Episodes
| Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2012, Ensemble Resonanz | 20121117 | Hear and Now returns to the north for the opening weekend of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (hcmf//). Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents as Hamburg string group Ensemble Resonanz present the world premieres of works by Rebecca Saunders and Claudia Molitor along with music from the Norwegian composer Rolf Wallin. And in the Hear and Now 50, composer Matthew Shlomowitz makes the case for the music of Bernhard Lang, while hcmf director Graham McKenzie puts Lang's music in context. With Ensemble Resonanz live from the 2012 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and sessions |
| 02 | 20121208 | Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby introduce the first of four programmes of highlights from the 2012 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Tonight's programme includes music from Crash Ensemble's concert profiling the work of Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy together with highlights from two events which featured the work of John Cage. Music played: Donnacha Dennehy: Disposable Dissonance Donnacha Dennehy: Gra agus Bas The Song Cage Coro Casa da Musica Paul Hillier Conductor. Highlights of the 2012 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival including Dennehy and Cage Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and sessions | |
| 03 | 20121215 | Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby introduce highlights from Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2012. Tonight's programme focuses on the String Quartet with new music from Rebecca Saunders, Naomi Pinnock and Christopher Fox performed by the Arditti and Bozzini Quartets. Also featuring a report on John Tilbury's four-and-a-half-hour performance of Morton Feldman's For Philip Guston. Naomi Pinnock String Quartet No.2: Traces (UK premiere) (co-commissioned by hcmf// & Witten) (2012) ARDITTI QUARTET Rebecca Saunders Fletch (2012) Simon Steen- Andersen- String Quartet No. 2 (UK premiere) Christopher Fox- Chambre priv退e Paul Archbold Nine memos for string quartet Music from 2012's Huddersfield Festival: Rebecca Saunders, Naomi Pinnock, Christopher Fox. Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and sessions | |
| 04 | 20121222 | Robert Worby and Sara Mohr-Pietsch present more highlights of Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2012. Tonight's programme explores music from this year's festival's composer in residence - the Norwegian composer and musician Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje. Maja S K Ratkje - Gagaku Variations BOZZINI QUARTET Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje - Crepuscular Hour (UK premiere) The 24 RNCM Chamber Choir University of Huddersfield Chamber Choir James Weeks conductor Nils Henrik Asheim organ Antoine Chessex electronics / noise Lasse Marhaug electronics / noise Stian Westerhus electronics / noise. Music from 2012's Huddersfield Music Festival, by Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje. Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and sessions | |
| 05 | 20121229 | Robert Worby and Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduce the final programme of highlights from Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2012. The last of five editions of Hear and Now featuring music from hcmf// 2012 focuses on the festival's truly international scope, contrasting works by Scandinavian composers Hans Abrahamsen and Maja Ratkje and music from the Irish Crash Ensemble including American composer Glenn Branca. Hans Abrahamsen String Quartet No. 4 (UK premiere) (2012) ARDITTI QUARTET Maja S K Ratkje And Sing While Thou On Pressed Flowers Dost Sleep (2012) (World premiere) ENSEMBLE CIKADA Donnacha Dennehy Streetwalker Gerard Pesson Cassation Sam Hayden surface / tension (2012) (World premiere) Glenn Branca Thought (hcmf// co-commission) UK Premiere Music from 2012's Huddersfield Music Festival, by Hans Abrahamsen and Maja Ratkje. Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and sessions |