djuric.

Tom McKinney presents new music by Cassandra Miller, Enno Poppe and Marcin Stanczyk.

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Plus percussion music by Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri, and from the recent Tectonics festival in Glasgow cellist Deborah Walker plays Chaoscaccia, a collaborative piece composed with Pascale Criton.

Kate Molleson presents a concert from the Kammer Klang series at Cafe Oto in East London.

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Kathryn Tickell is a traditional Northumbrian piper, and as well as performing the new works, plays traditional tunes and her own compositions on the Northumbrian pipes and fiddle. Sara Mohr Pietsch travels to Kathryn's rural home in Northumbria to meet her and find out what inspired this melding of traditional tunes and contemporary composition.

Kathryn Tickell (Northumbrian pipes & fiddle)

Joanna MacGregor (piano)

Navarra Quartet

Traditional repertoire from Northumbria and the Highlands, alongside:

Howard Skempton - Here's the Tender Coming (world premiere / BBC commission)

Peter Maxwell Davies - Hadrian's Villa, Hadrian's Wall (world premiere / BBC commission)

Michael Finnissy - A-lang Felton Lonnen (world premiere / BBC commission)

Alasdair Nicolson: Songs and Drones for the Harp Tree.

James MacMillan - 25th May 1967

Traditional musician Kathryn Tickell performs new works based on Northumbrian folk tunes.

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Flourish with Fireworks

Music for a Puppet Court (Puzzle pieces for 2 chamber orchestras)

Songs and a Sea Interlude from Where the Wild Things Are

Violin Concerto

Augenlieder

Etudes-Tableaux

Claire Booth (soprano)

Laura Samuel (violin)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)

recorded at City Halls Glasgow earlier this month

plus

Toru Takemitsu The Seasons (1970) Joby Burgess (percussion).

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in music by Oliver Knussen and Ryan Wigglesworth.

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Dietmar Wiesner (flute)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Knussen: Music for a Puppet Court

Luke Bedford: Outblaze the Sky

Mark-Anthony Turnage: From All Sides

Samuel Beckett: Not I (performed by Fiona Shaw)

Mark Anthony Turnage: Five Views of a Mouth (BBC Commission - first performance)

Plus a report on John Wynne's new sound installation at Beaconsfield Gallery, featuring an old pianola and 300 abandoned hi-fi speakers.

Zoe Martlew presents the BBC SSO performing music by Knussen, Bedford and Turnage.

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Kurt Schwertsik:

..in keltischer Manier... Concerto for Alphorn and Small Orchestra op. 27 (12:40)

Nury Guarnaschelli (alphorn)

Deutsche Radiophilharmonie

Michael Sanderling (conductor)

Kurt Schwertsik: Irdische Klange cycle

Irdische Klange Symphony op.37 (17:00)

Uluru op.64 (17:36)

Funf Naturstucke op.45 (15:36)

Mit den Riesenstiefeln op.60 (5:21)

BBC Philharmonic

H.K. Gruber (conductor).

Ivan Hewett presents the music of Viennese composer Kurt Schwertsik.

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Laurence Crane Weirdi

Juliet Fraser (soprano)

Laurence Crane Piano Piece no.23 'Ethiopian Distance Runners

Roderick Chadwick (piano)

Laurence Crane Octet

Ensemble Plus-Minus

Plus a report from Off The Page, the UK's first literary festival for music, held in Whitstable last month.

Laurence Crane's music is minimal but also drolly humorous. His early piece Weirdi is a set of five songs, to his own surreal and anecdotal texts, for soprano, with clarinet, cello and piano. It includes a song about a 'new music weirdo' who 'likes Donatoni', and another about seeing the violinist Alexander Balanescu in Safeways buying organic broccoli.

Piano Piece No.23, 'Ethiopian Distance Runners' is his first long work for his own instrument. It is a slow, quiet work with an intense concentration that might suggest the mental state of the long-distance runner.

The Octet is scored for the intriguing line-up of violin, cello, electric guitar, clarinet and bass clarinet, accordion, electric organ, piano and homemade percussion, creating a richly harmonic sound-world.

This concert by Anglo-Belgian ensemble Plus-Minus was recorded at Kings Place in London last month.

Writing about music is notoriously difficult, because music is often abstract and operates beyond words. But good writers can illuminate the experience of listening to music, and this was explored by Off The Page, the UK's first literary festival for music, held in Whitstable last month. Ed McKeon attended and discussed ways of writing about music with participants, including editor of The Wire magazine, Rob Young, writer and conceptual artist Kodwo Eshun, and composer, performer and writer David Toop.

Ed McKeon presents a concert of Laurence Crane's music, featuring Ensemble Plus-Minus.

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Larry Goves: A glimpse of the sea in a fold of the hills

Laurence Tompkins: Dear Dope/Meeting Point (world premiere)

Laurence Crane: Octet

Sam Ridout: Tackte: II & III

Jack Bailey (cello)

Dave Bainbridge (banjo, electric guitar)

Aaron Breeze (piano, organ, sampler)

Emily Mowbray (violin)

Marcus Norman (clarinet, bass clarinet)

Tim Rathbone (viola)

Tom Rose (electronics)

Jack Sheen (percussion, conductor)

Harry Fausing Smith (accordion)

Jack Stone (percussion)

Kathryn Williams (alto flute, bass flute)

Recorded at the RNCM Carole Nash Recital Room, Manchester

Charles Amirkhanian: Walking Tune - A Room-Music for Percy Grainger (1986-7)

Charles Amirkhanian (electronics, synthesizer)

Elizabeth Baker (violin).

Ivan Hewett presents music by Laurence Tompkins and Charles Amirkhanian.

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Plus a chance to hear new works by Christian Mason, Larry Goves and Claudia Molitor from a concert given earlier this month at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.

Christian Mason: In Time Entwined, In Space Enlaced 10:15

Baldur Bronnimann

Recorded 02/12/08, Royal Festival Halls

LIVE: Dai Fujikura - Eternal Escape for solo cello 3:00

Timothy Gill (solo cello)

LIVE: John Woolrich - Fragment for solo saxophone 3:36

Simon Haram (solo saxophone)

LIVE: Will Gregory - Interference for solo saxophone + electronics 10:45

Sound Intermedia (electronics)

LIVE: Jordan Hunt - Iambic Stutter 5:00

Kathryn Thomas (flute)

Timothy Orpen (clarinet)

Byron Fulcher (trombone)

Tim Gill (cello)

John Constable (piano)

Larry Goves: Springtime 7:40

Juliet Fraser (soprano)

LIVE: Mira Calix - `ort-oard` for solo cello & electronics 3:38

Timothy Gill (cello)

Mira Calix (laptop)

LIVE: Street Genius / Culture Collective / London Sinfonietta - `Pop Music` 4:00

David Powell (tuba)

Nicole Robson (cello)

Timo Tuhkanen (electric guitar)

Antoine Francoise (piano)

Mira Calix (conductor)

Claudia Molitor: Untitled 40 [desk life] 7:13

LIVE: Anna Meredith - Lylat for trombone & electronics 3:21

Byron Fulcher (trombone + electronics)

(Items in the montage sequence at the top of the show)

Bates: Tentle Moments

London Sinfonietta/Diego Masson

Album: Warp Works & Twentieth Century Masters

ARGO 452 099 2 t.8

Nancarrow arr Mikhashoff: Study No.7

London Sinfonietta/Stephen Asbury

WARP CD 144 CD1 t.3

Squarepusher arr Fraser Trainer & Sound Intermedia: Conc 2 Symmetriac

WARP CD 144 CD2 t.4

Knussen: Flourish with Fireworks op.22

London Sinfonietta/Oliver Knussen

Album: Works by Knussen

DG 474 322 2 t.3

Takemitsu: Water-Ways

London Sinfoneitta/Oliver Knussen

Album: Riverrun; Water-Ways etc

VIRGIN CLASSICS VC791180 2 t.2

Cage: First Construction in Metal

WARP CD 144 CD1 t.4

Reich: Six Marimbas

WARP CD 144 CD2 t.3

Tavener: The Whale

London Sinfonietta/David Atherton

Album: The Whale

APPLE CDSAPCOR15 t.1

Julian Anderson: Khorovod

Album: Alhambra Fantasy

ONDINE ODE10122 t.3

Squarepusher arr David Horne: The Tide

WARP CD 144 CD1 t.7

Presented by Ivan Hewett. The London Sinfonietta celebrate their 40th anniversary.

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Plus music by Frank Zappa and the first-ever UK performance using the amazing musical instruments invented by visionary American composer Harry Partch - a recording of a concert given in Bristol a couple of weeks ago by the Cologne-based ensemble MusikFabrik.

Radio 3 is broadcasting live from a pop-up studio at London's Southbank Centre all day every day for the last two weeks of March. If you're in the area, join us in the Radio 3 studio and performance space in the Royal Festival Hall Riverside Caf退 to listen to Radio 3, ask questions and enjoy the special events.

Robert Worby presents live music from Max de Wardener, plus Frank Zappa and Harry Partch.

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Anthony Braxton - Composition 69M

Alexander Hawkins - It Should Be a Song

Alexander Hawkins (piano)

Stockhausen: from Amour for flute (1976/1981)

Camille Hoitenga (flutes and electronics)

Julius Eastman - Evil N****r- arranged for three string quartets

Arditti Quartet/Bozzini Quartet/Ligeti Quartet

Muhal Richard Abrams - Afrisong

Muhal Richard Abrams - Peace on You

Mike Svoboda - Music for Piccolo (2008)

Peter Eotvos - Cadenza from Shadows (2008)

John Butcher (saxophone) & Okkyung Lee (cello) - Improvisation for Duo

Photo Credit: Nigel Bates

Tom McKinney and Robert Worby live from Huddersfield.

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Dieter Schnebel: Maulwerke (2015 solo version)

Christian Kesten (vocal)

Andrew Hamilton: music for people who like art

A genuine coming together

Hanna Hartman: Mezcal No.8 (UK premiere)

Hanna Hartman (amplified objects)

Oyvind Torvund: Untitled School/Mud Jam/Campfire Tunes (UK premiere)

Plus-Minus Ensemble:

Mark Knoop (piano)

Roderick Chadwick (piano)

Serge Vuille (percussion)

Elsa Bradley (percussion)

Christopher Fox: The Red Studio (world premiere)

John Snijders (piano)

Recorded at Ambika P3, University of Westminster.

Recordings from the London Contemporary Music Festival, plus new music by Christopher Fox.

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Robert Ashley was one of the greatest American experimentalists, following in the pioneering footsteps of John Cage. He co-founded one of the earliest American Electronic Music studios in 1958, and gradually developed into a master of contemporary opera with a distinctively American sound.

Photo by Tina Rousou.

Highlights from LCMF including works by Robert Ashley.

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Michael Pisaro: Grain Canons

Lawrence Dunn: Set Of Four

Apartment House

Plus chamber works by Pascale Criton, Greek mourning songs, and a new electronic work by Turner Prize winning artist Mark Leckey with Steve Hellier: Nobodaddy Sings Songs.

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Chaya Czernowin

Day One: On the Face of the Deep (2017)

UK premiere

Jack Sheen (conductor)

b r e a d t h b r e a t h (2018)

World premiere / LCMF commission

Julius Eastman

The Prelude and Holy Presence of Joan d'Arc (1981)

Sofia Jernberg (soprano)

Apartment House

Regretfully Yours, Ongoing (2018)

Musarc

Kate Molleson presents music recorded at London Contemporary Music Festival.

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Music by Eastman and Rzewski performed at the 2016 London Contemporary Music Festival.

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Also from this concert, songs from Yeah You, an electronic noise/pop band who record semi-improvised songs using a saloon car as their studio.

American vocalist and composer Joan La Barbara is one of the 20th century's great vocal pioneers. She has pioneered experimental multiphonics, circular singing, ululation and glottal clicks over the past five decades.

Chris Newman is an experimental interdisciplinary artist based in Germany. He formed a 'chamber-punk' band in the 1980s to perform his songs, which he revives in this concert with Apartment House.

Tom Service presents highlights of vocal works from London Contemporary Music Festival.

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Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents recordings from the 2016 London Ear of contemporary music.

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Andrea Damiano Cotti: Come Un'Isola, Che Sente L'Arcipelag

Rebecca Saunders: Fletch

Luciano Berio: Rounds; Cinque Variazioni

Seongmin Ji: iiiiiiiiisiiiyiiiiiieiit (world premiere)

Dariusz Przybylski: Green and Maroon, Homage a Mark Rothko

Iannis Xenakis: Akea

Akira Nishimura: String Quartet No.2 ‘Pulses of Light

Recorded at the Cello Factory, London, in March.

Recordings from this year's London Ear festival of contemporary music.

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Plus Modern Muses, a new, downloadable series looking behind some of the key composer-performer partnerships of our times. Down the centuries, individual performers have frequently played a part in inspiring composers and shaping their music. Think of Handel's operas as a vehicle for the castrato Farinelli, or Mozart's late, great Clarinet Concerto for Anton Stadler, through to Britten's outpouring of songs and operatic roles for Peter Pears. Today's composers, too, often find themselves drawn to particular performers and develop a close and fruitful working relationship. To begin Modern Muses is just such a partnership: Gerald Barry and soprano Barbara Hannigan. Together they discuss past and future collaborations, including the role of Cecily in Barry's 2010 comic opera The Importance of Being Earnest.

And from January's Total Immersion event, Mauricio Kagel's 'Rrrrrrr...': a playful sequence of duos, drawing at once on standard percussion and every day sounds, noises, and objects.

Iannis Xenakis: Aroura

ClaudeVivier: Zipangu

Andr退 de Ridder (conductor)

Modern Muses:

Gerald Barry and Barbara Hannigan

Gerald Barry: The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Act 4, excerpt)

Barbara Hannigan....Gabi (soprano)

Stephanie Friede....Petra (soprano)

Orchestra of English National Opera

Mica Levi: Greezy

Georg Friedrich Haas: Open Spaces

Mauricio Kagel: Rrrrrrr...

Merlin Jones and Sam Wilson (percussion).

The London Sinfonietta plays music for strings by Xenakis, Vivier, Mica Levi and GF Haas.

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Charlie Piper: Insomniac

Francisco Coll: Piedras

Dai Fujikura: Double Bass Concerto

Enno Senft (double bass)

Sound Intermedia

London Sinfonietta conducted by Martyn Brabbins

(Recorded on 5th November 2011 at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London)

And in this week's installment of the Hear and Now Fifty, film director Barrie Gavin and South Bank Centre's Gillian Moore champion Jonathan Harvey's electronic work Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco.

New chamber music played by London Sinfonietta, and Jonathan Harvey's Mortuos Plango.

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Clio Gould (violin)

Sound Intermedia (sound design)

London Sinfonietta

John Adams (conductor)

John Cage: Credo in US 13:38

Paul Dresher: Concerto for violin and electroacoustic band 19:23

David Lang: Cheating Lying Stealing 11:07

John Adams: Son of Chamber Symphony 23:48

An all-American concert by the London Sinfonietta. Music by Adams, Cage, Dresher and Lang.

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Marko Nikodijevic: music box / self portrait with Ligeti and Stravinsky (and Messiaen is also present)

Simon Steen-Anderson: Chambered Music

Mark Simpson: Straw Dogs

Rebecca Saunders: Stirrings

Edmund Finnis: Seeing is Flux

Francisco Coll: Ad Marginem

London Sinfonietta

Baldur Bronnimann (conductor).

New works by Simon Steen-Anderson, Rebecca Saunders, Edmund Finnis and Francisco Coll.

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Laurence Crane: Chamber Symphony No.2 'The Australian' (world premiere)

Marisol J퀀m退nez: XLIII Memoriam Vivere (world premiere)

Morton Feldman: For Samuel Beckett

Garry Walker (conductor).

The London Sinfonietta performs new music by Laurence Crane and Marisol Jimenez.

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Peter Eotvos

SCHILLER: energische Schonheit (UK premiere)

Marco Stroppa

From Needle's Eye (UK premiere)

Pierre Boulez

explosante-fixe ...

Peter E怀tv怀s conductor

Michael Cox solo flute

Byron Fulcher solo trombone

EXAUDI vocal ensemble

Sound Intermedia

Andrew Gerzso IRCAM computer music designer

J退r退mie Henrot IRCAM Sound engineer

Stockhausen

Jubilaeum

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Oliver Knussen.

Tom Service presents the London Sinfonietta in works by Marco Stroppa and Peter Eotvos.

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Lore Lixenberg (mezzo-soprano)

David Alberman (violin)

Mark Webber (sound projection)

Georges Aperghis: Recitation No 8

Cage: Aria; Fontana Mix

Gyorgy Kurtag: SK Remembrance Noise, Op 12

Bent Sorensen: Vocalise

Per Norgard: Zwei Saiten eine Stimme; The Secret Melody

Sorensen: Six Songs; Three Stones

Simon Holt: Caprices Nos 4 and 6

Diana Burrell: Paragraph (world premiere)

(Recorded at Spitalfields Festival 2007)

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents performances by Lore Lixenberg and David Alberman.

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Louis Andriessen: De Stijl (1984-5)

Gertrude Thoma (voice)

Schoenberg Ensemble with Asko Ensemble

Reinbert de Leeuw (conductor)

Andriessen: De Staat (1973-76)

Reinbert de Leeuw (conductor).

Zoe Martlew interviews composer Louis Andriessen and presents recordings of two key works.

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Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and sessions

Louis Andriessen: La Commedia

Claron McFadden (soprano),

Cristina Zavalloni (voice),

Andrew Sauvageau (voice),

BBC Symphony Orchestra,

Conductor Martyn Brabbins.

Tom Service presents the UK premiere of Louis Andriessen's music theatre work La Commedia.

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Premiered at La Scala in Milan in 2011, Francesconi's chamber opera is a setting of Heiner Müller's sensational play, Quartett from 1980, which was in turn inspired by the famous epistolary novel Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) by Pierre-Ambroise-Fran瀀ois Choderlos de Laclos. In Müller's radical reworking only two roles have remained: the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont. But the Quartett of the title still exists as, in a succession of perverse role playing, Merteuil and Valmont play out their doubles. Set in a 'Salon before the French Revolution/Bunker after the Third World War,' Francesconi exposes the abyss of base human instincts in an endgame of fear and greed.

Presented by Tom Service

Composers' Rooms Sara Mohr Pietsch visits the Wiltshire home and studio of Sir Harrison Birtwistle

Birtwistle Three Latin Motets from The Last Supper

BBC Singers, Nicholas Kok (conductor)

at 10.25pm

Luca Francesconi Quartett

Marquise de Merteuil..... Kirsten Chavez..... (mezzo-soprano)

Vicomte de Valmont..... Leigh Melrose..... (baritone)

London Sinfonietta

with the projected sound of the Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan

Andrew Gourlay (conductor)

Recorded on 24th June at Royal Opera House's Linbury Studio Theatre.

With Francesconi's Quartett and Composers' Rooms: Harrison Birtwistle.

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Nono: Donde estas Hermano?

Nono: La fabbrica Illuminata

Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart

In the latest instalment of the Hear and Now Fifty, David Harrington celebrates George Crumb's groundbreaking 1970 work for electric string quartet, Black Angels - the work which inspired him to form the Kronos Quartet. And Gillian Moore puts the piece in context, as a work full of dark foreboding and extreme sounds, in direct reaction to the Vietnam War.

George Crumb: Black Angels

Olga Neuwirth: songs from Hommage

Luke Bedford: The Wonderful No-Headed Nightingale (UK Premiere of ensemble version)

Gerard Grisey: Periodes from Les Espaces Acoustiques

Luke Bedford: Renewal (World Premiere)

Sian Edwards (conductor)

Gavin Bryars: 1, 2, 1-2-3-4

Gavin Bryars (double bass)

Christopher Hobbs (piano)

Cornelius Cardew (cello)

Derek Bailey (guitar)

Mike Nicolls (drums)

Celia Gollin and Brian Eno (vocals)

Andy Mackay (oboe)

Stuart Deeks (violin)

Paul Nieman (trombone).

Tom Service introduces music by Luke Bedford and Gavin Bryars.

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Tom is joined by tenor Christopher Lemmings, the BCMG's artistic director Stephen Newbould and composer Luke Bedford to discuss the opera, and it is preceded by Luke's 2006 piece Or Voit Tout En Aventure..

Music - Luke Bedford

Libretto - Glyn Maxwell

Conductor Nicholas Collon

Director John Fulljames

Angel 1 / Waitress Rhona McKail

Angel 2 /Queen Emma Selway

Angel 3 / Chef / Priestess Louise Mott

Angel 4 / Prince Christopher Lemmings

Angel 5 / Porter / Industrialist Joseph Shovelton

Angel 6 / Gardener / General Owen Gilhooly

Angel 7 / King Keel Watson

BCMG Players:

Flute / Piccolo / Alto Flute: Marie-Christine Zupancic

Clarinet / Bass Clarinet: Mark O'Brien

Bassoon / Contra-bassoon: Margaret Cookhorn

Trumpet / Flugelhorn: Jonathan Holland

Trombone: Duncan Wilson

Percussion: Simon Limbrick

Piano: Malcolm Wilson

Viola 1: Christopher Yates

Viola 2: Michael Jenkinson

Viola 3: Myriam Guillaume

Viola 4 / Violin: Marcus Barcham-Stevens

Double Bass: John Tattersdill

Seven Angels was commissioned and produced by The Opera Group and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and co-produced with ROH2 and Tramway Glasgow.

www.theoperagroup.co.uk

www.bcmg.org.uk.

Tom Service presents a performance of Luke Bedford's 2011 chamber opera Seven Angels.

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Charlotte Bray: At the Speed of Stillness

Aldeburgh World Orchestra conducted by Sir Mark Elder

Luke Bedford: Through his Teeth

Opera Factory Freiburg, Holst-Sinfonietta, Klaus Simon (conductor), Siri Karoline Thornhill (soprano), Sirin Kilic (mezzo soprano), Georg G䀀dker (baritone)

(Produced by SWR. To be released on bastille musique in December 2017)

Sound Of The Week: Laurence Crane introduces a favourite sound

Laurence Crane: John White in Berlin

Apartment House

Julian Anderson: Symphony

BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Edward Gardner.

Tom McKinney presents a psychodramatic opera by Luke Bedford amongst more British music.

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The production is a joint venture between Opera North, Aldeburgh Music and The Royal Opera and features a libretto by poet Melanie Challenger.

Nathan - Timothy Nelson

Val - Lesley Garrett

Anna Fewmore - Steven Page

Matthew - Nick Pritchard

Band: Psappha, conducted by Nicholas Kok

The programme also features a selection of chamber music from Mark Simpson's recently released album "Night Music".

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Also tonight, Graham McKenzie, artistic director of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, previews this year's event in its landmark 40th edition, much of which will be broadcast on Hear and Now in the coming weeks. And, as part of Radio 3's Breaking Free season of Russian culture, a sequence of new and experimental music from Moscow and beyond.

Toshio Hosokawa: Im Nebel (UK Premiere)

Simon Hofele (trumpet)

Toru Takemitsu: Twill by Twilight (In memory of Morton Feldman)

Claude Vivier: Siddhartha

Matthias Pintscher (conductor).

Works by Toshio Hosokawa, Toru Takemitsu and Claude Vivier.

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Edgard Varese: Octandre

Matthias Pintscher: Celestial Object No.1 *

Wolfgang Rihm: Verwandlung No.3

Matthias Pintscher: Transir**

Edgard Varese: Integrales

Mark O'Keeffe, trumpet*

Sebastian Wittiber, flute**

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Matthias Pintscher

Plus a chamber work recorded at last year's Cheltenham Festival.

Matthias Pintscher: Study IV for Treatise on the Veil

Diotima Quartet.

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra plays Matthias Pintscher, Edgard Varese and Wolfgang Rihm.

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Max Richter: Memoryhouse

Max Richter (piano, celeste, keyboards)

Katherine Manley (soprano)

Eva Thorarinsdottir (violin)

Paul Grennan (cello)

BBC Symphony Orchestra,

Andr退 de Ridder (conductor)

Max Richter: On the Nature of Daylight

c. 11.20pm

Composers' Rooms: Hanna Tuulikki

with Sara Mohr-Pietsch

c. 11.35pm

Concluding our survey of early electronic releases by the American Nonesuch label:

John Cage: HPSCHD for harpsichord and computer-generated sound tapes.

Max Richter's Memoryhouse, Hanna Tuulikki in Composers' Rooms and John Cage's HPSCHD.

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The Transgressive Gospel follows the story of Christ's Passion, using passages from Tyndale's English translation of the Gospel of St Mark, interspersed with blues-inflected settings of George Herbert's metaphysical poems and texts by Rimbaud and others.

Michael Finnissy: The Transgressive Gospel (world premiere)

Kate Westbrook and Richard Jackson (vocals)

Ixion

Kirsten LeStrange (violin)

Daniel Palmizio (viola)

Michael Finnissy (conductor)

Michael Finnissy's The Transgressive Gospel performed at the 2009 Spitalfields Festival.

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Michael Finnissy: Piano Concerto no.3

James Clapperton (piano)

Ixion conducted by Michael Finnissy

Michael Finnissy: Janne

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov

plus short pieces by Judith Weir, Chris Newman, Howard Skempton, Laurence Crane, Andrew Toovey, Cassandra Miller, Geoff Hannan, Leo Grant, Michael Blake, Matthew Lee Knowles and Kyungjin Han, played by Michael Finnissy (piano).

Robert Worby presents music by Michael Finnissy, in conversation with the composer.

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Anthony Leung: Three Concert Pieces (no.1)

Paul Newland: Locus

Bryn Harrison: Six Symmetries

Cassandra Miller: Philip The Wanderer

Michael Finnissy: Piano Concerto no.2

Joseph Havlat (piano)

An Assembly with Ensemble x.y

(Recorded on April 27th at St John's Waterloo in London).

Robert Worby presents music by Cassandra Miller, Bryn Harrison and Michael Finnissy.

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Michael Hersch - "Images From A Closed Ward " - mvt 1

Flux Quartet

(CD)

Michael Hersch:

of ages manifest (extracts)

The Vanishing Pavilions (extracts)

Sound of the Week:

As part of Radio 3's Forest Season Chris Watson introduces his favourite sound from the Kielder Forest in Northumberland.

Michael Hersch: "I hope we get a chance to visit soon" (European premiere)

Ah Young Hong (soprano)

Kiera Duffy (soprano)

Gary Louie (alto saxophone)

Amy Yang (piano)

Tito Muကoz conductor.

Music by Michael Hersch recorded at the 2018 Aldeburgh Festival.

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Full programme:

Michel van der Aa: Spaces of Blank (UK premiere)

Stephanie Marshall (mezzo-soprano)

Lawrence Renes (conductor)

Blai Soler: Plain-Chant (world premiere)

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Clement Power (conductor)

The Hear and Now Fifty:

Pierre Boulez: Le Marteau sans maitre

Elizabeth Laurence (mezzo)

Ensemble InterContemporain

Pierre Boulez (conductor).

Ivan Hewett introduces Michel van der Aa's Spaces of Blank. Plus The Hear and Now Fifty.

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Tom Service introduces a performance from the world-premiere run, given in April by English National Opera at the Barbican Theatre in London.

Cast

Toby Kramer - Roderick Williams

Zenna Briggs - Katherine Manley

Iris Marinus - Claron McFadden

Simon Vines - Jonathan McGovern

Amber Jacquemain - Kate Miller-Heidke

ENO Orchestra

Andre de Ridder (conductor).

Tom Service introduces Michel van der Aa's new opera Sunken Garden, recorded last month.

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Milton Babbitt: Reflections, for piano and tape (1975)

Mark Knoop (piano)

Milton Babbitt: Homily (1987)

Adam Bushell (snare drum)

Milton Babbitt: None but the Lonely Flute (1987)

Helen Whittaker (flute)

Milton Babbitt: Philomel, for soprano and tape (1964)

Juliet Fraser (soprano)

Milton Babbitt: Autobiography of the Eye (2004; European premiere)

Sarah Gabriel (soprano)

Rohan de Saram (cello)

Milton Babbitt: An Encore (2006; European premiere)

Mandhira de Saram (violin)

Julian Trevelyan (piano)

Milton Babbitt: Accompanied Recitative (1994)

Huw Wiggin (soprano saxophone)

Milton Babbitt: Soli e Duettini (1989)

Jon Rattenbury, Brian Ashworth (guitars).

Ivan Hewett marks the centenaries of maverick composers Milton Babbitt and Moondog.

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Rolf Hind: Tiger's Nest

Joby Burgess (percussion)

Zubin Kanga, Richard Uttley (pianos)

Robert Campion, Isabelle Carr退 (solo gamelan)

Cheltenham Community Gamelan Players, directed by Jonathan Roberts

Morton Subotnick: From Silver Apples of the Moon to A Sky of Cloudless Sulfur: V

Morton Subotnick (live electronics)

Recorded at Cafe Oto, London, in June.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents live recordings of music by Rolf Hind and Morton Subotnick.

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Nico Muhly: Seeing Is Believing

Thomas Gould (electric violin)

Aurora Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Collon

Terry Riley: ArchAngels

Cello Octet Amsterdam

John Adams: Chamber Symphony

Nico Muhly is a rising star in contemporary composition - his new opera Two Boys opens in London on 24th June. He worked as an assistant to Philip Glass, one of the first generation of American Minimalists, and his music might be called 'post-minimalist', as it employs the repeating patterns of minimalism but adds rich harmonies and complex textures, as in this concerto for electric violin.

Terry Riley is another Minimalist pioneer, and his cello octet ArchAngels uses different string tunings to create a darkly resonant soundworld.

John Adams' Chamber Symphony combines the unlikely influences of Arnold Schoenberg and classic American cartoon music (one movement is called Roadrunner) to make an action-packed rollercoaster-ride of manic virtuosity.

(Music recorded in recent concert performances at King's Place, London and at the Sounds New Festival, Canterbury.).

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents minimalist music by Nico Muhly, Terry Riley and John Adams.

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Frank Lyons: Crosstalk for improvising electric guitarist and string quartet

Simon Jermyn (electric guitar) and Smith Quartet

Dan퀀el Bjarnason: Processions

Halflidi Hallgrimsson: Narratives From The Deep North

V퀀kingur Ӏlafsson (piano)

Ulster Orchestra

Dan퀀el Bjarnason, conductor

Music from Ireland and Iceland that crosses the stylistic boundaries. Frank Lyons' new piece features a part for improvising electric guitarist alongside the traditional classical ensemble of a string quartet.

Lyons says: "Jazz, rock, pop, avant-garde, minimalism: elements from all of these inform my style. I also want my music to convey a sense of fun, a quality that is too often lost in the oh-so-serious world of contemporary music."

30-year-old Icelandic composer Daniel Bjarnason is no stranger to rock music, having scored strings for Icelandic artrockers Hjaltalin, and conducted Abbey Road sessions for Sigur Ros. Bjarnason's piano concerto Processions has the intensity of contemporary rock music, though it's scored for an orchestra and a grand piano - and he conducts the performance himself.

The Lyons was recorded at the Sligo New music Festival in Eire, and the Ulster Orchestra concert conducted by Daniel Bjarnason was recorded at the Sonorities Festival in Belfast.

Also in this programme, an audio diary from composer Tansy Davies and electronica artist Mira Calix, about their current collaboration.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents new music from Ireland and Iceland.

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Radio 3 celebrates live music-making all weekend, handing on the baton from concert to concert, featuring a wide range of professional and amateur events and talking to the people who've made it all happen. Presented by Andrew McGregor and Suzy Klein.

Tom Service introduces a complete performance of Surrogate Cities by German composer Heiner Goebbels, recorded earlier this evening at London's South Bank Centre. Surrogate Cities is a Goebbels' masterpiece, a large-scale work which incorporates a wide range of musical styles, sampled sounds and texts to create an atmospheric and multi-layered portrait of a city. This Music Nation performance is a collaboration between some of the UK's finest young musicians.

Heiner Goebbels: Surrogate Cities

Including: D&C; In the Country of Last Things; Die Faust im Wappen; Suite for Sampler and Orchestra; The Horatian - Three Songs; Die Stadte und die Toten 4 / Argia; Surrogate

David Moss (voice)

Jocelyn B. Smith (mezzo-soprano)

Trinity Laban Symphony Orchestra

London Philharmonic Orchestra's Foyle Future Firsts

National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain

Jonathan Stockhammer (conductor)

Plus, in this week's Hear and Now Fifty, British composer Anna Meredith nominates Gerald Barry's bold and daring Piano Quartet no. 1, with commentary from an established interpreter of Barry's music, conductor Richard Baker.

Gerald Barry: Piano Quartet no. 1

Noriko Kawai (piano)

Nua Nos.

Tom Service presents young musicians performing Heiner Goebbels Surrogate Cities.

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Also tonight, Ivan Hewett introduces works by three composers selected for Sound and Music's artist development scheme Embedded. They were given the opportunity to work with the BBC Symphony Orchestra over several months in a project which culminated in a concert given last November at the BBC's Maida Vale studios. Alongside these works the orchestra performed a recent composition by Robin Holloway, commissioned by the National Centre for the Performing Arts in China, and inspired by that country's vast landscapes.

The programme concludes with a recording from the BBC archive and another work by Robin Holloway: Men Marching, the first of a diptych for brass band whose title comes from verse by Scottish war poet Charles Sorley.

Tom Coult: Codex

Benjamin Oliver: Lullaby for Joni

Aaron Holloway-Nahum: The Deeper Breath to Follow

Robin Holloway: In China

Garry Walker (conductor)

Britannia Building Society Brass Band

Howard Snell (conductor)

Recorded in 1990 as part of the BBC's Festival of Brass.

Ivan Hewett with music by Aaron Holloway-Nahum, Benjamin Oliver and Tom Coult.

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Plus the latest edition of Modern Muses, Hear and Now's series in which composers and performers reflect on their collaborations, featuring the Dutch composer Louis Andriessen and the Italian experimental singer Cristina Zavalloni.

Joanna Bailie: On and Off 2 (2008) for 3 radios, 3 boomboxes, laptop

Dominic Lash: A Wilderness of Harmony (2015) for 5 players

Stephen Chase: harmoniphon vexed (2009) for 6 melodicas

Sarah Hughes: Collapsed Points For Living In (2015) for solo double bass

Paul Whitty: This is what happens when nothing happens (2015) for 5 players

Amber Priestly: Did not feel very well at skool (31/1/1977) (2015) for 5 players

Ensemble We'd Like To Hear.

Robert Worby presents a concert of new works curated by Music We'd Like to Hear.

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David Bedford: Star's End

Mats Bergstrom (electric guitar)

Pete Wilson (bass guitar)

Steve Barnard (percussion)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Edwin Outwater (conductor)

Producer Philip Tagney.

Robert Worby presents a recording of guitarist Seth Josel and music by David Bedford.

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Catherine Lamb: nodes, various (2010)

Hermann Meier: Klavierstuck 1968; Flecken (1980)

Robert Ashley: Superior Seven (1988)

The Mark Knoop Supergroup perform music by Hermann Meier, Catherine Lamb and Robert Ashley

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Makiko Nishikaze: trio-stella

Paul Newland: things that happen again (again)

Tom Johnson: Predictables

Alvin Lucier: Twonings

Apartment House

(Recorded last month at St Mary-at-Hill in the City of London)

Also tonight, a tribute to the pioneer of musique concr耀te, Pierre Henry, who died recently - composer Simon Emmerson discusses his legacy.

Robert Worby presents a concert by Apartment House.

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In Hear and Now this week, Ivan Hewett presents a focus on Musica Viva in conversation with its current Artistic Director Winrich Hopp, featuring four world premiere performances from recent Musica Viva concerts, including the first concert of the new season just two weeks ago.

Plus Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits Larry Goves for this week's episode of Composers' Rooms.

Arnulf Herrmann: Three Songs at the Open Window

Anja Petersen (soprano),

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra,

Stefan Asbury (conductor).

Gerald Barry: Piano Concerto (2012/13)

Nicolas Hodges (piano),

Peter Rundel (conductor).

Composers' Rooms: Larry Goves

Tom Johnson: Munich Rhythms

Johannes Kalitzke (conductor).

Harrison Birtwistle: Responses: Sweet disorder and the carefully careless

Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano),

Ivan Hewett presents a focus on Bavarian Radio's contemporary music series Musica Viva.

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Milica Djordjevic: Quicksilver (2016, world premiere)

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra,

Conductor Peter Rundel.

Wolfgang Rihm: Requiem Verses (2015-16, world premiere)

Mojca Erdmann (soprano),

Anna Prohaska (soprano),

Hanno Müller-Brachmann (bass-baritone),

Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra,

Conductor Mariss Jansons.

Kate Molleson presents world premieres by Wolfgang Rihm and Milica Djordjevic.

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Now in it's 51st year Musikprotokoll 2018 takes place in the UNESCO world heritage city of Graz in Austria. This year's festival includes a world premiere of Bernd Richard Deutsch's 'Murales' performed by ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Klangforum Wien. The Austrian premiere of duo Fred Frith & B退rang耀re Maximin with an improvised performance at Dom im Berg, a venue deep in the hillside in Graz. A world premiere from Friedrich Cerha, now aged 92 but still one of the giants of contemporary Austrian music, and pieces by Jeff Weston and Chaya Czernowin.

Tom McKinney presents new music from Musikprotokoll 2018.

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Mark Padmore (tenor)

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Julian Anderson: Poetry Nearing Silence

Michael Berkeley: Piano Quintet (world premiere)

Julian Anderson: Prayer (world premiere)

Huw Watkins: Trio (world premiere)

Turnage: A Constant Obsession (world premiere).

The Nash Ensemble premieres music by Berkeley, Watkins, Anderson and Turnage.

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Huw Watkins: String Trio

Colin Matthews: Fuga

Peter Maxwell Davies: A Sea of Cold Flame (Roderick Williams, baritone)

Colin Matthews: It Rains (World Premiere) (Roderick Williams, baritone)

Simon Holt: Bagatelaranas (World Premiere)

Julian Anderson: Van Gogh Blue

(recorded at Wigmore Hall, London on 21st March)

Plus, new music from the BBC Proms Inspire project.

Tom Service presents a concert of new chamber music given by the Nash Ensemble.

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Piano Quintet (World Premi耀re)

Tim Horton (piano)

David Adams (violin)

Michael Gurevich (violin)

James Boyd (viola)

Bjorg Lewis (cello)

Poems of Louis Zukofsky for soprano and clarinet

Claire Booth (soprano)

Richard Hosford (clarinet)

String Quintet (World Premi耀re)

Lawrence Power (viola)

Adrian Brendel (cello)

MODERN MUSES 5: Magnus Lindberg and Kari Kriikku

Shadow Realm

Lucy Wakeford (harp)

Poetry Nearing Silence

Philippa Davies (flute)

Elizabeth Arno (producer).

Ivan Hewett presents Nash Inventions, a concert of Nash Ensemble commissions and premieres

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Jonathan Harvey: Ricercare una melodia (5:07)

RedArch Duo

Christopher Redgate (oboe)

Paul Archbold (electronics)

Redgate & Archbold: Improvisation (8:29)

Jonathan Harvey: String Quartet no.1 (18:15)

Arditti String Quartet

(From the complete set of 4 Harvey String Quartets on the Aeon label.

Due for UK release via Harmonia Mundi later in the year)

Christopher Fox: Broadway Boogie (8.00)

Package - rediscovery of Birtwistle's Chronometer (interviews with Lieven Bertels, who tracked down the only surviving 4-track tape of Chronometer & got it remastered for CD/DVD; and with Peter Zinovieff, one of the pioneers of British electronic music, who 'realised' this piece according to Birtwistle's instructions)

Harrison Birtwistle: Chronometer (extracts)

Harrison Britwistle / Peter Zinovieff

From the CD/DVD ‘Recovery / Discovery' (SAM 0801)

Edwin Roxburgh: At the Still Point of the Turning World (15:05)

James Weeks: Burnham Air (11:49)

Ivan Hewett presents new British chamber music with electronics.

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Charlie Usher: Rothko Monody

Chris Litherland: Funferall

Brian Noyes: Points of Decision

Christian Mason: . . . from bursting suns escaping. . .

Symon Clarke: Statue Circle

Visit the Hear and Now homepage to read Programme Notes for both of these concerts.

The BBC Philharmonic scores chosen by the Society for the Promotion of New Music.

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Philippe Hurel: Flashback

Gilbert Amy: L'espace du souffle

Yves Chauris: .solitude, r退cif, 退toile.

J退r䀀me Combier: Gris Cendre

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Fran瀀ois-Xavier Roth (conductor)

G退rard Pesson: Cassation

Ensemble Modern.

Tom Service is joined by British composer Julian Anderson to discuss recent French music.

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Jaakko Kuusisto (violin)

Paavali Jumppanen (piano)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Susanna Malkki (conductor)

Veli-Matti Puumala: Chains of Camenae

Uljas Pulkkis: Enchanted Garden

Lauri Kilpio: Strata

Jukka Tiensuu: Soma

Kimmo Hakola: Maro.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music for orchestra and solo piano by Finnish composers.

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Music includes:

Gervasoni: Sensibile

Tito Ceccherini (conductor)

Nono: Sara dolce tacere

James Weeks (director)

Casale: A Victor Hugo Daza

Castiglioni: Hymne

Sciarrino: I fuochi oltre la ragione

Tito Ceccherini (conductor).

Tom Service explores new Italian music with Ed McKeon.

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Harrison Birtwistle: Fantasia Upon All The Notes

Nash Ensemble conducted by Lionel Friend

Anna Meredith: HandsFree

National Youth Orchestra

Sally Beamish: Spinal Chords

Juliet Stevenson (narrator)

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment directed by Matthew Truscott

Luke Carver Goss: Pure Gold: a 4X4 Relay Race

Ian McMillan (narrator)

Manchester Chorale

Black Dyke Band

Colin Matthews: The Island

Claire Booth (soprano)

Nash Ensemble conducted by Lionel Friend.

Robert Worby with new music by Birtwistle, Matthews, Meredith, Beamish and Carver Goss.

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GoGo Penguin: As Above So Below, commissioned by J-Night Jazz Promoters

Gavin Bryars: Winestead, commissioned by Opera North

Anna Meredith: Concerto for beatboxer and orchestra, commissioned by Southbank Centre

Laurence Crane: Pieces About Art, commissioned by EXAUDI

Daniel Elms: Bethia, commissioned by British Film Institute.

Live from Fruit in Hull, Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music from the New Music Biennial.

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Everlast (commissioned by BBC Concert Orchestra)

Andre de Ridder (conductor)

Eliza Carthy

Rivers and Railways (commissioned by Freedom Festival)

Eliza Carthy (vocals)

The Moulettes

After Avedon - Piano Trio (commissioned by Gould Piano Trio)

Brian Irvine and Jennifer Walshe

13 Vices (commissioned by Moving On Music)

Jennifer Walshe (vocals)

Dance Unity (commissioned by James McVinnie)

James McVinnie (organ)

Darkstar (electronics)

Philip Venables and David Hoyle

Illusions (commissioned by London Sinfonietta)

David Hoyle (performance artist)

London Sinfonietta.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents highlights from the New Music Biennial 2017 in Hull and London.

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Gudmundur Steinn Gunnarsson

Sporgýla

(World Premiere)

Anna Thorvaldsd　ttir

Aeriality

(UK Premiere)

David Brynjar Franzson

on Matter and Materiality' for cello and orchestra

Charles Ross

His Master?s Voice

Thrကinn Hjကlmarsson

As heard across a room

Hlynur Adils Vilmarsson

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Severine Ballon [cello]

Ilan Volkov [conductor].

New music from Iceland with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

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Akira Nishimura: Bird Heterophony (UK Premiere)

Misato Mochizuki: Musubi (UK Premiere)

Toru Takemitsu: November Steps (UK Premiere)

Kifu Mitsuhashi (shakuhachi); Kumiko Shuto (biwa)

BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kazushi Ono

Jo Kondo: Surface, Depth and Colour (UK Premiere)

Guildhall Chamber Ensemble conducted by Sian Edwards

Dai Fujikura: Atom (European Premiere)

Toshio Hosokawa: Woven Dreams (UK Premiere)

BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kazushi Ono.

New music from Japan performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

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Jouni Kaipainen: String Quartet No 6, 'The Terror Run' (BBC Commission, UK premiere)

Cecile Ore: Schwirren (UK premiere)

Arne Nordheim: Response IV

BIT20 Percussion

Esa-Pekka Salonen: Kiss my mouth (Two Songs from 'Kalender R怀d', no. 1)

Per Norgard: Wie ein Kind

Conductor James Morgan

Kaija Saariaho: Terra Memoria

Vertavo Quartet.

Ivan Hewett with new music from the Nordic countries: Ore, Nordheim, Kaipainen, Saariaho.

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Every year musicians and music lovers from all around the world gather in the Germany city of Witten for this international festival of contemporary music.

Since 1969, the festival Witten Days for New Chamber Music has been setting the mark for what is new in contemporary music and has become a meeting point for avant-garde music, connoisseurs and music lovers. For the past five decades many important musical works have been heard in Witten for the very first time.

Tom McKinney presents music from the 2018 Witten Days for New Chamber Music festival.

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Part of Radio 3's Focus on China season.

Robert Worby reports from Shanghai on the range of new music being made there.

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Mario Duarte: Metztli

Grace-Evangeline Mason: Kintsukuroi (Golden Repair)

Daniel Kidane: Sirens

Laura Bowler: 3811 Nautical Miles

Larry Goves: hollow yellow willow (world premiere)

David Horne: Resonating Instruments

Tom Coult: Two Games and a Nocturne

Mark Heron (conductor)

Also tonight: Sound of the Week: composer Alwynne Pritchard describes a particular sound that has inspired her own compositions.

Tom McKinney presents new music from the north west of England.

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Yvonne Eccles: Relentless Continuum

Robin Walker: Prelude to Odysseus on Ogygia

Ben Parker: Treading Water

Adam Gorb: In Solitude, For Company

BBC Philharmonic

Clark Rundell (conductor)

James Wishart: The Leaving of Liverpool

Anthony Gilbert: Moonfaring

Mark Simpson: Ariel

Psappha.

Tom McKinney presents music from the 2016 New Music North West festival in Manchester.

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Yuko Ohara: Kaleidoscope

Laura Bowler: Irresistible Demands Of The Flesh

BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Garry Walker

and from an LPO Debut Sounds concert:

Emily Wright: Incantation

Erik Flores: Foliage

London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Clement Power

Plus in this week's Hear And Now Fifty, Gillian Moore advocates George Benjamin's At First Light, a chamber orchestral score of extraordinary detail and skill; while Paul Griffiths describes the significance of the work as a benchmark for British composing.

Ivan Hewett presents new music for orchestra by young composers.

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Bara Gisladottir: VAPE

Sarah Nemtsov: dropped.drowned

Simon Steen-Anderson: Piano Concerto

Nicolas Hodges (piano)

Frankfurt Radio Symphony conducted by Baldur Bronnimann

Sound of the Week: Thomas Larcher. The Austrian composer, pianist and keen mountaineer talks about a sound he encounters high in the Tyrol mountains.

Plus an appreciation of Naresh Sohal, who died earlier this year.

Naresh Sohal: Violin Concerto

Xue Wei (violin)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

conducted by Martyn Brabbins.

Kate Molleson presents a concert from the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music 2018.

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In Composers' Rooms the Cambridge home of Robin Holloway is the latest destination for Sara Mohr-Pietsch. Together, she and the distinguished composer, teacher and writer rootle around his workspace.

Plus, leading contemporary music saxophonist Marcus Weiss plays James Tenney's 'Saxony', recorded live in May at Glasgow's Tectonics festival.

Tom Service presents new releases, plus James Tenney's Saxony for saxophone and tape.

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Sara Mohr-Pietsch (presenter)

XHill Stepping

Digger

Alastair Putt (guitar)

Misremembrance

Robert Irvine (cello)

Endless steps

Orchester der Lucerne Festival Academy

Pierre Boulez (director)

Phonology Garden

Elizabeth Hilliard (soprano)

Closed Circuit.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Kerry Andrew discuss new releases from Mica Levi to Ondrej Adamek.

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Christian Marclay: Graffiti Composition (excerpt)

Apartment House, recorded 2011

Simon Steen-Andersen: String Quartet No.2

Bozzini Quartet, recorded 2012.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch reviews the latest new music releases with guest Neil Luck.

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David Brophy (conductor)

Robin Tritschler (tenor)

In a Solitude of the Sea

Members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra

COMPOSER'S ROOM: Jennifer Walshe

Ioana Petcu-Colan (violin)

Dark Ocean Lights

STEVE REICH

Music for Pieces of Wood

Guildhall Percussion.

Ivan Hewett presents new works played by the Ulster Orchestra. With Deirdre McKay's Driven

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BBC Radio 3 celebrates new music at the beginning of the new year as ten of the station's presenters champion the music they love written in the last ten years. Ten works by composers including Larry Goves, Cassandra Miller, Gavin Bryars and George Benjamin are advocated by ten presenters including Sarah Walker, Tom Service, Elizabeth Alker, Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Andrew McGregor.

George Benjamin: Written on Skin (Act 1 Scenes 5 & 6)

Mahler Chamber Orchestra conducted by George Benjamin

Larry Goves: Hollow yellow willow for orchestra

BBC Philharmonic conducted by Mark Heron

Gavin Bryars: Credo from the Worcester Ladymass

Trio Mediaeval

Cassandra Miller: Duet for cello and orchestra

Charles Curtis (cello)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov

Hans Abrahamsen: ‘I will go out now' from Let Me Tell You

Barbara Hannigan (soprano)

Bavarian Radio Orchestra conducted by Andris Nelsons

Edmund Finnis: Elsewhere

Daniel Pioro (violin)

James MacMillan: Stabat Mater

The Sixteen and Britten Sinfonia

conducted by Harry Christophers

Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Aeriality

Iceland Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov

Gerald Barry: The Importance of Being Earnest Act 1 excerpt

BCMG conducted by Thomas Ades

Kerry Andrew: Apples, Plums, Cherries

Juice vocal ensemble

Radio 3 presenters champion the new music they love.

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Young firebrand New Yorker Nico Muhly is one of the most exciting and diverse composers around today. He has written and performed with major orchestras in the USA and UK, and collaborated with artists including

Björk and Sigur Rós.

Nico Muhly: Step Team (18:17)

Trad. arr. Muhly: Saro; You Better Mind (6:38)

Sam Amidon and Beth Orton (vocals)

Nico Muhly: By All Means (9:13)

Nico Muhly: The Only Tune (15:41)

Sam Amidon (vocals)

Steve Reich: City Life (14:14)

Britten Sinfonia conducted by Nicholas Collon and Nico Muhly.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to composer Nico Muhly and presents a concert of his music.

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Robert Worby hears from some of the composers whose music was performed at last Saturday's late night 'Floral Night Episode' concert at London's South Bank Centre.Robert is joined too by The Riot Ensemble's artistic director, Aaron Holloway-Nahum.

Saariaho: Terrestre for flute & ensemble

Djuro Zivkovic: On the guarding of the heart

Ole Lützow-Holm: Floral night episode for soprano & ensemble(UK premiere)

Ruben Sverre Gjertsen: Collideorscape(UK premiere)

Bကra G퀀slad　ttir: Suzuki Baleno (UK premiere)

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Maja S K Ratkje: Gagaku Variations (2001) for string quartet and accordion

Frode Haltli (accordion), Quatuor Bozzini.

Nordic Music Days - music from Sweden, Iceland, Finland and Norway with The Riot Ensemble.

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American composer John Luther Adams talks to Tom McKinney about his recent work Ilimaq, an electro-acoustic collaboration with Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche, evoking the northern territories of Alaska in North America.

And continuing our coverage of this year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the group Apartment House perform John Cage's Hymnkus, whose title combines the words hymn and haikus, reflecting of the work's construction.

Robert Worby and Sara Mohr-Pietsch present new music by Emily Hall and John Luther Adams.

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Dave Price: Lee Games

Finn Peters: 43

Dave Price: Twitcher

Gyorgy Ligeti: String Quartet No.2

Diotima Quartet

Charlotte Seither: Haut Terrain

BBC Singers/Nicholas Kok

Joe Cutler: Flexible Music

Hans Koller: Eins, Zwei, Drei, Tier

Hanna Kulenty: Smokey Eyes

Noszferatu: Ivo de Greef (piano); Finn Peters (saxophones, flute); Damien Harron (percussion)

Alexander von Schlippenbach Trio: Alexander von Schlippenbach (piano); Evan Parker (saxophones); Paul Lovens (percussion).

Noszferatu and the Alexander von Schlippenbach Trio play at the 2013 London Jazz Festival.

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Emma Wilde: 'El Hilo del Tiempo

Luke Carver Goss (amplified accordion and effects)

Royal Northern Sinfonia conducted by Jack Sheen

Will Frampton: 'The Greening Variations

Psappha -

Benedict Holland (violin)

Jennifer Langridge (cello)

Benjamin Powell (piano)

James Williamson: Fault-Klang

Dov Goldberg (bass clarinet)

Lucy Armstrong - 'Space Adventure

Robert Reid Allan: 'The Palace of Light

Bethan Morgan-Williams: 'In Kenopsia

Tony Boorer (trombone)

Bethan Morgan-Williams (live electronics)

Michael Cryne: 'In Cloud Light

Conrad Marshall (alto flute)

Jack Sheen: 'Found

Lore Lixenberg (mezzo soprano)

Members of the Royal Northern Sinfonia

Joanna Ward: 'to think at the sun

Quinta (violin)

Members of Royal Northern Sinfonia

Charlotte Bray: 'Caught In Treetops' (2010)

Benedict Holland (solo violin)

Conrad Marshall (flute)

Mana Shibata (oboe)

Dov Goldberg (clarinet)

Andrew Budden (horn)

David Hooper (trumpet)

Lauren Scott (harp)

Tim Williams (percussion)

Susi Meszaros (viola)

Jennifer Langridge (cello).

Tom McKinney focuses on some of the next generation of British composers.

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Angel Blue (Lulu)

Robert Winslade Anderson (Clarence)

Donald Maxwell (Dr Bloom)

Jonathan Stoughton (Jimmy)

Jacqui Dankworth (Eleanor)

Paul Curievici (Photographer/Young Man

Simon Wilding (Athlete)

Paul Reeves (Professor/Banker/Police Commissioner

London Sinfonietta

Gerry Cornelius (conductor).

Tom Service introduces Olga Neuwirth's American Lulu performed at the Young Vic in London.

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Olga Neuwirth: Five Daily Miniatures

Olga Neuwirth: ...miramondo multiplo...

Luigi Nono: Al gran sole carico d'amore (Act 2 excerpt)

Olga Neuwirth: Hommage a Klaus Nomi (excerpts)

Andrew Watts, countertenor

Alistair Mackie, solo trumpet

London Sinfonietta

Garry Walker and Gerry Cornelius, conductors.

Robert Worby presents UK premieres of works by Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth.

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Flourish With Fireworks

Choral, Op.8

Whitman Settings, Op.25a

Horn Concerto, Op.28

Requiem - Songs for Sue, Op.33

Symphony No.3, Op.18

Claire Booth, soprano

Martin Owen, horn

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Oliver Knussen, conductor.

Oliver Knussen conducts his own works, including Choral, Requiem and Symphony No 3.

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Experimental trio Alexander's Annexe reformed specially for this concert (Sarah Nicholls on inside-out piano, and Mira Calix and David Sheppard on electronics).

Abstruckt is a percussion quartet, Ipek Gorgun (from Istanbul) performs her live electronic music in her UK concert debut, and Laura Cannell plays her own music on violin and recorders.

Part 1:

Alexander's Annexe: Pull It

Walley Gunn: Vicious Children

Abstruckt Ensemble

Ipek Gorgun: Fata Morgana

Laura Cannell: Three Stones/Cathedral of the Marshes

Alexander's Annexe: Tear It

Part 2:

Ipek Gorgun: improvised live set

Laura Cannell: Interrelation of Diverse Emotions

The Happiness of Both Worldes

Eliot Cole: 3 Postludes

Alexander's Annexe: Say It.

A concert with Alexander's Annexe, Abstruckt Ensemble, Ipek Gorgun and Laura Cannell.

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Na'ama Zisser: Drowned In C

LCO conducted by Hugh Brunt

Cassandra Miller: For Mira

Mira Benjamin (violin)

Lisa Illean: A through-grown earth (World Premiere)

Juliet Fraser (soprano)

and pre-recorded sound

Native Instrument: live electronics performance

David Fennessy: Changeless + The Changed

Zara Benyounes (violin) and Reinoud Ford (cello)

Rebecca Saunders: O

Amber Priestley: "...and go ahead! Dare to be irrational!"

with stereo playback

Angelica Negron: This Person

Open Ear concert from LSO St Luke's. LCO, Juliet Fraser, Native Instrument, Mire Benjamin.

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Part 1:

Amber Priestley: Help with Adverbs

Sarah Nemtsov: Seven thoughts - her kind (World Premiere)

Gwen Rouger (sampler keyboard & vocal)

Fritz Hauser: As We Are Speaking

We Spoke percussion ensemble

Sarah Angliss: set 1 (music from the album Ealing Feeder)

Sarah Angliss: acoustic instruments and live electronics

Stephen Hiscock: percussion

Simon Loeffler: `b"

Part 2:

Lorenzo Pagliei: Corpi Celesti

Exaudi, directed by James Weeks

Sarah Angliss: set 2 (music from the album Ealing Feeder)

Petra Strahovnik: ?

Michael Oesterle: all words

Rapha뀀l Languillat: La flagellation du Christ

Gwen Rouger (amplified piano)

An Open Ear concert of new music, with We Spoke, Exaudi, Gwen Rouger, and Sarah Angliss

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Part 1

Meredith Monk: Double Fiesta

Severine Ballon: Paroles

Severine Ballon (cello)

William Marsey: a selection from Dutch Interior Subjects

Joseph Havlat (piano, celeste, toy piano)

Josephine Stephenson: Tanka

Adrian Demo?: Modr退 Kvety (Les Fleurs Bleues)

Part 2

Oliver Leith: Grinding-Bust-Turning

Chaya Czernowin: Songs of the Muted One

S退verine Ballon (cello)

Joel Rust: Pack of Orders

Seကn Clancy: Four Pieces of Music Lasting Thirty Seconds Each

Joseph Havlat (toy piano)

Gerald Barry: Triorchic Blues

Joseph Havlat (piano)

Julius Aglinskas: String Quartet

Open Ear concert with The Hermes Experiment, Apartment House and Severine Ballon

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Norgard explains the dream that inspired him to compose, the importance of 'interference' in his work and his struggle to compose music that he has never yet heard.

Per Nørgård - Symphony No.3: First movement

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

DACAPO 60220547 Track 1

Per Nørgård - Voyage into the Golden Screen  ?? extract

Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra

Giordano Bellincampi (conductor)

DACAPO 8.226014 Track 11

Per Nørgård - Symphony No.4: Indian Rose Garden and Chinese Witch Sea (1981)

2nd Movement  ?? extract

Leif Segerstam (conductor)

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Per Nørgård - Cello Concerto: Between

1st movement

Morten Zeuthen (cello)

Jorma Panula (conductor)

DACAPO DCCD 9002 Track 3

Per Nørgård - String Quartet No.10 (Harvest Timeless)

The Kroger Quartet

DACAPO 80226059 Track 12

Per Nørgård - Symphony No.7

EBU Tape

Ivan Hewett presents a profile of Danish composer Per Norgard.

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Elizabeth Arno (producer).

Tom Service pays tribute to Peter Maxwell Davies with Sally Beamish and Alasdair Nicolson.

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In an engaging interview Tom Service talks to Max, who turned eighty this year, about some of the preoccupations of his long and distinguished career. Plainsong, sixteenth century English music and the inspiration he draws from the unspoiled natural beauty of his Orkney home are reflected in music recorded for this special edition of Hear and Now by the BBC Philharmonic and Radio 3 New Generation Artist, guitarist Sean Shibe.

The programme ends with a classic recording of one of Max's major works from the sixties, his Second Fantasia on John Taverner's 'In Nomine', one of a number of works whose apparent complexity and dissonance perplexed orchestras and and generated no little hostility. 'These days,' says Max, 'those pieces seem so lyrical. There' s no problem: people just play them as a piece of music and enjoy it. It's worth living to eighty to get that kind of reaction!

Plus, in her series Composers' Rooms, Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits George Benjamin.

Peter Maxwell Davies:

Overture, St Francis of Assisi

The Fall of the Leafe

Last Door of Light

HK Gruber, conductor

Hill Runes

Sean Shibe, guitar

New Philharmonia Orchestra

Charles Groves, conductor.

Peter Maxwell Davies talks to Tom Service about his long and prolific career.

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Cantabile

Sala Symphonic Elegy (UK Premiere)

Viola Concerto (BBC Radio 3 co-commission - World Premiere)

Maxim Rysanov (viola)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Edwin Outwater (conductor)

Modern Muses

Oliver Knussen and soprano Claire Booth talk about their collaboration on Knussen's deeply felt Requiem  " Songs for Sue.

plus

Horatiu Radulescu

Piano Sonata No 2, Op 82

"being and non-being create each other"

Stephen Clarke (piano).

Ivan Hewett introduces compositions by Latvian composer Peteris Vasks.

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Kate Molleson presents music by American composers Philip Glass and Anthony Braxton.

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Philip Glass's new opera The Trial, specifically created for Music Theatre Wales and recorded at the Royal Opera House's Linbury Studio Theatre.

Written by Glass in collaboration with the playwright and screenwriter Christopher Hampton, The Trial is based on the 1925 novel of Franz Kafka. It tells the story of Josef K, a bank employee who is arrested on an unspecified charge on his 30th birthday and forced to defend his innocence, and ultimately journeys towards a violent death.

Amanda Forbes -. Fraulein Burstner/ Leni Frau

Rowan Hellier - Grubach/ Washerwoman

Paul Curievici - Titorelli/ Flogger/ Student

Michael Bennett - Franz/ Block

Johnny Herford - Josef K

Gwion Thomas - Magistrate/ Assistant/ Lawyer

Nicholas Folwell - Willem/ Usher/ Clerk/ Priest

Michael Druiett - Inspector/ Uncle

Conductor Michael Rafferty

Music Theatre Wales Ensemble.

Philip Glass's new opera The Trial performed by the Music Theatre Wales Ensemble.

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Gweneth Ann Rand, Lucy Hall, Susanna Hurrell (sopranos)

Lucy Schaufer, Samantha Price, Rachael Lloyd (mezzo-sopranos)

Chroma Ensemble with Sarah Hatch and Louise Goodwin (percussion)

Music Director: Richard Baker

4:48 Psychosis was the final work of the radical British playwright Sarah Kane, first performed posthumously in 2000. Detailing the experience of clinical depression, the play harrowingly reveals, through poetry, anger and dark humour, an individual's struggle to come to terms with their own psychosis, the numbers in the title referring to the time in the early morning when clarity and bleak despair strike together.

In Philip Venables' new operatic adaptation of Kane's play, directed by Ted Huffman, the search for love and happiness and the struggle for identity are explored through a fusion of opera with spoken text.

Tom Service presents Philip Venables's opera, 4.48 Psychosis.

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Lee Hyla's raucous We Speak Etruscan is a piece that imagines a new (fake) language, spoken by a heavily amplified bass clarinet and baritone sax; Helga Arias Parra's meditative Incipit is derived from a quote of Pergolesi which only emerges in its dying moments; and Sarah Nemstov's Central Park sits alongside Venable's numbers 91-95, a setting of words Simon Howard.

Also, music recorded at the Book of Hours Festival in Co. Louth during the summer. Wolfgang von Schweinitz's KLANG is a hallucinatory work for string trio and ring modulator performed by Flemish (string trio) Goeyvaerts Trio.

Music by Philip Venables, Helga Arias Parra and Wolfgang von Schweinitz

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Much of the music has been written especially for the duo and will include Richard Causton's "Seven States of Rain", which is dedicated to Mary and Darragh and was winner of the first ever British Composers' Award. They will also give the world premiere of a new work by Irish composer Gerarld Barry, which is titled "Midday.".

Darragh Morgan and Mary Dullea perform new and recent music for violin and piano.

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Plus the 'Hear and Now Fifty'. The fifth in the series of signal works from the second half of the twentieth century is Louis Andriessen's 1976 exploration of the relationship between music and politics, De Staat. A key example of European minimalism - with echoes of Stan Kenton and Count Basie - discussed by fellow Dutch composer Michel van der Aa and the South Bank's Head of Contemporary Culture, Gillian Moore.

Boulez: Notations i-xii

Pierre Laurent Aimard (piano)

Boulez: Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna

Royal Academy of Music Manson Ensemble

Susanna M䀀lkki (conductor)

Louis Andriessen: De Staat

Claron McFadden, Barbara Borden, Yvonne Benschop, Ananda Goud (voices)

Sch怀nberg Ensemble

Reinbert de Leeuw (conductor).

Tom Service presents music from the Southbank Centre's celebration of Pierre Boulez.

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Le Marteau sans matre - Bel 退difice et les pressentiments (first version)

Jan DeGaetani (mezzo), Marie-Therese Ghirardi (guitar), members of the BBC SO

Pli selon pli - Don

Halina Lukomska (soprano), members of BBC SO, Pierre Boulez (conductor)

Pli selon Pli - Improvisation I sur Mallarm退

Phyllis Bryn-Julson (soprano), members of the BBC SO, Pierre Boulez (conductor)

RItuel in memoriam Bruno Maderna

BBC commission (1975)

Cummings ist der dichter

BBC Singers, BBC SO, Pierre Boulez (conductor)

Le soleil des eaux

Phyllis Bryn-Julson (soprano), BBC Singers, BBC SO, Pierre Boulez

Le Visage nuptial

Phyllis Bryn-Julson (soprano), Elizabetrh Laurence (mezzo), BBC Singers, BBC SO, Pierre Boulez (conductor).

Ivan Hewett presents a tribute to the late composer and conductor Pierre Boulez.

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Aldo Clementi: Madrigale

Simon Steen-Andersen: Study for String Instrument No.1

Morton Feldman: Bass Clarinet and Percussion

Philip Glass: Music in Contrary Motion

Alvin Lucier: I Am Sitting in a Room

Iannis Xenakis: Nomos Alpha

Pierre Strauch (cello).

Plus Minus in Aldo Clementi, Simon Steen Anderson, Feldman, Glass and Lucier.

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Ivan Hewett introduces music by Danish composers Poul Ruders and Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, from a recent concert given at the Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and their Principal Conductor Thomas Sondergard.

Plus a roundup of recent contemporary music releases, with cellist Zoe Martlew and composer Gabriel Prokofiev.

Poul Ruders: Kafkapriccio

Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen: Symphony-Antiphony

Thomas Sondergard (conductor).

Ivan Hewett introduces music by Poul Ruders and Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen.

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Including performances from the Octandre Ensemble recorded at the Principal Sound Festival at St John Smith's Square in April, and from The World according to Bob, an event celebrating the life of the influential musicologist Bob Gilmore, featuring the ensemble Scordatura. Music by Frank Denyer, Christian Mason, Harry Partch, Horatiu Radulescu, Thomas Smetryns and Claude Vivier.

Vivier: Tao Tao Tao - from Kopernikus

Frank Denyer: After the Rain

Jon Hargreaves (conductor)

Partch: Two Psalms; Dark Brother

John Schneider (voice)

Alfrun Schmid (voice)

Vivier: Piece for Violin and Piano

Benjamin Marquise-Gilmore (violin)

Andrew Zolinsky (piano

Vivier: Samarkand

Octandre Ensemble, Jon Hargreaves (conductor)

Thomas Smetryns: This Could be the Most Beautiful Piece in the World

Christian Mason: Layers of Love (UK premiere)

Radulescu: Piano Sonata No.2, Op.82

Ian Pace (piano).

Music from the 2016 Principal Sound Festival and musicologist Bob Gilmore remembered.

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John Luther Adams was born in 1953 in the American Deep South and brought up in the suburbs of New York, but his music is mostly closely associated with the culture and landscape of Alaska, where he moved in the 1970s and lived for 40 years. He now divides his time between Harlem and the Mexican desert.

Combining his compositional training at the California Institute of the Arts, and the influence of composers from Sibelius to Feldman, with a deep concern for the environment, Adams's music has a profound connection with the natural world. His works often explore abstract dimensions of a particular place, resulting in immersive aural pictures which incorporate both musical and natural sounds and aspire to what he calls a 'sonic geography'.

Music in this special Hear and Now portrait includes Adams's early attempt at 'nature music', a cycle of chamber pieces called songbirdsongs, music from his Alaskan opera Earth and the Great Weather, and the orchestral piece Become Ocean, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Music and Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition.

The Wind in High Places

Jack Quartet

Inuksuit (excerpt)

Massed percussionists and natural sounds

Mourning Dove; Apple Blossom Round (from songbirdsongs)

The Callithumpian Consort

Earth and the Great Weather: No.5 The circle of winds

John Luther Adams Ensemble

Synergy Vocals (Amanda Morrison, Micaela Haslam, Heather Cairncross, Simon Grant)

Nunataks

Lisa Moore (piano)

Seattle Symphony

Ludovic Morlot (conductor)

Ilimaq (excerpt)

Glenn Kotche (drum kits and percussion)

Electro-acoustic landscape by John Luther Adams.

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Psappha perform music by Piers Hellawell and David Fennessy, from a recent concert at Manchester University, and from the 2014 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Trio Accanto play pieces by Toshio Hosokawa and Jo Kondo.

In Modern Muses, Hear and Now's new series exploring the creative process with today's leading composers and performers, Michael Finnissy and pianist Ian Pace talk about their collaboration on works including The History of Photography in Sound. Also in the programme, we hear Ian Pace performing an extract from that ground-breaking work.

And the composer Kerry Andrew travels to Berwick-upon-Tweed to report on a new audio-visual installation by the sound artist Susan Stenger, Sound Strata of Coastal Northumberland.

Piers Hellawell: Sound Carvings of Rano Raraku

David Fennessy: Big Lung (world premiere of concert version)

Jo Kondo: A Shrub

Toshio Hosokawa: Vertical Time Study II

Trio Accanto.

Rober Worby presents Psappha performing music by Piers Hellawell and David Fennessy.

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Huw Watkins (piano)

London Sinfonietta

Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor)

George Benjamin: Fantasia VII

Oliver Knussen: Upon One Note

Colin Matthews: Fantasia XIII

Michael Zev Gordon: The Impermanence of Things - for piano and ensemble (world premiere)

Elliott Carter: A Fantasy about Purcell's Fantasia on One Note

Steve Martland: One Note Fantasy

James Saunders: either/or (world premiere)

Peter Maxwell Davies/Purcell: Fantasia on One Note.

Two world premieres as well as new compositions inspired by Purcell.

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In her series Composers' Rooms, Sara calls on Louis Andriessen to check out his Amsterdam workspace, and she presents the latest in a series of world premieres by winners of the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Inspire Young Composers' Competition.

G退rard Pesson: String Quartet No. 2 Bitume (S退r退nade chevauch退e)

Sam Hayden: Transience (world premiere)

Jonathan Harvey: String Quartet No. 3.

Quartets by Sam Hayden, Jonathan Harvey and Gerard Pesson, plus recent CDs of new music.

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Raymund Yiu: Northwest Wind

Robert Keeley: On the Tiles

Brian Elias: Geranos

Lontano conducted by Odaline de la Martinez

Kevin Volans: White Man Sleeps.

Tom Service presents music by Raymond Yiu, Robert Keeley, Brian Elias and Kevin Volans.

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Ivan Hewett, Kerry Andrew and Neil Luck explore some recent recordings of modern music.

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The legacy of Walter Smetak has long been missing from traditional narratives of 20th century experimental music. Originally from Zurich, upon emigrating to Brazil Smetak radically changed his spiritual outlook and never returned home, instead creating around 150 unconventional instruments made out of huge calabashes, long garden tubing and rotating carousels. His musical philosophy and 'plကsticas sonoras' (resounding sculptures) had an untold influence on Brazilian counter-culture including key figures within the Tropicကlia movement, such as Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso.

Also in the programme, a new piece from Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe using the human-sized metal sculptures of Harry Bertoia and music from Kate Moore (1979) who was recently awarded the biennial Matthijs Vermeulen Prize. Her piece 'Fern' was performed by the Amsterdam Sinfonietta and percussion ensemble Slagwerk Den Haag at another future-thinking European festival specialising in contemporary music, Gaudeamus Muziekweek from Utrecht.

tak-tak...tak...

for ensemble and plကsticas sonoras (2017)

Ronda - The Spinning World

Instrumentarium

for ensemble and video (2017)

volvere

for ensemble with plကsticas sonoras (2017)

Performed by Ensemble Modern

Conducted by Vimbayi Kaziboni

Recorded March 2017 at MaerzMusik, Berlin

Kate Moore (2013)

for chamber ensemble, electroacoustic

Performed by Amsterdam Sinfonietta and Slagwerk Den Haag

Conducted by Candida Thompson

Recorded September 2016 at Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Utrecht.

Levitation Praxis Pt 4

Image - Albrecht Hotz.

Kate Molleson unearths the unique instruments of maverick composer Walter Smetak.

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In this week's Composers' Rooms, Sara Mohr-Pietsch travels to Whitstable in Kent to catch electronic composer Matthew Herbert in a state of flux, between his current office-like studio with its strip lights and nylon carpet, and his potential next space, a converted fishing hut on the beach.

And continuing our survey of early electronic releases by the American Nonesuch label we hear part of Charles Dodge's Earth's Magnetic Field, a piece of computer music which turns magnetic field data into musical sounds.

John Cage: Music for Marcel Duchamp arr. Sam James

Maya Verlaak: All English Music is Greensleeves

Thallein Ensemble

John Cage: Williams Mix with Variations I & 4

Howard Skempton

Morton Feldman: Swallows of Salangan (UK Premiere)

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

Via Nova

Howard Skempton (conductor)

David Lang: The Passing Measures

Dan Rosina (conductor)

Charles Dodge: Earth's Magnetic Field.

Robert Worby presents more highlights from the Birmingham Frontiers Festival.

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Rhodri Davies: lle y bwriaf angor

Heledd Francis Wright: Chwarddiad cawraidd i'r cwmwl

Angharad Davies: Cofnod Pen Bore

Common Objects: Gwrthrych No. 3

Rhodri Davies, harps

Angharad Davies, violin

Heledd Francis Wright, flutes

Matthew Lovett, electronics

Terry Riley: In C

Terry Riley, Director and saxophone

Members of the Center of the Creative and Performing Arts in the Sate University of New York at Buffalo.

Rhodri Davies's Common Objects ensemble plus Terry Riley's minimalist masterpiece, In C.

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Robert Worby presents Richard Barrett's new piece Close-Up, performed by Ensemble Studio6.

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Alexander Mosolov: Iron Foundry

Aphex Twin: Blue Calx (arr. Caleb Burhans)

Gabriel Prokofiev: Concerto for turntable and orchestra (5th mvmt: Snow Time)

Leroy Anderson: The Typewriter

Aphex Twin: Cock ver10 (arr.Stefan Freund)

Larry Goves: 'The clouds flew round with the clouds' for orchestra and electronics

Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 (Scherzo)

Leon Michener: Klavikon solo

Gabriel Prokofiev: Concerto for trumpet, percussion, turntables and orchestra (UKP)

Mr Switch (turntables)

Joby Burgess (percussion)

Daniel de Gruchy-Lambert (trumpet)

Southbank Sinfonia conducted by Gerry Cornelius

This concert was recorded in April in the massive post-industrial space of Ambika P3, a former concrete factory in Marylebone, London.

Image (c) Nick Rutter.

Tom Service presents a concert called Rise of the Machines: Aphex Twin and G Prokofiev.

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Robert Keeley: Six Inventions for flute and clarinet

Robert Keeley: Piano Concerto

Mary Dullea (piano)

Lontano conducted by Odaline de la Martinez

Joe Cutler: Ping!

Coull String Quartet

Jason Yarde: Skip, Dash, Flow

Wonderbrass

Graham Fitkin: Track To Track: The Athlon

London Chamber Orchestra

Graham Fitkin Band.

Tom Service with music by Robert Keeley and 20X12 pieces by Joe Cutler and Jason Yarde.

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And in the third episode of Hear and Now's Composers' Rooms series - exploring the relationship between workspace and composition - Sara Mohr-Pietsch travels to the Leicestershire home of English composer Gavin Bryars.

Presented by Ed McKeon.

Roscoe Mitchell: NONAAH for orchestra

Fred Frith: The Right Angel

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

George Lewis, Roscoe Mitchell, Fred Frith: Improvisation

George Lewis (trombone, electronics)

Roscoe Mitchell (saxophones)

Fred Frith (guitar)

George Lewis: Memex (World Premiere)

Ilan Volkov conductor.

Ed McKeon presents orchestral music by Roscoe Mitchell, Fred Frith and George Lewis.

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Andrew Toovey describes Ubu's Journey as 'a piece for people who are passionate about all different kinds of music ... eclectic, multifaceted and filled with lots of things that really interest me.

Helmut Oehring's POEndulum is based on Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum, a dark tale of a man stuck in a pit with the sentence of death swinging over him, and features a major role for extrovert vocal artist David Moss.

Andrew Toovey: Ubu's Journey

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

World premiere: BBC commission

Claire McCue: Surge

RSAMD MusicLab

Christopher Duncan (RSAMD student): Twine

Helmut Oehring: POEndulum - a monodrama for speaker and orchestra

David Moss (speaker/singer/percussion)

World premiere: BBC commission.

Ivan Hewett presents a concert from the RSAMD Plug Festival in Glasgow.

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Sara meets conductor Steven Sloane, artistic director for RUHR.2010, and composer Gerhard Staebler who has studied and worked in the area throughout its cultural regeneration.

Features music recorded at the 2010 Witten Days for New Chamber Music, from composers Adriana Holszky, Enno Poppe, G.F. Haas and Matthias Pintscher, and performed by Nova Vocal Ensemble, Klangforum Wien and ensemble recherche.

Adriana H怀lszky - Die Hunde des Orion for eight voices (Premi耀re) 10:42

Beat Furrer (director)

Enno Poppe - Speicher I (Premi耀re) 16:44

Extracts from...

Gerhard Staebler - Aufschlage

GuitArtist Quartett

CD: Maningo MR 0410

Track 12

Roland Dahinden - Action for Jackson for bass clarinet (Premi耀re) 8:30

Gareth Davis (bass and double bass clarinet)

Georg Friedrich Haas - AUS.WEG for eight instruments (Premi耀re) 18:29

Matthias Pintscher - sonic eclipse for trumpet, horn and ensemble (Premi耀re) 33:17

Anders Nyqvist (trumpet)

Christoph Walder (horn)

Sara Mohr-Pietsch travels to the Ruhr region in Germany, European Capital of Culture 2010.

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Daniela Terranova: Notturno in forma di rosa (UK premiere)

Salvatore Sciarrino: Immagina il deserto (UK premiere)

Francesco Filidei: Ballata No.2 (UK premiere)

Salvatore Sciarrino: ... da un Divertimento (1970)

Anna Radziejewska (mezzo soprano)

Marco Angius (conductor)

Recorded at St John's Smith Square, London.

Eva Reiter: The Lichtenberg Figures (excerpt)

Eva Reiter (voice)

Ictus

Georges-Elie Octors (conductor)

Recorded at Darmstadt International Summer Course for New Music, for German Radio, Cologne.

Image of Salvatore Sciarrino - Luca Carr

Fennessy: Dead End (4:20)

Pritchard: The Firmament of Time (world premiere; BBC commission) (19:32)

Taylor: Symphony No 2 (36:34)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Garry Walker (conductor)

Fennessy: Big Lung (21:19)

Kevin Bowyer (organ)

Auska Hatanaka (percussion)

Tom de Cock (percussion).

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents four works that explore different perspectives on time.

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Cardew is the subject of the Hear and Now Fifty this week, and his biographer, pianist John Tilbury, describes Cardew as he knew him, as well as the turbulent reaction of early audiences to his masterwork, The Great Learning; while Paul Griffiths explains its place in Cardew's musical and political thinking.

Giacinto Scelsi: Ohoi

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins

John Cage: Solo for Sliding Trombone

Simon Johnson (trombone)

The Hear and Now Fifty:

Cornelius Cardew: The Great Learning, Paragraph 3

Glasgow Chamber Choir and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins.

Music by Scelsi and Cage, plus the Hear and Now Fifty: Cornelius Cardew's Great Learning.

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Helen Grime: Snow (Two Eardley Pictures)

Sally Beamish: Cauldron of the Speckled Seas

Jay Capperauld: F耀in-Aithne

Peter Maxwell Davies: Symphony No.9

Martin Roscoe (piano)

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor).

Orchestral music by Helen Grime, Sally Beamish, Jay Capperauld and Peter Maxwell Davies.

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Christian Wolff: Isn't This a Time

Tim Hodgkinson, Chris Cundy, Yoni Silver, Jason Alder, Heather Roche (bass clarinets)

John McLeod: The Gokstad Ship

William Sweeney: E las nan Ribheid (The Wisdom of the Reeds) - concertino for clarinet and orchestra (BBC Commission, World Premiere)

Yann Ghiro (clarinet)

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

Thanos Chrysakis: Gnomon

Tim Hodgkinson, Chris Cundy, Yoni Silver, Jason Alder (bass clarinets)

Oliver Knussen: Symphony No 3 (Scottish Premiere)

Anna Clyne: Beltane (BBC Commission, World Premiere)

BBC Scottsih Symphony Orchestra

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor).

Kate Molleson presents recordings from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

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Live performances inspired by birdsong from Sharon Gal, Lee Patterson and Kate Carr.

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Simon Bainbridge: Guitar Concerto

Craig Ogden (guitar)

Clark Rundell (conductor)

Simon Bainbridge: Concerti Grossi

Witold Lutoslawski: Jeux Venitiens

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Foyle Future Firsts

Clement Power (conductor)

Hans Werner Henze: Tristan for piano, tape and orchestra

Homero Francesch (piano)

Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra

Hans Werner Henze (conductor).

Ivan Hewett presents music by Simon Bainbridge, Hans Werner Henze and Lutoslawski.

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Steve Martland: Starry Night

Graham Fitkin: Distil

Iannis Xenakis: Psappha

Joby Burgess (percussion)

Christopher Fox: re:play

Anton Lukoszevieze (cello)

Aleksander Kolkowski (wax cylinder).

Robert Worby with performances from the Smith Quartet and percussionist Joby Burgess.

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Claire Booth and composer Colin Matthews discuss the role of song, and songwriting in new British composition.

The Hear and Now Fifty focuses on American composer Milton Babbitt's Philomel, with jazz pianist Ethan Iverson and writer Paul Griffiths.

Cornelius Cardew - Solo with Accompaniment

Howard Skempton - Gloss

Jonathan Harvey - Ah! Sun-flower

Colin Matthews - Out in the Dark

John Woolrich - Stendhal's Observation

Philip Cashian - The Songs Few Hear

Rolf Hind - Fire in the Head

George Nicholson - Selection from Bagatelles for oboe and percussion

Alun Hoddinott - A Contemplation upon Flowers

Claire Booth (soprano)

Andrew Matthews-Owen (piano)

Recorded at the Purcell Room, London; March 1, 2011.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents new British music and a focus on a work by Milton Babbitt.

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In a selection of highlights from one of the days of concerts, Robert presents interviews with the composers and a series of works from the past 40 years, ranging from Stockhausen's Pole for 2 performed using shortwave radios by Sound Intermedia to the world premiere of Claudia Molitor's 'it's not quite how I remember it' for cello, percussion, tape and 3D film.

Plus the first in a series of diary pieces from composers Mira Calix and Larry Goves, as they embark on their year-long collaborative project Exchange And Return.

Music includes:

Mira Calix: ort-oard (with film) (3:58)

Oliver Coates (cello)

Duncan Macleod: Good Boy, Bad Boy (world premiere) (5:33)

Paul Silverthorne (viola)

Jonathan Harvey: Other Presences (11:22)

Paul Archibald (trumpet)

Stockhausen: Poles for 2 (17:11)

Emily Hall: Put Flesh On! (9:16)

Natasha Barrett: Deconstructing Dowland (UK premiere) (8:31)

Huw Davies (guitar)

Claudia Molitor: it's not quite how I remember it (world premiere) (8:14)

Sam Walton (percussion)

Luciano Berio: Naturale (19:14)

Sound Intermedia.

Robert Worby presents music from the London Sinfonietta's Sonic Explorations festival.

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Italian music from the Sonic Fusion Festival in Salford and the London Ear Festival.

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Jean-Claude Risset: Computer Suite from Little Boy - Fall

Joseph Hyde: Vanishing Point

Jean-Claude Risset: Duet for one pianist (Jean-Claude Risset, piano)

Stefan Damian: Naufrage

Jean-Claude Risset: Resonant Sound Spaces.

Robert Worby introduces electronic music by Jean-Claude Risset.

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Robert Worby presents highlights from this important festival of electronic music held in Belfast every two years.

In April every 2 years, artists from more than 40 countries across the world gather in Belfast for a week of musical adventure. For over 30 years Sonorities has lead the way for musicians, composers, sound artists to make and present work for curious listeners. As the Sonorities press office puts it: 'Occasionally you might leave unimpressed, but more often than not you'll stumble upon something that will change your outlook on music forever.

Music to include:

Isaac Gibson: A Hitchhiker's Purgatory

Paolo Pastorino: Velocit

Performances by Red Note Ensemble and acousmatic music from the Sound Festival in Aberdeen

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Plus, Andrew Kurowski, Radio 3's New Music editor who oversaw the commissioning of new works from 1991 to 2013, selects works from the archive which tell the story of Radio 3's growing public profile as a major commissioner of new work. Tonight, music from the 1960s by Peter Maxwell Davies, Elisabeth Lutyens and Harrison Birtwistle.

Live music from Bastard Assignments and 1960s landmark recordings from Radio 3's archive.

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The Riot Ensemble live

Liza Lim: Philtre (1997)

Sarah Saviet (violin)

Nina Young: Void (2013)

Sarah Dacey (soprano), Stephen Upshaw (viola), Adam Swayne (piano)

Jack Sheen: New Work (2016) - new work commissioned for this programme

Kate Walter (flute), Ausias Garrigos (clarinet), Sarah Saviet (violin), Stephen Upshaw (viola), Claudia Maria Racovicean and Adam Swayne (piano)

Aaron Holloway-Nahum (conductor)

approx. 11pm Andrew Kurowski talks to Tom Service about BBC Radio 3 Commissions including:

James Dillon: Traumwerk Book 3, no 6 (2002)

Irvine Arditti (violin), Noriko Kawai (piano)

Rebecca Saunders: Choler (2004)

Nicolas Hodges and Rolf Hind (pianos)

Simon Holt: eco pavan (1998)

Rolf Hind (piano), Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Jonathan Harvey: Madonna of Winter and Spring (1986) 4th movement 'Mary

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Peter E怀tv怀s (conductor)

approx. 12.00 am more from The Riot Ensemble recorded earlier this evening

Thomas Kotcheff: death, hocket, and roll (2014)

Claudia Maria Racovicean and Adam Swayne (toy pianos)

Giacinto Scelsi: Ko-Lho for flute and clarinet (1966)

Maderna: Serenata per un satellite

Kate Walter (flute), The Riot Ensemble, Aaron Holloway-Nahum (conductor).

Tom Service introduces a special live edition from the foyer of Southbank Centre.

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Karlheinz Stockhausen's electronic work Two Couples was created for the BBC-commissioned film In Absentia directed by the Quay Brothers, who cut their experimental animation to the music.

This is followed by Toru Takemitsu's soundtrack for Masaki Kobayashi's 1964 horror film Kwaidan which uses distorted recordings of cracking ice and wood to enhance the drama on the screen; musician and writer David Toop and film scholar Peter Grilli celebrate this powerful and innovative score.

British composer Michael Finnissy has been influenced by cinematic editing techniques throughout his career and has written music for several silent films including Jean Vigo's A propos de Nice from 1930, one of the pieces included on a recent release by the New Music Players.

The role of sound in film editing is explained by Hollywood editor Walter Murch who also discusses the influence of musique concrete on his work in such films as The Conversation and THX 1138.

And the programme ends with an excerpt from American composer Michael Gordon's Decasia, a collaboration with filmmaker Bill Morrison, who uses slowed down and decayed archival footage from the early 20th-century in a meditation on human mortality.

Karlheinz Stockhausen: Two Couples

Kathinka Pasveer (voice)

Karlheinz Stockhausen (voice, electronics)

Simon Stockhausen (synthesizers)

Toru Takemitsu: Kwaidan soundtrack (excerpt)

Michael Finnissy: A propos de Nice

Michael Gordon: Decasia

Basel Sinfonietta

Kasper de Roo (conductor).

Robert Worby explores the world of film and sound in contemporary music.

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Anna Meredith (arr. James Poke): Nautilus (System Restart Version)

Jobina Tinnemans: Throwing A Window Through Another Window

Elizabeth Kelly: On Edge

Kerry Andrew: THE, WHAT IS IT? THE GOLDEN EAGLE?

Linda Buckley: Azure

Kate Moss: The Dam

James Poke, flutes, pan-pipes, wind synthesiser

Audrey Riley, cello

Bradley Grant, saxophones, clarinets

Dominic Saunders, keyboards

Gordon Mackay, violin

Dan Gresson, drums, percussion

James Woodrow, guitar

Pete Wilson, bass guitar

Pascale Criton: Territoires imperceptibles for flute, cello and guitar

Rebecca Saunders: Vermillion for clarinet, cello and electric guitar

Raphaele Biston: Traces for flute, clarinet and cello

Jean-Philippe Grometto, flute

V退ronique F耀vre, clarinet

Caroline Delume, guitar

David Simpson, cello

Kate Molleson from Scotland's festival of new music

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Infra takes its title from the Latin for the word 'below', and that's what Richter explores in this meditation on the events surrounding the London 7/7 bombings - the world just beneath the surface. Originally composed for a dance work choreographed by Wayne McGregor, it's an examination of the submerged sounds of the everyday, of the unnoticed, the overlooked and the forgotten. Max Richter is joined by the strings of the 12 Ensemble.

Tom Service introduces a performance of Max Richter's melancholic multimedia work, Infra.

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In conversation with Ilan Volkov, Ivan Hewett explores not only this more familiar side of Takemitsu but also an earlier aspect with the rarely performed 'Corona II'. The 1962 graphic score has complicated instructions for the players, including the positioning of transparent plastic red, yellow and blue squares on concentric circles. Takemitsu is also put in the context of fellow Japanese composers: his near contemporary Toshi Ichiyanagi (once married to Yoko Ono) and, still in her forties, Keiko Harada.

Toru Takemitsu: Green (November Steps II); Marginalia

Keiko Harada: Third Ear Deaf III

Toshi Ichiyanagi: Parallel Music; Life Music

Toru Takemitsu: Corona II

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Ilan Volkov (conductor).

Music by Japanese composers Toru Takemitsu, Toshi Ichiyanagi and Keiko Harada.

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BBC Radio 3 is marking the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare with a season celebrating the four centuries of music and performance that his plays and sonnets have inspired. Over the anniversary weekend, from Friday 22nd to Sunday 24th April, Radio 3 will broadcast live from a pop-up studio at the Royal Shakespeare Company's Other Place Theatre and other historic venues across Stratford-upon-Avon.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Tom Service introduce 21st-century responses to Shakespeare's work.

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Rebecca Saunders: Fury II (UK Premiere)

Paul Cannon (double bass)

Martin Grütter: Die Haütung des Himmels (UK Premiere)

Vito Žuraj: Runaround (UK Premiere)

Rebecca Saunders: Skin

Juliet Fraser (soprano)

Vimbayi Kaziboni (conductor)

SoundState at the Southbank Centre was billed as " five nights of cross-boundary sounds and cutting-edge music". This concert was given by the Frankfurt-based Ensemble Modern, one of the best new music ensembles in Europe. It included two major works by Rebecca Saunders, the Berlin-based composer whose intense and subtle sound worlds have put her at the forefront of European composers working today. Also in this concert, Vito Žuraj's zany Runaround is inspired by tennis; and Martin Grütter's music deals with virtuosity, irony and madness.

Also tonight, Laura Bowler's second blog reporting from a ship in Antarctica, where she was researching her latest composition, inspired by this polar region.

Tom McKinney presents music performed by Ensemble Modern.

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Two Bennys Set 1

Adam de la Cour (voice and tap dance)

Benedict Taylor (voice and viola)

Neil Luck (voice - radiophonic commentary)

Mary Ann Hushlak (voice - radiophonic commentary)

Stomatology (free improvisation)

Sarah Gail Brand (trombone)

Steve Beresford (live electronics)

Two Bennys Set 2

Neil Luck (voice)

Mary Ann Hushlak (voice)

Beethoven: Violin Concerto

Chihiro Ono (violin)

Benedict Taylor (viola)

Gaia Blandina (cello)

Samuel Rice (double bass)

Adam de la Cour (voice, tap)

Federico Reuben (live electronics)

Laonikos Psimikakis-Chalkokondylis (Shakuhachi and guitar)

Neil Luck (tabletop objects and voice)

Neil Georgeson (organ).

Tom Service presents Squib-CRAM's 'Baggage', which includes Beethoven's Violin Concerto.

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An American who has lived in Britain since the mid 1970s, Montague draws deeply on his transatlantic musical roots, from Charles Ives to John Cage. Yet he is also a musician who craves new experiences, from writing extensively for amateur musicians to composing for the unusual forces of klaxon horn soloist and an orchestra of automobiles. He is currently Professor of Composition at Trinity College of Music, London.

Music includes:

Stephen Montague: Intrada 1631 10:45

Stephen Montague: Concerto for piano and orchestra 31:19

Stephen Montague: Dark Sun - August, 1945 20:55

Grant Llewellyn (conductor)

Rolf Hind (piano)

Trinity College of Music Chamber Choir

Stephen Jackson (director).

Ivan Hewett presents a profile of American composer Stephen Montague.

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Steve Reich: Variations for Wind, Strings and Keyboards

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Andre de Ridder

Tyondai Braxton: Central Market (excerpts)

Tyondai Braxton and band; Students from the Guildhall School of Music

Steve Reich: WTC 9/11

Kronos Quartet

Producer: Felix Carey.

Robert Worby introduces music by Steve Reich, including the premiere of WTC 9/11.

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Christopher Rouse: Symphony No.2

BBC Philharmonic

Clark Rundell (conductor)

Steven Mackey: Dreamhouse

Rinde Eckert (singer)

Synergy Vocals

Catch Electric Guitar Quartet

Jason Treuting (percussion)

Steven Mackey (conductor).

The BBC Philharmonic performs music by Steven Mackey and Christopher Rouse.

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Stockhausen: Kontakte

Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)

Marco Stroppa (electronics)

Samuel Favre (percussion)

Messiaen: Le Traquet Stapazin (The Black-eared Wheatear), from Catalogue d'oiseaux

Jonathan Harvey: Tombeau de Messiaen for piano and tape

Philip Mead (piano)

Xenakis: Okho

Guildhall Student Ensemble.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces music by Stockhausen, Messiaen, Xenakis and Harvey.

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Nono: Canti per 13

Stockhausen: Gruppen

Stockhausen: Gesang der Jünglinge

Nono: Polifonica-monodia-ritmica

London Sinfonietta

Royal Academy of Music Manson Ensemble

Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Baldur Bronnimann (conductor)

Geoffrey Paterson (conductor).

Robert Worby introduces music by Stockhausen and Luigi Nono.

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Mon 2 Feb: This programme is now available to listen to

in its entirety in iPlayer until Sat 7 Feb. We're sorry for the earlier fault.

Robert Worby introduces a complete broadcast of Stockhausen's seminal two-hour tape composition Hymnen (1966-7), a vast collage of recorded national anthems, electronics and found sounds.

Robert Worby introduces a full broadcast of Stockhausen's seminal tape composition Hymnen.

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Jules Rawlinson (electronics): sound design (1:00)

Richard Worth: "..but those unheard are sweeter" (5:25)

The Edinburgh Quartet

Kostas Rekleitis: Se la mia vita (5:21)

The Edinburgh Quartet, Lore Lixenberg (soprano)

Benjamin Lang: string quartet no1 (5:25)

Lina Tonia: In Memoriam (5:33)

The Edinburgh Quartet, Neyire Ashworth (clarinet)

Suzanne Parry: This Light (6:38)

Vroni Holzmann: looking for something that isn't there (6:55)

The Edinburgh Quartet, Neyire Ashworth (bass clarinet), Kirsteen Davidson Kelly (piano)

Ryan Somerville: Sono quel che sono (3:25)

The Edinburgh Quartet, Neyire Ashworth (clarinet), Kirsteen Davidson Kelly (piano)

Interviews with Nigel Osborne and Jules Rawlinson

Shiori Usui: Untitled no1 (8:40)

Neyire Ashworth (clarinet), Kirsteen Davidson Kelly (piano), Joby Burgess (djembe)

Jules Rawlinson: Mute/solo (6:40)

Live electronics

Alan Gilliland: Grey Blues (4:37)

Vassilis Kitsos: Niobi (5:00)

Richard Worth (flute)

Thomas Seltz: First movement (5:44)

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents new music for string quartet recorded at Kings Place in London.

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Robert Worby presents music recorded in June at the Spitalfields Festival in London.

Jonathan Harvey: Tombeau de Messiaen

Oliver Knussen: Prayer Bell Sketch

Terry Mann: Bells of Paradise

Chris Dench: Passing bells (Night)

Philip Mead (piano)

Ian Dearden (sound projection)

Richard Barrett: Flechtwerk (WP)

Carl Rosman (clarinet)

Mark Knoop (piano)

Richard Barrett: fOKT IV

Richard Barrett and fORCH.

Robert Worby presents music recorded in June 2007 at the Spitalfields Festival in London.

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James Gilchrist (tenor)

Andreas Borregaard (accordion)

David Cowley (oboe)

Grant Llewelyn (conductor)

Ross Edwards: White Ghost Dancing

Howard Skempton: The Moon is Flashing (world premiere; BBC commission)

Ross Edwards: Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra (Bird Spirit Dreaming)

Giya Kancheli: Kapote (UK premiere).

Concert of new music from Llandaff Cathedral, with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

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FULL PROGRAMME

Berio: Sequenza XII for solo bassoon

Pascal Gallois (bassoon)

Dai Fujikura/Ryuichi Sakamoto: peripheral movements (third section) for electronics and video - world premiere

Georges Aperghis: Recitations for solo voice (movements 5, 8 and 12)

Lore Lixenberg (voice)

Helmut Lachenmann: Toccatina

James Widden (violin)

David Toop: Quills (to scratch a note) - world premiere

David Toop (laptop) and E.laine (voice)

Dai Fujikura: OKEANOS, - world premiere of complete cycle

Okeanos Ensemble

Music by Luciano Berio, Dai Fujikura, Georges Aperghis, Helmut Lachenmann and David Toop.

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Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to composer Tansy Davies about her controversial and eagerly anticipated first opera, recorded last week for Hear and Now at the Barbican Theatre in London.

Tansy Davies has said that the story for the opera evolved as she, the poet-librettist Nick Drake and director Deborah Warner allowed themselves to be drawn towards the human events of 9/11 told from different perspectives.

Tansy Davies Between Worlds

Shaman..... Andrew Watts (countertenor)

Janitor..... Eric Greene (bass-baritone)

Younger Woman - Rhian Lois (soprano)

Realtor..... Clare Presland (soprano)

Younger Man..... William Morgan (tenor)

Older Man..... Philip Rhodes (baritone)

Mother..... Susan Bickley (mezzo soprano)

Gerry Cornelius (conductor).

Composer Tansy Davies talks to Sara Mohr-Pietsch about her first opera, Between Worlds.

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Also on the programme, a specially selected playlist by Tansy Davies.

Kate Molleson presents the world premiere production of Cave, a new opera by Tansy Davies.

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With performances taking place right across the city, tonight's Hear and Now includes world premieres from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and a work for Ondes Martenot by Bernard Parmegiani, a major figure in the development of electroacoustic music. Also tonight, a performance piece for multiple tape players, Dictaphones and texts by Joe Posset recorded at Glasgow's Old Fruitmarket.

This is the first of three programmes from Tectonics Glasgow. Now in its fifth year, it brings the best improvisers and new music practitioners from around the world to Glasgow, to collaborate together and with local performers and artists.

Naomi Pinnock - The field is woven (WP)

James Clarke - Untitled No.9 (BBC Commission, WP)

Miya Masaoka: The Movement of Things (WP)

Glasgow Chamber Choir, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Bernard Parmegiani: Outremer with Nathalie Forget (ondes Martenot)

Pascale Criton: OUT, for ondes Martenot with Nathalie Forget (ondes Martenot)

Joe Posset: 'Grand Dictaphonic Jaxx for four players' with Joe Posset and Ant Macari (audio/visual artists) with Acrid Lactations.

Kate Molleson presents highlights from Tectonics Glasgow 2018.

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The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra premiere works by Ashley Fure, Evan Johnson, Marc Sabat and Kristin Thora Haraldsdottir and Anton Lukoszevieze performs a work written for cello and tape by one of Lithuania's leading 'super-minimalist' composers.

Ashley Fure finds inspiration in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner whilst Haraldsdottir explores dark, natural tunings and Marc Sabat investigates the sounding and perception of Just Intonation in 'gradually shifting harmonic constellations.' Evan Johnson's new work explores the very margins of sound and silence with a work for eighty five players who offer up an almost colourless palette.

Ashley Fure: Bound to Bow (European premiere)

Evan Johnson: measurement as contrition: three canons (WP)

Kristin Thora Haraldsdottir: In Praise of Darkness (UKP)

Marc Sabat: The Luminiferous Aether

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Rytis Mazulis: Solipse (WP)

Anton Lukoszevieze (cello and tape).

Kate Molleson presents a second programme of highlights from Tectonics Glasgow 2018.

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Born in 1930s Paris, Eliane Radigue is one of the pioneers of electronic music, having studied with Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry. More recently, she has turned her attention to acoustic instruments.

Sara Morh-Pietsch (presenter)

Occam River X

Occam V

Occam River IV

Occam Delta VIII

Charles Curtis (cello)

Rhodri Davies (harp)

Robin Hayward (microtonal tuba)

Dafne Vicente-Sandoval (bassoon)

Elizabeth Arno (producer).

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents acoustic music by Eliane Radigue from Tectonics Glasgow 2015.

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Evan Johnson: measurement as contrition: three canons (world premiere)

Dror Feiler: Tikkun Ulam (world premiere)

Dror Feiler (saxophone)

Mats Gustafsson (saxophone)

Lasse Marhaug (live electronics)

Lasse Marhaug: Death of the Noise Artist (world premiere)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov

Plus recent chamber works by Pascale Criton.

Kate Molleson with music by Evan Johnson, Dror Feiler and Pascale Criton from Tectonics.

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John Tilbury and Sebastian Lexer play a duet for two pianos and electronics; Jon Rose plays his Palimpolin for solo violin, and Ande Somby sings traditional Sami Yoiks.

Plus Modern Muses: composer Pauline Oliveros and trombonist Stuart Dempster discuss their life-long musical relationship, especially working on Oliveros's Deep Listening music.

Robert Worby presents music from Tectonics 2016: John Tilbury, Sebastian Lexer, Jon Rose.

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Stephen Montague: Eine kleine Klangfarben Gigue

Robin Rimbauld, also known as Scanner: New work (world premiere London Sinfonietta commission)

Na'ama Zisser: Drowned in C (world premiere, London Sinfonietta commission)

Michael Nyman: In C Interlude

Terry Riley: In C.

The London Sinfonietta performs Terry Riley's In C at Kings Place in London.

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Image (c) Evan Neff.

Tom Service presents 21st-century orchestral music including a Ryan Molloy world premiere.

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James Tenney: Clang (1972)

James Tenney: Beast from Postal Pieces (1965-71) for solo double bass

James Tenney: Diapason (1996)

Jos退 Maceda: Distemperament (1992, UK Premiere)

Salvatore Sciarrino: Allegoria della note (1985)

James Tenney: Analog#1 (Noise Study)

Ilya Grigolts (violin)

Dominic Lash (double bass)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Sound of the Week: Raven Chacon, the forty year old Native American composer, performer of experimental noise music and installation artist.

Robert Worby presents pioneering music by James Tenney, Jose Maceda & Salvatore Sciarrino.

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Ryan Latimer

Antiarkie

David Coonan

Vain Prayer

Les offrandes oubli退es

Edward Nesbit

In spite of the mere objectiveness of things

ɀdith Canat de Chizy

Pierre d'退clair (2010-12)

BBC Symphony Orchestra,

Pierre-Andr退 Valade (conductor)

Modern Muses

Julia Wolfe and Mark Stewart founders of the New York-based Bang on a Can discuss their enduring musical friendship which has lasted over thirty years, and how they have continued to inspire each other with each collaboration.

Edward Cowie

String Quartet no. 4

Birdsong Bagatelle 'Tawny Owl

The Kreutzer Quartet.

Exploring the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Embedded scheme for young composers.

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In the second episode of Hear and Now's Composers' Rooms series, exploring the relationship between workspace and composition, Sara Mohr-Pietsch plays with sharks in the East London studio of electronic composer Kaffe Matthews.

Plus music by Richard Skelton, recorded at the Arts Foundation's recent New Experimentalists event at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.

Arvo Part: Summa

Mark-Anthony Turnage: Run Riot (London premiere)

Terry Riley: Pipes of Medb/Medb's blues (from Chanting the Light of Foresight)

Delta Sax in Free Fall (improvisations inspired by the Jimmy Giuffre Trio release of 1962)

Steve Reich: New York Counterpoint (arr. Susan Fancher)

The Delta Saxophone Quartet:

Christian Forshaw - soprano sax /clarinet

Pete Whyman - alto sax /soprano sax /clarinet

Tim Holmes - tenor sax/clarinet

Chris Caldwell - baritone sax/bass clarinet.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music from the Delta Saxophone Quartet and by Richard Skelton.

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The opera tells of two young men, lost in the mountains, who stumble across a magnificent mansion, wherein lives an old man as rich as Croesus. The source of the old man's wealth is a magical bottle containing an imp which will grant any wish. The old man offers to sell the bottle, but warns that whoever has the bottle on the day of their death will forfeit their soul to the imp. They must sell the bottle, and for a price less than they paid for.

Stuart MacCrae's colourful and imaginative work, a 21st Century re-think of Stevenson's story, sets a text by poet Louise Welsh, and explores ideas of greed and desire.

This performance of "The Devil Inside" by Music Theatre Wales was recorded live at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and is a co-commission and a co-production between Music Theatre Wales and Scottish Opera. The world premiere was performed by Scottish Opera at the Theatre Royal in Glasgow on 23rd January 2016.

Cast

Nicholas Sharratt (tenor) as Richard

Ben McAteer (baritone) as James

Rachel Kelly (mezzo soprano) as Catherine

Steven Page (bass-baritone) as Old Man and Vagrant

The Music Theatre Wales Ensemble conducted by Michael Rafferty.

The production was directed by Matthew Richardson and designed by Samal Blak and Ace McCarron.".

Tom McKinney introduces a performance of Stuart MacRae's new opera The Devil Inside.

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Peter E怀tvos: Speaking Drums (2012/13) for percussion and orchestra

BBC Philharmonic / Juanjo Mena (conductor)/ Martin Grubinger (percussion)

(Recorded in Gasteig, Munich on March 16 2017 )

Peter E怀tvos: The Golden Dragon (2013/14)

(Recorded at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, 3rd October 2017)

Cast:

Llio Evans (The Little One)

Lucy Schaufer (Old Cook, Granddaughter, The Ant, Hans, Chinese Mother)

Andrew Mackenzie-Wicks (Waitress, young Asian, Grandfather, The Cricket, Chinese Aunt)

Daniel Norman (Old Asian, Eva - the brunette air stewardess, the friend of the granddaughter, Chinese Father)

Johnny Herford (An Asian, Inga- the blonde air stewardess, Chinese Uncle)

The Music Theatre Wales Ensemble conducted by Geoffrey Paterson.

Tom McKinney introduces a performance of Peter Eotvos's opera The Golden Dragon.

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Martin Suckling: Breathe

James Clapperton: Songs and Dances of Death

David Fennessy: This is How it Feels (Another Bolero)

David Horne: Submergence

Plus Jonathan Harvey's 'Speakings', from the BBC SSO's new disc of orchestral music by their former Composer-in-Association.

Introduced by Tom Service.

CD Details: Jonathan Harvey - Speakings

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

AEON (AECD1090) Tracks 3 - 5

Ilan Volkov conducts the BBC SSO in works by Scottish and Irish composers.

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Orderly Mouthpiece Spent is a special edition of Hear And Now devised and composed by Neil Luck and members of ARCO and the Squib Box collective, who have established a reputation for cutting-edge concert events combining elements of physical theatre, avant-garde virtuoso musical performance and sound art.

Get ready for a combination of radiophonic treatments, newly composed chamber works and classic radio tropes, all filtered through the zany and surreal imagination of Neil Luck and his ensemble - as presenter Tom Service attempts to keep track of the proceedings.

Performers and contributors:

Fiona Bevan

Adam de la Cour

Kit Downes

Tom Jackson

Dominic Lash

Lore Lixenberg

Musarc choir

Hatsune Miku

Lynette Quek

Federico Reuben

Benedict Taylor

Max Wainwright

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Tom Service (presenter).

Plus the latest episode of 'Modern Muses', the series where key composers and performers from the world of new music discuss their creative collaborations. Tonight, Thomas Larcher and tenor Mark Padmore on Larcher's 2011 songs 'A Padmore Cycle'.

Miroir d'ombres

Adrian Partington (organ)

Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjab退dian (violin)

Xavier Phillips (cello)

Franck Ollu (conductor)

Modern Muses: Thomas Larcher and tenor Mark Padmore discuss the creative collaboration behind Larcher's 'A Padmore Cycle'.

Tom Service portrays composer Thierry Escaich at 50, introducing his Miroir d'ombres.

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Julian Anderson: Eden (2007)

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Edward Gardner (conductor)

Julian Anderson: Imagin'd Corners (2002)

Julian Anderson: Four American Choruses No. 2. Beautiful Valley of Eden (2003)

BBC Singers, Nicholas Kok (conductor

Julian Anderson: Alhambra Fantasy (2000)

Students of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Richard Baker (conductor)

Julian Anderson: Ring Dance (1987)

Julian Anderson: O Sing unto the Lord (1999)

BBC Singers, Nicholas Kok (conductor)

Julian Anderson: In lieblicher Bl䀀ue (2014)

Carolin Widmann (violin)

Julian Anderson: Fantasias (2009)

Eden celebrates the sculptor Constantin Brancusi while Imagin'd Corners revolves around Anderson's attraction to the French horn. Carolin Widmann joins the BBC SO for In lieblicher Bl䀀ue, a work that uses space in a way that only a live performance can reveal. Fantasias is, in Anderson's words, 'for all its wild contrasts, a celebration of the modern symphony orchestra'.

Kate Molleson presents highlights from the day's events at London's Barbican Centre.

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Programme to include:

Magnus Lindberg: Era (UK premiere)

John Storgards (conductor)

Poul Ruders: String Quartet No. 4 (world premiere)

Per Norgard: Symphony No. 8 (UK premiere)

John Storgards (conductor).

Tom Service with Nordic music from a Total Immersion event at the Barbican in London.

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Tom Service presents Wolfgang Rihm's epic Tutuguri played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

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Zero Points

Psychokosmos

Levitation

IMA (Prayer)

Mikl　s Lukကcs (cimbalom)

Richard Hosford and John Bradbury (clarinets)

BBC Symphony Orchestra,

BBC Singers & BBC Symphony Chorus conducted by Peter E怀tv怀s

Peter E怀tv怀s is a composer who creates dazzling new sonorities, inventing astonishing combinations of instrumental and electronic textures and drawing listeners deep into the tonal fabric of his works. IMA, which portrays the biblical act of creation, is a sequel to Atlantis and is E怀tv怀s's biggest choral work to date, employing the forces of a choir of solo singers and a main choir. Fragments of pieces written during his time as a student in Budapest in the early 1960s, meanwhile, supply an autobiographical flavour to Psychokosmos for cimbalom (a dulcimer used in Eastern European folk music) and "traditional" orchestra.

Robert Worby presents a concert of music by Peter Eotvos, from Total Immersion 2011.

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Presented by Robert Worby

D退rive 1 (1984)

David Corkhill (conductor)

Piano Sonata No.2 (1947-48)

Jean-Frederic Neuburger (piano)

Eclats/Multiples (1965-1970)

Pablo Rus Broseta (conductor)

Composer's Room: Betsy Jolas

Memoriale (original ...explosante-fixe...) (1985/1993)

Elizabeth Arno (producer).

Robert Worby and Paul Griffiths present music from Total Immersion: Pierre Boulez at 90.

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Bach arr. Andriessen: Prelude in B minor (Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Part 1)

Britten Sinfonia,

Conductor Andrew Gourlay.

Andriessen: De Stijl

Fanny Alofs (speaker),

Synergy Vocals,

Conductor Clark Rundell.

Andriessen: Hout

Conductor Geoffrey Paterson.

Andriessen: Dances

Allison Bell (soprano),

Andriessen: Mysteri뀀n (UK premiere)

Andriessen's hard-hitting, propulsive music burst on to the international scene in bold response to the American Minimalists. His dynamic, jazz-influenced art has proved a provocative and invigorating force in European music, while his collaborations with film-makers such as Peter Greenaway have pushed forward the boundaries of musical theatre and cinematic technique. Expect pungent sonorities, hectic rhythms and a feast of ideas.

Highlights from the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Total Immersion day.

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One of France's leading composers and a key composer of Spectralist music, Tristan Murail writes groundbreaking works for acoustic and electronic intruments that are both beautiful and complex in equal measure. Having studied with Olivier Messiaen, he founded Ensemble l'Itineraire and then went on to work at IRCAM in Paris.

Total Immersion: Tristan Murail is the second of the the BBC Symphony Orchestra composer days, and features music from across Murail's output.

Tristan Murail: Pour adoucir le cours du temps (UK premiere) (18:14)

Guildhall New Music Ensemble

Pierre-Andr退 Valade conductor

Tristan Murail: Gondwana (17:45)

Pascal Roph退 conductor

Tristan Murail: Time and Again (16:03)

Tristan Murail: ... amaris et dulcibus aquis... (23:09)

James Morgan conductor

BBC Singers

Tristan Murail: Terre d'ombre (15:12)

Tom Service presents music recorded during the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Tristan Murail Day

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Opening collage contains excerpts from 'Ione' by Oliveros and 'Koan' by Tenney.

(Full details of these pieces below)

Tenney: Collage no.1: Blue Suede Shoes (3:30)

(tape music)

From the album: James Tenney: Selected Works 1961- 1969

CD: New World Records 80570

Oliveros: I of IV (excerpt) (4:05)

(electronic music)

From the album: Pauline Oliveros - Electronic Works 1965 + 1966

CD: Paradigm Discs PD 04

Tenney: Chorale (3:50)

Clemens Merkel (violin)

Eve Egoyan (piano)

BBC recording at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2008

Oliveros: Ione (17:40)

Pauline Oliveros (accordion)

Stuart Dempster (trombone and didgeridoo)

From the album Deep Listening

CD: New Albion NA 022 CD

Tenney: Koan (20:06)

Quatuor Bozzini

Oliveros: Poem of Change (10:21)

Pauline Oliveros (voice, accordion)

From the album: Lesbian American Composers

CD: CRI CD 780

Robert Worby explores the music of American mavericks James Tenney and Pauline Oliveros.

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Qasim Naqvi: The Bad Feelings Rainbow (world premiere)

Tyondai Braxton: Telekinesis (world premiere)

Var耀se: D退serts

BBC Singers and BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Andr退 de Ridder

(Recorded on 18th April at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London)

also tonight, a Sound Of The Week from electronic musician and composer Mira Calix

Mira Calix: bowling4strings.

New music by Tyondai Braxton and Qasim Naqvi played by BBC Concert Orchestra.

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Michael Alcorn: Mambo (1998) 9:03

Ed Bennett: Bad Disco (2008) 6:43

Piers Hellawell: Degrees of Separation (2004) 10:52

Fergus Shiel (conductor)

Michael Alcorn: Synapse (2003) 6:59

Andriessen: Dances (1991) 24:07

Marije van Stralen (soprano)

Gavin Maloney (conductor)

Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces an selection of instrumental and electro-acoustic music.

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Brian Irvine: Drowning in the Sea of Your Dreams

Greg Caffrey: Environments 1 for Piano and Orchestra (Finghin Collins, piano)

Patrick Brennan: Cycling

Elaine Agnew: Make a Wish

Ed Bennett: Psychedelia

Ton de Leeuw: Mountains for bass clarinet and pre-recorded electronics

Chris Cundy (bass clarinet).

Robert Worby introduces a recent performance by the Ulster Orchestra.

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Elaine Agnew

Twilight (2010)

David Brophy (conductor)

Piers Hellawell

Dogs & Wolves (2005, BBC Commission)

Ed Bennett

Ausland (2005)

Marion Ingolsby

The Heron by the Weir (2008)

Ian Wilson

Mutazione: Piano Concerto (2003, WP)

Matthew Schellhorn (piano)

Modern Muses: Sally Beamish, Chris Stout and Catriona McKay

Chris Stout (fiddle)

Catriona McKay (harp)

Scottish Ensemble.

Ivan Hewett presents music from a recent concert given by the Ulster Orchestra.

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Unsuk Chin Acrostic Wordplay

Yeree Suh (soprano)

London Sinfonietta

Stefan Asbury (conductor)

Unsuk Chin Double Concerto for Piano and Percussion

Andrew Zolinsky (piano) & Owen Gunnell (percussion)

Unsuk Chin Gougalon

Unsuk Chin Rocana

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents music by Usuk Chin from Total Immersion 2011 at the Barbican.

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Kate Molleson presents new music from Wales with a concert by the UPROAR ensemble.

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Brett Dean: Ceremonials 10:10

Paul Stanhope: Fantasia on a Theme by Vaughan Williams 17:05

Ross Edwards: Symphony No 5 (The Promised Land) 44:43*

juice (vocal ensemble)*

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Andre de Ridder (conductor)

Robert Worby presents Australian music from the 2009 Vale of Glamorgan Festival.

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Qigang Chen: L'eloignement

Thierry Escaich: Psalmos

Bent Sørensen: Trumpet Concerto

Qigang Chen: Jian Tchen Tse

Meng Meng (voice)

Philippe Schartz (trumpet)

BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales

Alexandre Bloch (conductor)

Also tonight, music writer Tim Rutherford-Johnson joins Tom to review new CDs of new music, including the first releases on the new label All That Dust.

BBC National Orchestra of Wales plays Qigang Chen, Thierry Escaich and Bent Sorensen.

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Plus the 'Hear and Now Fifty': Steve Reich's Different Trains is the first in a new series featuring 50 signal works from the second half of the last century nominated by figures from the world of new music and the arts. Matthew Herbert, electronic music producer and bandleader, gives his take on the continuing relevance of Steve Reich's seminal 1988 piece for tape and string quartet, where recorded speech leads the melodic lines to create a remarkable and evocative atmosphere. The feature includes commentary from the South Bank's Head of Contemporary Culture Gillian Moore, and is followed by the Kronos Quartet's original recording of the work.

John Metcalf: Three Mobiles (for soprano saxophone and string orchestra)

Mark Bowden: Lyra (cello concerto)

Qigang Chen: Wu Xing

Oliver Coates (cello)

Gerard McChrystal (soprano saxophone)

Jean-Micha뀀l Lavoie (conductor)

Steve Reich: Different Trains

Kronos Quartet.

Music from the 2011 Vale of Glamorgan Festival. Plus the first of the Hear and Now Fifty.

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Kurt Schwertsik: Instant Music

Johanna Doderer: Psalm 2

Lukas Ligeti: Castle of Turns

HK Gruber: Three Mob Pieces

Ensemble 10/10

Clark Rundell (conductor)

(Recorded May 14 2008 in St George's Hall, Liverpool)

Olga Neuwirth: Miramondo Multipla

William Forman (trumpet)

Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

Friedrich Cerha (conductor).

Exploring the contrast between two musical generations currently composing in Vienna.

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Ivan Hewett presents a programme showcasing the rich variety of recent Welsh music.

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The programme alos includes Anna Meredith's 'Chorale' for MRI scanner and string quartet; and experimental pianist Sarah Nicolls will perform her own works on her 'Inside-Out' piano as well as music by Henry Cowell and George Crumb. She will also take part in a special performance improvisation with Atau Tanaka - a performer who bridges the fields of media art, experimental music and research.

Sara Nicolls: Sun-on-Sea

George Crumb: Makrokosmos Night-Spell I (Sagittarius)

Antonia Barnett-McIntosh: 'none sitting resting

Daniel Penney: Expansions

Sarah Nicolls: Cold

Henry Cowell:The Banshee

Finlay Stafford: Evanescent Waltz

George Crumb: Makrokosmos: Ghost-Nocturne (Virgo) for the Druids of Stonehenge (Night-Spell II) & Cosmic Wind (Libra)

Sarah Nicolls: Seagull Chorale

Toby Hession: Recollections

Anna Meredith: 'Chorale' for MRI scanner and string quartet

Sarah Nicolls and Atau Tanaka: Duo for Bodies

The Proms Inspire Scheme brings together young composers, aged 12 to 18, to learn new skills and enjoy making music. Inspire has worked with over 450 young composers and will have commissioned nine new works and performed and broadcast works by 17 young composers in 2015.

Daniel Penney (b. 1999) began learning music through the Kodကly Method and took classical guitar lessons from the age of 5 in Dublin. He received a Rolling Stones scholarship to study classical guitar at the Yehudi Menuhin School when he was 9 years old and has embraced composition as part of his studies since then.

Finlay Stafford (b. 1998) is a musician and multi-instrumentalist. He has been playing drums since the age of 5, and is interested in music across genres and time periods; from an early love affair with The Beatles to a continuing interest in jazz and modern psychedelia.

Toby Hession(b. 1997) is from Peterborough, where he sang as a chorister in the Cathedral Choir and studied piano and composition at Chetham's School of Music. He has had works performed at Peterborough Cathedral and the Royal Northern College of Music and, in 2013, he was commissioned to compose a piece for the Commonwealth Observance Day in Westminster Abbey.

Tom Service presents live performance of world premieres and recent music.

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Parkinson Saunders will be challenging each other's memory in performances involving associating random words with specific sounds. Seated at two tables, their instrumentation comprises any sound-producing means other than conventional instruments. This can include lo-fi electronics, ordinary objects, toys, and vocalisations, resulting in a table-top orchestra of possibilities.

Also performing live will be Bastard Assignments, a London-based collective of composer-performers. They curate gigs that bring the best of experimental music and performance to London, as well as showing their own work across Europe. They are currently a quartet comprised of Edward Henderson, Timothy Cape, Caitlin Rowley and Josh Spear. They are joined tonight by Antonia Barnett-McIntosh, a former composer in residence at Wellcome Collection.

Live from Wellcome Collection as part of Why Music? The Key to Memory, a weekend of events, concerts and discussions exploring music's unique capacity to be remembered.

Kerry Andrew presents a concert on the theme of memory live from Wellcome in London.

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This edition of Hear and Now presents musical highlights from the festival, including a European premiere by Chaya Czernowin and World premieres by Martin Matalon, Joanna Wozny, Beat Furrer, Ondrej Adamek, James Clarke and Vito Suraj. Plus Four Bits Counters for eight hands by Masahiro Miwa, which completes the Muttental sound-walk.

Slow Summer Stay III - Upstream (European premiere)

Ensemble KNM Berlin

Manuel Nawri (director)

oenm . 怀sterreichisches ensemble für neue musik

Johannes Kalitzke (director)

Traces XI (World premiere)

Uwe Dierksen (tenor trombone)

Max Bruckert (electronics)

Lacunae (World premiere)

Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart

Zwei Studien (World Premiere)

WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne

Steinar (World premiere)

Untitled No.7 (World premiere)

Nicolas Hodges (piano)

Aftertouch (World premiere)

Four Bits Counters for eight hands (2013)

Schlagquartett K怀ln

Elizabeth Arno (producer).

Ivan Hewett presents a round-up from the 2015 Witten Days for New Chamber Music in Germany

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And in Composers' Rooms, Sara Mohr-Pietsch steps inside the courtyard garden studio of James MacMillan, a recent addition to his house in Glasgow in which he's created a quiet retreat for his work.

Gy怀rgy Kurtကg: Clov's last monologue (a fragment)

Arditti String Quartet

Philippe Manoury: Trauerm䀀rsche

WDR Symphony Orchestra

Peter Rundel (conductor)

Wolfgang Rihm: In Verbundenheit

Arditti String Quartet:

Rebecca Saunders: Void

Christian Dierstein & Dirk Rothbrust (percussion)

Brian Ferneyhough: Silentium

Marco Stroppa: La Vita Immobile (4 micro automi)

Brice Pauset: Schwarzm䀀rkte

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Tom Service listens to world premieres from the 2014 Witten New Music Days festival.

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Also tonight, the first of four archive features celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

Andrew Kurowski talks to Robert Worby about some of the British composers who became 'HCMF Fixtures

James Dillon: Dillug Kefitsah

Noriko Kawai (piano)

Brian Ferneyhough: Carceri d'invenzione III

Asko Ensemble

Jonathan Harvey: Bhakti - sections I & II

London Sinfonietta with Sound Intermedia.

Tom Service with new music from Witten and Huddersfield by Ferneyhough, Dillon and Harvey.

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Unsuk Chin: Six Piano Etudes

1: in C, 2: Sequenzen, 3: Scherzo ad libitum, 4: Scalen, 5: Toccata, 6 grains

Clare Hammond (piano)

at approx. 10.50pm

Wolfgang Rihm: Vigilia

Motet I: Tristis et anima, Motet II: Ecce vidmus eum, Motet III: Velum templi scissum est, Motet IV: Tenebrae factae sunt, Motet V: Cagliaverunt oculi mei a fletu meo, Motet VI: Recessit pastor noster, fons aquae vivae, Motet VII: aestimatus sum cum descentibus

Exaudi, Ensemble musikFabrik, Francesco Filidei (organ)

James Weeks (conductor).

Tom Service presents a performance of Wolfgang Rihm's Vigilia, plus Unsuk Chin's 6 Etudes.

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Tom Service presents the UK premieres of four orchestral works from Iceland, especially recorded by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Haukur T　masson writes a work of brooding intensity for orchestra without brass, inspired by the repetitive sounds of the weaver's loom. A solo cello and chamber orchestra provides the pallet for Pကll Ragnar Pကlsson's Quake. But are his eruptions those of the physical world or some sort of emotional torment? Meanwhile, Valgeir Sigurdsson addresses not the elemental force of one of Iceland's most dramatic volcanic eruptions but its aftermath as, in 1875, hundreds of Icelanders emigrate to Canada. In Anna Thorvaldsd　ttir's Dream, a quiet sound world is born from silence. As she writes: "In each chord there is a world of collective sounds where the small particles dissolve and create their own world." Also on the programme, S怀unn Thorsteinsd　ttir plays some works for solo cello and movements from a new album from Bကra G퀀slad　ttir.

Haukur T　masson: From Darkness Woven

Pကll Ragnar Pကlsson: Quake

Valgeir Sigurdsson: Eighteen Hundred & Seventy-Five

Anna Thorvaldsd　ttir: Dreaming

S怀unn Thorsteinsd　ttir (cello)

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Rumon Gamba (conductor)

Also tonight, some Icelandic works for solo cello and movements from Bကra G퀀slad　ttir's Mass for double bass, voice and electronics, a work which, she says, she had to write 'to save my sanity.

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Xenakis: Persephassa 29:36

Guildhall Percussion Ensemble

Richard Benjafield (director)

Jane Hebberd: Schism 5:52

Aaron Holloway-Nahum: as our shadows tremble on the walls... 7:53

Edward Nesbit: Quartet for Eight 6:05

Carol Ella (viola)

Anneke Hodnett (harp)

Tamsy Kaner (cello)

Nicholas Korth (horn)

Naomi Pitts (clarinet)

Hannah Stone (harp)

Alison Teale (cor anglais)

Kate Walter (flute)

Caz Wolfson (percussion)

Pierre-Andre Valade (conductor)

Julian Anderson: Poetry Nearing Silence 15:22

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

Martyn Brabbins (conductor).

Ivan Hewett introduces works by Xenakis, Julian Anderson, Jane Hebberd and others.

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