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Hear And Now

First broadcast from 19950901 to 20100313.

Hear and Now is the main contemporary music programme on Radio 3. It features live concerts and studio sessions from the best new music groups, and premieres of BBC commissioned works.

419 episodes

Episode	Title	First Broadcast	Repeated	Description
	Programme Catalogue - Details: 01 September 1995	19950901		Producer: P. TAGNEY Next in series: 08 September 1995 Previous in series: 25 August 1995 Broadcast history 01 Sep 1995 21:55-00:00 (RADIO 3) Recorded on 1995-08-26.
01	Canterbury Sounds New Festival 2009, Zubel, Ligeti, Lutoslawski	20090613		Ivan Hewett explores the mainly Polish theme of the 2009 Canterbury Sounds New Festival with British composer Joe Cutler, who has close links with Poland. Marta Ptaszynska: Space Model for percussion and tape Nicholas Reed (percussion) Samantha Fernando: Frozen Reflections (after Szymanowski's Piano Etude No 3) - world premiere Aurora Orchestra Nicholas Collon (conductor) Agata Zubel: Obciazenie for percussion and computer Ligeti: Chamber Concerto Lutoslawski: Chain 1 Ivan Hewett with music from the 2009 Canterbury Sounds New Festival. With Zubel and Ligeti
01	Composer Portraits	20070505
01	Wolfgang Rihm	20100313		The first of three programmes dedicated to the music of one of Germany's leading composers Wolfgang Rihm is presented by Tom Service in conversation with Julian Anderson and explores repertoire recorded at the Total Immersion event at the Barbican Schwarzer und roter Tanz BBC Symphony Orchestra André de Ridder (conductor) Bild (eine Chiffre) London Sinfonietta Baldur Brönniman (conductor) Konzert in einem Satz (UK premiere) Steven Isserlis (cello) Concerto 'Séraphin' (UK premiere) Tom Service presents music by Wolfgang Rihm. Includes Bild and Konzert in einem Satzl.
02	Cut & Splice: Living Rooms	20090620
02	Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2009
02 LAST	Canterbury Sounds New Festival 2009, Cutler, Gorecki, Penderecki	20090620		Ivan Hewett explores the mainly Polish theme of the 2009 Canterbury Sounds New Festival with British composer Joe Cutler, who has close links with Poland. Joe Cutler: Buckley's Hot Licks Rolf Hind (piano, voice) Tadeusz Wielecki: Collage Tango (UK premiere) Rolf Hind (piano) Gorecki: Concerto, Op 11 Aurora Orchestra Nicholas Collon (conductor) Zygmunt Krauze: Five Unistic Pieces
03	Composer Portraits
03	Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2009
05 LAST	Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2008	20090117		Robert Worby and Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduce coverage of the 2008 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. The programme features the UK premiere of Hope - the 9th hour of Stockhausen's KLANG and Outer Nothingness by Sun Ra, alongside music from John Cage: Concert Reclaimed which closed the 2008 festival. Plus the UK premiere of Knochen by Enno Poppe, who also discusses the work. Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2008 highligts. Music by Sun Ra and John Cage
	Programme Catalogue - Details: 08 September 1995	19950908		Producer: P. TAGNEY Next in series: 15 September 1995 Previous in series: 01 September 1995 Broadcast history 08 Sep 1995 21:55-00:00 (RADIO 3) Recorded on 1995-09-05.
	Programme Catalogue - Details: 15 September 1995	19950915		Producer: P. TAGNEY Next in series: GOEHR EVENING Previous in series: 08 September 1995 Broadcast history 15 Sep 1995 21:45-00:00 (RADIO 3) Recorded on 1995-09-12.
	Goehr Evening	19950922		Producer: A. KUROWSKI Next in series: MUSIC IS FOR THE PEOPLE Previous in series: 15 September 1995 Broadcast history 22 Sep 1995 21:45-23:35 (RADIO 3) Recorded on 1995-09-08.
	Music Is For The People	19950929		Producer: G. L. WILLIAMS Next in series: 06 October 1995 Previous in series: GOEHR EVENING Broadcast history 29 Sep 1995 22:20-00:00 (RADIO 3) Recorded on 1995-09-26.
	Programme Catalogue - Details: 05 January 1996	19960105		Producer: A. HALL Next in series: 12 January 1996 Previous in series: 29 December 1995 Broadcast history 05 Jan 1996 21:50-00:00 (RADIO 3) Recorded on 1996-01-04.
	Programme Catalogue - Details: 12 January 1996	19960112		Producer: P. TAGNEY Next in series: 19 January 1996 Previous in series: 05 January 1996 Broadcast history 12 Jan 1996 21:25-00:00 (RADIO 3) Recorded on 1996-01-11.
	Programme Catalogue - Details: 19 January 1996	19960119		Producer: A. HALL Next in series: 26 January 1996 Previous in series: 12 January 1996 Broadcast history 19 Jan 1996 22:00-00:00 (RADIO 3) Recorded on 1996-01-18.
	Programme Catalogue - Details: 26 January 1996	19960126		Producer: P. TAGNEY Next in series: 02 February 1996 Previous in series: 19 January 1996 Broadcast history 26 Jan 1996 21:50-00:00 (RADIO 3) Recorded on 1996-01-25.
	Programme Catalogue - Details: 02 February 1996	19960202		Producer: A. HALL Next in series: 09 February 1996 Previous in series: 26 January 1996 Broadcast history 02 Feb 1996 21:50-00:00 (RADIO 3) Recorded on 1996-02-01.
	Programme Catalogue - Details: 09 February 1996	19960209		Producer: P. TAGNEY Next in series: 16 February 1996 Previous in series: 02 February 1996 Broadcast history 09 Feb 1996 22:00-00:00 (RADIO 3) Recorded on 1996-02-08.
	Programme Catalogue - Details: 16 February 1996	19960216		Producer: P. TAGNEY Next in series: 01 March 1996 Previous in series: 09 February 1996 Broadcast history 16 Feb 1996 21:55-00:00 (RADIO 3).
	Canon Of Repentance	19981211		More from the annual festival of new music in Huddersfield. Tonight, one of Arvo Part's most sustained and fervent choral works: the `Canon of Repentance', performed by the voices for whom it was written - the Estoian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, conductor Tonu Kaljuste. Presented by Verity Sharp.
	Beckett Festival	19990903	19990910	Verity Sharp introduces a concert performance of an opera with a characteristically terse text by Samuel Beckett, as part of the Radio 3 Beckett season. Sarah Leonard (soprano), BBC Scottish SO/Richard Bernas. Morton Feldman: neither. Verity Sharp introduces a concert performance of an opera based on Samuel Beckett's play `Krapp's Last Tape', composed in collaboration with the author. Marcel Mihalovici: Krapp, or The Last Tape. David Barrell (baritone), BBC SO/Diego Mason.
		20010707		Verity Sharp presents new music inspired by landscape, recorded especially for the programme by soprano Jane Manning and Jane's Minstrels conducted by Roger Montgomery. Anthony Payne: Empty Landscape, Heart's Ease. Deirdre Gribbin: How to Make the Water Sound. Per Norgaard: Seadrift. Julian Anderson: Sea Drift. Betsy Schramm: while east deserves of dawn. Anthony Payne: Evening Land. Plus a report from Tom Service about the Second Biennial International Conference of 20th-Century Music, held last weekend at Goldsmith's College, London.
	Shir Hashrim	20010714		Sarah Walker introduces a performance given at the Cheltenham Festival of Music by soprano Valdine Anderson, pianist Joanna MacGregor and Sinfonia 21 under Martyn Brabbins. Music includes the world premiere of Julian Anderson's `Shir hashrim' and Jonathan Harvey's Bird Concerto with Pianosong. Plus music by Edward Cowie, Steve Martland and Graham Fitkin performed by the BBC Singers under Stephen Cleobury, recorded at the Bath New Music Weekend.
		20010721		The first of three programmes from the Hoxton New Music Days 2001.
		20010804		Sarah Walker presents the second of three programmes of highlights from the Hoxton New Music Festival. Featuring music by two unjustly neglected disciples of Stockhausen - Clarence Barlow and Tim Souster.
		20010811		Verity Sharp presents highlights from two recent events, starting with performances from June's LMC Festival of Experimental Music, which included works by French electronic minimalist Eliane Radigue, Japanese koto player Miya Masaoka and Romanian pianist-composer Ana-Maria Avram. Then, at around midnight, the programme features selected performances from the International Rostrum of Composers, held in Paris in the same month - including pieces by Michael Smetanin, Unsuk Chin, Brian Current and Uljas Pulkkis.
		20010818		Sarah Walker introduces a concert of recent works by veteran American composer Elliott Carter. Recorded in May at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall, the concert features the UK premiere of Carter's first opera and is preceded by a talk given by the work's librettist, Paul Griffiths. Carter: What Next? Valdine Anderson, soprano (Rose), Christopher Purves, baritone (Harry or Larry), Rosemary Hardy, soprano (Mama), Christopher Gillett, tenor (Zen), Hilary Summers, contralto (Stella), Gwilym Bowen, boy alto (Kid), London Sinfonietta/Oliver Knussen. Carter: String Quartet No 5. Arditti Quartet.
	A Better Place	20010825		Verity Sharp presents a portrait of British composer Martin Butler, who joins her in the studio to discuss his music and the figures he admires. Including a recording of his new chamber opera `A Better Place', staged last month by the English National Opera.
		20010901		Verity Sharp introduces a concert by the BT Scottish Ensemble led by Clio Gould, which was given at Dance Base as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Piers Hellawell: Sound Carvings from the Water's Edge. Steve Reich: Violin Phase. Louis Andriessen: Symphony for Open Strings. Steve Martland: Crossing the Border. Plus, at about 12.25, a studio recording of James Dillon's violin concerto, performed by Thomas Zehetmair with the BBC Scottish SO under Martyn Brabbins.
		20010915		Sarah Walker and composer Simon Emmerson survey new electronic music heard at Ars Electonica in Linz and at the Festival of Electronic Music in Bourges.
		20010922		BBC NOW/Brad Cohen. Sculthorpe: Earth Cry. Lentz: Ngangkar. Kats-Chernin: Piano Concerto No 2. Boyd: At the rising of the sun. Torjussen: Biodeuwedd. Edwards: Symphony No 2 Symphony No 2 (Earth Spirit Songs).
		20010929		Verity Sharp reports on the Gaudeamus Music Week, held this month in Amsterdam, and plays music by some rising stars, including new music from the Russian Federation Symphony No 2 (Earth Spirit Songs).
	The Other Side Of The Air	20011006		BBC Singers at the Warsaw Autumn Festival in pieces by Anthony Powers, Jerzy Kornowicz and James Dillon. Plus recordings of instrumental music by Hanna Kulenty and Vic Hoyland generation of Polish composers and, staying with the british/Polish theme, commercial recordings of Hanna Kulenty's Violin Concerto No 1 and Vic Hoyland's piano piece `The Other Side of the Air'.
		20011013		Graham Lynch: Invisible Cities. Tom Ingoldsby: Wave Etchings. Joby Talbot: Lover's Ink. Colin Riley: The Inside Springs. Deirdre Gribbin: Jack B. Joby Talbot: minus 1500 Deirdre Gribbin: Jack B, played by the Composers Ensemble, and another piece by Joby Talbot: minus 1500, played by the London Sinfonietta.
	Elektronic	20011020		Sarah Walker presents highlights of the `Elektronic' festival at London's Barbican celebrating the music and influence of Karlheinz Stockhausen. Includes a talk by the composer.
		20011027		A concert given by the ensemble Apartment House featuring the music of Laurence Crane and James Clarke. Verity Sharp and Sarah Walker talk to the composers.
		20011103		Music performed during Birmingham's Discover Denmark festival by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group under Pierre-Andre Valade. Plus chamber music by Salvatore Sciarrino.
		20011110		Sarah Walker presents a portrait of British composer Jonathan Harvey, including an interview and a concert of his music played by the BBC SO under Pierre-Andre Valade.
		20011117		Verity Sharp introduces a concert from this year's Oxford Contemporary Music Festival given by the ensemble Piano Circus. Plus orchestral music by Vladimir Tarnopolski.
		20011124		The Fidelio Trio. Gubaidulina: Silenzio; Chaconne. Denisov: Solo sonata for violin. Gubaidulina: Etudes Nos 4, 3, 5 and 9 for cello. Denisov: Trio.
	Aftonland	20011201		A concert celebrating Norwegian composer Arne Nordheim, given by the BIT-20 Ensemble. Works include `Aftonland', `Tractatus', `Magic Island' and a reworking of `Tenebrae'.
		20011208		A concert given by BBC Singers/Stephen Cleobury. Ligeti: Lux Aeterna. Birtwistle: Three motets (The Last Supper). Simon Holt: Startled Grass. Ligeti: Three Fantasies.
		20011215		In the third of five programmes from this year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Sarah Walker presents a portrait of the British composer James Wood.
	From The Grammar Of Dreams	20011229		Sarah Walker introduces `From the Grammar of Dreams' - a collaboration between composer Kaija Saariaho and visual artist Raija Malka. Plus works by Rolf Wallin and Alejandro Vinao.
		20020105		New Zealand Quartet, BBC Scottish SO/Kenneth Young. Jack Body: Pulse. Ross Harris: Music for Jonny. Bowater: River of Ocean. De Castro Robinson: Other Echoes. Cresswell: Concerto.
	The Opening Of The Mouth	20020112		Verity Sharp presents `The Opening of the Mouth' by Richard Barrett, a work for voices, instruments and electronics that explores death and the underworld. Elision/Simon Hewett.
		20020119		Nicolas Hodges (piano), Simon Limbrick (percussion), Birmingham Electro-Acoustic Sound Theatre. Schaeffer: Etude aux objets. Stockhausen: No 12 Kontakte. Dhomont: Le cycle du son.
		20020126		Sarah Walker introduces a programme of music by German and Austrian composers performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Plus works from last year's Donaueschingen Festival.
		20020202		Sarah Walker presents music by German composer Matthias Pintscher.
		20020209		In the first of two programmes devoted to the music of Helmut Lachenmann, Sarah Walker revisits the 2000 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
	The Little Matchgirl	20020216		In the second of two programmes devoted to the music of Helmut Lachenmann, Sarah Walker presents a CD production of the composer's opera `The Little Matchgirl'.
		20020223		BBC Scottish SO/Pierre Andre Valade. Stuart MacRae: The Witch's Kiss. Gordon MacPherson: Handguns - A Suite. Jennifer Martin: Hearing Pictures. Edward Harper: Elegy for horn.
		20020302		To mark Wolfgang Rihm's fiftieth birthday this month, Verity Sharp introduces performances of two of his works given at the 2000 Huddersfield Festival.
		20020309		Sinfonia 21 under Martyn Brabbins play works by Julian Anderson, Jonathan Harvey and Claude Vivier. And Sarah Walker talks to composer Edward Cowie.
		20020316		BBC SO/Johannes Kalitzke. Joyce Bee Tuan Koh: Tai. Tanaka: Guardian Angel. Chin: Kala. Lim: The Tree of Life. Plus new music on CD by Toshio Hosokawa and Younghi Pagh-Paan.
	A Scottish Edition	20020323		, including a concert featuring composers associated with Edinburgh University given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Garry Walker.
		20020330		Causton: Notturno. Cresswell: The Voice Inside. BBC Scottish SO/Volkov. Benjamin: Three Inventions. Ligeti: Violin Concerto; Lux Aeterna; Three Hungarian Etudes; Night; Morning.
		20020406		BCMG Ensemble/Peter Rundel. Julian Anderson: Alhambra Fantasy. Huw Watkins: Sonata for cello and eight instruments. Gerald Barry: Dead March. Turnage: Bass Inventions.
		20020413		London Sinfonietta/Oliver Knussen. Hans Werner Henze: Trauer-Ode fur Margaret Geddes. Mark-Anthony Turnage: Dark Crossing. Robert Zuidam: McGonagall-Lieder.
	Snowblind	20020420		Goldberg Ensemble/Malcolm Layfield. Skempton: Sarabande. Duddell: Generation. Fox: Shadow Cast. Waltham-Smith: Chronicles. Plus a recording of Duddell's `Snowblind'.
		20020427		BBC Philharmonic/James MacMillan play works by Cetiz, Dickson, Groves, Leal, Croft and Mulgan. MacMillan: Parthenogenesis. New Ensemble/James MacMillan.
		20020504		Martyn Brabbins conducts the London Sinfonietta in music by William Atwood, Julia Simpson, Dai Fujikura, David Gorton, Tarik O'Regan and Ben Foskett.
	State Of The Nation 2	20020511		Verity Sharp presents the second of two programmes from the recent State of the Nation festival. Including new works by MacRae, Foskett, Bedford, Cole, Paredes, Clay and Olsen.
		20020518		The ensemble Ixion perform new music by composers including Robert Saxton, Stephen Montague, Tara Guram, Alison Kay, Andrew Toovey, Michael Finnissy and Chris Newman.
		20020525		A London Sinfonietta concert of new music by Jonathan Cole, Detlev Glanert, Maxwell Davies and George Perle. Plus at 12.15 a discussion of English music in the 1960s and 70s.
		20020608		Ensembles from Russia and Latvia visit Oxford to perform new music by Ustvolskaya, Sioumak, Tarnopolski, Kourliandsky, Vustin, Kesselman and Korndorff.
		20020615		New music composed and chosen (Takemitsu, Sciarrino and Xenakis) by the brilliant Scottish composer James Dillon, plus chamber music by Mediterranean composers.
		20020622		Verity Sharp introduces new music by Jonty Harrison, Ozzie Johnston, Gavin Bryars, Pwyll ap Sion, Poul Ruders and Robert Ghillies.
		20020629		Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Arditti Quartet. Parades: Can silim tun. Dillon: Vapor. Neuwirth: Nova mob. Kurtag: String Quartet No 1; Officium breve in memoriam A S; Zwiegesprach.
		20020706		A composer portrait of Morton Feldman by the Composers' Ensemble. Music by Feldman, Stravinsky, Cage, Wolff, Wolpe and Webern.
	Two Concerts From The Edinburgh Festival	20020901		Allan Neave (guitar), BBC Scottish SO under Ilan Volkov play MacPherson, MacRae and MacMillan. Plus Stefano Scodanibbio on double bass.
		20030301		New music by Simon Holt, Wolfgang Rihm, Jonathan Harvey and Larry Goves performed in concerts by Sinfonia 21 and the Nash Ensemble.
	Orchestral Frames And Musique Concrete	20030412		In a special session for Hear and Now, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by David Porcelijn plays two works by Kevin Volans written over the last twelve years; 100 Frames for Orchestra (1991) and Concerto for Orchestra his most recent orchestral piece, commissioned by the BBC and premiered by the BBCSO in 2002. Alwynne Pritchard introduces the works. Plus Robert Worby launches the first of five reports from a new electronic music festival, co-produced between Hear and Now and the ICA: 'Cut And Splice'. The series looks at the history of electronic music over the last forty years, and kicks off here with Musique Concrète, featuring the pioneering work of Bernard Parmegiani alongside pieces by Montreal sound artist Christian Calon and Austria's Farmers Manual.
		20030426		London Sinfonietta And Warp Records The London Sinfonietta conducted by Stefan Asbury joins forces with Warp Records for the opening concert from the second Ether Festival, given in March on London's South Bank. The music of Nancarrow, Cage, Ligeti, Ives and Stockhausen is heard alongside special arrangements by Margan Hayes and David Horne of tracks by Squarepusher, Boards of Canada and Aphex Twin. Plus, Warp artist Mira Calix performs a new version of her piece Nunu, made from recordings of insect noises. With Rolf Hind (prepared piano), Simon Haram (saxophone) and Sound Intermedia (electronics). In Electro-Instruments, the third instalment from the Cut And Splice festival, Robert Worby introduces music from the British sound sculptor Janek Schaeffer; the results of Oval's collaboration with Eriko Toyoda; and Quartet Electronische's new realisation of John Cage's Cartridge Music (1960).
	Young Composers From The Hcmf	20030503		Alwynne Pritchard presents a concert recorded at the 2002 Huddersfield Festival, in which young composers had the chance to hear their works performed by the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by James MacMillan. Simon Mawhinney: The Pot of Pulgarve Si-Hyun Yi: Remembering Alison Kay: Rainbow Serpent David Knotts: Nightwatching - ways of looking at the moon Anna Meredith: Torque Plus, Robert Worby presents his penultimate report from our Cut and Splice Festival of electronic music at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, and 'Plunderphonics' features sonic cut-up creations by People Like Us (aka Vicki Bennett), Marie Goyette and Nicolas Collins.
	Gerard Brophy At 60	20030510		The first of two editions spotlighting recent Australian music. Sarah Walker presents a concert given by the BBC Philharmonic marking Gerard Brophy's 60th birthday. It includes the world premiere of his 'Guitar Concerto in Blue', a BBC co-commission with Symphony Australia, conducted by Clark Rundell and featuring soloist Craig Ogden. Also on the bill are Brophy's 'Mâtho' and 'Colour red...your mouth...heart', and the UK premiere of Mary Finsterer's 'Sequi', played by the Arditti Quartet. Plus in the final report from Hear and Now's Cut and Splice Festival in London, Robert Worby introduces 'Soundscapes' created by Francisco Lopez, Gregg Wagstaff, and Chris Watson.
	Sonorities Festival	20030517		Belfast's new music festival Sonorities has an Antipodean theme this year, focusing on music from Australia and New Zealand. Ivan Hewett introduces the Festival's main orchestral concert given by the Ulster Orchestra, conductor David Porcelijn, featuring two BBC commissions, plus highlights from a recital by leading Australian new music group Elision. Gareth Farr: Naga Baba Peter Sculthorpe: Nourlangie Alan Banks, guitar Gordon Kerry: Upon empty air (BBC Commission world premiere) Elaine Agnew: Slasp (BBC Commission world premiere) Elena Kats-Chernin: Heaven is closed.
	Brighton Festival	20030524		Sarah Walker reports from the Brighton Festival and introduces Ixion in a concert of UK and world premieres by young European composers, alongside music by more familiar names: Sonni Petrovski (Macedonia), Michael Blake (UK), Filippo Perocco (Italy), Dominik Karski (Poland), Michael Finnissy (UK), Jonathan Harvey (UK), Morgan Hayes (UK), Andrew Hamilton (Ireland) and the group's director Andrew Toovey (UK).
	Ars Musica	20030531		Alwynne Pritchard presents music from the Ars Musica Festival in Brussels, and interviews composers about their work. The festival director, Tino Haenen, has stated that he wants the whole range of music from the 20th and 21st centuries to be on stage, and so alongside featured composers George Benjamin and Toshio Hosokawa there's music from the older generation, including Giacinto Scelsi and Pauline Oliveros.
	Oxford Contemporary Music	20030607		Britten Sinfonia Tom Service talks to John Woolrich about curating the Britten Sinfonia's recent Contemporary Music Network tour. To celebrate John Zorn's 50th birthday, the concert features two of Zorn's contrasting works, Angelus Novus and For Your Eyes Only; the latter showing the huge influence that cartoon music has had on Zorn's output. Also on the bill are John Adams' wry take on Schoenberg in his Chamber Symphony and John Woolrich's Music from a House of Crossed Desires, a compressed fantasy drawn from the music from his 1995 opera.
	The Shooting Star	20030614		To mark the first anniversary of the premature death of organist and composer Janet Owen Thomas, friends, teachers and contemporaries paid tribute in a concert juxtaposing her own works with those of her former teachers: György Ligeti, Anthony Gilbert and Robert Saxton. The performers include Kevin Bowyer (organ), the Goldberg Ensemble directed by Malcolm Layfield, Philip Dukes (viola), Jane Ford (piano) and the Bingham Quartet. Also tonight, as part of the spnm's 60th birthday celebrations, the BBC Singers, conducted by Nicholas Kok, perform pieces from the current spnm reading list as well as works by former spnm presidents. Presented by Sarah Walker. Guy Newbury: May Nicholas Brown: Stillness Alan Williams: Messages from the Scrolls Robin Holloway: Woefully Arrayed Peter Maxwell: Davies Reliqui Domum Meum Elizabeth Maconchy: Nocturnal ".
	Music For Spaces	20030621		As Radio 3 embarks on a week-long survey of ideas about architecture, Alwynne Pritchard presents a focus on music's relationship with buildings, starting with Chroma by Rebecca Saunders, a new site-specific work performed by Music Projects London with conductor Richard Bernas in the galleries and recesses of Tate Modern in London. This is the composer's own mix of a work that can only otherwise be heard ambiently. Plus, Music For Spaces: Composers including Karlheinz Stockhausen, Lamont Young and Alvin Lucier describe how they write music which exploits or transforms the performing space. Then a concert co-promoted with Hear And Now at the Bath Festival. The London Sinfonietta is conducted by Martyn Brabbins. Graham Fitkin: Ardent Rebecca Saunders: Quartet with Mark van de Wiel (clarinet) Morgan Hayes: Dark Room Richard Barrett: Stirrings Laurence Crane: Estonia Sam Hayden: Collateral Damage.
	Oxford Contemporary Music	20030628		Arditti Quartet Sarah Walker presents a concert given by the Arditti Quartet earlier in the month, including several pieces written especially for them. The concert also features a world premiere of a BBC Radio 3 commission by Jonathan Powell. Salvatore Sciarrino: 6 Quartetti brevi Salvatore Sciarrino: Quartet No.7 Jonathan Powell: Quartet No.2 Olga Neuwirth: Settori Helmut Lachenmann: Quartet No.3 Grido (UK premiere) And continuing with Jonathan Powell's music, the composer performs a selection of his own piano music.
		20030712		Sarah Walker introduces a special Hear and Now invitation concert from the BBC's Maida Vale studios, given by the Duke Quartet who specialise in contemporary music. In addition to Joby Talbot's String Quartet No.1 and Arvo Pärts Summa, the quartet played alongside one and two taped quartets respectively in Kevin Volans' String Quartet No.6 and Steve Reich's Triple Quartet. The concert also included George Crumb's 1970 quasi-programmatic parable on modern times, Black Angels, in which the amplified quartet are required to play crystal glasses, thimbles and various percussion. Continuing with the music of Kevin Volans, the composer talks about writing for string quartet and the challenge of composing the concerto for piano and wind instruments, performed here by Peter Donohoe and the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, conducted by Daniel Harding.
	Cheltenham And Brighton Festivals	20030719		Robert Worby reports from this year's Cheltenham Music Festival and takes in a lunchtime concert given by Noszferatu. The quintet performs an eclectic mix of music including three world premieres. Joe Cutler: Strikin' Out Andrew Poppy: More Less Matter (world premiere) Jonathan Powell: Drempel (world premiere) Laurence Crane: Four Minitures (world premiere) Frank Lyons: Dazed by the Haze Luke Stoneham: Left by Silver Lake Yannis Kyriakides: Chaoids And to Mark Stephen Montague's 60th birthday, music from the Brighton Festival for piano and tape, performed by Philip Mead.
		20030809		Tom Service presents a double bill of concerts from the London Sinfonietta, featuring the world premiere of a new work by Goehr conducted by Oliver Knussen, and with Peter Serkin as the piano soloist.
		20030816		Sarah Walker presents a new one-act opera based on the finding of a body in a hollow tree in the Midlands in the 1940s. Simon Holt: Who Put Bella In The Wych Elm? Rachel Nicholls (soprano) Andrew Slater (baritone) Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Alexander Briger (conductor) Recorded at the Aldeburgh Festival on 21st June. Plus, a concert from Birmingham by the BCMG conducted by Susanna Mälkki: David Sawer: Tiroirs Param Vir: TheTheatre of Magical Beings (world premiere) Toru Takemitsu: Rain Coming Magnus Lindberg: Jubilees.
	Cut And Splice - Part 1	20030823		Robert Worby presents highlights from the Cut and Splice festival of electronic music held in London last Spring, including musique concrète, soundscapes, plunderphonics and turntablism. Bernard Parmegiani: La Mémoire des sons Chris Watson: Vatnajökull Trevor Wishart: Fabulous Paris Plus performances by Marie Goyette, Janek Schaefer and Quartet Electronische.
	Edinburgh International Festival 2003	20030830		Brian Morton talks to the Nieuw Ensemble's artistic director Joel Bons about their long-standing relationships with Chinese composers, and presents a concert given by Scotland's Paragon Ensemble featuring three generations of Japanese chamber music. Mo Wuping: Fan II Chen Qigang: Poeme lyrique II Guo Wenjing: She Huo Qu Xiaosong Ji #1 Xu Shuya: L'Ame de hamu Shi Kelong (baritone) Nieuw Ensemble David Procelijn (conductor) Toru Takemitsu: Rain Spell Toshio Hosokawa: Voyage I; Slow Dance Yoritsune Matsudaira 3 Airs by Genji Monogatari (exc) Yumi Nara (soprano) Paragon Ensemble Garry Walker (conductor).
	International Rostrum Of Composers	20030906		In the first of two editions looking at recent festivals, Ivan Hewett and Philip Tagney discuss the International Rostrum of Composers held in Vienna last May, and introduce some of the best pieces submitted by radio stations from around the world, including pieces by Gyula Bankovi, Damian Barbeler, Deirdre Gribbin, Perttu Haapanen, Johannes-Maria Staud and this year's Selected Work, Hanna Kulenty: Trumpet Concerto.
	Festivals Round-up	20030913		In the second edition looking at recent festivals, Robert Worby presents a round-up of electronic music festivals including Bourges, where British composers Ambrose Field and Adrian Moore won prizes, and he reports from last weekend's Ars Electronica, Linz, which featured music by Hecker, Sachiko M and a sound-park installation by Antye Greie-Fuchs.
	Lou Harrison	20030920		Ivan Hewett presents a portrait of the American composer Lou Harrison, including a performance from this year's Spitalfields Festival of his Concerto for Violin and Percussion Orchestra by the Continuum Ensemble, who also give the UK premiere of Jose Evangelista's Merapi.
	Vale Of Glamorgan Festival - 2003	20030927		Sarah Walker introduces the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Pierre-André Valade in a concert which features works by Anthony Powers, David Sawer, John Metcalf and Matthew Hindson as well as Stephen Montague's recent concerto for flute and harp, Disparate Dances (2002). Played here by Philippa Davies (flute) and Catrin Finch (harp), it takes its inspiration from dances from all over the world, including Eastern Europe, Japan and Irish-America. And, rounding off Hear and Now's coverage of the Spitalfields Festival, ensemblebash celebrate their tenth birthday with a concert which features new works Howard Skempton and Stephen Montague.
	Floof! 1	20031004		The first of four editions featuring the CBSO's contemporary concert series devised and directed by Sakari Oramo last May in Birmingham. Tom Service was there to find out more and to talk to the composers represented about their music and their ideas. Magnus Lindberg: Gran Duo Jonathan Harvey: White As Jasmine Julian Anderson: The Crazed Moon Esa-Pekka Salonen: LA Variations Anu Komsi (soprano) CBSO/Sakari Oramo and Esa-Pekka Salonen Plus, at about 11.45pm, the first of four weekly supplements about the phenomenon that is IRCAM (the Institute for Acousitcal and Musical Research and Co-ordination). Tom Service talks to Georgina Born about the French social and artistic milieu that gave rise to the now famous electronic music institution, founded by Pierre Boulez in 1977. And each week there's music by some of the composers who have worked there over the years: this week two works by Jonathan Harvey - Ritual Melodies for quadraphonic tape and Bhakti, played by nouvel ensemble moderne, directed by Lorraine Vaillancourt.
	Floof! 2	20031011		Franco Donatoni Esa - In Cauda Magnus Lindberg Piano Concerto Esa-Pekka Salonen Lachen Verlernt, Foreign Bodies Magnus Lindberg (piano) Sakari Oramo (violin) CBSO Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor) Plus another work from the archives at IRCAM, the electronic music and technology research centre in Paris. This week, music by another Finn, now resident in Paris, Kaija Saariaho. Tom Service introduces Lonh, for soprano and electronics, in a CD recording by Dawn Upshaw.
	Floof! 3	20031018		Julian Anderson....Alhambra Fantasy Magnus Lindberg....Twine Esa-Pekka Salonen....Floof! Simon Holt....eco-pavan Mauricio Kagel....Double Sextet Birmingham Contemporary Music Group conducted by Sakari Oramo and Esa-Pekka Salonen with Anu Komsi (soprano) and Rolf Hind (piano) Plus, at about 12.20am, another work from the archives at IRCAM, the electronic music and technology research centre in Paris. This week, more music by Magnus Lindberg: Joy, performed by Avanti! conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste. Next week's programme starts at 11:00pm.
	Floof! 4	20031025		Gyorgy Ligeti: Lontano Philippe Schoeller: Totems Julian Anderson: Shir Hashirim Jonathan Harvey: Tranquil Abiding Hanspeter Kyburz: Noesis Anu Komsi (soprano) CBSO Sakari Oramo (conductor) Plus, an archive recording from 1985 of Pierre Boulez talking about the IRCAM mission as the organisation neared its tenth anniversary, and Magnus Lindberg's Joy, made at IRCAM and performed by Avanti!/Jukka-Pekka Saraste.
	Spnm At 60	20031101		In celebration of the spnm's 60th anniversary, Alwynne Pritchard introduces an spnm concert recorded in June at the Spitalfields Festival, featuring the Britten Sinfonia conducted by Richard Baker. Judith Weir: King Harald sails to Byzantium Iain Matheson: Pieces of pieces (WP) Philip Neil Martin: Long After Darkness Cover (WP) Thea Musgrave: Lamenting with Ariadne (London Premiere) Also tonight, part of an spnm concert curated by Robert Saxton and given by the BBC Singers, including works by Elisabeth Lutyens and Elizabeth Maconchy - both important figures in the early years of the spnm - plus Woefully Arrayed by a composer also 60 this year, Robin Holloway.
	Bbc So: 60th Birthdays	20031108		The BBC Symphony Orchestra celebrates the 60th birthdays of Gavin Bryars and Stephen Montague earlier this year, along with British and American works by '40-somethings' Graham Fitkin and Michael Gordon. David Porcelijn conducts and Robert Worby presents. Graham Fitkin: Fervent Gavin Bryars: The Bulls Of Bashan. Violin Concerto Isabelle van Keulen (violin) Michael Gordon: Romeo Stephen Montague: From The White Edge Of Phrygia And around midnight, more music by Gavin Bryars, performed by the Gavin Bryars Ensemble at The Arena Festival in Latvia earlier this month. / "BBC SO: 60th Birthdays The BBC Symphony Orchestra celebrates the 60th birthdays of Gavin Bryars and Stephen Montague earlier this year, along with British and American works by '40-somethings' Graham Fitkin and Michael Gordon. David Porcelijn conducts and Robert Worby presents. Graham Fitkin: Fervent Gavin Bryars: The Bulls Of Bashan. Violin Concerto Isabelle van Keulen (violin) Michael Gordon: Romeo Stephen Montague: From The White Edge Of Phrygia And around midnight, more music by Gavin Bryars, performed by the Gavin Bryars Ensemble at The Arena Festival in Latvia earlier this month. " / "BBC SO: 60th Birthdays The BBC Symphony Orchestra celebrates the 60th birthdays of Gavin Bryars and Stephen Montague earlier this year, along with British and American works by '40-somethings' Graham Fitkin and Michael Gordon. David Porcelijn conducts and Robert Worby presents. Graham Fitkin: Fervent Gavin Bryars: The Bulls Of Bashan. Violin Concerto Isabelle van Keulen (violin) Michael Gordon: Romeo Stephen Montague: From The White Edge Of Phrygia And around midnight, more music by Gavin Bryars, performed by the Gavin Bryars Ensemble at The Arena Festival in Latvia earlier this month. " / "BBC SO: 60th Birthdays The BBC Symphony Orchestra celebrates the 60th birthdays of Gavin Bryars and Stephen Montague earlier this year, along with British and American works by '40-somethings' Graham Fitkin and Michael Gordon. David Porcelijn conducts and Robert Worby presents. Graham Fitkin: Fervent Gavin Bryars: The Bulls Of Bashan. Violin Concerto Isabelle van Keulen (violin) Michael Gordon: Romeo Stephen Montague: From The White Edge Of Phrygia And around midnight, more music by Gavin Bryars, performed by the Gavin Bryars Ensemble at The Arena Festival in Latvia earlier this month. ".
	Bmic Cutting Edge	20031115		From this year's bmic Cutting Edge series, the Royal Northern College of Music's Brass and Wind Ensemble directed by James Gourlay joins forces with pianist Philip Mead for a concert of works by British composers: Meld....Nicholas Sackman Arenas....Simon Emmerson Gold....Diana Burrell Lucifer....Geoffrey Poole And following on from Lucifer, Sarah Walker introduces more works by Geoffrey Poole in conversation with the composer. String Quartet No 3 Lindsay Quartet Septembral Gemini.
	Big Noise	20031129		As part of BBC Radio 3's coverage of the London Jazz Festival, Sarah Walker presents Big Noise, a collaboration between UK-based Icebreaker and Dutch ensemble Orkest de Volharding as they embark on their Contemporary Music Network tour. The programme includes four world premieres including two BBC Radio 3 commissions by Joe Cutler (Jack The Diamond's Jamming Station) and Yannis Kyriakides (Lab Fly Dreams), as well as new works by Dutch composers Cornelis de Bondt and Diderik Wagenaar.
	Ferneyhough Portrait	20031206		From a BBC Invitation Concert in August the music of Brian Ferneyhough is celebrated by the BBC Singers and Lontano, directed by Odaline de la Martinez.
	Huddersfield Festival 2003 - Part 1	20031213		In the first of three programmes dedicated to this year's festival, tonight the BBC Singers give the UK premiere of James Dillon's '...residue' and the world premiere of One-and-a-Half Truths, a Huddersfield Festival commission from young British composer Bernard Hughes. The Arditti Quartet give the world premiere of James Clarke's own Huddersfield Festival commission, his String Quartet; and the UK premieres of James Dillon's Soadie Waste and String Quartet no.4 by Jonathan Harvey.
	Huddersfield Festival 2003 - Part 2	20031220		In tonight's programme, Helmut Oehring is the composer in focus for Apartment House's appearance at the festival: the concert performance includes electronics, masks and lighting effects, and features the world premiere of Oehring's String Quartet no 2 Marie B (Seven Chambers). Other pieces include Sexton A, Foxfire Zwei, Locked-In and ER.eine.She. Not to be confused with their British namesakes, the Continuum Ensemble from Toronto perform UK premieres by Canadian composers Michael Oesterle, Linda C. Smith, Scott Wilson and Claude Vivier, and the UK premiere of British composer Richard Ayres' No 34b Two Pieces for Cello and Ensemble. Presented by Alwynne Pritchard and Sarah Walker
	Huddersfield Festival 2003 - Part 3	20031227		A Berio Tribute From Huddersfield Sarah Walker presents further highlights from the 26th Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, this week featuring the Venetian based Ex Novo Ensemble who pay a tribute to their fellow countryman Luciano Berio who died earlier in the year. Berio's masterpiece A-Ronne is the main work in a concert given by one of the foremost contemporary vocal groups the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart. Ex Novo Ensemble Donatoni: Spice (Ronda No 2) Berio: Sequenza I Emanuele Casale: Composizione per cinque strumenti Berio: Sequenza IV Donatoni: Ciglio Claudio Ambrosini: De vulgari eloquentia Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart Berio: Sequenza III Salvatore Sciarrino: L'Alibi della parola George Aperghis: Petrrohl (UK Premiere) Berio: A-Ronne / Huddersfield Festival III A Berio tribute from Huddersfield Sarah Walker presents further highlights from the 26th Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, this week featuring the Venetian based Ex Novo Ensemble who pay a tribute to their fellow countryman Luciano Berio who died earlier in the year. Berio's masterpiece A-Ronne is the main work in a concert given by one of the foremost contemporary vocal groups the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart. Ex Novo Ensemble Donatoni: Spice (Ronda No 2) Berio: Sequenza I Emanuele Casale: Composizione per cinque strumenti Berio: Sequenza IV Donatoni: Ciglio Claudio Ambrosini: De vulgari eloquentia Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart Berio: Sequenza III Salvatore Sciarrino: L'Alibi della parola George Aperghis: Petrrohl (UK Premiere) Berio: A-Ronne.
	Xenakis 1	20040103		The first of two programmes featuring the thrillingly elemental music of Iannis Xenakis, 'Designer in Sound' Xenakis: Okho; Eonta; Échange; N'Shima; Thallein (recorded on 7 October 2003) Mark van de Wiel (bass clarinet) Nicolas Hodges (piano) Linda Hirst and Hilary Summers (mezzo-sopranos) London Sinfonietta Diego Masson (conductor) Also tonight, a classic early work and a major new piece by Birtwistle. Harrison Birtwistle: Tragoedia; Theseus Game (UK premiere, recorded on 2 December 2003; both concerts given at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London) London Sinfonietta conducted by Martyn Brabbins and Pierre-André Valade.
	Xenakis 2	20040110		BBC SO In the second of two programmes looking at the music of Iannis Xenakis, Alwynne Pritchard presents the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pascal Rophé in an invitation concert recorded in the BBC's Maida Vale studios in November. Xenakis: Tracées Xenakis: Le Sacrifice Xenakis: Erikhthon Piano concerto no.2 Nicolas Hodges (piano) Xenakis: Six chansons (solo piano) Xenakis: Empreintes Xenakis: Ata Later tonight, the musical focus switches from the Mediterranean to the Baltic as the London Sinfonietta conducted by Pierre-André Valade gives the UK Premiere of Estonian composer Peter Eötvös's Wind Sequences featuring the flautist Sebastian Bell.
	Cage Weekend	20040117		The BBC Symphony Orchestra's annual January Composer Weekend turns the attention on the American radical, John Cage. Ivan Hewett presents two concerts recorded earlier today: firstly, a lunchtime concert recorded in the church of St Giles Cripplegate, with the Duke Quartet playing Cage's String Quartet in 4 parts (1949-50) a simple work influenced by Indian philosophy, and Four (1989). And later, percussionist Richard Benjafield is joined by Sound Intermedia and students from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama for a percussion extravaganza, 'Constructions In Metal'. John Cage First Construction (in Metal) John Cage Living room music John Cage Credo in US John Cage Child of tree Peter Garland The Three Strange Angels Henry Cowell Ostinato pianissimo John Cage Third Construction.
	After Cage	20040124		Following on from Cage Weekend, a presentation of music by students and followers of John Cage from both the UK and the USA. Gavin Bryars: The Squirrel And The Rickety Rackety Bridge (and other early experimental works) Seth Josel and Anton Lukoszevieze (electric guitars) Ulrich Krieger (saxophone) From Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival Stephen Montague: Rim Fire; Chew Chow Chatterbox Howard Skempton: Slipstream Ensemble Bash From Spitalfields Festival Philip Glass: Ik-ook David Lang: Cheating, Lying, Stealing Crash Ensemble.
	Ferneyhough Portrait	20040131		Further to last month's celebration of Ferneyhough's music given by Lontano, Ensemble Exposé directed by Roger Redgate juxtaposes Ferneyhough's music with that of his contemporaries, recorded as part of the BMICs recent Cutting Edge series. Brian Ferneyhough: Funerailles 1 Roger Redgate: Oboe Quintet Brian Ferneyhough: Funerailles II James Gardner: Grauschlieren Brian Ferneyhough: Allgebrah Then Mieko Kanno and the New Music Players pay their own tribute to Ferneyhough in a concert given as part of the composers 60th birthday celebrations in January 2003.
	Elliott Carter And Stuart Macrae	20040207		A focus on two composers tonight: the senior American Elliott Carter and young Scot Stuart MacRae. Stuart MacRae: Stirling Choruses Elliott Carter: Boston Concerto Xenakis: Voile Xenakis: Keren BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Ilan Volkov (conductor) Elliott Carter: Dialogues (World Premiere) London Sinfonietta Oliver Knussen (conductor) Nicolas Hodges (piano) (Recorded 23 January at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London) Stuart MacRae: Violin Concerto Stuart MacRae: Portrait II BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Ilan Volkov (conductor_ Teddi Papavrami (violin) (Recorded 22 November 2003 at Glasgow Tramway).
	Birtwistle And Maxwell Davies	20040214		Sarah Walker introduces the BBC Philharmonic performing three works by Sir Harrison Birtwistle: Bach Measures (conducted by the composer), The Cry Of Anubis and Exody (both conducted by James MacMillan). Also tonight, the Maggini Quartet performs the World Premiere of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' Naxos Quartet No 3.
	Hear And Now Invitation Concert: Bradyworks	20040221		Sarah Walker introduces Canadian composer/electric guitarist Tim Brady, who is known for his innovative guitar work, but also for radiant orchestrations and dramatic structures. He has created music in a wide range of musical genres, from electronic sound through relative abstraction and Andreissen-esque minimalism to rock riffs. In this Hear and Now Invitation Concert recorded in November 2003, the ensemble performs some of Brady's works alongside those of British contemporaries Laurence Crane and Joe Cutler. And later, music taken from a recital given by organist Michael Bonaventure in October 2003 from the McEwen Hall at the University of Edinburgh, including the soloist's own arrangement of Laurence Crane's Sparling.
	Bmic: Plus-minus	20040228		From the BMIC's Cutting Edge series, the ensemble Plus-Minus - a collective with bases in both London and Brussels - performs a concert of new works, juxtaposed with core modern repertoire. Presented by Alwynne Pritchard, in conversation with Matthew Shlomowitz. Bryn Harrison: Rise Matthew Shlomowitz: Thought Rhythms Michael Finnissy: WAM Stefan Van Eycken: A feeling of something happening Richard Ayres: No 19 Richard Barrett: von hinter dem Schmerz Stockhausen/Erik Ulman: Plus-Minus Plus, music by Chris Dench performed by guitarist Geoffrey Morris.
	British Concertos...	20040306		Sarah Walker introduces music by British composers from two recent concerts, including several concertos. Firstly, a Hear and Now invitation concert given by the City of London Sinfonia, conducted by Richard Hickox in January at the BBC's Maida Vale studios; all four pieces are receiving their first broadcast tonight. Alasdair Nicolson: Ghosts at the Water's Edge Nigel Osborne: Oboe Concerto Nicholas Daniel (oboe) William Attwood: Colour Down the Side Giles Swayne: Mancanza Guitar Concerto Craig Ogden (guitar) Later, music by John Woolrich to celebrate his 50th birthday, played by the Orchestra of St John's Smith Square conducted by John Lubbock. Also tonight, Robert Worby talks to Gavin Bryars about his website diary of his current work in progress.
	Fuse Festival	20040313		As part of BBC Radio 3's coverage of the new Leeds festival Fuse, Robert Worby introduces music for string quartet from concerts by the Mondriaan Quartet of Amsterdam and the Smith Quartet, including works by John Zorn and Django Bates.
	New French Composers 1	20040320		Alwynne Pritchard presents the first of two programmes dedicated to new music in France. The BBC Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Pierre-Andre Valade. Apex....Pascal Dusapin Athanor....Joel-François Durand Sound and Fury....Philippe Manoury.
	New French Composers 2	20040327		BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Sarah Walker presents the second programme looking at contemporary French music, including works from the older generation, recorded in January at a BBC invitation Concert. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Jurjen Hempel. Hugues Dufourt: La Gondole sur la lagune Marc-André Dalbavie: Concertino pour orchestre Henri Dutilleux: Sur le même accord (Nocturne) Elizabeth Layton (violin) Hugues Dufourt: Les Chasseurs dans la neige Henri Dutilleux: Mystère de L'instant.
	Inventions: Ferneyhough In Focus	20040403		Alwynne Pritchard reports from the London Sinfonietta's 'Inventions: Ferneyhough in Focus' day from February. Martyn Brabbins conducts three of Brian Ferneyhough's scores covering some twenty years: Carceri d'Invenzione I, Incipits and the UK premiere of Seven Tableaux Vivants Representing the Angel of History as Melancholia (with Roderick Williams as narrator). There's also music by Richard Barrett and a world premiere by SPNM shortlisted composer Tazul Tajuddin whose inspiration came from the same Piranesi etchings which inspired Ferneyhough's Carceri cycle.
	Young Brits 1	20040410		David Porcelijn conducts the BBC SO in an Invitation Concert recorded at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios in March. Sarah Walker introduces the UK premieres of David Horne's Piano Concerto (with the composer as soloist) and Calling Timbuktu by Dai Fujikura. The concert also included works by Joe Cutler, Howard Skempton and Simon Holt. Plus, more music from the London Sinfonietta's Inventions Day - the world premiere of Dai Fujikura's Fifth Station.
	Young Brits 2	20040417		The soprano Claire Booth joins the BBC SSO conducted by Garry Walker to give the world premiere of Tom Young's BBC commission Rattle Bag in a concert that also included the world premiere of Borrowed Time by Jonathan Pitkin, The Day Dawn by Sally Beamish and Paul Keenan's Concerto for Groups of Instruments. Later, pianist Sarah Nicolls plays piano music by young British composers, recorded at last year's Bath Festival. Presented by Ivan Hewett.
	Germans And Austrians	20040424		Sarah Walker presents a concert given by the BBC SO conducted by Johannes Kalitzke, featuring the UK Premieres of music by four leading German and Austrian composers. Johannes Kalitzke: Chasse Royal Charlotte Seither: Paires d'alternances Beat Furrer: Orpheus' Bücher With the BBC Singers Elizabeth Poole (soprano) Simon Birchall (bass) Stephen Bryant (violin) Dawn Neller (violin) Norbert Blume (viola) Graham Bradshaw (cello) Donald Walker (double bass) Tobias PM Schneid: Einklang, Op 1 Plus, from last year's Huddersfield Festival, pianist Nicolas Hodges gives the world premiere of Peter Ablinger's Voices and Piano.
	Sonorities	20040501		Robert Worby reports from Belfast with two electronic music events from the Sonorities Festival. Living legend Karlheinz Stockhausen introduces and oversees a performance of Oktophonie from his large-scale opera cycle Licht. And another Modernist master provides the focus for Cut And Splice, a Sonic Arts Network/Hear And Now co-promotion given earlier this evening featuring early electronic pieces by Iannis Xenakis, and live performances by two composers following in his footsteps: Curtis Roads performing Point Line Cloud, and Russell Haswell using Xenakis's GenDyn software.
	Sligo New Music Festival	20040508		Sarah Walker introduces music from the Sligo New Music Festival. Rebecca Saunders is the featured composer, and the festival's guest ensemble is the German group musikFabrik, who have performed Saunders' works many times including numerous world premieres. Tonight they play four of her works, along with pieces by Lachenmann and Ustvolskaya.
		20040515		London Sinfonietta Martyn Brabbins conducts the London Sinfonietta in a concert given in March including the world premiere of Two interludes for an Opera by Jonathan Harvey, and the UK premieres of James Clarke's Concetto Spaziale (per Lucio Fontana), Georg Friedrich Haas' Monodie, and Sphäre um Sphäre by Wolfgang Rihm. Jonathan Harvey's classic electronic work Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco completes the programme. Presented by Ivan Hewett.
	Norwegian Word	20040522		Alwynne Pritchard presents a two-part overview of the new music scene in Norway, beginning with a special report on Oslo's 2003 Ultima Festival entitled 'echoes from an era', including interviews and music by featured local composers Rolf Wallin and Maja Ratkje. There's also a Modernist classic, Stockhausen's Mixtur for orchestra and ring-modulators, played by the Norwegian Radio Orchestra. And from the burgeoning young electronic music scene in Bergen, Alwynne finds out what 20-somethings like Bad Bikini and Sir Dupermann are getting up to with their laptops.
	Sonorities 1	20040529		Sarah Walker introduces a performance from the recent Sonorities festival, as percussion trio The Electronic Hammer presents a concert of music for percussion and electronics, including works by Henry Vega, Javier Alvarez and Cort Lippe. And later, the focus is on Karlheinz Stockhausen who introduces and oversees the world premiere of an extended multi-channel electronic piece from his Licht opera-cycle: Mittwochs-Abscheid.
	Sonorities 2	20040605		Sonorities Further to last month's coverage of Belfast's Sonorities Festival, Robert Worby introduces a concert given there to celebrate the Sonic Arts Network's 25th birthday, featuring music using electronics written since its formation by composers including Hugh Davies, Simon Emmerson, Jonty Harrison, Stephen Montague and Kaffe Matthews.
	Kaiku - A Celebration Of Finnish Music	20040612		As part of the BBC Symphony Orchestra's celebratory weekend of all things Finnish, John Storgårds conducts Avanti! plus soprano Anu Komsi and accordionist Veli Kujala in a programme of chamber music. Jouni Kaipainen: Two Arias from The Miracle of Constanze Aarre Merikanto: 'Schott' Concerto Tapio Tuomela: Virvatulia (Feux Follets) Paavo Heininen: Musique d'eté Esa-Pekka Salonen: Floof (Songs of a Homeostatic Homer) Later, Hear and Now visits a piano recital given by Tuija Hakkila, featuring Sonata No 4 'Epyllion II' by Usko Meriläinen.
	London Sinfonietta - Ether Festival	20040619		The London Sinfonietta's 2003 collaboration with Warp Records was such a success that they have once again joined forces with leading figures of contemporary electronic music to create this concert, recorded in March 2004 at the QEH. As well as special arrangements of pieces by Aphex Twin and Squarepusher, and an appearance by Jamie Liddell, the Sinfonietta, conducted by Jurjen Hempel, performed works by Edgard Varèse, George Antheil, John Cage and Steve Reich. Presented by Sarah Walker
	Bath Festival	20040626		Alwynne Pritchard introduces two young ensembles recorded at this year's Bath Festival. In an innovative venture, the Tate Ensemble led by clarinettist Vicky Wright has been working closely with various video artists and composers such as Donnacha Dennehy, Guy Harries, Matthew Shlomowitz, Gabriel Prokofiev and Gijs Kramers to create a series of pieces for quintet and DJ. And later, percussion quartet 4-Mality led by Adrian Spillett performs high energy works by Benjamin Wallfisch, Jan Bradley, Russell du Plessis and Brian Irvine.
	Summer Festivals 1	20040703		In the first of five programmes taking in the music of various Summer festivals, Robert Worby visits the City of London Festival and takes in the music of George Crumb in three different concerts. In addition to Eleanor Alberga's Tiger Dream in Forest Green, the ensemble Conchord performs Crumb's Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale), and the cellist Claudio Bohorquez plays the Sonata for solo cello of 1955. The Galliard Ensemble and Friends play two works inspired by the works of the Andalusian poet and playwright Federico García Lorca: Crumb's Ancient Voices of Children and Madrigals, Book III, and the world premiere of Carlos Miranda's del amor insome noche based on recently discovered Lorca sonnets and commissioned by BBC Radio 3.
	Summer Festivals 2 - Heltenham And Aldeburgh	20040710		Summer Festivals In the second programme taking in the music of various Summer festivals, Ivan Hewett visits both the Cheltenham and Aldeburgh Festivals and introduces a concert from each. The Composers' Ensemble's concert at the Aldeburgh Festival features music by two elder statesmen of British music, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Sir Harrison Birtwistle, the latter celebrating his 70th birthday this week. Harrison Birtwistle: Refrains and Choruses Harrison Birtwistle: Tombeau in Memoriam Igor Stravinsky Peter Maxwell Davies: Seven In Nomine Peter Maxwell Davies: Ricercar and Doubles Peter Maxwell Davies: Canon In Memoriam Igor Stravinsky Harrison Birtwistle: Tragoedia From Cheltenham, the Duke Quartet gives a series of world premieres including works by Phillip Neil Martin and Simon Bainbridge as well as Alwynne Pritchard's Nocturne.
	Summer Festivals 3 - Magyar Music: Hungary In Focus 2004	20040717		Summer Festivals More music from the Cheltenham Festival in a Hear and Now joint promoted concert given as part of Magyar Music: Hungary in Focus 2004. The London Sinfonietta is conducted by Pierre-André Valade. Presented by Alwynne Pritchard. Harrison Birtwistle: Ritual Fragment Tansy Davies: Iris (WP) Simon Haram (saxophone) György Ligeti: Melodien Michael Berkeley: Double Guitar Concerto (WP) Paul Katona, Zoltán Katona (guitar) Zoltán Jeney: Heraclitian Fragments (UP) Harrison Birtwistle: Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum.
	Summer Festivals 4	20040801		Sarah Walker introduces a Hear and Now joint promoted concert, in which the Arditti Quartet gives the UK premieres of Richard Barrett's faux departs and Brett Dean's Eclipse; and the quartet is joined by pianist Ian Pace for Elliott Carter's Quintet for piano and string quartet.
	Summer Festivals 5	20040807		Hear and Now finishes its look at the Summer festivals with a co-promoted concert given by the BCMG, conducted by Brett Dean, from Cheltenham. The concert features two world premieres by Gerard McBurney: Eyebright and Tormentil and the BBC commission A Folder of Leaves. Nicole Tibbells is the soprano soloist in György Kurtág's Scenes from a Novel; and Thea Musgrave's Lamenting with Ariadne and Intimate Decisions by Brett Dean complete the concert. And later, from the 2003 Huddersfield Festival, Hungarian Ensemble UMZE perform two pieces by Peter Eötvös: Psy and Snatches of a Conversation. Presented by Alwynne Pritchard.
	Aldeburgh Festival	20040814		As a coda to Hear and Now's recent coverage of this Summer's festivals, Hear and Now looks at a concert given at the Aldeburgh Festival by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, including music by John Woolrich, Tansy Davies, Bryn Harrison and Sir Harrison Birtwistle. And later, there's more music played by BCMG from a concert called Workers Union, when the group combined forces with amateur groups from the Birmingham area to play Gerald Barry, David Sawer and Colin Matthews. Presented by Robert Worby
		20040821		Presented by Ivan Hewett. Odaline de la Martinez and Daniel Asia direct the ensemble Lontano in a concert of American works by Daniel Asia and Earle Brown.
	Birmingham Contemporary Music Group	20040828		Sarah Walker introduces music from two concerts given by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. The first, conducted by Alexander Briger, features the British premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage's song-cycle of war poems for baritone and ensemble The Torn Fields with Gerald Finley as the soloist; the world premiere of Three Pieces by Philip Cashian and Julian Anderson's Khorovod. Plus, music from a concert given by the BCMG in March entitled 'Workers Union' focussing on works written for a whole range of performers, from professional to amateur.
	A Portrait Of H K Gruber	20040904		As part of 'Resonances', a three day festival last February celebrating the music of Viennese composer HK Gruber, the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Gruber himself, performed a series of his works. Charivari, an Austrian journal, is based on the Johann Strauss II polka Perpetuum Mobile, and in his trumpet concerto Aerial, Gruber demands much of the soloist (here Swedish virtuoso Håkan Hardenberger) including singing down the instrument, sliding the valves in and out, and employing a wide variety of mutes. Gruber's early 1960s work Manhattan Broadcasts for chamber orchestra precedes his most famous composition, Frankenstein!! - a pan-demonium for baritone and orchestra with the composer as soloist.
	Anthony Gilbert - A Retrospective	20040911		Ivan Hewett introduces a concert marking Anthony Gilbert's 70th birthday in July, given by the Endymion ensemble. They explored his highly individual chamber works including Elegy for piano (1967); Long White Moonlight (1980) for soprano and electric double bass; O'Grady Music (1971) for clarinet, cello and toy instruments; Spell Respell (1968) for electric bassett clarinet and piano; and the world premiere of Tinos for soprano, bass clarinet and vibraphone. The programme also features short tributes to Gilbert by some of his friends and former students including Martin Butler and Simon Holt.
	Nancarrow's Children	20040918		Conlon Nancarrow's legendary studies for player-piano took rhythmic and contrapuntal complexity to new extremes. Alejandro Vinao explores his legacy.
	Vale Of Glamorgan Festival - 2004	20040925		Sarah Walker presents a concert from the Vale of Glamorgan Festival, featuring the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Grant Llewellyn. Andrew Zolinsky is the soloist in the first performance of a Radio 3 commission, David Lang's FUR for piano and orchestra, and David Cowley is the soloist in Elliott Carter's Oboe Concerto. Michael Daugherty's Sunset Strip and Michael Torke's Ecstatic Orange ballet complete this all-American sequence. Also tonight, music for solo percussion performed by Colin Currie from the Spitalfields Festival in London, including works by Roberto Maggio, David Lang, and the world premiere of Be by Dai Fujikura.
	60th Birthdays: Nyman And Tavener	20041002		Marking the 60th birthdays of both Michael Nyman and John Tavener, Robert Worby introduces Christian Lindberg's performance of Nyman's Trombone Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer, and Self-laudatory hymn of Inanna and her Omnipotence performed by Fretwork and countertenor James Bowman. Robert also talks to Nyman about his life and career. Later, the Schubert Ensemble and soprano Patricia Rozario give the world premiere of a major new work by Tavener, Schuon Lieder, in a recording from this year's Cheltenham Festival.
	Italians - Part One	20041009		Ivan Hewett presents the first of two weeks focusing on Italian music. Tonight, abstract Modernist works of the 1960s are contrasted with the younger generation. Aldo Clementi: Ideogrammi 1 Mauro Cardi: Effetto Notte Aldo Clementi: Ideogrammi 2 Luciano Berio: Serenata 1 Contemporary Music Ensemble of Wales Kenneth Woods (conductor) Paolo Furlani: Il Raconto di Calliope Ensemble Freon Jacopo Baboni Schilingi: Il Colore del Blu Arditti Quartet.
	Italians - Part Two	20041016		The BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Zsolt Nagy complete Hear and Now's look at Italian composers with a Studio Concert of Sciarrino and those who have come after him, featuring three UK premieres. Presented by Alwynne Pritchard. Ivan Fedele: Epos (UKP) Fausto Romitelli: Audiodrome (UKP) Salvatore Sciarrino: Caprices for solo violin (selection) Mieko Kanno (violin) Luca Francesconi: Wanderer (UKP).
	Apartment House Studio Concert	20041023		Sarah Walker presents a studio concert of British works given by the chamber ensemble Apartment House led by virtuoso cellist Anton Lukoszevieze. Christopher Fox is the featured composer with two UK premieres and the world premiere of his recent BBC commission. Later, Robert Worby, in conversation with the composer, introduces Alvin Lucier's electronic piece Bird and Person Dyning, with tonight's performance coming from this year's CMN Feedback tour. Christopher Fox: Blank (UK premiere) Joanna Bailie: Charh (UK premiere) Christopher Fox: Komposition mit schwarz, rot und gelb [Composition in black, red and yellow] (UK Premiere) Laurence Crane: John White in Berlin (UK premiere) James Tenney: Harmonium #2 (UK premiere) Christopher Fox: ZONE (world premiere of BBC Commission) Alvin Lucier: Bird and Person Dyning.
	Nordic Survey	20041030		Sarah Walker introduces two BBC ensembles performing music from Scandinavia. The BBC Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Johannes Kalitzke in a recent Studio Concert in the BBC's Maida Vale Studios, with all the pieces being given their UK premieres. Rolf Wallin: Act Bent Sørensen: Intermezzi from Under Himlen Lore Lixenberg and Marianne Rørholm (mezzo sopranos) Karl Aage Rasmussen: A Tempo Also tonight, the BBC Singers conducted by Stefan Parkman perform music by Per Nørgård and Anders Hillborg Nordic Survey
	Lontano Double-portrait Concert	20041106		Sarah Walker introduces a special edition from the Warehouse in London. Lontano, conducted by Odaline de la Martinez, focuses on the music of Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin and her German contemporary Heiner Goebbels. The concert includes a new arrangement of Kats-Chernin's Torque written especially for this performance. Elena Kats-Chernin: Skeletons in the cupboard; Vitalia's Steps; Torque with Clélia Iruzun (piano solo) Heiner Goebbels: Red Run; La Jalousie with Neil MacKenzie (speaker).
	John Buller Tribute	20041113		In the wake of John Buller's death in September, Ivan Hewett revisits an archive portrait of the composer originally broadcast in 1976 in which John Buller talks about his fascination with literary themes, notably the work of James Joyce and Dante. Around it, two other works based on classical literature. Of Three Shakespeare Sonnets Sarah Walker (soprano) Nash Ensemble Lionel Friend (conductor) Finnegan's Floras Poor Jenny Scribenery Le Terrazze London Sinfonietta Thames Chamber Choir Louis Halsey and Gilbert Amy (conductors) Proença BBC Symphony Orchestra Mark Elder (conductor)
	Gavin Bryars: From Egil's Saga	20041120		Robert Worby introduces the London Sinfonietta, joined by Faroese bass Rúni Brattaberg, Chris Ekers and Sound Intermedia and conducted by Olari Elts, in a concert taken from the orchestra's Eastern Orchestral Board Tour with a programme devised by Gavin Bryars. In addition to his classic piece The Sinking of the Titanic, Arvo Pärt's If Bach had been a Beekeeper and Erkki-Sven Tüür's Passion and Illusion, the climax of the concert is the world premiere of a new work by Bryars: From Egil's Saga - a BBC commission - which explores the relationship between the Nordic Sagas and the connected history of the East of England.
		20041127		Sarah Walker introduces the world premiere of Nicola LeFanu's BBC commissioned cantata, Light Passing, with libretto by John Edmonds. A staged production recorded in the New Centre for Early Music, in York. Clark Rundell conducts Ensemble 10/10 and a cast led by Nicholas Folwell as Pope Clement VI, with Ildikó Allen, Nicola Dunne, Nicholas Clapton, Richard Edgar-Wilson, Petro Wychrij, Joey Howard and Benedict Rowe. And in the wake of the recent London Jazz Festival, James Barrett's jazz-inspired piece Conversations with Chet, based on the music of legendary Cool Jazz trumpeter Chet Baker. Composed to mark the 70th birthday of Sir Roger Norrington, who conducts the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra with BBC New Generation Artist Alison Balsom as the trumpet soloist. Plus a look-ahead to next month's British Composer Awards.
	Huddersfield Festival 2004 - Part 1	20041204		Sarah Walker presents the first of a series of H&Ns recorded at this year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. One of Britain's foremost contemporary ensembles The Smith Quartet feature music by Kevin Volans including his celebrated African inspired 2nd Quartet, Hunter:Gathering and the world premiere of his 9th String Quartet commissioned by the BBC. The programme also features music for two pianos performed by Nicolas Hodges and Rolf Hinds. Graham Fitkin: Servant Michael Finnisy: Wild Flowers Kevin Volans: String Quartet No 9 Howard Skempton: Catch Per Norgard: Unendlicher Empfang Kevin Volans: String Quartet No 2 - Hunter: Gathering.
	Huddersfield Festival 2004 - Part 2	20041211		Sarah Walker is at this year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival for the world premiere of a new BBC commission from Howard Skempton, performed by the Smith Quartet, and the UK debut appearance of the 'Avant-Funk' Norwegian based Poing Trio, who present new works by Maja Ratkje and Danish born Karsten Fundal. Kevin Volans: String Quartet No 1 - White Man Sleeps Maja Ratkje: Essential Extensions Howard Skempton: New work Maja Ratkje: New work Arvo Part: Summa Karsten Fundal: New work Steve Reich: Different Trains.
	Huddersfield Festival 2004 - Part 3	20041218		In this, the third programme from this years' Huddersfield Festival of Contemporary Music, Sarah Walker presents the premiere of a new work by Rebecca Saunders performed by Rolf Hind and Nicholas Hodges (pianos) and the UK premiere of works by the Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas performed by Ensemble Recherche. Rebecca Saunders: New Work James Dillon: Black/Nebulae Beat Furrer: Und irgendwo fern, sehr fern Rolf Hind, Nicholas Hodges (pianos) Georg Friedrich Haas: Nach-Ruf... ent-gleitend Rebecca Saunders: Duo 3 Rebecca Saunders: The Under-side of Green Georg Friedrich Haas: tria ex uno (nach Josquin des Prés) Ensemble Recherche.
	Huddersfield Festival 2004 - Part 4	20041225		Sarah Walker presents a programme of music from this year's Huddersfield festival, including the world premiere of a Hudderfield commission by English composer Joanna Bailie and UK premieres of works by Rolf Wallin, Michel van der Aa and Klas Torstensson. Rebecca Saunders: dichroic seventeen Musikfabrik Marco Blaauw (trumpet) Richard Baker (conductor) Rolf Wallin: Phonotope II Poing Trio Michel van der Aa: Here Klas Torstensson: Lantern Lectures III Asko Ensemble.
	Huddersfield Festival 2004 - Part 5	20050108		Sarah Walker's profiles featured composers Rebecca Saunders and the iconoclastic Richard Ayres. Musikfabrik perform Saunders' Quartet and are joined by conductor Richard Baker and trumpeter Marco Blaauw for Ayres' No 31, and the Asko Ensemble and the Exaudi Vocal Ensemble conducted by Roland Kluttig perform No 33, the cantata "Valentine Tragashian Considers..." and No 36, the Noncerto for horn.
	Huddersfield Festival 2004 - Part 6	20050115		In the last of the programmes featuring music from this year's Huddersfield Festival, Sarah Walker presents works by Dutch composer Richard Rijnvos performed by the Asko Ensemble and the Ives Ensemble, from whom he acts as Artistic advisor. Rijnvos: Mappamondo; Block Beuys.
	Jelly Rolls Up	20050122		Alwynne Pritchard presents a concert recorded last November as part of the London Jazz Festival. The genius of legendary jazz pianist and composer Jelly Roll Morton is the impetus for new compositions and improvisations by Matthew Bourne, Frederic Rzewski, Michael Finnissy and Philip Clark, all performed by Alex Ward (clarinets), Mary Oliver (violin), Ian Pace (piano) and Han Bennink (percussion).
		20050129		Three large scale works with a spiritual undercurrent make up this programme. John Tavener, who turns 61 on 28 January, is represented by a new work drawing on the metaphysical writings of Frithjof Schuon: his Hymn of Dawn is played by the Ulster Orchestra conducted by Stephen Layton with Patricia Rozario (soprano), Andrew Rupp (baritone), Paul Edmund-Davies (flute) and Darragh Morgan (violin). Sofia Gubaidulina's music is imbued with religious feeling, and her Introitus is named after the introductory chant of the mass. It's played here by the Kiev Chamber Players conducted by Vladimir Kozhukhar, with Béatrice Rauchs (piano). And in the wake of the recent James MacMillan weekend, the composer conducts the BBC Philharmonic in his own Symphony No.3, which draws on global elements of spirituality in a work that is both dark and moving.
	Soundings: Klangforum Wien	20050205		Robert Worby presents a rare UK appearance by Austrian ensemble Klangforum Wien directed by Johannes Kalitzke, recorded at the Wigmore Hall in November 2004. The focus is on Olga Neuwirth including the UK premiere of No More Secrets No More Lies from her song cycle Ce Qui Arrive featuring Andrew Watts (countertenor). There's also more of Neuwirth's music from CD and from the 2003 Huddersfield Festival. Roman Haubenstock-Ramati: Streichtrio 1 Salvatore Sciarrino: Esplorazione del bianco Rebecca Saunders: Molly's Song 3 - Shades of Crimson Olga Neuwirth: No more secrets no more lies Olga Neuwirth: Spleen Olga Neuwirth: Vampyrotheone Sylvain Cambreling (conductor) Olga Neuwirth: incidendo-fluido Nicolas Hodges (solo piano) Olga Neuwirth: Hooloomooloo Olga Neuwirth: Hommage à Klaus Nomi.
	Lyell Cresswell At 60	20050212		The BBC SSO conducted by Henrik Schaefer pays tribute to New Zealand composer Lyell Cresswell, now based in Scotland. And later, Sarah Walker introduces Australian ensemble Elision with music by fellow antipodeans. Canadian guitarist/composer Tim Brady rounds this programme off with a musical evocation of one of Glasgow's most famous thoroughfares. Luciano Berio: Requies Lyell Cresswell: Kaea - Trombone Concerto Simon Johnson (trombone) Lyell Cresswell: Rev Norman McLeod's Dance (from Shadows without Sun) Lyell Cresswell: Of Smoke and Bickering Flame Liza Lim: inguz Richard Hames: memorabilia Elision Tim Brady: Sauchiehall Street Tim Brady (electric guitar) and tape.
	Spitalfields And Edinburgh Festivals	20050219		Sarah Walker presents a recital by the Scottish percussionist and BBC New Generation Artist, Colin Currie, featuring the world premiere of a work commissioned by Radio 3 from Japanese-born Dai Fujikura. Solo percussion pieces are interleaved with recordings made during the Edinburgh Festival 2003 by the Dutch group Nieuw Ensemble who have made a specialism playing music by Eastern composers. Here the emphasis is on Korean-born composers. Louis Andriessen: Woodpecker Isang Yun: Distanzen Robert Maggio: Songs from the Wood Unsuk Chin: Akrostisches-Wortspiel Dai Fujikura: Be (World Premiere of BBC Commission) Isang Yun: Ost-West Miniaturen Isang Yun: Teile Dich Nacht Steve Mackey: See Ya Thursday.
	Bbc Symphony Orchestra: 'from Sweden With Storgårds'	20050226		Ivan Hewett introduces a concert given by the BBC SO conducted by John Storgårds from a special recording for Hear and Now. Anders Hillborg: Liquid Marble Rolf Martinsson: Bridge - Trumpet Concerto Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet) Karin Rehnqvist: Light of Light Trinity Boys' Choir Anders Hultqvist: Time and the Bell Plus a second chance to hear the BBC Singers conducted by Stefan Parkman sing three Swedish works: Sven-David Sandstrøm: Lobet den Herrn Anders Hillborg: Muoaiyouum Hans Gefors: Botanistens tilfredsstalleelse.
	Brits - 1	20050305		In the first of four programmes focusing on the work of British composers, Alwynne Pritchard introduces two concerts from the bmic's 2004 Cutting Edge series. The Norwegian quintet asamisimasa performs works by James Saunders, Roger Redgate, Ian Willcock and the UK premiere of Michael Finnissy's L'Herbe. Finnissy is also featured in the concert given by Ensemble Exposé with the London premiere of his Greatest Hits of All Time. The concert also included pieces by James Dillon, Ross Lorraine and Joanna Bailie.
	Brits - 2	20050312		Presented by Sarah Walker. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ilan Volkov, presents a portrait concert of its Composer in Association, Jonathan Harvey, alongside pieces by Giacinto Scelsi and the orchestra's recently appointed Resident Composer Anna Meredith. Jonathan Harvey: Ricercare una Melodia Mark O'Keeffe (trumpet) Giacinto Scelsi: I Presagi Jonathan Harvey: Wheel of Emptiness Anna Meredith: Torque Jonathan Harvey: Cello Concerto Arne Deforce (cello) Plus, more music from last year's Cutting Edge Series, from a concert given by Noszferatu including the world premiere of Hilary Robinson's Blue Icarus and the London premiere of More Matter Less by Andrew Poppy.
	Brits - 3	20050319		Robert Worby introduces a Hear and Now Studio Concert, recorded at LSO St Luke?s, featuring music by five of the UK?s most exciting young composing talents. The London Sinfonietta is conducted by Nicholas Kok. William Attwood: Iwwer Tiermen Phillip Neil Martin: Shifting Mirrors Ben Foskett: Violin Concerto Clio Gould (violin) Emily Hall: Think About Space Sam Hayden: Relative Autonomy, UK premiere of London Sinfonietta commission In the last of the concerts recorded at the 2004 BMIC?s Cutting Edge Series, the Juice Vocal Trio presents 'rockrainwindfire', a selection of pieces for unaccompanied female voices, including works by Morag Galloway, Paul Robinson, Paul Mealor and David Breslin, as well as pieces by Juice?s three performers, Anna Molyneux, Kerry Andrew and Sarah Dacey.
	Brits - 4	20050326		The Nash Ensemble, conducted by Lionel Friend, give the world premieres of new works by British composers Harrison Birtwistle and Colin Matthews as well as a new piece by American composer Elliott Carter, alongside music by Oliver Knussen and Julian Anderson. The Birmingham Contemporary Music Group plays music by Gerald Barry, Simon Holt, Colin Matthews and Philip Cashian. Presented by Sarah Walker. Brits 4 of 4
	Donaueschingen Music Days	20050402		Ivan Hewett presents highlights from last year?s Donaueschingen Music Days, and talks to the featured composers. Andreas Dohmen: Lautung Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart SWR Symphony Orchestra Roland Kluttig (conductor) Alwynne Pritchard: Decoy Ensemble Recherche Pier-Luigi Billone: MANI. De Leonardis Christian Dierstein (percussion) Rebecca Saunders: Miniata Teodoro Anzellotti (accordion) Nicolas Hodges (piano) Hans Zender (conductor) And the winning work from last year?s International Rostrum of Composers: Helena Tulve: Sula Tommy Mansikka-Aho (didgeridoo) Estonian National Symphony Orchestra Toomas Vavilov (conductor).
		20050409		Sarah Walker presents two concerts given by the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester last December. In the first, James Macmillan conducts music selected by the Society for the Promotion of New Music and Peter Maxwell Davies conducts a selection of his own pieces, all inspired by his childhood memories of the Salford area of Manchester, including Spinning Jenny, a vast, industrial scherzo. Richard Norris: Further musings Richard FitzHugh: These are the little things Iain Matheson: Every moment alters Eneko Vadillo : Mutara.
	Inventions Day - 1	20050416		Alwynne Pritchard presents the first of two programmes recorded at the recent Inventions Day at London's South Bank Centre. The London Sinfonietta conducted by David Porcelijn and the BBC Singers conducted by James Morgan perform works by young British composers mixed with three pieces by one of the UK's leading middle-generation figures, David Sawer; Cats Eye, Sounds, and the UK premiere of Rebus. Plus, Peter Maxwell Davies introduces and conducts the BBC Philharmonic in his Cross Lane Fair.
	Inventions Day - 2	20050423		Alwynne Pritchard presents the second of two programmes recorded at the recent Inventions Day at London's South Bank Centre. The London Sinfonietta performs works by young British composers, mixed with three pieces by one of the UK's leading middle-generation figures. Simon Holt: Brief Candles, The Coroner's Report and Eco-pavan. Mark van de Wiel (clarinet) Rolf Hind (piano) Anssi Karttunen (cello) David Porcelijn (conductor) Plus, a performance from last year's Inventions Day of Symphonia by Brian Herrington, commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society, performed by the London Sinfonietta conducted by Martyn Brabbins.
		20050430		Two composers with Celtic roots, James MacMillan and Deirdre Gribbin are the focus tonight, beginning with a studio session of choral works introduced by Ivan Hewett. James MacMillan: A Child's Prayer, On the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Graham Fitkin: Ending Deirdre Gribbin: Yeats Sang BBC Singers Stephen Disley (organ) Nicholas Kok (conductor) Sarah Walker also presents a CMN Tour concert recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, and discusses its innovative staging with Deirdre Gribbin and director Lou Stein. James MacMillan: The Road to Ardtalla, James MacMillan Ì, A Meditation on Iona Deirdre Gribbin: Venus Blazing Ernst Kovacic (violin) Britten Sinfonia Pierre-Andre Valade (conductor) Arvo Pärt:... which was the son of
	Electronic May 1	20050507		Throughout May, Hear and Now will be featuring electronic music from around the country. In this first programme, Ivan Hewett introduces the Edinburgh Contemporary Arts Trust's co-promotion with the SPNM - the Society for the Promotion of New Music. ECAT Deirdre Gribbin: How to Make the Water Sound, for piano trio Mark Henry: Play Act for oboe, percussion and electronics Rob Wright: ARCO for cello and tape Paul Keenan: Palimpsest for ensemble and electronics John Kenny (director) And later, Ensemble Exposé directed by Roger Redgate performs Brian Ferneyhough's Etudes Transcendentales.
	Electronic May 2 - Durham Electroacoustic Music Festival	20050514		Throughout May, Hear and Now will be featuring electronic music from around the country. Alwynne Pritchard presents two classic works using multi-channel surround-sound which were paired with two new works at the Durham concerts in March. Martyn Harry: Restraint (world premiere) Stockhausen: Kontakte performed by Psappha Iannis Xenakis: Polytope de Cluny (UK premiere) Furt: OMNIVM (Part II) (world premiere).
	Electronic May 3 - Cut And Splice 1	20050521		Robert Worby introduces the first of three programmes featuring music from this year's festival of electronic music and digital sound art. Jaap Blonk performs Kurt Schwitter's seminal surreal concrete poem Ur-sonata. That's followed by a discussion of the exhibition of avant-garde scores at the Jerwood Space reflecting the festival's theme, Dots and Lines. And later, a concert by the Ulster Orchestra featuring the senior French electronic music composer Luc Ferrari, recorded at the recent Sonorities Festival in Belfast. Ed Bennett: All of This Used to be Trees (World Premiere) Luc Ferrari: En un tournament d'amour.
	Electronic May 4 - Cut And Splice 2	20050528		Robert Worby presents the second programme from the recent Cut and Splice Festival of Electronic Music, featuring classic works using taped sounds from the 1960s by Robert Ashley and Mauricio Kagel, and a new work from Austria which uses live electronic manipulations of instrumental music. Robert Ashley: Wolfman Keir Neuringer (vocals) and Joel Ryan (live electronics) Peter Ablinger Für Johannes Michael Fischer (UK Premiere) Mauricio Kagel: Acustica Apartment House, led by Anton Lukoszevieze.
	Sonorities 2005	20050604		Ivan Hewett introduces a concert of premieres given by the Ensemble Proxima Centauri at the recent Sonorities Festival in Belfast. Hans Joachim Hespos: Gallimak (UK Premiere) Thierry Alla: Sourcier-Sorcière (World Premiere) Christophe Havel: Comme (UK Premiere) Philippe Leroux: Un Lieu verdoyant (World Premiere) Christophe Havel: Metamorphose XI (World Premiere) Georges Aperghis: Les 7 crimes de l'amour (UK Premiere) To whet your appetite before BBC Radio 3's Beethoven Experience, Hear and Now presents Beethoven-inspired pieces from Harald Muenz (BeethovEnBloc) and Clarence Barlow (Variazioni e un pianoforte meccanico).
	Cut And Splice - Part 3	20050611		Robert Worby introduces the last programme from the recent Cut and Splice Festival in London, including music by German laptop generation composers associated with the Raster-Noton CD label: Frank Bretschneider, Olaf Bender (aka Byetone) and Carsten Nicolai (aka Alva Noto). Their music is a minimalist abstraction of dance music, while veteran Japanese composer Yasunao Tone comes from the Fluxus movement, and has long used indeterminate methods. He premieres Paramedia Music, a new work in which sound is sculpted by the movement of a calligraphy brush. And John Cage is featured with a pioneering early 4-channel tape collage piece, Williams Mix.
		20050618		Alwynne Pritchard talks to Matthias Pintscher. Members of the Philharmonia Orchestra perform two of his short pieces, conducted by the composer himself: Janusgesicht and A Twilight's Song, with Julie Moffat (soprano). Then the LONDON Sinfonietta is conducted by Ilan Volkov in a Hear and Now Studio Concert recorded at LSO, St Luke's.
	Ether Festival	20050625		Now in its third year, the LONDON Sinfonietta's collaboration with cutting edge electronic artists continues to fill concert halls with its juxtaposition of contemporary classical, electronic and newly commissioned arrangements. This year, the focus was on the music of Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead, with the world premiere of Piano for Children and the LONDON premiere of smear, and new arrangements of the music of his band with singer Thom YORKe. Movements from Henri Dutilleux's Ainsi la Nuit were woven in alongside music by György Ligeti, Olivier Messiaen, Mohammed Abdel-Wahab and Krystof Penderecki. Presented by Sarah Walker
	Bcmg And Sheffield Sound Junction	20050702		Robert Worby introduces the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group conducted by Oliver Knussen in performances of Julian Anderson's Book of Hours and Elliott Carter's Dialogues. With Jonty Harrison and Lamberto Coccioli (live electronics). Later, Robert reports from the Sheffield Sound Junction Festival, which focussed on the French/Canadian acousmatic pioneer Francis Dhomont, including his piece AvAtArsSon.
	Sonorities: Dog Breath Variations	20050709		The music of Frank Zappa is explored by the Ulster Orchestra conducted by Philippe Nahon in a concert from the recent Sonorities festival in Belfast. Presented by Sarah Walker in conversation with Zappa biographer Ben Watson. The Perfect Stranger; Naval Aviation in Art?; Dupree's Paradise; Revised music for low budget orchestra; Envelopes; The Dog Breath Variations/Uncle Meat; Get Whitey; G-spot Tornado Also tonight, the Crash Ensemble performs music by Michael Gordon, Deirdre McKay, Donnacha Dennehy and Zack Browning in a concert recorded in 2003.
		20050716		Alwynne Pritchard reports from the Indaba festival held in Grahamstown, South Africa. This year's theme is Reimagining Africa, with music from across the continent. The featured composer is Justinian Tamusuza from Uganda, plus some cutting-edge electronica and the Bow Project, which celebrates Xhosa bow music in new compositions for mouth bow and string quartet. Part of the BBC's Africa Lives season.
		20050723		Jac van Steen conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in an invitation concert featuring the world premiere of Mark Bowden's Sudden Light alongside music by three of the elder generation of composers. Howard Skempton: Chorales Roger Smalley: Piano Concerto (with Rolf Hind) Michael Finnissy: Sea and Sky And later, Stephen Stirling is the soloist in the world premiere of Gary Carpenter's Horn Concerto played by the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Baldur Bronniman.
	Sligo Festival	20050806		The focus is on composer and director Andrew Toovey and his ensemble Ixion, recorded in Sligo in April. Alongside pieces by Toovey, Ixion also plays music by Aldo Clementi, Michael Finnissy and Judith Weir. Also there are two contemporary views of the viola: the world premiere of Andrew Toovey's Viola Concerto, commissioned by the BBC and performed by Lawrence Power with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Henrik Schaefer; and Diana Burrell's Viola Concerto played by Jane Atkins with the Northern Sinfonia conducted by John Lubbock.
	City Of London Festival	20050813		Recorded on 4th July as part of this year's City of London Festival, pianist Joanna MacGregor gives a recital celebrating American music ranging from a selection of John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano to arrangements of gospel and jazz standards by James Booker, Nina Simone and Thelonious Monk.
	Stockhausen's Birthday - Part 1	20050820		1/2. To mark Karlheinz Stockhausen's birthday this month, Hear and Now devotes two editions to him. From the City of London Festival, vocal ensemble Singcircle, conducted by Gregory Rose and with electronics by Stephen Montague, performs Stimmung, recorded at the top of the 'Gherkin' building. Then pianist Nicolas Hodges plays Klavierstück XVI, recorded at the 2003 Huddersfield Festival, and Christopher Fox's BBC-commissioned realisation of Stockhausen's Plus-Minus from a recent studio session. Presented by Sarah Walker and Robert Worby
	Stockhausen's Birthday - Part 2	20050827		Featuring Karlheinz Stockhausen's substantial electronic piece Mittwochs-Gruss, recorded at the Sonorities Festival in 2004, and James Wood conducting the New London Chamber Choir, performing Litanei 97. Plus Any Way, a world premiere by Karlheinz's son Markus Stockhausen, performed by the Festival Players, conducted by Martyn Brabbins with Claire Booth (soprano) and the composer (on trumpet) at this year's Cheltenham Festival. Then uniting father and son, Markus multi-tracks all five trumpet parts in his father's Michael's-Abschied (Michael's Farewell) from Donnerstag aus Licht. Presented by Sarah Walker in conversation with Robert Worby
	City Of London And St Magnus Festivals	20050903		Sarah Walker introduces the ensemble Psappha in a concert recorded at the recent City of London Festival. Katalin Karolyi is the mezzo-soprano soloist in Luciano Berio's ever popular Folksongs. In Peter Maxwell Davies' iconic music-theatre piece Eight Songs for a Mad King, baritone Kelvin Thomas takes the central role. Staying with Davies, there's also a performance of his Missa Super L'Homme Armé, paired with Nigel Osborne's Sarajevo, performed by the Paragon Ensemble, conducted by Garry Walker, recorded at this year's St Magnus Festival. Plus pianist Nicolas Hodges plays 5 Piano Pieces by Cornelius Cardew.
	Finnish Focus	20050910		Ivan Hewett introduces the BBC Philharmonic conducted by James MacMillan in a portrait of Magnus Lindberg. Amongst the orchestral works, Jonathan Powell plays a selection of recent piano music by other Finnish composers. Magnus Lindberg: Concerto for orchestra Clarinet Concerto Michael Collins (clarinet) Parada Carl Armfelt: Transformations (Muodonmuutoksia) Harri Suilamo: Tétradactyle Mikko Heiniö: Uneen, Into Sleep Uljas Pulkkis: Flash Esa-Pekka Salonen: Dichotomie.
	Hildegard	20050917		On this, the 826th anniversary of Hildegard of Bingen's death, Alwynne Pritchard introduces a performance of James Wood's new opera Hildegard conducted by Jonathan Stockhammer and David Lawrence (assistant) and performed by Sarah Leonard (soprano); Omar Ebrahim (baritone); the New London Chamber Choir; the Critical Band, and Percussion Group the Hague. And later, the New Music Players perform Wood's Crying Bird, Echoing Star, a piece which brings together the composer's fascinations with birdsong and star constellations.
		20050924		Presented by Sarah Walker. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Martyn Brabbins, gives a portrait concert of John Woolrich, including performances of: Oboe Concerto Nicholas Daniel (oboe) Ulysses Awakes Scott Dickinson (viola) Double Mercury Plus more music from the St Magnus Festival. Henryk Górecki: Little Music No 4 Salvatore Sciarrino: Le Voci Sottovetro Alexandra Gibson (alto) Paragon Ensemble Garry Walker (conductor).
	Vale Of Glamorgan Festival - 2005	20051001		Ivan Hewett reports from the recent festival in which the BBC National Orchestra of Wales was conducted by Jac van Steen. Kurt Schwertsik: Sinfonia-Sinfonietta Guto Puw: Reservoirs (BBC Radio 3 Commission) Elena Kats-Chernin: Clocks Judith Weir: The welcome arrival of rain Plus music from the 2003 Bangor New Music Festival, featuring harpsichordist Jane Chapman who plays two pieces by Mike Vaughan - Tiento and Silence (dissolved).
		20051008		Sarah Walker introduces a concert recorded as part of the London Sinfonietta's International Benjamin series in May. Curated by George Benjamin who also conducts the London Sinfonietta, the concert includes a rare performance of Pierre Boulez's Éclat/Multiples and Benjamin himself as solo pianist in his own Shadowlines. In addition to Beat Furrer's Still, there is the world premiere of Cantatrix Sopranica commissioned by the London Sinfonietta from Unsuk Chin, featuring the sopranos Anu Komsi and Piia Komsi and the countertenor Andrew Watts. Also, to prefigure his work with Harold Pinter in a special collaboration for Radio 3 (on October 10 at 9.30pm), two works by James Clarke performed by Apartment House - the Oboe Quintet (Christopher Redgate, oboe) and La violenza delle idee.
	Xenakis - Architect In Sound - Part 1	20051015		Robert Worby presents the first of two programmes recorded at the recent Xenakis Festival at London's South Bank Centre. Pianist Rolf Hind juxtaposes the virtuosic Mists and Evryali by Xenakis with Olivier Messiaen's Cantéyodjayã. The London Sinfonietta is directed by the man who conducted many of Xenakis' premieres: Diego Masson. Xenakis: Waarg; Jalons; ST/10; Eonta.
	Xenakis - Architect In Sound - Part 2	20051022		Robert Worby introduces the Arditti Quartet, joined by Nicolas Hodges in an all-Xenakis concert. Featuring Tetora; ST/4; Akea; Ikhoor and Tetras. Plus the London Sinfonietta, conducted by Diego Masson, play more Xenakis. À l'isle de Gorée Elisabeth Chojnacka (harpsichord) Akanthos Claire Booth (soprano) Nicolas Hodges (piano).
		20051029		Tom Service presents the City of London Sinfonia's special Hear and Now Studio Concert recorded at Cadogan Hall. It's an all-British Concert, with two new works (Attwood and Panufnik) and two classics. Roxanna Panufnik's piece is the third in a series of settings of Vikram Seth's animal anthology, Beastly Tales from Here and There. William Attwood: Black and White Verticals (CLS/BBC commission; World Premiere) Barry Guy: After the Rain Nicholas Maw: Sonata Notturna Christian Poltera (cello) Roxanna Panufnik: The Hare and the Tortoise Patricia Rozario (soprano) Yvonne Howard (mezzo-soprano) Roderick Williams (baritone) Sian Edwards (conductor).
		20051105		Sarah Walker introduces Ensemble 10/10, the new music ensemble of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Clark Rundell. The concert features soloists Nicholas Cox (clarinet) and John Helliwell (soprano saxophone) in Giya Kancheli's poetic Afternoon and Night Prayers, the final two movements of his large-scale work Life without Christmas. Plus two works by Liverpool-born Kenneth Hesketh (Fra Duri Scogli and Dei Destini Incrociati) and the staged performance of a work commissioned from Mark Simpson, a 17-year-old Liverpudlian and student of the RNCM Junior School.
	Ensemble Exposé	20051112		From the British Music Information Centre's annual Cutting Edge series, Roger Redgate directs Ensemble Exposé in a programme that focuses on different aspects of spectral music, including a world premiere by John Croft. Presented by Alwynne Pritchard. Mary Bellamy: Constellations Sam Hayden: Recoil Michael Finnissy: Jiseï Robert Keeley: Oboe Quintet Tristan Murail: C'est un jardin secret John Croft: serenata al cielo afflitto (World Premiere) Tristan Murail: Treize Couleurs du Soleil Couchant Brice Pauset: Huit Canons (UK Premiere).
		20051119		Composer and pianist Thomas Larcher joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a Maida Vale Studio concert featuring works by German and Austrian composers. The orchestra is conducted by Pierre-André Valade. Philipp Maintz: Heftige Landschaft mit 16 Baumen York Höller: Aura Thomas Larcher: Antennen (solo piano) Olga Neuwirth: incidendo/fluido (solo piano) Johannes Maria Staud: '...gleichsam als ob'.
		20051126		Ivan Hewett presents music recorded in two concerts at the Warehouse in London's Waterloo as part of the British Music Information Centre's annual Cutting Edge series. Presented with the Austrian Cultural Forum and marking the 70th birthday of Kurt Schwertsik, the music is performed by the Royal Northern College of Music New Ensemble and students from the Vienna Conservatory, conducted by Clark Rundell, and features works by Johannes Maria Staud, Marcel Reuter, Reinhard Fuchs, Johanna Doderer, Joe Cutler, David Horne and Schwertsik.
	Bmic Cutting Edge: Continuum Ensemble	20051203		Making their second appearance in a British Music Information Centre Cutting Edge series, the Continuum Ensemble under the direction of Philip Headlam performs a mainly British programme. The set finishes with a major work from the senior British composer now based in Australia, Roger Smalley; his Quintet receives its UK premiere. Presented by Alwynne Pritchard. Luke Bedford: Through Mazes Running Larry Goves: turning aperture slowly clockwise spinning (world premiere) Judith Weir: The Voice of Desire Margaret Cameron (mezzo soprano) Mark Anthony Turnage: A Fast Stomp Kenneth Hesketh: Gabos Opus (world premiere) Lisa Nelsen (flute) Roger Smalley: Quintet.
	Gallic Virtuosity	20051210		Sarah Walker presents a concert given by Ensemble 10/10, celebrating the British composer Simon Bainbridge. Plus, a performance of Rode with Darkness by Luke Bedford, played by the German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin, conducted by George Benjamin; and pianist Nicolas Hodges playing modern takes on the works of JS Bach. Gary Carpenter: Da Capo Luciano Berio: Sequenza XII Pascal Gallois (bassoon) Simon Bainbridge: Guitar Concerto Craig Ogden (guitar) Emily Howard: Dualities (world premiere) Simon Bainbridge: For Miles Simon Bainbridge: Voiles (world premiere)
	Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival - 2005-1	20060107		The first of five broadcasts from the festival. This first edition spotlights some of the featured composers and performers, drawn from the customary wide international range for which HCMF is recognised. Helmut Lachenmann frames the programme with his temA and Salut für Caudwell, with Germany's Ensemble Recherche and Ensemble Modern. From the Netherlands, the Ives Ensemble play Christopher Fox and the Japanese Ensemble Nomad bring the delicate music of Jo Kondo to life in their first UK appearance. And at the centre of the programme, the virtuosity of the Neue Vocalsolisten from Stuttgart, with a recent work from Lucia Ronchetti.
	Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival - 2005-2	20060114		The music of James Dillon is the central focus of this edition with a rare complete performance of his Book of Elements, played by Noriko Kawai. From Norway, the Cikada Quartet play his third String Quartet. Plus, rare jewels from Giacinto Scelsi in his Three Latin Prayers, performed by the New London Chamber Choir.
	Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival - 2005-3	20060121		Highly individual and contrasted approaches to music, sound and colour are the central theme of this programme. Featuring choral and instrumental music by Giacinto Scelsi, performed by the New London Chamber Choir and Mieko Kanno; alongside the salty anger of Xenakis in his piano quintet Akea. To balm all this, the delicate, poised sound-world of Jo Kondo. Plus James Dillon's fourth quartet, in a performance by France's Diotima Quartet.
	Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival - 2005-4	20060128		The elusive choral and instrumental music of Giacinto Scelsi, whose centenary fell in 2005, forms a thread through this programme. Plus, equally individual voices from successive generations - Luigi Nono, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Helmut Lachenmann, who was 70 in November 2005. Featuring performances by Mieko Kanno, the New London Chamber Choir and Ensemble Modern.
	Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival - 2005-5	20060204		Featuring the music of Helmut Lachenmann with two substantial pieces for large ensembles, Mouvement (vor der Erstarrung) and Concertini, played by Germany's Ensemble Modern. Plus vocal works by Georg Friedrich Haas and Friedrich Zeller, performed by the Neue Vocalsolisten, Stuttgart.
	The Park Lane Group	20060211		celebrates 50 years of providing a platform for outstanding young musicians with its annual series of concerts. Many former Park Lane Group performers have gone on to national and international success. Ivan Hewett talks to some of these artists, alongside music from this year's concerts; including featured composers Michael Zev Gordon, Dutilleux and Boulez.
		20060218		Sarah Walker presents contemporary music influenced by jazz. The main work tonight is Blood on the Floor; Mark-Anthony Turnage's visceral suite for jazz soloists and orchestra, with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra recorded at City Hall, Glasgow, earlier this month. Peter Erskine (drums) John Parricelli (guitar) Dave Carpenter (bass) Martin Robertson (sax) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Martyn Brabbins (conductor) And later, new BBC-commissioned pieces by Dave Maric played by the Katya Labeque Band recorded on their CMN Tour last December. Fred Frith (guitar) Viktoria Mullova (violin) The Katya Labeque Band.
	Scandinavian Focus	20060225		Alwynne Pritchard presents the last public concert to be given in Studio One in Glasgow, home of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra since 1937. It features three UK premieres and a Scottish premiere of recent works by two generations of composers from Scandinavia and Finland. Uljas: Pulkkis Encanto Jesper Nordin: Arv Anders Hillborg: Mirages Rolf Wallin: Chi Baldur Brönnimann (conductor) Plus music by Terje Isungset played on instruments made from ice. Scandinavian Focus
		20060304		Recorded at a special studio concert at LSO St Luke's in London, the Arditti Quartet and pianist Nicolas Hodges perform a programme of recent works by British and German composers. Presented by Alwynne Pritchard. Plus music from last year's Huddersfield Festival. Wolfgang Rihm: Interscriptum Philipp Maintz: (nucleus, 1st movement of Inner Circle) Hanspeter Kyburz: String Quartet Paul Newland: Mie James Dillon: Soadie Waste Hans Abrahamsen: 3 Little Nocturnes Cikada String Quartet Frode Haltli (accordion) Fabio Nieder: Sogno 10 lunedi; in una casa; molte gente; musiche son tornato a casa Ensemble Recherche.
		20060311		The Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, conducted by Martyn Brabbins, is joined by the Arditti Quartet and Nicolas Hodges to celebrate Vic Hoyland's 60th birthday. The concert includes two of his most celebrated works - the Piano Quintet and Of Phantasy - and also features Harrison Birtwistle's Slow Freeze, David Sawer's The Memory of Water and the world premiere of Philip Cashian's Skein. Plus, pianist Stephen Gutman plays more Sawer, The Melancholy of Departure, and Andrew Toovey's Five Miniature Portraits. Presented by Sarah Walker
	If Festival 2006	20060318		Alwynne Pritchard presents a concert from the IF Festival in London. It's a showcase for interactive electronics using MAX software, with new works by John Croft and Peter Wiegold for cellist Matthew Barley. Plus, a major work by Philippe Manoury, one of the world's leading authorities on electronic music. His piece En Echo will be sung by soprano Donatienne Michel-Dansac.
		20060325		Robert Worby introduces a studio session by the Michael Nyman Band, playing Nyman's new BBC commission for Mozart year, Revisiting the Don. They are joined by mezzo-soprano Hilary Summers for Nyman's Six Celan Songs. Plus, the London Sinfonietta, conducted by Jurjen Hempel and joined by Synergy Voices and Sound Intermedia, gives its first public performance of Writing on Water, a new collaboration between David Lang and librettist Peter Greenaway, commissioned to mark the bicentenary of Nelson's victory at Trafalgar. The piece was performed alongside a contemporary classic, De Staat by Louis Andriessen, and recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.
		20060401		From Maida Vale Studios, the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Storgårds performs an all-Matthews programme. Presented by Ivan Hewett. Matthews, Colin: Eleven Studies in Velocity (Noriko Kawai, piano); Hidden Variables; Unfolded Order - UK Concert Premiere; Suite for piano (Noriko Kawai, piano); Sonata No 5: Landscape And later, the Nash Ensemble conducted by Lionel Friend plays music by one of Matthews' contemporaries, Oliver Knussen: Knussen, Oliver: Ophelia Dances.
	Gerald Barry And Laurence Crane	20060408		Two very different approaches to contemporary music - with the manic rhythmic intensity of Gerald Barry, played by the Composers' Ensemble, juxtaposed with the deceptively simple tonality of Laurence Crane, played by Apartment House.
	Crash Ensemble	20060415		In a concert from the 2005 Cutting Edge series, the Crash Ensemble from Dublin perform a series of UK premieres, as well as music by Tom Johnson and Philip Glass. Plus, the Kronos Quartet plays Glass' Music for Company (String Quartet 2), which was written for a stage adaptation of Beckett's novella, Company. Donnacha Dennehy: Streetwalker (UKP) Kevin Volans: 1000 Bars (UKP) Roger Doyle: Passade No 6 (UKP) Tom Johnson: Naryana's Cows Andrew Hamilton: I Like Things (UKP) John Godfrey: Aria 51 (UKP) Philip Glass: Music in Similar Motion.
	John Tilbury At 70	20060422		To celebrate pianist John Tilbury's 70th birthday, Robert Worby talks to Tilbury about his long career in New Music, improvisation and more recently in Samuel Beckett's theatrical works. The programme includes John's recordings of music by John Cage, Morton Feldman, Terry Riley, Cornelius Cardew and Howard Skempton, as well as an improvisation with drummer Eddie Prevost, and Beckett's Rough For Radio 1.
		20060429		Valentin Silvestrov Portrait Sarah Walker is joined by composer and Soviet music expert Gerard McBurney to present a studio concert by senior Ukrainian composer, Valentin Silvestrov. Silvestrov Meta-Walzer Silvestrov Symphony No 5 BBC Symphony Orchestra Szolt Nagy (conductor) Plus music from Cheltenham Festival 2004, including a piece by McBurney himself: Gerard McBurney: Eyebright and Tormentil György Kurtág: Scenes from a Novel, Op 19 Nicole Tibbells (soprano) BCMG Brett Dean (conductor).
	Sonorities 2006	20060506		The Ulster Orchestra, conducted by Baldur Bronnimann, perform the world premiere of Bill Campbell's Swim and the UK premiere of Right Angel, by Fred Frith. Featuring Darragh Morgan (violin) and Fred Frith (guitar). Plus Shadow Music, by Brett Dean, and more music by the Katia Labeque Band from their 2005 Contemporary Music Network tour. Presented by Ivan Hewett
	Cut And Splice 2006 - 1	20060513		Robert Worby introduces the first of two programmes featuring the music recorded at this year's Cut and Splice Festival of electronic music from the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, including Field by Zbigniew Karkowski, Michel Chion's Requiem and music by Christian Zanesi and John Wall.
	Cut And Splice - Part 2	20060520		The music of Eliane Radigue, Florian Hecker, François Bayle and Carl Michael von Hausswolff is featured in this second programme from this year's Cut and Splice Festival of electronic music from the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, presented by Robert Worby
	Fuseleeds06	20060527		Sarah Walker and Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduce two concerts from this month's alternative music festival in Leeds. Plus, as part of a Contemporary Music Network Tour, the Michael Gordon Band play tracks from their new album Light is Calling. Michael Nyman: Revisiting the Don (BBC commission); In Re Don Giovanni John Adams: Scratch Band Hanif Kureishi/Michael Nyman: I Was a Total Virgin (World Premiere) The London Sinfonietta Martyn Brabbins (conductor).
	Sligo Festival 2006	20060603		Ivan Hewett presents a selection of music from this year's Sligo Festival in Southern Ireland. Giacinto Scelsi: Hyxos, for alto flute and percussion Morton Feldman: The King of Denmark, for percussion Brian Ferneyhough: Mnemosyne, for bass flute and tape Siobhán Cleary: Carrowkeel, for string quartet Morton Feldman: Piano Piece to Philip Guston; Extensions 3 for piano György Kurtág: Aus der ferne III Luigi Nono: Hay que caminar soñando for 2 violins Callino String Quartet Sarah Nicolls (piano) Nancy Ruffer (flute) Richard O'Donnell (percussion) Plus, from last year's Cutting Edge concert series in London: Giacinto Scelsi: Suite No 10 - Ka Stephen Gutman (piano).
		20060610		Sarah Walker introduces a programme of works exploring the ideas of journeying and memory. Luigi Nono: La lontananza nostalgica utopica future - madrigal for several travellers for solo violin, eight magnetic tapes and eight to ten music stands (1988-9) Iona Petou-Colan (violin) Malcolm Hayes: Odysseus Remembers (2005) BBC Commission Circe....Claire Booth (soprano) Anticlia....Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano) Teiresias....Andrew Watts (counter-tenor) Odysseus....Roderick Williams (narrator) BBC Symphony Orchestra Edward Gardner (conductor) Luigi Nono: No hay caminos, hay que caminar...Andrej Tarkowskij for seven instrumental groups South West German Radio Symphony Orchestra Michael Gielen (conductor).
		20060617		Robert Worby introduces a Hear And Now concert from LSO St Luke's in London, showcasing a diverse array of new British music - ranging from a delicate string quartet to a dynamic piano concerto, and a piece featuring a wandering horn player. Bryn Harrison: four cycles Saed Haddad: Le Contredésir (UK premiere) Philip Cashian: Piano Concerto (World premiere) Joanna Bailie: Five Famous Adagios for string quartet Richard Ayres: No 36 (NONcerto for horn) London Sinfonietta Zsolt Nagy (conductor) Sarah Nicolls (piano) Michael Thompson (horn).
	Many Hands	20060624		Sarah Walker introduces Many Hands, a concert organised by the SPNM at the Fuse festival in Leeds. Six players at six keyboards play works by established and new composers - among them John Adams, Rolf Hind, Janet Davey, Richard Glover, Yumi Hara Cawkwell and Jeremy Thurlow.Plus choral music from the BBC Singers, reflecting two generations of British composers from John Tavener and Judith Weir to Tarik O'Regan and Philip Neil Martin.
		20060701		Featuring BBC Orchestral performances from studios in Manchester and London. Tansy Davies: Tilting Simon Holt: Sunrise Yellow Noise Claire Booth (soprano) David Gorton: The Fall of Babel (WP) Simon Bainbridge: Three pieces for Orchestra BBC Symphony Orchestra Zsolt Nagy (conductor) Jordan Hunt: 6 Pieces Fung Lam: Illumination Ed Bennett: Ausland Philip Venables: Arc BBC Philharmonic James MacMillan (conductor).
		20060708		To mark the death last month of the Hungarian born composer Gyorgy Ligeti, Tom Service introduces a concert given by the London Sinfonietta on the composer's 70th birthday in 1993. There is also the chance to sample some of Ligeti's smaller-scale wizardry in a variety of guises. Overture Le Grand Macabre; Melodien for orchestra; Piano Concerto - with Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano); Chamber Concerto for 13 instruments London Sinfonietta Markus Stenz (conductor) Glissand - electronic composition Volumina Hans-Ola Ericsson (organ) Continuum Antoinette Vischer (harpsichord) String Quartet No 2 Arditti String Quartet.
	A John Casken Tribute	20060715		A musical portrait of one of Britain's most respected composers, born in Barnsley on this day in 1949. John Casken talks to fellow Barnsleyite Sarah Walker and presents four of his major works - all with extra-musical associations, from the Russia of Tolstoy to the mines of his native northern England. Casken: Violin Concerto; Piano Trio; Still Mine; Sortilège Daniel Hope (violin) Roderick Williams (baritone) Florestan Trio BBC Philharmonic James MacMillan (conductor).
	Brian Ferneyhough Portrait	20060722		Ivan Hewett talks to one of the leading composers of our time. And from this year's Aldeburgh Festival, two spellbinding concerts of Ferneyhough's music, new and old, alongside some of the composers who have influenced him. Jacob Obrecht: Salve regina à 6 Ferneyhough: Unsichtbare Farben for solo violin (1997-99) Jean de Ockeghem: Agnus Dei from Missa Caput Ferneyhough: Intermedio alla Ciaconna for solo violin (1986) Jean de Ockeghem: Alma redemptoris mater Ferneyhough: String Quartet No 5, 2006 UK premiere, BBC-WDR co-commission Ferneyhough: Missa Brevis (1968-9) Schoenberg: String Quartet, No 3, Op 30 (1927) Irvine Arditti (solo violin) Arditti Quartet Exaudi Vocal Ensemble James Weeks (conductor).
	Womad 2006 Special	20060729		Late-night live sets and recorded highlights introduced by Andrew McGregor with Lucy Duran. Star of Nigerian Afrobeat Femi Kuti is live on the Open Air stage, and percussionist Trilok Gurtu with Indian classical singers the Misra Brothers end the night from the Siam Tent. There is also the Spanish flamenco of Enrique Morente, and the musical voice of Zimbabwe, Thomas Mapfumo. Fiona Talkington introduces an acoustic set from Malian kora virtuoso Toumani Diabate live from the Radio 3 stage.
		20060805		Sarah Walker presents a concert of music commissioned and performed by the Nash Ensemble. From Elliott Carter's recent work inspired by a harpist he knew in the 1930s to Turnage's affectionate tribute to Richard Rodney Bennett where three generations of composers explore the musical potential of a small group of instruments. Followed by Alexander Goehr's Sinfonia for chamber orchestra, written in Jerusalem in 1980. George Benjamin: Viola Viola Lawrence Power and Philip Dukes (viola) Huw Watkins: Gig (2005) Mark Anthony Turnage: Bleak Moments, Horn Quintet (world premiere) Elliott Carter: Mosaic, 2005 Simon Holt: the other side of silence Jonathan Cole: Scrawling Out, Oboe Quartet (world premiere) Mark Anthony Turnage: Slide Stride Nash Ensemble Lionel Friend (conductor) Alexander Goehr: Sinfonia London Sinfonietta Oliver Knussen (conductor).
	Americans In Wales		20060812	A second airing of a concert from the 2004 Vale of Glamorgan Festival in which the BBC National Orchestra of Wales is conducted by Grant Llewellyn. Pianist Andrew Zolinsky is the soloist in David Lang's Radio 3 commission, FUR, and David Cowley is the soloist in Elliott Carter's Oboe Concerto. Michael Daugherty's Sunset Strip and Michael Torke's Ecstatic Orange ballet complete this all-American sequence. Plus music by David Lang performed by percussionist Colin Currie at the 2004 Spitalfields Festival in London: his Anvil Chorus brings the programme home with a bang. Introduced by Sarah Walker
		20060819		Sarah Walker introduces a concert of mainly Italian music recorded by the Ives Ensemble at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2002. With studio guest Christopher Fox. Aldo Clementi: Impromptu Karel Goeyvaerts: Litanie IV Aldo Clementi: om dagen i mitt arbete Ives Ensemble Berio: Differences, 1958 Contempoartensemble Mauro Ceccanti (director) Magnus Robb: Sprosser Fabio Nieder: Sulla Ruota del giorno Berio: Sincronie (1963-4) Arditti Quartet Aldo Clementi: im Himmelreich
		20060826		A second airing for five British works, two premiered last year and three others revived in fresh performances by two of the BBC's orchestras. Introduced by Sarah Walker and Ivan Hewett. Howard Skempton: Chorales Roger Smalley: Piano Concerto Rolf Hind (piano) Mark Bowden: Sudden Light Michael Finnissy: Sea & Sky BBC Symphony Orchestra Jac van Steen (conductor) Gary Carpenter: Horn Concerto BBC Philharmonic Stephen Stirling (horn) Baldur Bronniman (conductor).
		20060902		Sarah Walker introduces two concerts from this year's City of London Festival with its Japanese theme, together with new works specially commissioned for the occasion. Maki Ishii: Tango Prism Dai Fujikura: Touch of Breeze; Cutting Sky (wp); Okeanos Breeze Toshio Hosokawa: In die Tiefe der Zeit Toshi Ichiyanagi: Transfiguration of Flowers (mov't 2) Nigel Osborne: Stone Garden 2 Judith Bingham: The Cruelty of The Gods (wp) Mai Fukasawa: Forgotten Psalm (wp) Improvisation Nigel Osborne: Taw-Raw Madeleine Mitchell (violin) Merima Kljuco (accordion) Claudio Bohórquez (cello) Okeanos.
		20060909		Robert Worby introduces a concert of improvisations and works recorded by members of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and AMM, in Glasgow City Halls. Plus, as a preface to Radio 3's focus on the work of Rabindranath Tagore, a conversation with Param Vir about setting Tagore's poetry. Varese: Intégrales Webern: Five Pieces, Op 10 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Ilan Volkov (conductor) Improvisation Set 1 AMM: John Tilbury (piano) Eddie Prévost (percussion) Scelsi: Anahit Elizabeth Layton (violin) James Tenney: Form II - In Memoriam John Cage Improvisation Set 2 AMM: Eddie Prévost (percussion), John Tilbury (piano), John Butcher (saxophone) and members of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Ewan Robertson (flute) Tony Alcock (double bass) Mark O'Keefe (trumpet) Barry Deacon (clarinet) Simon Johnson (trombone) Heather Corbett (percussion) Param Vir: Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva London Sinfonietta Voices Terry Edwards (director).
	John Zorn Weekend - 2006	20060916		Tom Service introduces a concert from the Barbican's recent John Zorn weekend, and talks to Robert Sandall about Zorn's interest in the dark writings of Aleister Crowley. Zorn: Evocation of a Neophyte and How the Secrets of the Black Arts were Revealed unto Her by the Demon Baphomet (BBC commission; first performance) Synergy Vocals London Sinfonietta Brad Lubman (conductor) Iannis Xenakis: Metastasis Morton Feldman: In Search of an Orchestration BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Nicholas Kok (conductor) Zorn: Moonchild Mike Patton (vocalist) Trevor Dunn (bass) Joey Baron (drums).
		20060923		Sarah Walker presents a studio concert by the Duke Quartet. Plus, in an extended interview, Kevin Volans talks about his early years as a composer and the challenges of writing string quartets. He also introduces his Concerto for piano and wind instruments, written for the BBC Proms in 1996 and performed by Peter Donohoe and the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, conducted by Daniel Harding. Joby Talbot: String Quartet No 1 Arvo Pärt: Summa Kevin Volans: String Quartet No 6 Steve Reich: Triple Quartet George Crumb: Black Angels The Duke Quartet.
	Vale Of Glamorgan Festival - 2006	20060930		She is joined in the studio by the festival's artistic director and composer, John Metcalf. Featuring a new commission for Metcalf's 60th birthday and works by Steve Reich, Georges Lentz and Peteris Vasks. Peteris Vasks: Musica Appasionata Georges Lentz: Mohn (UK Premiere Radio 3 co-commission) Philip Dukes (solo viola) John Metcalf: Mapping Wales Lucy Wakeford (harp) Steve Reich: Tehillim Synergy Vocals John Metcalf: Paradise Haunts Caroline Balding (violin) Timothy Lissimore (piano) BBC National Orchestra of Wales Luke Dollman (conductor).
	Highlighting The Music Of German Composer Heiner Goebbels	20061007		Ivan Hewett talks to Goebbels about his unique blend of music, text and politics. Including Goebbels' Suite for Sampler and Orchestra, and his recent reworking of an opera as a radio piece - Landscape with distant relatives - which uses texts by Gertrude Stein and TS Eliot. Goebbels: Suite for Sampler & Orchestra Junge Deutsche Philharmonie Peter Rundel (conductor) Goebbels: Landscape with distant relatives David Bennent (narrator) Deutschen Kammerchor Ensemble Modern Franck Ollu (conductor) Goebbels: D & C for Orchestra Goebbels: Paradise and Hell Alfred Hart (saxophone) Heiner Goebbels (piano).
		20061014		With Sara Mohr-Pietsch. Gordon McPherson: The New Black (BBC commission; world premiere) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Zsolt Nagy (conductor) Thea Musgrave: Lamenting with Ariadne Christopher Yates (viola) Jonathan Holland (offstage trumpet) Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Brett Dean (conductor) Tansy Davies: Spiral House (BBC commission; world premiere) Mark O'Keeffe (trumpet) Brett Dean: Intimate decisions Brett Dean (viola) Steve Reich: Three Movements
	Michael Finnissy At 60 - 1	20061021		To celebrate the composer's sixtieth birthday, Sarah Walker introduces a concert of chamber works from the recent Finnissy Weekend at The Warehouse in London, given by the ensemble Ixion. Traum des Sangers; Cantet nunc aula caelestium; White Rain; Casual Nudity; Giant Abstract Samba Plus a recording of the substantial orchestral work Red Earth, with Martyn Brabbins conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
	Michael Finnissy At 60 - 2	20061028		In the second of two programmes celebrating the composer's 60th birthday, Sarah Walker introduces a concert of chamber works from the recent Finnissy Weekend at The Warehouse in London. Seterjentens Fridag Wild Flowers n Mississippi Hornpipes Back on Earth (world premiere) Plus-Minus Ensemble English Country-Tunes Michael Finnissy (piano).
	Anthony Payne At 70	20061104		Ivan Hewett presents a portrait edition celebrating this senior figure in English music, with a recent studio concert of orchestral works. Anthony Payne: Half Heard in the Stillness; Orchestral Variations - The Seeds Long Hidden; The Spirit?s Harvest BBC Symphony Orchestra Martyn Brabbins (conductor) Plus two chamber works: Anthony Payne: Paraphrases and Cadenzas; A Day in the Life of a Mayfly Jane's Minstrels Roger Montgomery (conductor).
	Lontano's Festival Of American Music	20061111		Sarah Walker introduces a concert recorded at the festival last May in London, in conversation with conductor Odaline de la Martinez. John Harbison: Il Saliscendi Bianco Dorothy Chang: Miniatures Augusta Read Thomas: Love Songs Evan Ziporyn: Tsmindao Ghmerto for solo bass clarinet Virgil Thomson: Tiger, Tiger; Saints Procession; Medea Choruses David Rakowski: Hyperblue Peter Child: Sing Song Merry Diggle Evan Ziporyn (bass clarinet) BBC Singers Lontano Odaline de la Martinez (conductor).
		20061118		Sarah Walker presents music from two college concerts. Stephen Pratt: Double Act (world premiere) Mark Anthony Turnage: Torn Fields Mark Simpson: Septet Mark Anthony Turnage: Crying Out Loud Paul Keohone (baritone) Ensemble 10/10 Clark Rundell (conductor) Given at Royal Northern College of Music earlier this month. Simon Limbrick: Drum Gods (revisited) Edgard Varese: Ionisation Trad: Ghanaian Drumming Richard Benjafield The Guildhall Percussion Ensemble Given at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in January.
	Transcendent: The Music Of Helmut Lachenmann.	20061125		Ivan Hewett introduces performances recorded at the Royal College of Music. Lachenmann's work is said to rewrite the definition of music, exploring instrumental effects beyond anything previously heard. Guero Helmut Lachenmann (piano) Kontrakadenz (UK premiere) RCM Symphony Orchestra Pierre-André Valade (conductor) Consolation I for chamber choir and two percussionists Singers from the RCM Vocal Faculty O Duo, Nicholas Reed and Mark Wagstaff (percussion) Sofi Jeannin (conductor) Pression Gabriella Swallow (cello) Ausklang Noriko Kawai (piano)
	Huddersfield 2006 - 1	20061202		Robert Worby and Sara Mohr-Pietsch present a series of broadcasts from the 2006 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. The programme includes a profile of featured festival composer Barry Guy and an extensive piece from Lithuanian-born composer Rytis Mazulis. Plus an interview with the festival's new Artistic Director Graham McKenzie. Barry Guy: Bird Gong Game 1; Celebration; Five Fizzles; Bird Gong Game 2. Gemini, Maya Homburger (baroque violin), Beatrice Zawodnik (oboe), Evan Parker (saxophone), Agusti Fernandez (piano). Mazulis: ajapajapam. Exaudi, Apartment House.
	Huddersfield 2006 - 2	20061209		2/5. Robert Worby presents a series of broadcasts from the 2006 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. The programme features music from an eclectic mix of composers including Morton Feldman, Christopher Fox and Richard Barrett. The two performing ensembles featured are Australia's leading New Music Ensemble Elision and British contemporary music champions the Smith Quartet. Elision Timothy O'Dwyer: Gravity Maurizio Pisati: Habergeiss John Rodgers: L'aura eternal; ciacco; ma fiuo Richard Barrett: Codex 1 Smith Quartet Christopher Fox: 1,2,3 (World Premiere) Chantale Laplante: Study of a Room Morton Feldman: Spring of Chrosoes.
	Huddersfield 2006 - 3	20061216		The programme features music from John Cage alongside works from James Tenney and John Lely. Zeitkratzer Tenney: Critical Band Phil Thomas (piano), James Saunders (electronics) John Cage: Electronic Music for Piano Alvin Lucier: Still Lives John Lely: All about the piano (World Premiere).
	Huddersfield 2006 - 4	20061223		Robert Worby presents a series of broadcasts from the 2006 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. The programme features the World Premiere of Michael Finnissy's 60-minute song cycle Whitman, a BBC/HCMF commission performed by Kirsten Blaise with pianist Nicholas Hodges. Plus music from the Australian ensemble Elision.
	Huddersfield 2006 - 5 Last	20061230
	Lachenmann And Rihm	20070106		Tom Service introduces recent music by two of Germany's leading composers, recorded in concert last Autumn, and talks to Helmut Lachenmann about the developments in his music between the 1980s and today. Lachenmann: Mouvement (vor der Erstarrung); Concertini London Sinfonietta Martyn Brabbins (conductor) Rihm: Two Other Movements BBC Symphony Orchestra Reinbert de Leeuw (conductor).
		20070113		Ivan Hewett introduces music from the 2006 Donaueschingen Music Days and the Aldeburgh Festival, which featured recent work by Brian Ferneyhough. Brian Ferneyhough: Plötzlichkeit for large orchestra (SWR and Radio France co-commission; world premiere) Monika Meier-Schmid (soprano) Truike van der Poel (mezzo) Janet Collins (contralto) SWR Symphony Orchestra Arturo Tamayo (conductor) Nicolaus Richter de Vroe: Les cases conjuguées; Schwesterfelder for string quartet and orchestra (SWR commission; world premiere) Arditti Quartet Brian Ferneyhough: Missa Brevis (1969) Exaudi Vocal Ensemble James Weeks (director) Adriana Hölszky: Flugmanöver for two clarinets and orchestra (SWR commission; world premiere) Das Klarinettenduo: David Smeyers, Beate Zelinsky Brian Ferneyhough: String Quartet No 5 (first performance)
	A Concert For Cornelius	20070120		Robert Worby introduces a concert by Apartment House, directed by Anton Lukoszevieze, devoted to Cornelius Cardew and talks to composers and performers who knew him. Cornelius Cardew: Piano Sonata No 1 (Tania Chen, soloist) Octet '59 (world premiere) Autumn '60 John White: Piano Sonatas Nos 81, 29, 111 Dave Smith (piano) Michael Parsons: Apartment House Suite 1 Cardew: Octet '61; A Law of History; The Croppy Boy; Father Murphy Dave Smith: Cornelius; In Support of the Intifada
	German Connections	20070127		Hans Werner Henze: Kammerkonzert 05 (new version of First Symphony) (UK premiere) Karlheinz Stockhausen: Five Star Signs (UK premiere) Mauricio Kagel: Kammersymphonie (UK premiere) London Sinfonietta Oliver Knussen (conductor) Stockhausen: Zyklus for percussion solo Berio: from Cries of London (rev version for 8 solo vv, 1975) Cage: In a landscape for harp solo BBC Singers Nicholas Kok (conductor) Julian Warburton (percussion) Sioned Williams (harp).
		20070203		Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces a concert of new music selected by SPNM artistic director Rolf Hind, recorded at the Wigmore Hall. Rolf Hind (piano) Duke Quartet Alfred Schnittke: Piano Quintet Jeremy Thurlow: The Will of the Tones Naomi Pinnock: IS Shiori Usui: Liya-pyuwa Philip Venables: String Quartet Rolf Hind: The Eye of Fire.
		20070217		Robert Worby presents a concert recorded at the Sage, Gateshead, last November. Jussi Jaatinen conducts the legendary Dutch 'anti-orchestra' Orkest de Volharding in a programme of pieces by British composers under the title Outlawed. Andrew Hamilton: Music for people who like nature Joanna Bailie: Intermittence Christopher Fox: De Groote Muziek Michael Wolters: Concerto Grosso Laurence Crane: Ullrich 1 and 2 Richard Ayres: Vogelvrij/Outlawed.
		20070224		Tom Service presents a concert recorded at The Cornerstone in Liverpool last November, and talks to the composers. Louis Andriessen: Zilver (1994) Gary Carpenter: Die Flimmerkiste (1983) Louis Andriessen: La Passione (2002) Cristina Zavalloni (soprano) Monica Germino (violin) Ensemble 10/10 Clark Rundell (conductor).
	Psappha And The Bbc Philharmonic - 1	20070303		Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents the first of two programmes featuring new music from Manchester based groups Psappha and the BBC Philharmonic. Simon Parkin: Three Piece for Mixed Sextet Psappha Simon Mawhinney: Starbog Mark-Anthony Turnage: When I Woke Paul Keohone (baritone) BBC Philharmonic Clark Rundell (conductor) Richard Norris: Diapsalmata Piers Hellawell: Truth or Consequences
		20070310		Out of Manchester 2/2. Featuring new music from Manchester-based groups, performed by Psappha and the BBC Philharmonic. Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch. Mark-Anthony Turnage: Silent Cities BBC Philharmonic Clark Rundell (conductor) Simon Mawhinney: Bar Code II Psappha Jonathan Cole: Temporale Distante (Penumbra II) Gordon McPherson Maps and Diagrams of our Pain Mark-Anthony Turnage: Drowned Out
		20070317		The Nash Ensemble play an all-British concert threaded with inspirations from English literature, given at the Wigmore Hall, London. Presented by Tom Service. Thomas Ades: Court Studies from The Tempest for piano, violin, cello and clarinet Harrison Birtwistle: Crowd for solo harp David Horne: Life's Splinters for tenor and ensemble (setting of DH Lawrence; BBC commission; world premiere) Birtwistle: Lied for cello and piano (UK premiere) Simon Holt: 4 Quarters for string trio David Matthews: Terrible Beauty for mezzo-soprano and ensemble (world premiere) The Nash Ensemble Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano) James Gilchrist (tenor) Paul Watkins (cello) Lucy Wakefield (harp) Lionel Friend (conductor).
	Cutler, Oswald	20070324		Robert Worby and Robert Sandall introduce excerpts from a concert given last November by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in collaboration with percussionist and improviser Chris Cutler, and featuring works by the Canadian plunderphonics producer John Oswald. John Oswald: Concerto for Conductor and Orchestra; Debizet; Ariature; Idylilly Chris Cutler: P53-3 Chris Cutler (percussion) John Oswald (electronics) Zeena Parkins (harp) Jon Rose (violin) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Ilan Volkov (conductor).
	Bozzini Quartet - Arnold, Trunk, Vivier And Skempton	20070331		Ivan Hewett presents a Studio Concert recorded at Maida Vale Studio 1, featuring the Bozzini Quartet from Montreal playing an Anglo-Canadian programme. Martin Arnold: Aberrare (Casting) Markus Trunk: twin/double (World Premiere) Claude Vivier: Pulau Dewata, arr. M Oesterle Howard Skempton: Catch; Tendrils (BBC Commission).
	Riot! Can Music Change The World?	20070407		Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an SPNM concert exploring the relationship between music and politics. Recorded at LSO St Luke's London this February. Paul Fretwell: Wall of Stone (World Premiere) Peter Edwards: Wayfaring Stranger (World Premiere) Sergio Ortega: Lonquen Damien Harron: Events Unfold Claudia Molitor: Leek Rolf Hind: Follow the Leader Frederic Rzewski: Coming Together Lore Lixenber (mezzo-soprano) BackBeat Percussion Quartet.
	Bmic's Cutting Edge - Plus Minus	20070414		Robert Worby presents a concert of experimental British and American works performed by the by Anglo-Belgian group Plus Minus; recorded at the BMIC Cutting Edge concert at the Warehouse London on November 30th 2007. Richard BARRETT : Lost (excerpt) (00'24") : Roderick Chadwick (piano) Chris DENCH : Rushes (7'10") : Mark Knoop, Roderick Chadwick (piano) Joanna BAILIE : Double (18'19") : Plus Minus Robert ASHLEY : Tract (excerpt) (2'42") : Thomas Buckner (baritone) + midi sounds : New World Records 804602 (CD) Robert ASHLEY : In Memoriam..Esteban Gomez (6'49") : Plus Minus Richard BARRETT : Lost (11'32") : Roderick Chadwick (piano) Cornelius CARDEW : Treatise (22'40") : Plus Minus.
	Ligeti Remembered	20070421		Ivan Hewett presents Ligeti Remembered, a concert given by the London Sinfonietta in memory of the Hungarian-born composer who died last year. Claire Booth (soprano) Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) London Sinfonietta George Benjamin (conductor) Gyorgy Ligeti: Ramifications; Melodien Oliver Knussen: Requiem (Songs for Sue) Alexander Goehr: Behold the Sun Gyorgy Ligeti: Piano Concerto.
	Concert Of Works By British Composers	20070428		Tom Service presents a concert of works by British composers, including a tribute to George Grove by Michael Zev Gordon and a pair of orchestral studies by Rupert Bawden. Also in the concert is the first broadcast of Alwynne Pritchard's BBC commission Map of the Moon, prefaced by extracts from the working audio diary she recorded as she composed. Nicolas Hodges (piano) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Zsolt Nagy (conductor) Michael Zev Gordon: Plain Hunting Rupert Bawden: Two Studies for Orchestra Alwynne Pritchard: Map of the Moon, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Alexander Goehr: Symphony in One Movement, Op 29.
	The Colour Of My Song	20070505		Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents the first broadcast of Geoffrey Poole's BBC Commission The Colour of My Song, conceived as a 'concerto for vocalities' and written in homage to Berio. Poole: The Colour of My Song Julian Warburton (percussion) Sioned Williams (harp) BBC Singers James Morgan (conductor) Berio: Cries of London, rev version for eight solo voices Berio: Laborintus II Sarah Eyden, Nicole Tibbels (sopranos) Heather Cairncross (mezzo) Voicelab Pulse Omar Ebrahim (narrator) Sound Intermedia London Sinfonietta Diego Masson (conductor).
	Bbc Now - Simon Bainbridge	20070512		Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a concert by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales alongside the London premiere of a Simon Bainbridge work inspired by the architecture of Daniel Libeskind. Harrison Birtwistle: Endless Parade Philippe Schartz (trumpet) Michael Berkeley: Gethsemane Fragment Simon Holt: Icarus Lamentations BBC National Orchestra of Wales Thierry Fischer (conductor) Simon Bainbridge: Music, Space, Reflection Sound Intermedia London Sinfonietta Diego Masson (conductor).
	The Dutch School - 1	20070519		Robert Worby presents a programme featuring new music mainly from the Netherlands or influenced by the Dutch school. Steve Martland: Principia Maarten Altena Ensemble Martijn Padding: A Small Goodbye Song Steve Martland: Drill Daniel Becker, Huw Watkins (piano) Maarten Altena: Slow Motion Arlene Sierra: Of Risk and Memory Donnacha Dennehy: Bulb Fidelio Trio.
		20070526		2/2. Robert Worby introduces new music mainly from The Netherlands or influenced by the Dutch school. Robert Zuidam: For Two Pianos Daniel Becker, Huw Watkins (pianos) Peter Adriaansz: Triple Concerto Maarten Altena Ensemble Helene Grime: Entwined channels Daniel Becker, Huw Watkins (piano) Robert Ashley: Tap Dancing in the Sand Yannis Kyriakides: Tinkling (or killing time in an airport lounge and getting arrested)
		20070602		Ivan Hewett presents a studio concert recorded last month at LSO St Luke's in London, and talks to featured composer Gerald Barry. Clive Williamson (piano) Mark van der Wiel (clarinet) London Sinfonietta Richard Baker (conductor) Gerald Barry: Wiener Blut Michael Finnissy: Alongside Gerald Barry: Handel's Favourite Song Ian Vine: ocre oscuro (world premiere) Gerald Barry: Lisbon (UK premiere) Plus a concert recorded at the CBSO Centre, Birmingham, last February. Ades: Chamber Symphony Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Thomas Ades (conductor).
		20070609		Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents two works recorded in concert by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. She speaks to Tansy Davies about her work Falling Angel, inspired by Anselm Kiefer, and ahead of his opera The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit, composer Gerald Barry is in conversation with Ivan Hewett. Andrew Watts, William Purefoy (countertenors) Christopher Lemmings (tenor) Roderick Williams (baritone) Stephen Richardson (bass) Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Thomas Ades (conductor) Tansy Davies: Falling Angel Gerald Barry: The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit.
	Out Of Berlin - 1	20070616		Tom Service presents a concert of new music from Berlin given by contemporary music group Apartment House, at the BBC Maida Vale studios. Arnold Dreyblatt: Octet for 32 Strings (UK premiere) Alex Kolkowski: What hath God wrought?, for Stroh String Quartet; Edison Phonographs and Gramophone (world premiere) Reinhold Friedl: String Quartet No 1 (world premiere) Burkhard Schlothauer: 60 Similar Sounds (world premiere) Walter Zimmermann: Songs of Innocence and Experience for string quartet and tape (world premiere).
	Out Of Berlin - 2	20070623		Ivan Hewett reports from this year's Berlin Maerzmusik festival, talks to featured composers and introduces selected performances, including a dramatic new orchestral work, and music from Stimmhorn, a remarkable duo of yodelling and alphorn. Vinko Globokar: Delilah's Dream Aleph Guitar Quartet Chaya Czernowin: Maim Rico Gubler (saxophone/tubax) John Mark Harris (piano) Seth Josel (electric guitar) Mary Oliver (viola) Peter Veale (cor anglais) Konzerthausorchester, Berlin Johannes Kalitzke (conductor).
	Out Of Berlin - 3	20070630		Ivan Hewett presents further highlights from the 2007 Berlin Maerzmusik Festival. Beat Furrer: PHAOS for Orchestra Konzerthausorchester, Berlin Johannes Kalitzke (conductor) Beat Furrer: Canti Notturni Isolde Daum, Susanne Leitz-Lorey (sopranos) Helmut Oehring: Mich.Stille Aleph Guitar Quartet Stefano Gervasoni: Epicadenza (for solo percussion, cimbalom and ensemble) Luigi Gaggero (cimbalom) Francois Volpe (percussion) Ensemble Contrechamps Tito Ceccherini (conductor) Stefano Gervasoni: Least Bee (for soprano and ensemble) Melody Louledjian (soprano)
		20070707		Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces a concert given at Glasgow's City Halls by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov. It features works by Jonathan Harvey and electronic improvisations by Kaffe Matthews, who processes live samples of the orchestra's performances to create two new pieces. Harvey: Body Mandala Matthews: Improvisation 1 Harvey: Timepieces for two conductors BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Ilan Volkov, Stefan Solyom (conductors) Harvey: Tranquil Abiding Matthews: Improvisation 2.
	Chaplin Operas	20070714		Featuring three hyperactive scores written by Benedict Mason to accompany Chaplin films. Mason's surreal brand of humour creates a post-modern commentary on Chaplin's slapstick routines and bathos. Mason: Chaplin Operas (Easy Street, The Adventurer, The Immigrant) Hilary Summers (mezzo-soprano) Omar Ebrahim (baritone) London Sinfonietta Franck Ollu (conductor).
		20070721		Tom Service presents music recorded at a recent Birmingham Contemporary Music Group concert, which ranges from the serialist adventures of Anton Webern to the world premiere of Johannes Maria Staud's spatial concerto for harpsichord, electronics and ensemble One Movement and Five Miniatures. Also featuring works by Gyorgy Ligeti, Edward Rushton and Benedict Mason. Edward Rushton: Palace Johannes Maria Staud: One Movement and Five Miniatures (world premiere) Clive Williamson (harpsichord) Jonathan Green and Simon Hall (live electronics) Anton Webern: Five Canons on Latin Texts, Op 16 Three Traditional Rhymes, Op 17 Barbara Hannigan (soprano) Benedict Mason: Nodding Trilliums and Curve-Lined Angles Gyorgy Ligeti: Mysteries of the Macabre BCMG Richard Baker (conductor).
	A Portrait Of Salvatore Sciarrino	20070804		Ivan Hewett talks to the Italian master of new sonorities and introduces a concert of ensemble works from the Sonorities festival, and piano music recorded in the studio. Sciarrino: Trio; Notturni Nos 1 and 2; Lo spazio inverso; Notturni Nos 3 and 4; Codex purpureus; Piano Sonata No 5; Muro d'orizzonte Nicolas Hodges (piano) Ensemble Recherche.
	Italians And French	20070811		Ivan Hewett presents a studio concert of French and Italian works performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Pascal Rophe. They share the bill with two of Marco Stroppa's delicate piano miniatures performed by Rolf Hind. Pascal Dusapin: Exeo (Solo No 5 for Orchestra) Bruno Mantovani: Time stretch (on Gesualdo) BBC SO Pascal Rophé (conductor) Marco Stroppa: Innige Cavatina; Tangata Manu (Miniature Estrosse Book 1) Rolf Hind (piano) Luca Francesconi: Cobalt, Scarlet: Two Colours of Dawn Pascal Rophé.
	International Electroacoustic Survey	20070825		Robert Worby reports from the EMS Network conference of electroacoustic music in Leicester, talks to visiting composers and introduces highlights from the concerts, including established masters Francois Bayle, Denis Smalley and Katherine Norman, and newer names Diana Simpson and composer collective nerve8.
		20070901		Ivan Hewett in conversation with Scottish composer David Horne, whose works are featured in a studio concert by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. David Horne: Submergence (world premiere); Double Violin Concerto (London premiere); Flex for piano and ensemble; Concerto for Orchestra (London premiere) Clio Gould, Jonathan Morton (violin) David Horne (piano) BBC Symphony Orchestra Clark Rundell (conductor).
	Puw, Plowman, Bowden	20070908		Presenter: Sara Mohr Pietsch Producer: Philip Tagney A co-production with the Welsh Music Information centre Ty Cerdd-Music Centre Wales. Guto Puw Dawns y Ser(13'07") Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone) BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Grant Llewellyn (conductor) Lynn PlowmanThe Star Gazer (18'56") Andrew Staples (tenor) Mark BowdenThe Dawn Halts (07'00") Mark Bowden Drift (03'30") Mark Bowden (electronics) Mark Bowden Webern Remix (01'50") (Recorded at The Wales Millennium Centre on 16th March 07).
	Terry Riley In Concert	20070915		Robert Worby meets minimalist pioneer Terry Riley and introduces music from his concert at the Triptych Festival in Glasgow, including a new realisation of the classic 1960s piece A Rainbow in Curved Air, and recent pieces for two pianos: Cinco de Mayo, Jazz Time and Etude from the Old Country. Plus a chance to hear archive recordings of some early Riley works. Terry Riley (keyboards) William Winant (percussion) Mikail Graham (electronics) Sarah Cahill, Joseph Kubera (pianos).
	Summer Festivals: The Vale Of Glamorgan 2007	20070922		Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a concert performed in Llandaff Cathedral by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. James Gilchrist (tenor) Andreas Borregaard (accordion) David Cowley (oboe) BBC National Orchestra of Wales 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).
	Summer Festivals: Soundwaves	20070929		Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents highlights from Soundwaves, a new contemporary music festival in Hove. Featured are the vocal ensemble Exaudi, and chamber group Kurbis performing the music of Howard Skempton. Juliet Fraser, Julia Doyle (sopranos) Exaudi James Weeks (director) Michael Finnissy: Song 1 Christopher Fox: Rationale, Hanging Line, Babel (Catalogue irraisone) James Weeks: Complainte Claudia Molitor: Das Schwein, das Schwein Anton Lukoszevieze: Gunslinger (world premiere) James Weeks (piano) Sophie Appleton (violin) Louisa Tuck (cello) Kurbis Ensemble Howard Skempton: Hot Noon in Malabar; Skempton Six Figures; Tree Sequences; Helix; Well, well, Cornelius; Of Late; Gestalt; Leamington Spa; Eirenicon 2; Toccata.
		20071006		Summer Festivals 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.
		20071013		Summer Festivals Ivan Hewett presents music from the Bergen Festival, focusing on Danish composer Bent Sorensen. Sorensen: Exit Music (WP) Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra Andrew Litton (conductor) Sorensen: The Bells of Vineta; Lullabies 1; Minnelieder-zweites Minnewater; Angelus Waltz; Standchen; Shadow Siciliano; This Night of No Moon; Midnight Mazurka; Lullabies 2; Birds and Bells. Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen.
		20071020		1/2. As he celebrates his own 40th birthday, composer Julian Anderson presents two programmes marking 40 years of Radio 3. In conversation with Tom Service, he reflects on his relationship with radio and on the works that have caught his ear over the airwaves. Brian Ferneyhough: String Quartet No 2 Arditti Quartet Gerard Grisey: Partiels Ensemble Court-Circuit Pierre-André Valade (conductor) George Benjamin: Sometime Voices David Wilson-Johnson (baritone) BBC Singers BBC Symphony Orchestra Oliver Knussen (conductor) Sinan Savaskan: Symphony No 2 (The Age of Analysis) Martyn Brabbins (conductor) Alexander Goehr: Behold the Sun Jeanine Thames (soprano) London Sinfonietta
		20071027		2/2. As he celebrates his own 40th year, composer Julian Anderson talks to Tom Service about his relationship with radio and on the works that have caught his ear over the airwaves in 40 years of Radio 3. Giacinto Scesli: String Quartet No 4 Arditti Quartet Knussen: Songs without Voices Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Oliver Knussen (conductor) Stefan Niculescu: Ison II Instrumental Formation Cristian Brancusi (conductor) Ianis Xenakis: Anaktoria Octet of Paris Julian Anderson: Eden City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Martyn Brabbins (conductor) Julian Anderson: Imagin'd Corners Sakari Oramo (conductor).
		20071103		A concert of new music by seven composers from four countries performed by the Uroboros Ensemble. Presented by Sara Mohr Pietsch in conversation with composer, conductor and Uroboros founder Gwyn Pritchard. James Clarke: Echolalia (World première) 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 Uroboros Ensemble Gwyn Pritchard (director).
		20071110		Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces the premiere of a new work by German composer Heiner Goebbels, Songs of Wars I Have Seen, a setting of texts by Gertrude Stein reflecting on the everyday experiences of life during wartime. The concert also includes Heinrich Biber's vivid Battalia, and another war-related piece by Goebbels, based on Leonardo da Vinci's notes on how to paint a battle scene. 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)
		20071117		Gemini Plays Two Generations Robert Worby introduces music from Gemini's weekend festival held last summer in London, combining pieces by old friends of the group, with newly commissioned music by young composers. Sarah Leonard (soprano) Alison Wells (mezzo-soprano) Gemini 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.
		20071124		Tom Service introduces a concert of contemporary music given by the Ulster Orchestra at this year's Sonorities Festival in Belfast. There is also a rare performance of Morton Feldman's Piano from a 2005 concert by Stephen Gutman. Simon Holt: Minotaur Games Philip Hammond: Die ersten Blumen Ian White: Island Kevin Volans: Cello Concerto Gavriel Lipkind (cello) Ulster Orchestra Gregory Rose (conductor) Morton Feldman: Piano Stephen Gutman (piano).
		20071201		Tom Service introduces a concert of contemporary music for string quartet from the 2006 Sonorities Festival in Belfast. Plus a performance of Gary Carpenter's After Braque, inspired by the works of the French painter. 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).
		20071208		Ivan Hewett introduces new music with a visual element, such as film or light shows, and music from Liverpool as it shapes up to be City of Culture. Plus to mark the 80th birthday of musique concrete pioneer Pierre Henry, excerpts from his Messe de Liverpool. Other music includes a selection of new 10-minute pieces from Ensemble 10/10's recent 10th birthday concert in Liverpool. Ian Gardiner: L'escalier en spirale Gary Carpenter: Sonatinas Howard Skempton: Piazza Kenneth Hesketh: Ein Lichtspiel Christian Forshaw (alto saxophone) Ensemble 10/10 Clark Rundell (conductor) Anna Meredith: Flak London Sinfonietta Sound Intermedia Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor).
	Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007)	20071215		Robert Worby presents a special programme in memory of Karlheinz Stockhausen, who died on the 5th December, and introduces a selection of music from his earliest to his most recent works.
		20071222		Robert Worby presents a programme of music recorded by the ensemble Apartment House. He is then joined by composers Michael Parsons and James Saunders to discuss the past, present and future of avant-garde and experimental music. 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).
		20071229		For the last edition of 2007, Sara Mohr-Pietsch is joined by critics Annette Morreau and Ivan Hewett for a round-up of the year's new music highlights.
	Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2007 - 1	20080105		Sara Mohr Pietsch and Robert Worby introduce highlights from the festival. The programme includes music from two Dutch ensembles, and festival director Graham McKenzie talks about the year's Dutch theme and the opening event of the festival, The Night of the Unexpected. Misato Mochizuki: Silent Circle Mayke Nas: La Belle ChocolatiÃre Nieuw Ensemble Ed Spanjaard (conductor) Brice Pauset: Vita Nova (sÃrÃnades) Irvine Arditti (violin) Thomas Simaku: Insomnio James Wood: De telarum mechanicae (On the mechanics of weaving) Insomnio Ulrich PÃhl.
	Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2007- 2	20080112		This programme focuses on the 2007 festival's composer-in-residence Yannis Kyriakides, in his roles as concert hall composer, creator of extended and more theatrical works, and artistic director of the ensemble MAE. Kyriakides: Leger Demain Reinier van Houdt Yannis Kyriakides (conductor) Kyriakides: Zeimbekiko 1918; Dreams of the Blind Ensemble MAE Robert Ashley: Tap Dancing in the Sand Robert Ashley (conductor).
	Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2007 - 3	20080119		This programme features two German ensembles, Musikfabrik and Ensemble Mosaik, playing the music of four British composers, while the German artist Christina Kubisch talks us through her 'Electrical Walk'. Saunders: Stirrings Still (world premiere) Musikfabrik Etienne Siebens (conductor) Birtwistle: Orpheus Elegies Andrew Watts (countertenor) Harvey: Sprechgesang Peter Veale (oboe) Hayden: Die Modularitaten (Modularities) Ensemble Mosaik Sam Hayden (conductor).
	Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2007 - 4	20080126		Featuring music from Ensemble Mosaik and highlights of Ensemble MAE's concert focusing on the work of the pioneering American composer Robert Ashley. Robert Ashley: Hidden Similarities; Outcome Inevitable. Ensemble MAE Robert Ashley (conductor) Sandoval: Mosaicos Ensemble Mosaik Carlos Sandoval (conductor) Finnendahl: Schnitt/Stelle (version 4) Orm Finnendahl (conductor) Wertmueller: DECORPOREAL Michael Wertmueller (conductor) Robert Ashley: Love is a Good Example Robert Ashley.
	Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2007 - 5 Last	20080202		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 Arditti Quartet Frith: Fell; Allegory Fred Frith (guitar) Frith: Cold (working title) Hodgkinson: Nomos-Yozu Padding: Eight Metal Strings Insomnio Ulrich Pohl (conductor).
	Edward Rushton's The Shops	20080209		Ivan Hewett introduces a performance of a new chamber opera The Shops, a humorous exploration of kleptomania and compulsive shopping by composer Edward Rushton and librettist Dagny Gioulami. 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).
	Luigi Nono	20080216		As the South Bank's Luigi Nono restropective Fragments of Venice draws to a close, Tom Service, in discussion with Christopher Fox, looks back at the life and work of the Italian composer. 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) London Sinfonietta Diego Masson (conductor).
	Cut And Splice - 2008	20080223		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
	Improvisation In Modern Classical Music	20080301		Alwynne Pritchard explores the world of improvisation and its role in contemporary classical music, in a discussion with composer Richard Barrett and writer John L Walters. The programme includes a recorded studio session by Elliott Sharp and Christian Marclay. 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).
	Kevin Volans And Jill Richards	20080308		Tom Service introduces a concert recently given by South African composer Kevin Volans and his long-term duo partner Jill Richards, who perform a selection of the composer's music for two pianos, including two world premieres. Featuring interviews with Volans and choreographer Siobhan Davies. Kevin Volans, Jill Richards (piano duo) Volans: Nine Beginnings; Cicada; Mr Handel's Return (world premiere); Shiva Dances (world premiere).
	Claude Vivier	20080315		Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces a concert given in February as part of the Lancaster International Concert Series, to celebrate the work of Claude Vivier, the highly regarded but little-known Canadian composer who was murdered in 1983 at the age of 34. 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.
	Cowie's Inhabitat	20080322		As part of Radio 3's Rites of Spring season, Robert Worby introduces the world premiere of Edward Cowie's BBC commission INhabitAT, inspired by sounds from the natural world. Plus a closer look at the art of soundscape composition with contributions from Peter Cusack, Isobel Clouter and John Drever. Cowie: INhabitAT BBC Singers Psappha Nicholas Kok (conductor).
	Louis Andriessen Portrait	20080329		Ivan Hewett discusses the Dutch composer Louis Andriessen with his former student, composer Steve Martland, and introduces a concert featuring the music of both. Andriessen: Dances Martland: Hard Times Andriessen: M is for Man, Music, Mozart Ella Kirkpatrick (soprano) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Clark Rundell (conductor).
		20080405		Ivan Hewett introduces excerpts from a concert given last year by the London Sinfonietta. The programme includes UK premieres of works by Francisco Lara and Hans Abrahamsen and the world premiere of Simon Holt's Suenos, with settings of late poems by Antonio Machado and featuring the baritone Roderick Williams. Plus an interview with the South Bank Centre's Head of Contemporary Culture Gillian Moore about the increasing use of visuals at new music events. Roderick Williams (baritone) London Sinfonietta Thierry Fischer (conductor) Lara: Kammerkonzert Abrahamsen: Schnee Holt: Suenos.
		20080412		Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents new music for a classic medium, with a concert given by the Arditti Quartet and a report from recent workshops they have held to discuss the practicalities of writing for quartet. Archbold: Impacts and Fractures Daverson: Microscopic Negatives Graubart: String Quartet (world premiere) Redgate: String Quartet No 3 (BBC commission) Plein: Seven White Flowers (world premiere) Ferneyhough: Third String Quartet.
	Musical Modernism	20080419		Ivan Hewett presents musical modernism new and old, with classic works of the 1960s alongside new pieces by Downie and Jarrell. Downie: Fragments for cello and piano Mefano: Interferences Downie: Piano Piece 3 Brown: Novara Downie: Forms 7: Non-mediated forms for 24 instrumentalists Xenakis: Aktrata John Senter (cello) Ian Pace (piano) Contemporary Music Ensemble of Wales Kenneth Woods (conductor) (Concert recorded last month at BBC Wales in Cardiff) Jarrell: Abschied Marino Formenti (piano) Suisse Romande Orchestra Pascal Rophe (conductor).
		20080426		In a programme of music specially recorded by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Ivan Hewett attempts to trace the lines between two generations of British composers, and in discussion with Paul Driver, asks whether a shared cultural identity still exists, or is even relevant. Wigglesworth: Sternenfall (world premiere) Hesketh: Shimmerwords and Idle Songs for soprano and piano Bennett: Ausland (London premiere) Woolrich: The Street of Crocodiles Knussen: Songs and Sea Interlude (Where the Wild Things Are) Claire Booth (soprano) BBC Symphony Orchestra Ryan Wigglesworth (conductor).
	New Music Players	20080503		Alwynne Pritchard is joined by composer Ed Hughes to introduce a concert of four world premieres performed by his ensemble New Music Players, followed by another world premiere performed by pianist Stephen Gutman. Stoneham: Triage (world premiere) Hughes: Strike Sketches (world premiere) Sierra: Cicada Shell (world premiere) Kay: Flux (world premiere) New Music Players Roger Montgomery (conductor) Stoneham: Mercury In Retrograde (world premiere) Stephen Gutman (piano).
		20080510		Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces works that combine instruments with electronics, plus works from an international convention on electroacoustic music. 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 last month, 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.
	Viennese Masters	20080524		Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a programme of new music from Vienna, and finds striking contrasts between two generations currently composing in this great cultural centre. 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).
		20080531		Alwynne Pritchard introduces new music from Germany, in conversation with the featured composers. 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 Andre de Ridder Seither: Gran Passo Iris Ter Schiphorst: Zerstoren II
		20080607		Tom Service is joined by Philip Clark for a selection of new music releases on CD, and introduces concert recordings of recent chamber works by English composers Colin Matthews and Alexander Goehr. 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)
	New Music In China - 1	20080614		In the first of two reports from China, Robert Worby visits Beijing to investigate the thriving new music scenes, both official and unofficial. The programme includes electronic music by Zhang Xiaofu, who runs the city's electronic music festival, and a concert specially devised by the Beijing New Music Ensemble, playing music by three generations of Chinese composers. They range from Gao Weijie, of 'the lost generation' that had to go underground during Mao's time, to Zhang Shouwang, a twentysomething composer whose piece Xizhimen Traffic Lights was inspired by the incessant rhythms of downtown Beijing traffic. Robert also investigates Beijing's underground scene, meeting singer and drummer Shenggy and visiting a tiny club called 2 Kolegas to meet Yan Jun, poet, sound artist and organiser of a weekly experimental music night. He performs a piece specially for the programme, using feedback generators. Part of Radio 3's Focus on China season.
	New Music In China - 2	20080621		Robert Worby reports from Shanghai on the range of new music being made in this rapidly-expanding metropolis. In tune with the city's futuristic skyline, he finds much of the musical creativity in electronic sounds, both in the lavishly-funded hi-tech E-Arts Festival, and in the thriving underground 'noise' scene. Robert discovers the earliest Chinese electronic music in the archives of the Conservatory and finds composers such as Chen Qiangbin combining traditional Chinese instruments with electronic sounds. He also attends an underground gig featuring Porn Moon Twins. Part of Radio 3's Focus on China season.
	Aldeburgh Festival - 1	20080628		Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents the first of two programmes from the Aldeburgh Festival. With The Birmingham Contemporary Music Group performing Kurtag and Ligeti.
	Aldeburgh Festival - 2	20080705		Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents the second of two programmes featuring music from this year's Aldeburgh Festival. With a new work by Harrison Birtwistle, performed by the Arditti Quartet, as well as Thomas Ades and video artist Tal Rosner's concerto for piano and moving image, In Seven Days. Including Rosner in conversation with Sara, discussing the collaborative compositional process. Cage: String Quartet in Four Parts Birtwistle: Tree of Strings (UK premiere) Arditti Quartet Ades: In Seven Days (Piano Concerto with Moving Image) Nicolas Hodges (piano) Tal Rosner (video artist) London Sinfonietta Thomas Ades (conductor).
	New From Finland	20080712		Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a concert recorded at Maida Vale Studios in October 2007, featuring new music for orchestra and solo piano by Finnish composers. 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.
		20080809		Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces highlights of two concerts from last year's BMIC Cutting Edge Series. 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.
		20080816		Robert Worby presents music from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's recent week of collaboration with IRCAM, the Paris centre for composition and research in electro-acoustic music. Music taken from across the week includes both acoustic and electro-acoustic compositions from Boulez, Xenakis, Harvey and Maresz. Ivan Hewett also reports on David Byrne's New York City sound-art installation Playing the Building. With music including: Boulez: Dialogue de l'ombre double Alain Billard (clarinet) Andrew Gerzso (Ircam computer music design) Gilbert Nouno, Jeremie Henrot (Ircam sound realisation) Xenakis: Aroura Scottish Ensemble Laurent Quenelle (guest director) Maresz: Metallics Laurent Bomont (trumpet) Xavier Chabot (Ircam computer music design) Harvey: Wagner Dream (excerpts and 2 Interludes) Claire Booth (soprano) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra lan Volkov (conductor) Gilvert Nouno (Ircam computer music design) Jeremie Henrot (Sound engineer)
		20080823		Ivan Hewett presents a concert given at Glasgow's City Halls in March featuring two new concertos pitting piano (or pianos) against the orchestra. 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)
		20080830		Ivan Hewett introduces music by Korean composer Unsuk Chin, who talks about the medieval influences behind her work Miroir des temps. Plus a recording of Chris Dench's piece for solo piano Passing bells: night, performed by Philip Mead at last year's Spitalfields Festival in London. 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)
		20080906		New British Orchestral Scores The BBC Philharmonic, conducted by James MacMillan, perform scores chosen by the Society for the Promotion of New Music. Charlie Usher: Rothko Monody Chris Litherland: Funferall Brian Noyes: Points of Decision Christian Mason:...from bursting suns escaping... Symon Clarke: Statue Circle
		20080913		Alwynne Pritchard presents new German music for voices and for piano. Including: Dieter Schnebel: Motetus I Wolfgang Rihm: Quo me rapis BBC Singers Celso Antunes (conductor) Pintscher: On a Clear Day Mark Knoop (piano) Jurg Baur: Die Blume des Scharon
		20080920		Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces recordings from this year's Vale of Glamorgan festival, including a new work by Piers Hellawell inspired by the work of sculptor David Smith. Including: David Cowley (oboe) Robert Plane (clarinet) BBC National Orchestra of Wales Michal Dworzynski (conductor) Gorecki: Three Dances Guto Puw: Oboe Concerto Piers Hellawell: Agricolas for clarinet and orchestra (BBC commission: world premiere) Pawel Szymanski: Quasi una sinfonietta
		20080927		Robert Worby presents a tribute to the late composer Mauricio Kagel, who died last week. In a previously unheard interview, Kagel discusses his early days, being self-taught and surrealism. Composer Christopher Fox joins Robert to discuss Kagel's legacy. And there's another chance to hear Acustica, Kagel's epic late 1960's work for experimental sound producers and loudspeakers, performed by Apartment House and recorded at the 2005 Cut and Splice festival. Plus sound artist Bill Fontana talking about his new installation Speeds of Time 2008, currently at Tate Britain.
		20081004		Ivan Hewett presents a concert focusing on new music by Middle-Eastern composers given in June at Cadogan Hall, London. 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
		20081011		Alwynne Pritchard reports on a multimedia night called Rational Rec at London's Spitalfields Festival, with songs by Chris Newman, 13 Music-Theatre Pieces by Trond Reinholdtsen, Diana Burrell's One Man Band, Dust by Michael Finnissy and Christopher Fox's Generic Compositions. Performers include Plus Minus ensemble, Michael Finnissy and The Vacuum Cleaner
		20081018		Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a concert given earlier this month at St Giles' Church, Cripplegate, as part of the London Festival of American Music. The programme celebrates the seventieth birthday of John Harbison, one of the senior figures in contemporary American music, and also includes works by younger American composers. Peter Child: Pantomime Harbison: Emerson Kay Rhie: Tears for Te Wano; Moromoto ni/Cherry Tree Harbison: Chorale Cantata; The Flower-Fed Buffaloes BBC Singers Lontano Odaline de la Martinez (conductor)
		20081025		Tom Service presents a concert given earlier this month at Glasgow's City Halls, featuring works by British composer Nigel Osborne and the first performance of a BBC Commission by Anna Meredith. 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 Anna Meredith: Barchan - for trombone and orchestra (BBC commisssion, world premiere) Nigel Osborne: East; Transformations 1 - for two solo violas Marina Adamia: The Birth of Enkidu
		20081101		Robert Worby presents a rare performance of pieces from Stockhausen's Aus Den Sieben Tagen, recorded at the Cut and Splice Festival in London last weekend. These text pieces from 1968 are performed by leading new music interpreters including Maja Ratkje, Phil Minton, Aleks Kolkowski, David Behrman, laptop quartet 2021 and Apartment House ensemble. The first piece is performed by Sara Hubrich and Matthew Knowles, who will prepare, as instructed by the composer, by fasting and remaining solitary for four days beforehand.
		20081108		Robert Worby presents a rare performance of pieces from Stockhausen's Aus Den Sieben Tagen, recorded at the Cut and Splice Festival in London in October. These text pieces from 1968 are newly realised by leading new music interpreters including Maja Ratkje, Phil Minton, Aleks Kolkowski, David Behrman, laptop quartet 2021 and the Apartment House ensemble.
		20081115		Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a programme of the music from Karlheinz Stockhausen, performed by the London Sinfonietta, as part of the Southbank Centre's recent Stockhausen series. With music for orchestra including a UK premiere of Zodiac, and the world premiere of a segment of Klang for tape, entitled Urantia. Helena Rasker (contralto) London Sinfonietta Oliver Knussen (conductor) Kathinka Pasveer (sound projection) Igor Kavulek (sound engineer) Drei Lieder Klang for tape 'Urantia' (world premiere) Zodiac (UK premiere) Five Star Signs; Five More Starsigns
		20081122		Tom Service presents a concert of new jazz played by Arve Henriksen (trumpet) and ensemble Tom Service presents a concert from the London Jazz Festival featuring Arve Henriksen (trumpet) and Ian Ballamy (saxophone) with the London Sinfonietta, including compositions by Ballamy and Peter Tornquist as well as improvisations.
		20081129		Ivan Hewett presents recordings by Liverpool-based Ensemble 10/10 and talks to their director Clark Rundell. 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 Jonathan Small (oboe) William Marshall: The River Is the Unconscious Thief and Destroyer of Its Surroundings Gary Carpenter: Closing Time, for tenor and ensemble Jeffrey Lloyd Roberts (tenor) John Casken: The Dream of the Rood, for four voices and ensemble Hilliard Ensemble Ensemble 10/10 Clark Rundell (conductor).
	Elliott Carter	20081206		Composer Elliott Carter, who celebrates his centenary year in 2008, talks to Ivan Hewett about his long life and career, including his apprentice years with Nadia Boulanger, the emergence of the individual style that has marked him as one of the most influential figures on the modernist scene and his fascination with jazz. The Harmony of Morning (excerpt) Oliver Knussen (conductor) bbc symphony orchestra charles rosen (piano) penthode ensemble intercontemporain piano sonata pierre boulez (conductor) adagio tenebroso
	Ldnsnf_40	20081213		From the Royal Festival Hall's Spirit Level, Ivan Hewett introduces an event to mark the fortieth anniversary of the London Sinfonietta, LDNSNF_40, featuring performances of specially-commissioned 'Sinfonietta Short' - solo and duo chamber pieces from Dai Fujikura, Mira Calix, Anna Meredith, Harrison Birtwistle and John Woolrich. 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.
	Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2008 - 1	20081220		Highlights from the 2008 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby present a programme of highlights from the 2008 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Including music by Sun-Ra, Chris Dench and five new John Cage-inspired compositions. Sun Ra - Pleiades
	Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2008, Highlights From The 2008 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival - 2	20081227	60	Highlights from the 2008 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby presents highlights from the 2008 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Bryn Harrison's substantial new work for the festival Repetitions in Extended Time takes centre stage alongside Peter Adriaansz's Prana and the Matthew Adkins-curated [60] Project. Peter Adriaansz - Prana (17:24) excerpts catch curated, mixed and performed by mathew adkins ensemble plus-minus friday 28 november, north light gallery bryn harrison - repetitions in extended time (46:48) percussion group the hague sunday 23 november, st paul's hall the netherlands vocal laboratory tuesday 25 november, bates mill project (world premiere) excerpts
	Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2008 - 3	20090103		Highlights from Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2008 Sara Mohr-Pietsch continues Hear and Now's coverage of the 2008 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. This evening's programme features John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra, part of the John Cage: Concert Reclaimed at this year's festival. Richard Barrett is joined by Arne Deforce and Yutaka Oya for the UK Premiere of his Nacht und Traume and there's music by Markus Trunk and a visit to the Huddersfield Art Gallery to take a look at an exhibition focussing on the work of the "father of Dutch electroacoustic music" Dick Raaijmakers. Including: Markus Trunk - Parhelion (10:54) apartment house arne deforce (cello) basta 3091412 cd1 track 20 John Cage - concert for piano and orchestra (45:19) basta 3091412 cd1 track 9 ensemble plus-minus kid baltan - colonel bogey (excerpts) kid baltan - mechanical motions (excerpts) philip thomas (piano) richard barrett (electronics) saturday 29 november, studio 2 markus trunk - raw rows (8:02) sunday 23 november, st paul’s hall dick raaijmakers sunday 30 november, town hall sunday 30 november, town hall richard barrett - nacht und traume (26:12) yutaka oya (piano)
	Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2008 - 4	20090110		Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby present music by James Tenney and Enno Poppe. Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby present highlights from the 2008 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival with a look at Quatour Bozzini's focus on James Tenney. Robert also talks to featured composer Enno Poppe and there are the UK premieres of his work Salz and of Salvatore Sciarrino's 12 Madrigali. James Tenney - Large Open Spaces (excerpt) (3:33) enno poppe (conductor) eve egoyan (piano) klangforum wien miriam shalinsky (double bass) monday 24 november, bates mill James Tenney - diaphonic study (ukp) (18:22) neue vocalsolisten stuttgart quatuor bozzini and friends saturday 22 november, town hall salvatore sciarrino - 12 madrigali (40:28) thursday 27 november wednesday 26 november, st paul’s hall enno poppe - salz (15:16)
		20090124		In a performance given at London's Barbican as part of the Stockhausen Composer Day, Robert Worby presents the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Stockhausen's meditative work Inori. 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. Kathinka Pasveer (dancer-mime) David Robertson (conductor) stockhausen: inori. the bbc symphony orchestra perform Karlheinz Stockhausen's meditative work inori alain louafi (dancer-mime) bbc symphony orchestra
	Stockhausen: Hymnen	20090131		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.
	Tristan Murail Day	20090207		Tom Service presents a special edition of the programme, featuring music recorded during the BBC Symphony Orchestra event Total Immersion: Tristan Murail. 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. Tom Service presents music recorded during the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Tristan Murail Day
	Grisey's Les Espaces Acoustiques	20090214		Tom Service presents a concert given at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, featuring the first complete UK performance of French composer Gerard Grisey's Les espaces acoustiques, a cycle of six works written between 1974 and 1985. Described by the composer as a 'great laboratory', the works explore the very essence of sound itself. Including conversation with composer Julian Anderson and writer Paul Griffiths. Paul Silverthorne (viola) george benjamin (conductor) gerard grisey: les espaces acoustiques. Tom Service presents a complete performance of gerard grisey's les espaces acoustiques london sinfonietta royal academy of music manson ensemble
	New British Chamber Music	20090221		Ivan Hewett presents a programme of new British chamber music with electronics. Jonathan Harvey: Ricercare una melodia (5:07) (from the complete set of 4 harvey string quartets on the aeon label arditti string quartet christopher redgate (oboe) due for uk release via harmonia mundi later in the year) christopher fox: broadway boogie (8.00) from the cd/dvd ‘recovery / discovery’ (sam 0801) edwin roxburgh: at the still point of the turning world (15:05) harrison britwistle / peter zinovieff paul archbold (electronics) Jonathan Harvey: string quartet no.1 (18:15) paul archbold (electronics) 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) paul archbold (electronics) redgate & archbold: improvisation (8:29) redarch duo
	Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales: Henze, Holt And Hoddinott	20090228		Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents a concert given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales at BBC Hoddinott Hall, featuring orchestral works inspired by a trio of poets - Shakespeare, Goethe and Gwyn Thomas. BBC National Orchestra of Wales Jac Van Steen (conductor) henze: symphony no 8 26:39 hoddinott: lizard 25:28 Jac Van Steen conducts the bbc national orchestra of wales in henze, holt and hoddinott holt: troubled light 22:12
	Experimental Composers	20090307		Sara Mohr-Pietsch is joined in the studio by experimental composer Christopher Fox to introduce the first performance of comme ses paroles, his major work for voices and cello. It was recorded at the 2008 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and performed by Exaudi conducted by James Weeks, with cellist Anton Lukoszevieze. Fox says of the musicians who play his music regularly: 'it is they who challenge me - nothing less than the extraordinary will satisfy them'. 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. Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents experimental music by John Cage and Christopher Fox.
	Stephen Montague	20090314		Ivan Hewett presents a new concert recording of the music of Stephen Montague by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and chats to the composer. 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; Concerto for piano and orchestra; Dark Sun - August, 1945 BBC Symphony Orchestra Grant Llewellyn (conductor) Rolf Hind (piano) stephen jackson (director). Ivan Hewett presents a profile of american composer stephen montague trinity college of music chamber choir
	Purcell Weekend - Arrangements Of Purcell	20090321		As part of BBC Radio 3's Purcell Weekend, Robert Worby presents a concert given at St Luke's in London, featuring two world premieres as well as an array of works by leading composers who have arranged or written new music inspired by Purcell's Fantasias. Huw Watkins (piano) Elliott Carter: a fantasy about purcell's fantasia on one note James Saunders: either/or (world premiere) Michael Zev Gordon: the impermanence of things - for piano and ensemble (world premiere) Oliver Knussen: upon one note Steve Martland: one note fantasy colin matthews: fantasia xiii london sinfonietta peter maxwell davies/purcell: fantasia on one note. two world premieres as well as new compositions inspired by purcell ryan wigglesworth (conductor) george benjamin: fantasia vii
	Nash Ensemble	20090328		Ivan Hewett presents a concert given at the Wigmore Hall, London, by the Nash Ensemble, a group considered to have been one of the UK's foremost commissioners of new music in the past 40 years, and who have premiered over 150 new works. Mark Padmore (tenor) Michael Berkeley: piano quintet (world premiere) huw watkins: trio (world premiere) julian anderson: prayer (world premiere) martyn brabbins (conductor) julian anderson: poetry nearing silence nash ensemble turnage: a constant obsession (world premiere). the nash ensemble premieres music by berkeley, watkins, anderson and turnage
		20090404		Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents works by David Fennessy, Gwyn Pritchard and Matthew Taylor, and looks at how they explore different perspectives on time. Fennessy: Dead End auska hatanaka (percussion) bbc symphony orchestra garry walker (conductor) fennessy: big lung kevin bowyer (organ) pritchard: the firmament of time (world premiere; bbc commission) taylor: symphony no 2 tom de cock (percussion)
	House Of Bedlam	20090411		Robert Worby explores the spoken word in new music and sound art, with a concert which brings together a poet with musicians. Larry Goves: sinew (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 goves: talking microtonal blues performed by the ensemble 'house of bedlam' and poet matthew welton ian vine: x larry goves/matthew welton: poppy larry goves: deaf john's dark house larry goves: riviniana and the vermilion border matthew sergeant: this was not a film about a drowning man (world premiere) matthew welton: writing 21 simon holt: brief candles
	Bbc Sso In Music By Michel Van Der Aa	20090418		Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performing recent works by Dutch composer Michel van der Aa at a concert given in February 2009 at City Halls, Glasgow. Elizabeth Layton (violin) bbc scottish symphony orchestra 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
	Manchester Portraits, 1 - Portrait Of Brett Dean	20090425		A programme exploring the work of Australian composer Brett Dean, winner of the prestigious Grawemeyer award in 2009. Including the premiere of the orchestral suite from Dean's opera based on Peter Carey's novel Bliss, evoking an erotic hotel room encounter, a convulsive heart attack and a visit to Hell, incorporating samples of street noise, television adverts and all the hellish racket of modern life, before ending with a broad, dark elegy. And Dean - formerly a violist with the Berlin Philharmonic - gives a performance of his own Viola Concerto. Amphitheatre (UK premiere) (9:57) Viola Concerto (27:20) Moments of Bliss (UK premiere) (29:49) Brett Dean (viola) bbc philharmonic james macmillan (conductor) recorded on 14 june 2007 at nbh studio 7 in manchester. the bbc philharmonic perform the music of brett dean
	Manchester Portraits, 2 - Detlev Glanert	20090502		An exploration of the work of one of Germany's leading composers, Detlev Glanert. Tom Service talks to Glanert and German music expert Jean Martin both about the composer's works and the influences behind today's German music. Glanert: Symphony No 3 (22:43) BBC Philharmonic Clark Rundell (conductor) Glanert: Parergon (The Mirror of the Great Emperor) (UK premiere) (13:32) Glanert: Thee pieces for clarinet and piano (11:15) Ronald van Spaendonck (clarinet) Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano) Glanert: Nine Caricatures for orchestra (UK premiere) (11:19) Argentum et Aurum (UK premiere) (11:20) Tom Service present music by Detlev Glanert and conversation with the composer. Glanert: Symphony No 3 (22:43) bbc philharmonic clark rundell (conductor) Tom Service present music by detlev glanert and conversation with the composer clark rundell (conductor) argentum et aurum (uk premiere) (11:20) clark rundell (conductor) glanert: parergon (the mirror of the great emperor) (uk premiere) (13:32) clark rundell (conductor) glanert: thee pieces for clarinet and piano (11:15) ronald van spaendonck (clarinet) simon crawford-phillips (piano)
	Manchester Portraits, 3 - Steven Mackey	20090509		In a programme recorded at Studio 7 in Manchester, Robert Worby explores the work of American composer Steven Mackey, who talks about his music and introduces four orchestral works. Steven began his surprising career path playing electric guitar in rock bands in Northern California. Describing a formative early influence, he went to a gig by prog rock band Yes in 1973, and heard beautiful orchestral music playing over the PA - he found out that it was Stravinsky's Firebird, and wanted to explore this music further. Now a professor of music at Princeton, he continues to play electric guitar, and has written two concertos for the instrument. As a composer he is noted for his highly individual style, a multi-layered play of rhythm and sonority which incorporates and plays with references to classical and popular music. Fred Sherry (cello) BBC Philharmonic Clark Rundell (conductor) Steven Mackey: Lost and Found; Banana/Dump Truck; Turn the Key; Eating Greens. Robert Worby explores the work of American composer Steven Mackey.
	Manchester Portraits, 4 - Kalevi Aho	20090516		Ivan Hewett explores the work of Finnish symphonist Kalevi Aho, who talks to about his music and introduces three orchestral pieces. Featuring Aho's Tenth Symphony, which as been described as one of his most significant achievements. It pays homage to the great Romantic tradition, quoting from Mozart's Symphony No 39 and, unusually for a contemporary symphonic work, it ends in a mood of optimism. Frans Helmerson, Li Wei Qin (cellos) BBC Philharmonic James MacMillan (conductor) Kalevi Aho: The Rejoicing of the Deep Waters; Concerto for two cellos and orchestra; Symphony No 10. Ivan Hewett explores the music of Finnish symphonist Kalevi Aho.
	Per Norgard	20090523		Ivan Hewett travels to Copenhagen to hear the world premiere of celebrated Danish composer Per Norgard's Seventh Symphony. Recorded at the new, Jean Nouvel-designed Danish Radio Concert Hall, Norgard's work marks another phase in his compositional journey. 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) CHANDOS CHAN 9533 Tr ? Per Nørgård - Cello Concerto: Between 1st movement Morten Zeuthen (cello) Jorma Panula (conductor) DACAPO DCCD 9002 Track 3 Music to include works from across Norgard's career, and: Norgard: Symphony No 7 Ivan Hewett presents a profile of Danish composer Per Norgard.
	Lore Lixenberg And David Alberman	20090530		Sara Mohr-pietsch presents a concert of virtuoso music for voice, violin and electronics, talks to the performers and gets a preview of the 2009 Spitalfields Festival from artistic director Diana Burrell. 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
	Louis Andriessen	20090606		To mark the 70th birthday of Louis Andriessen, Zoe Martlew interviews the Dutch composer at his home in Amsterdam to discover the driving forces behind his music and the background to works featured in the programme, De Stijl and De Staat. Louis Andriessen: De Stijl (1984-5) Gertrude Thoma (voice) Schoenberg Ensemble with Asko Ensemble Reinbert de Leeuw (conductor) Andriessen: De Staat (1973-76) Schoenberg Ensemble Zoe Martlew interviews composer Louis Andriessen and presents recordings of two key works.
	Cut And Splice - Living Rooms 1	20090627		Robert Worby reports from 2009's Cut & Splice: Living Rooms festival, from Wilton's Music Hall in London. This festival of electronic music and sound art, co-promoted by Hear and Now and the Sound and Music organisation, features work inspired by and utilising the domestic environment. Veteran American composer Alvin Lucier brings music which works on the resonant character of a room space, Aki Onda mixes soundscapes recorded on portable cassette and Tape That present their catalogue of sound objects. Domestic Appliance Audio Research Society (DAARS) Tape That: Catalogue Catalogue Number 033 Shake spray and ring too Catalogue Number 009 Ventilator and feedback Catalogue Number 078 Mikes on and mikes off Catalogue Number 106 Mike hits and feedbacks Catalogue Number 107 Mike in hand with sliding arc Catalogue Number 037 Dog feedback Catalogue Number 049 Shellac versus the youth Catalogue Number 047 Breeze on street Catalogue Number 54b Doing the rag II Catalogue Number 112 Street panning Catalogue Number 099 In the basement Catalogue Number 088 Walking the bike Catalogue Number 093 Japanese soup Christophe Meierhans (samples, mixer, microphones) Koen Nutters (objects, minidiscs, cds, microphones, mixer) Package: Robert Worby explores sound installations by Mark Vernon, Brandon LaBelle and Erik Belgum Aki Onda Alvin Lucier: Still Lives 1. Sunlight Diamond 2. Hammock 3. Barbecue Grill 4. Lamp Shade 5. Two Floor Tiles 6. Ferns 7. Bread Knife 8. Chop Sticks Performed by Anthony Burr (piano) With Alvin Lucier (electronics)
	Cut And Splice: Living Rooms 2	20090704		Robert Worby presents the programme from 2009's Cut & Splice: Living Rooms festival, from Wilton's Music Hall in London. This festival of electronic music and sound art, co-promoted by Hear and Now and the Sound and Music organisation, features work inspired by and utilising the domestic environment. Brandon LaBelle examines the small pastimes of the home, Jason Lescalleet creates a new work using recordings made in Wilton's, and the duo of Carl Michael von Hausswolff and John Duncan create an intense electroacoustic climax to the festival. Alvin Lucier: In Memoriam Jon Higgins (19:50) Anthony Burr (clarinet) Alvin Lucier (electronics) Jason Lescalleet: Meditation for a Room (extract) (14:00) Jason Lescalleet (tape loops and electronics) Artists Discussion with Alvin Lucier, Brandon LaBelle, Bob Lavene and Robert Worby Brandon LaBelle: Cloudy (extract) (13:10) Matthew Lee Knowles (piano) Brandon LaBelle (film) Carl Michael von Hausswolff & John Duncan: Nocturnal Denizens (extract) (15:08) Carl Michael von Hausswolff (electronics) John Duncan (electronics) Robert Worby presents music inspired by the domestic environment from Brandon LaBelle.
		20090711		Sara Mohr-pietsch heads to Suffolk for the 2009 Aldeburgh Festival. She speaks with new artistic director Pierre-Laurent Aimard as he presents his first festival, and introduces a selection of musical highlights. Centenarian American composer Elliott Carter's Fifth String Quartet is performed by the Quatour Diotima, and Carter is recorded in conversation with Laurent-Aimard, who premieres two short piano works. 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) Quatour Diotima 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.
		20090718		From the Aldeburgh Festival, Sara Mohr-pietsch presents world premieres of works by Helen Grime, Elliott Carter and Harrison Birtwistle and talks to the composers. 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
	New Italian Music	20090801		Tom Service explores new Italian music with Ed McKeon, featuring recent performances of Gervasoni, Sciarrino and Casale by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and Nono and Castiglioni by vocal ensemble Exaudi. Music includes: Gervasoni: Sensibile BBC Symphony Orchestra Tito Ceccherini (conductor) Nono: Sara dolce tacere Exaudi James Weeks (director) Casale: A Victor Hugo Daza Castiglioni: Hymne Sciarrino: I fuochi oltre la ragione Tom Service explores new Italian music with Ed McKeon.
	Unsuk Chin	20090808		Ivan Hewett presents a portrait of Unsuk Chin, and discusses her music with Ilan Volkov and andrew Zolinsky 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
	Bbc Philharmonic/macmillan	20090815		Robert Worby presents the BBC Philharmonic conducted by James MacMillan in works by young composers selected by the Society for the Promotion of New Music, as well as one of MacMillan's own pieces. Oliver Waespi: Viaduct (13:54) BBC Philharmonic 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.
	Michael Finnissy	20090822		Ivan Hewett presents the world premiere performance of a work by Michael Finnissy given at the 2009 Spitalfields Festival, as well as conversation with the composer. Between the two halves of the piece, composer Alwynne Pritchard gives an appreciation of this work in relation to Finnissy's substantial oeuvre. 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.
	Ulster Orchestra	20090829		Sara Mohr-pietsch introduces an intriguing selection of instrumental and electro-acoustic music recorded by the Ulster Orchestra in Belfast. Michael Alcorn: Mambo (1998) 9:03 Ed Bennett: Bad Disco (2008) 6:43 Piers Hellawell: Degrees of Separation (2004) 10:52 Ulster Orchestra 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.
	Xenakis, Julian Anderson	20090905		In conversation with composer Julian Anderson, Ivan Hewett intoduces recordings made at the 2009 Total Immersion days at the Barbican in London. Including a performance of Iannis Xenakis' Persephassa for percussion, and student works for octet inspired by Xenakis, Stockhausen and Tristan Murail. Plus a recording of Julian Anderson's Poetry Nearing Silence, inspired by a book of drawings and poems by artist Tom Phillips. 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.
		20090912		Ivan Hewett is joined by Julian Anderson to discuss music by Denys Bouliane, Philippe Leroux and Gyorgy Ligeti. 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.
	Knussen, Bedford, Turnage	20090919		Zoe Martlew presents a concert of all-British music, which also includes a dramatic monologue. 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.
	Vale Of Glamorgan Festival 2009	20090926		Robert Worby reports from the 2009 Vale of Glamorgan Festival, and presents a diverse programme of music recorded at BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff. 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 BBC National Orchestra of Wales Andre de Ridder (conductor) Robert Worby presents Australian music from the 2009 Vale of Glamorgan Festival.
	London Sinfonietta - Adams, Cage, Dresher, Lang	20091003		Robert Worby presents an all-American concert, given at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. The works range from the driving rhythms of Adams and Lang, to the experimental sounds of Cage. 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.
		20091010		Tom Service presents highlights from Shuffle, the first of three events recorded for Hear and Now at London's King's Place. Peter Wiegold and his improvising group 'notes inegales' perform works by Christian Marclay and Wiegold himself, as well as a collaborative performance incorporating musical 'postcards' by young composers selected by the UK network Sound and Music. 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 Tom Service presents works by Peter Wiegold and Christian Marclay.
	Contemporary Lithuanian Music	20091017		Zoe Martlew presents a concert of contemporary Lithuanian music recorded at Kings Place in London. Curated by cellist Anton Lukoszevieze, the concert, entitled 'Twittering Machines and Sutartines', showcases works by both young Lithuanian composers and older figures from the Lithuanian new music scene, including the maverick Fluxus king George Maciunas. 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.
	String Theories Event	20091024		Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents conversation and music from a diverse and intercontinental group of musicians at the String Theories event at London's Kings Place, which is curated by Nigel Osborne. They include a New York jazz flautist, a French punk guitarist, a Chilean political songwriter, a German gondola pianist and a Japanese ultra-modernist - who have written miniatures for the Edinburgh String Quartet, linked by transformational sound-design installations. Jules Rawlinson (electronics): sound design (1:00) Richard Worth: "..but those unheard are sweeter" (5:25) The Edinburgh Quartet
	Birmingham Contemporary Music Group	20091031		Tom Service presents music from the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group's opening concert of the 2009-10 by Simon Holt, Richard Causton, Vic Hoyland, and Bruno Maderna, including three premieres. Nicholas Daniel (oboe, oboe d'amore, cor anglais) Birmingham Contemporary Music Group 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)
	Berlin New Music Scene	20091107		1989: Twentieth Anniversary 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)
	Sonic Explorations Festival	20091114		Robert Worby presents new music from the London Sinfonietta's Sonic Explorations festival, recorded at Kings Place in London. Curated by composer Jonathan Harvey over the course of three days, the festival explores new and old electroacoustic music. 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) Sound Intermedia 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) Robert Worby presents music from the London Sinfonietta's Sonic Explorations festival.
	Two American Mavericks	20091121		Robert Worby explores the music of James Tenney and Pauline Oliveros, both born in the 1930s in the American South West, and both pioneers in tape music who developed their own musical characters while ignoring the rules. Including an archive interview with Tenney, who died in 2006, and a conversation with Oliveros recorded at the Deep Listening Retreat she led in Devon. 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.
	Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2009	20091128		Sara Mohr-pietsch reports from the 2009 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the UK's largest, and presents highlights of a concert given earlier by the London Sinfonietta celebrating two composer anniversaries. 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.
	Composer Portraits 1 - Simon Holt	20091205		As part of a series of composer profiles, Ivan Hewett interviews composer Simon Holt about his musical career and introduces a concert given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales playing works spanning two decades. Chloe Hanslip (violin) BBC National Orchestra of Wales Thierry Fischer (conductor) Holt: Witness to a Snow Miracle; Syrensong (revised version); Sharp End of Night; Minotaur Games. Ivan Hewett presents a profile of composer Simon Holt.
	Composer Portraits 2 - Christian Jost	20091212		As part of a series of composer profiles, Ivan Hewett travels to Berlin to interview German composer Christian Jost. Featuring music from a concert given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Including: Christian Jost: Code 9 (18:07) Adagio 12 (13:55) eingefroren...in der Erinnerung (11:55) Odyssee fur Klarinette in B und Orchester: Heart of Darkness (24:40) BBC National Orchestra of Wales Jac Van Steen (conductor) Ivan Hewett presents a profile of composer Christian Jost.
	Composer Portraits 3 - Bruno Mantovani	20091219		Concluding a series of composer profiles, Ivan Hewett interviews young French composer Bruno Mantovani at his home in Paris. Featuring music from a concert given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, recorded at BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff. Mantovani: Time Stretch (On Gesualdo); Cello Concerto; L'ere de rien; Finale Sonia Wieder-Atherton (cello) Andrew Nicholson (flute) Robert Plane (clarinet) Catherine Roe-Williams (piano) BBC National Orchestra of Wales Pascal Rophe (conductor). Ivan Hewett interviews young French composer Bruno Mantovani at his home in Paris.
	George Crumb	20091226		Tom Service talks to American composer George Crumb in his eightieth birthday year. Including music recorded in December 2009 at the Barbican's Total Immersion: George Crumb festival. 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.
	Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2009 - 1	20100102		Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby introduce highlights of the 2009 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the UK's largest festival of new music. Featuring music from James Dillon, Musica Elettronica Viva, and James Clarke, as the Arditti Quartet give the world premiere of his Second String Quartet. Sara talks with festival director Graham McKenzie about the 2009 event and Robert goes to meet founder Richard Steinitz to take a look at the festival archive which was launched in the same year. James Dillon: Charm (world premiere); Butterfly (world premiere) Noriko kawai (piano) Thomas Simaku: String Quartet No 2 (Radius) Quatuor Diotima Musica Elettronica Viva: Gran Raccordo Anulare (excerpt) - world premiere MEV Anthony Braxton: Composition No 10 (UK premiere) Genevieve Foccroulle (piano) James Clarke: String Quartet No 2 (world premiere) Arditti Quartet. Music from the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2009: James Dillon, Thomas Simaku.
	Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2009 - 2	20100109		Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby introduce further highlights of the 2009 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the UK's largest festival of new music. Featuring two BBC Radio 3 commissions: the Ictus Ensemble in the UK premiere of The Leuven Triptych, by one of the festival's featured composer; and James Dillon and Quatour Diotima in the world premiere of Theme Street Parade by the Australian composer Matthew Shlomowitz. Robert also drops in to hear Bill Thompson's Shifting Currents; there is music from another of the festival's featured composers as Noriko Kawai gives the UK premiere of piano music by Emmanuel Nunes; and Philip Thomas talks us through his week-long performance of a piece by Michael Pisaro which explores the number Pi. Matthew Shlomowitz: Theme Street Parade (BBC Radio 3 commission; world premiere) Quatour Diotima Emmanuel Nunes: Litanies du feu et de la mer I Noriko Kawai Bill Thompson: Shifting Currents (excerpt) James Dillon: The Leuven Triptych (BBC Radio 3 commission: UK premiere) Ictus Ensemble. Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2009: Music by Matthew Shlomowitz, James Dillon.
	Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2009 - 3	20100116		Sarah Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby introduce the third of Hear and Now's four programmes featuring highlights of the 2009 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the UK's largest festival of new music. Tonight's programme includes music from a concert given by Portugal's Remix Ensemble. Antonia Augusto Aguiar: Pandora (UKP) Remix Ensemble Luis Tinoco: O curso das aguas Rebecca Saunders: Fury Emmanuel Nunes: Improvisation IV - l'electricite de la pensee humaine (UKP) Quatour Diotima Emmanuel Nunes: Rubato, registres et resonances (UKP) Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2009: Music by Tinoco, Saunders and Nunes.
	Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2009 - 4	20100123		Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby introduce the final instalment of Hear and Now's highlights of the 2009 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the UK's largest festival of new music. Tonight, the ensemble ELISION give the UK Premiere of a major piece by one of the festival's featured composers: Richard Barrett's The Opening of the Mouth. Pianist Genevieve Foccroulle performs music by Anthony Braxton, and Robert Worby drops in at the rehearsal of an extraordinary new piece by Kristoffer Zegers - Piano Phasing, for 25 pianos and 50 pianists! Anthony Braxton: Composition No 1 (UK Premiere) Geneviève Foccroulle (piano) Richard Barrett: Opening of the Mouth (UK Premiere) Richard Barrett and the ELISION ensemble Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2009: Music by Richard Barrett, Anthony Braxton.
	James Dillon/jonathan Harvey	20100130		Robert Worby introduces new music for violin and for string quartet, in conversation with virtuoso violinist Irvine Arditti of the Arditti Quartet. 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) the Arditti Quartet 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.
	Four International Composers	20100206		Ed McKeon introduces a concert programme of works by four composers hailing from Europe, the UK and America, played by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Jac van Steen conducts David Sawer's Byrnan Wood - now a modern classic which marked the composer's rise to major public recognition when it was premiered at the BBC Proms in 1992. Arlene Sierra - an American-born composer now resident in the UK - is represented by her more recent work, Aquilo, which won Sierra the Takemitsu Prize in 2001. Huw Watkins, a pianist/composer still in his early thirties performs his own Piano Concerto, which was commissioned by the BBC for this orchestra in 2002. And German composer Christian Jost, whose music the BBCNOW has warmly espoused recently, is represented by his 2003 composition CocoonSymphonie: Five Gateways of a Journey into the Interior. David Sawer: Byrnan Wood (20:46) BBC National Orchestra of Wales 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.
	George Benjamin	20100213		Tom Service presents a 50th birthday celebration for George Benjamin, one of the UK's finest musicians, recorded at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall last weekend. In a concert showcasing his talents as composer, conductor, coach, performer and collaborator he will direct works including Palimpsests, and play the solo piece Piano Figures. 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.
	Borealis Festival	20100220		Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents an eclectic programme from Norway's Borealis Fesitval, recorded at Kings Place and talks to festival director, Alwynne Pritchard 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.
		20100227		New music by Ed Bennett, Luke Bedford, Thomas Larcher, Olga Neuwirth and Rebecca Saunders.
	Jane Manning	20100306	BBCarchive,rec.1972, BBCarchive,rec.1996, rec.PurcellRoom25.02.10, text:BlancheEbbutt“Don’tforWives”, text:HarryRoss, text:HugoBall, text:LesMurray, text:RainerMariaRilke, text:SirJoshuaReynold’s“Discourses”withannotationsbyWilliamBlake	From the sixties to the present day, Jane Manning continues to be an inspiration for successive generations of composers and performers. With the help of forty years of recordings and contributions from those who have written for and worked with the iconic soprano, Ivan Hewett talks to Manning about her achievement. Including music recorded with her group Jane's Minstrels at the Purcell Room last month. Brian Elias Peroration (conclusion) (2:42) Jane Manning 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) 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) Roger Montgomery (horn) Susanne Stanzeleit (violin) Dai Fujikura Love Excerpt (world premiere) (3:34) David Sawer Caravan (world premiere) (3:31) Dov Goldberg (bass clarinet) Philip Neil Martin Window (world premiere) (2:14) Marina Gillam (violin) James MacMillan The Beneficiaries (world premiere) (0:57) Deirdre Gribbin Are you the Dream Catcher? (world premiere) (8:00) Colin Matthews Marginalia (world premiere) (3:27) Jane Manning & Marina Gillam (voices) Robert Manasse (alto flute) Cheryl Frances-Hoad Don’t ! (world premiere) (2:46) Robert Manasse (piccolo) Personal Stereo (excerpt) (1:45) Jane Manning (soprano) + tape Richard Rodney Bennett Nightpiece (excerpt) (3:25) 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. class="blq-clearfix">
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