New Music Show

Plus composer/performer Neil Luck talks about his Sound of the Week.

Simon Loeffler: September 08

Zubin Kanga (keyboards)

Severine Ballon: Cloches fendues I & II

Severine Ballon (cello)

Helena Tulva: Being Mountain I Remain Silent

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

B Tommy Andersson (conductor)

Zubin Kanga: Transformations II

Alexander Schubert: Piano-Wiki.net

Newton Armstrong: A line alongside itself

Newton Armstrong (sound diffusion)

Kate Molleson presents new music from Music We'd Like To Hear and Zubin Kanga.

TOM SERVICE presents latest in new music performance.

Pak Yan Lau's Wander(E)ars, a journey through the deepest layers of memory.

Kate Molleson introduces music from the recent Iannis 'Xenakis Centenary - Maths and Music Festival' in Birmingham, including Xenakis's Jalons, which was composed in 1986 and means signposts or landmarks; and Samantha Fernando's Breathing Forest - a meditation on the inner struggles of a woman and her transformation through the Japanese art of shinrin-yoku, or forest bathing - Birmingham Contemporary Music Group is joined by soprano, Anna Dennis and conductor, Gabriella Teychenn退. And there's music by Rebecca Saunders recorded last month at the London Contemporary Music Festival (LCMF), Dust 2 is performed by percussionists Dirk Rothburst and Christian Dierstein.

Tom Service presents the latest in new music performance, with a focus on Alexander Goehr. Goehr has been a leading figure in new music over a career of some 70 years, and this programme will include Robert Worby's in-depth interview with him as well as world premiere performances of recent works - The Queen of Sheba, a setting of texts by James Joyce and The Master Said, a half hour meditation on the transmission of ideas, music, and culture performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wale and conductor Catherine Larsen-Maguire. In the first half of the programme music from the recent Music and Maths Festival in Birmingham, including new works by Sergio Luque and Emily Howard.

Performances of new works by Greg Caffrey, Ed Bennett and Anselm McDonnell.

Craig Ogden is the soloist in the premiere of Greg Caffrey's `Environments II??, a work written for solo guitar with strings and percussion. Also on the programme, Ed Bennett's `Freefalling??, which is based on Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner world record-breaking freefall jump in 2012 from an altitude of 39 kilometres, and Anselm McDonnell's `Coruscate??, which means bursts of light.

Craig Ogden is the soloist in the premiere of Greg Caffrey's `Environments II??, a work written for solo guitar with strings and percussion, and mezzo-soprano Sarah Richmond, joins the orchestra for Frank Corcoran's `My Alto Rhapsodies?? based on his poems from a collection called `Haikus??. Also on the programme, Ed Bennett's `Freefalling?? which is based on Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner world record breaking freefall jump in 2012 from an altitude of 39 kilometres and Anselm McDonnell's `Coruscate??- which means bursts of light.

Performances of new works by Ed Bennett, Greg Caffrey, Frank Corcoran and Anselm McDonnell

Kate Molleson and Tom Service introduce highlights of releases of new music from 2020.

TOM SERVICE and Hannah Peel present the 20th Ivors Composer Awards, a celebration of the UK's creative talent, in a ceremony which took place on Tuesday at the British Museum in London. With extracts from many of the categories, this is an ideal way to catch up with the latest creative talent in the field of Small Chamber, Chamber Ensemble, Large Ensemble, Orchestral and Choral settings, Jazz, Community, Participation projects and Sound Art as well as special awards recognising the ongoing careers of three composers. Amongst the nominees are Joanna Marsh, Hannah Kendall, Alex Paxton, Emily Peasgood and Kathy Hinde - for her Earthquake Man Re-Imagined.

The Ivors are presented in association with the Performing Rights Society and over the past twenty years more than 700 works by over 350 composers have been nominated, and nearly 240 awards have been presented.

~New Music Show at the 20th Ivors Composer Awards, held on Tuesday at the British Museum.

Tom Service and Hannah Peel present the 20th Ivors Composer Awards, a celebration of the UK's creative talent, in a ceremony which took place on Tuesday at the British Museum in London. With extracts from many of the categories, this is an ideal way to catch up with the latest creative talent in the field of Small Chamber, Chamber Ensemble, Large Ensemble, Orchestral and Choral settings, Jazz, Community, Participation projects and Sound Art as well as special awards recognising the ongoing careers of three composers. Amongst the nominees are Joanna Marsh, Hannah Kendall, Alex Paxton, Emily Peasgood and Kathy Hinde - for her Earthquake Man Re-Imagined. The Ivors Composer Awards are presented in association with PRS for Music and over the past twenty years more than 700 works by over 350 composers have been nominated, and nearly 240 awards have been presented

Kate Molleson presents more of the latest in new music performance, including vocalist Sofia Jernberg's At Home session, and an in-depth interview with electronic composer Simon Emmerson.

Lucy Railton and Petter Eldh: Lysekil

Oliver Leith: 664 love songs guaranteed to cure heartache

Explore Ensemble

Blair Boyd: Juncture

Illuminate String Quartet

At Home session: Sofia Jernberg: Inhale Exhale

Sofia Jernberg (voice)

Georges Aperghis: Excerpts from 'ɀtudes I-VI

WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne, conducted by Brad Lubman

Oliver Leith. Blurry Wake Song

Aisha Orazbayeva (violin)

Robert Worby interviews composer Simon Emmerson about his life's work in electronic music

James Tenney: Koan

Ryoko Akama: A sense of coming back

Apartment House

Errollyn Wallen: gun gun gun

The Hermes Experiment

Aisha Orazbayeva: Ring

Gabriel Prokofiev: Bass Drum Concerto: IV. Allegro Brilliante (May Speed)

Joby Burgess (bass drum)

Ural Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Alexey Bogorad

Edward Henderson: Flower

Bastard Assignments

KAIJA SAARIAHO: Terra Memoria

Meta 4 String Quartet

Philippe Leroux: Envers IV for orchestra

BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pierre Andre Valade

Linda Catlin Smith: Meadow

Goeyvaerts Ensemble

Olivia Block: untitled (II)

Saturday Night Late: nocturnal sounds from a Florida marsh

TOM SERVICE presents music by Gabriel Prokofiev, KAIJA SAARIAHO and Linda Catlin Smith.

Tom Service speaks to composer Michael Zev Gordon about his new work, 'A Kind of Haunting', inspired by Michael's grandfather, who was killed by the Nazis in a remote Polish forest. Plus specially recorded music from Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and Aberdeen's Sound Festival, and the latest in new releases.

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Tom Service speaks to Michael Zev Gordon

Composer Michael Zev Gordon speaks to Tom Service about his new work, 'A Kind of Haunting'. Plus the latest in new releases.

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Francesca Verunelli: Cinemaolio

Divertimento Ensemble

HCMF 2018

Graham Flett: of a beast

Kluster5

TOM SERVICE plays music by Francesca Verunelli, Graham Flett and David Helbich.

Hard Rain Ensemble in Belfast

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Kate Molleson presents more of the latest in new music performance, including a profile of the influential Canadian composer Martin Arnold.

Arnold: Rill 69

Philip Thomas (piano)

Bozzini Quartet

And a major new radiophonic piece:

Jennifer Walshe and Jon Leidecker: Limitless Potential

Performed by Jon Leidecker & Jennifer Walshe, with additional performances by Style Kincaid, Arthur Chen, Anna Devin and John Hess.

Material sourced from Open AI's MuseNet and Benjamin Genchel's Python recreation of Harriet Padberg's 1964 Thesis, 'Computer Composed Canon and Free Fugue.??

Kate Molleson chooses new music performances by Barbara Hannigan, Ulster Orchestra, London Sinfonietta and Estonian Festival Orchestra with music by Luigi Nono, Kamilya Jubran and Werner Hasler, Greg Caffrey, Tansy Davies and Erkki-Sven Tüür.

Luigi Nono: Djamila Boupach

Xenia Pestova Bennett: Actinium

Xenia Pestova Bennett (magnetic resonator piano)

Tansy Davies: The rule is love (WP)

Elaine Mitchener (vocal)

London Sinfonietta conducted by Richard Baker

Francis Dhomont: En cuerdas

Georg Friedrich Haas: Trombone Concerto

Mike Svoboda (trombone)

SWR Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alejo P退rez

Marcos Balter: ECHO (from Pan)

Claire Chase (flute)

Tansy Davies: Soul canoe

Red Note Ensemble

Pauchi Sasaki: Gama XV

Claire Chase (bass flute)

Pauchi Sasaki (violin)

Clemens von Reusner: Anamorphosis

Music by Philippe Hurel, Maya Verlaak, Anthony Braxton and Marcus Schmickler

Carmel Smickersgill: More

Laura Bowler, voice

Ruth Morley: flute

Bethan Morgan-Williams - In the Crypt

Ben Goldscheider, horn & electronics

Stuart Macrae: MOBOFCROWS

Sarah Watts, bass clarinet

Beatriz Ferreyra: Echos

Piers Hellawell: Time, The Deer

Marco Momi: Quattro Nudi.

Yaron Deutsch, electric guitar

Oliver Searle: The Illicit Still

Beatriz Ferreyra's L'autre ou les chants

Adam Lee: Hallaig

Clemens Gadenst䀀tter: Studies for a Portrait

Jane Stanley: The Faery Cup

The latest in new music performance, with Kate Molleson.

Pawe? Malinowski: Robotron for ensemble and sampler

Hashtag Ensemble

LAURENCE CRANE: Cobbled Section After Cobbled Section

Plus-Minus Ensemble

Lucia Dlugoszewski: Abyss and Caress

PETER EVANS (trumpet)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov

JULIAN ANDERSON: Mime

Richard Hosford (clarinet)

Music by LAURENCE CRANE, Lucia Dlugoszewski, Pawe\u0142 Malinowski and JULIAN ANDERSON.

Sean Clancy: Noise Stick

Liza Lim: Chang-O flies to the moon

Deborah Kayser (soprano)

Elision Ensemble conducted by Simon Hewett

Max Syedtollan: The remainder

Zwerm: No sign of dawn in the sky

Olivia Block: Rivers in reverse

Maja Ratkje: Paragraf 112

Norwegian Radio Orchestra

Sean Clancy: Monica danced with the moon

Gordon Kampe: I forgot to remember to forget

Neue Vocalsolisten

Lucy Railton: Third Lament

Lucy Railton (cello & electronics)

Bunita Marcus: Adam and Eve

Marcus and Company

Bryn Harrison: Dead Time

Wet Ink

Sarah Hennies - Growing Block

House of Bedlam

Marc Andre: rwh 1

Ensemble Resonanz

TOM SERVICE presents the latest in new music performance, and features music by composers commissioned for the current BBC Proms season.

Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Aeriality

Iceland Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov

Alexey Shmurak: Railway Etude (from Greenland Suite)

Mark Knoop (piano)

Cheryl Frances-Hoad: movements from Excelsus

Thomas Carroll (cello)

Silvia Tarozzi: Al Cancello

Tarozzi Band

Denis Smalley: Gradual

Richard Ingham (clarinet, bass clarinet, trombaphone)

Pete Stollery (electronics)

Wadada Leo Smith: String Quartet No.7

RedKoral Quartet

Stuart Fox (guitar)

TOM SERVICE features music by composers commissioned for the 2022 BBC Proms season.

The latest in new music performance with live sets from Rakhi Singh and Lauren Kinsella.

Tom Service with the latest cutting-edge and experimental new music in live performance.

Tom Service presents new music from Lara Agar and Larry Goves performed by Zubin Kanga and the Explore Ensemble.

Tom Service presents brand new works from Lara Agar and Larry Goves, performed by Explore Ensemble and Zubin Kanga and recorded earlier this week at Snape Maltings as part of this year's Aldeburgh Festival. Also tonight, Jack Sheen conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Øyvind Torvund, new releases from Kenyan sound artist KMRU and Japanese pianist Miharu Ogura, and Apartment House perform the work of Slovak composer Adrián DemoĀ?.

The latest in new music performance including Alex Ho's song cycle The Glass Eye.

The latest sounds from across the UK and beyond including an improvisation by the sheng player Wu Wei and Alex Ho's song cycle The Glass Eye sung by countertenor Hugh Cutting.

Alexander Goehr: Combat of Joseph della Reina and the Devil (Text from a 19th-century Kabbalistic legend)

H退lose Werner, Emilia Bertolini (sopranos), Clare Presland (mezzo-soprano), Joshua Ellicott (tenor)

Nash Ensemble, Alasdair Beatson (piano/director)

The world premiere of Alexander Goehr's Combat of Joseph della Reina and the Devil.

Kate Molleson presents the latest sounds in new music, including the world premiere of a 40-minute chamber opera by Alexander Goehr, who celebrates his 90th birthday on Wednesday. The story is a ‘Jewish Faust' story of the combat between a rabbi and the Devil.

ALVIN LUCIER: Tilted Arc; Two Circles: EPO5

Ever Present Orchestra

Lucier was a distinguished American experimental composer. Much of his work was influenced by science and explores the physical properties of sound itself: resonance of spaces, phase interference between closely tuned pitches, and the transmission of sound through physical media.

The Ever Present Orchestra was formed exclusively to perform the music of Lucier, in Switzerland in 2016. The concert featuring in tonight's show was recorded in London in 2019.

TOM SERVICE presents a special focus on the music of ALVIN LUCIER, who died last month, with highlights from a concert of his music recorded in London, and an in-depth archive interview with him.

ALVIN LUCIER: EPO5

ALVIN LUCIER: Two Circles

Also tonight, music from Aberdeen Sound Festival 2021:

Tansy Davies: Yoik II

David Fennessy: Divje Babe

Ruth Morley (flute)

Luke Styles: Five Phase Sphere

Red Note Ensemble

And from Donaueshingen Music Days 2021:

Oyvind Torvund: Plans

Klangforum Wien

The Ever Present Orchestra was formed exclusively to perform the music of Lucier, in Switzerland in 2017. The concert featuring in tonight's show was recorded in London in 2019, and Tom also talks to the orchestra's director, Bernhard Rietbrock, about Lucier's legacy.

As well as exciting new releases, the programme also includes UK premieres by Finn Ville Raasakka and British-German Eden Lonsdale recorded last month by the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios.

Ville Raasakka (born 1977 Finland): black cloud, under ground

Jack Sheen (conductor)

Alwynne Pritchard (voice)

Alpaca Ensemble

Eden Lonsdale: Lichtung

Alwynne Pritchard and the Alpaca Ensemble, recorded live at Canterbury's Free Range.

Alwynne Pritchard's compelling music theatre performance explores our connections to the institutions of love, labour, devotion and dissent that have shaped human history.

New music in concert plus Ruth Goller on her inspirations.

The latest in new music performance with exclusive recordings plus Ruth Goller on her inspirations.

AKA Anna Meredith's Dodgem Studies

Kate Molleson presents a recording of the Colin Currie Quartet performing a new percussion arrangement of Anna Meredith's Bumps Per Minute: Studies for Dodgems, and Daily Affirmation, a brand new work by Ben Nobuto. Also on the show: a recording of Michael Finnissy's Was frag ich nach der Welt for 24 voices from the 2024 Donaueschingen festival, plus Kate's pick of the best new releases, including pieces by Mariam Rezaei, Alvin Curran, Maurice Louca and Nate Wooley.

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The Colin Currie Quartet perform Anna Meredith's Bumps Per Minute: Studies for Dodgems, and Daily Affirmation, a brand new work by Ben Nobuto.

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Tom Service presents a live set from the Polish sound artist and composer Anna Zaradny, recorded at at this year's Eavesdropping festival at Cafe Oto in London. We'll also hear the London Sinfonietta with a modern classic by Salvatore Sciarrino, his ghostly, shimmering ...da una Divertimento, from 1970; and GBSR Duo perform Tim Parkinson's Project 9000 for piano, percussion and backing track, described by the composer as 'a sunset that's been photographed, laminated and pinned on the wall of a disused office'.

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Tom Service presents a live set from Anna Zaradny at London's Cafe Oto

Tom Service presents a live set from sound artist Anna Zaradny, one of the featured artists at this year's Eavesdropping festival at Cafe Oto in London.

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Plus new CD releases by Lumpeks, Wendy Eisenberg and Rafael Toral.

Kate Molleson presents the best in new music, with exclusive concert recordings from Another Sky festival, as well as music by Sky Macklay, Hannah Kendall and Karen Power.

Tom Service presents performances from the Bludenz Days of Contemporary Music in Austria.

Kate Molleson with music by Philip Venables, Jlin and Ingrid Laubrock.

Kate Molleson with the latest new releases and live recordings, including Philip Venables' Answer Machine Tape, 1987, a collaboration with pianist Zubin Kanga.

Tom Service presents the latest in new music performance, including Emily Howard's Antisphere, 'an apocalyptic journey around a mathematical shape', played by the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Vimbayi Kaziboni. Also on the programme, Helmut Lachenmann's trio, Mes adieux, performed by Ensemble Recherche and a recording from the Maxwell Quartet at Aberdeen's Sound Festival of Joey Roukens' Visions at Sea. And there are new releases of music by Ang退lcia Negr　n and Anahita Abbasi.

Also tonight, a performance recorded recently at Oslo's Ultima Festival of a wordless song written in Paris in 1977 by Betsy Jolas, who is now in her nineties.

Jim O'Rourke: Best that you do this for me - for vocalising string trio (Apartment House commission)

Julius Aglinskas: Blue Dusk - for string quartet, piano and e-guitar (BBC Commission)

Tom Williams: Meditations on a Landscape

Juliana Janes Yaffe (voice) Tom Williams (electronics)

Stephen Montague: Thanksgiving Hymn

Stephen Montague and Philip Mead (pianos)

Betsy Jolas: Eleven Lieder

H倀kan Hardenberger (trumpet)

Oslo Philharmonic, Ingar Bergby, conductor

Apartment House play new music by Julius Aglinskas and Jim O'Rourke.

Kate Molleson presents some of the latest in new music from across the globe.

Eliza McCarthy rejoices in Gabriella Smith's Imaginary Pancake for piano and the BBC Symphony plays Swedish composer Lisa Streich's Augenlider for prepared guitar and orchestra, a work that has quickly established itself as a modern classic. And there's a chance to revisit the late Péter Eötvös's Mese, a classic work for electronics realised in the studios of WDR and structured on a recording of a Hungarian folk tale played at various speeds.

And threaded thorough this Christmas edition is a programme recorded at the medieval church of St Giles' Cripplegate in London: Apartment House present a typically wide-ranging sequence of music including Ramūnas Motiekaitis's Snowless NY and the premieres of Gretchen Korsmo's Body More and Marco Baldini's Quartetto along with Jem Finer's Hrdy-Grdy and music inspired by the Baroque violin master, Biaggio Marini. And as a coda there's the mysterious Slovakian composer's Martin Burlas's brief Koda, music that oscillates between the classical and lo-fi popism.

Ramūnas Motiekaitis - Snowless NY 1949

Gretchen Korsmo - Body More (premiere)

Taku Sugimoto - AB2357

Paul Paccione - And the days are not full enough (premiere)

Billy Steiger - Box (for EKM) (premiere)

Marco Baldini - Quartetto (premiere)

Jem Finer - Hrdy-Grdy

Biagio Marini - Passacaglia

Martin Burlas - Koda

Kate Molleson offers a seasonal feast of new music to stimulate and to sooth.

Kate Molleson introduces the latest sounds including a sequence of gems played by Apartment at one of London's mediaeval churches and a performance of Lisa Streich's Augenlider.

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Oliver Leith: new work for sextet (UKP)

Joanna Baillie: Dissolve (UKP)

Lawrence Dunn: Sentimental Drifting Music

Plus tonight, highlights from the music installations by Hayley Suviste and Georgia Rodgers which are featured in the festival.

Due to COVID-19 restrictions, hcmf 2020 is taking place on Radio 3 and online for three days (Friday, November 20 ? Sunday, November 22) over what would normally have been the festival's first weekend.

The New Music Show across three consecutive nights presents exclusive live broadcasts showcasing the festival's varied programme, including premieres, fixtures of the experimental scene, and music by the icons and rising stars of contemporary classical music.

The broadcasts will include a 70th birthday concert for James Dillon on Sunday ? featuring the World Premiere of Pharmakeia from the London Sinfonietta and a specially recorded and previously unheard piano work written for Noriko Kawai ? as well as a plethora of premieres from Explore Ensemble tonight, and on Saturday the innovative piano/percussion combo GBSR Duo and clarinettist Heather Roche.

Kate Molleson presents live from Huddersfield Festival of Contemporary Music.

Martin Iddon: Sapindales (WP)

Lisa Robertson: Heartwood (WP)

Heather Roche (clarinets)

plus

Arne Gieshoff: Spillikins (WP)

GBSR Duo + Angharad Davies (violin): improvisation

GBSR Duo (piano & percussion)

Due to COVID-19 restrictions, hcmf 2020 is taking place on Radio 3 and online for three days (Friday, November 20 ? Sunday, November 22) over what would normally have been the festival's first weekend.

The New Music Show across three consecutive nights presents exclusive live broadcasts showcasing the festival's varied programme, including premieres, fixtures of the experimental scene, and music by the icons and rising stars of contemporary classical music.

The broadcasts will include a 70th birthday concert for James Dillon on Sunday ? featuring the World Premiere of Pharmakeia from the London Sinfonietta and a specially recorded and previously unheard piano work written for Noriko Kawai ? as well as a plethora of premieres from Explore Ensemble on Friday, and tonight the innovative piano/percussion combo GBSR Duo and clarinettist Heather Roche.

Kate Molleson presents a concert, live from Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

James Dillon: Pharmakeia (WP)

London Sinfonietta conducted by Geoffrey Paterson

James Dillon: Echo the Angelus (WP)

Noriko Kawai (piano)

Also tonight, ROBERT WORBY interviews James Dillon in depth about his music.

One of the world's most acclaimed composers, Dillon's route was unexpected: he initially played in bands, teaching himself how to play and compose music. In the past 40 years, he has gone on to make music that many consider the genre's most daunting and complex. Really, though, it is just that it is his work that only an artist this restless could envision and execute. His music twists through modes of expression. At times it is bombastic, employing striking phrases and intense bursts of energy; at others, it is enchantingly mysterious, referencing historic poetic tomes and ancient painters. Tangled up in Dillon's web is a confounding kind of music: it pulls listeners in before having them pull it apart, all in search of an answer.

Pharmakeia is a four-part cycle that began with 2017's Circe. Tonight is the premiere of all four movements, performed in their entirety. Pharmakeia celebrates Dillon's 70th birthday perfectly: it draws on a typical set of ?eclectic influences' and niche passions, paying tribute to the Greek goddess of magic Circe through music that seems able to create illusions and shift shape. The ensemble promises an ?otherworldly, unnerving fairy-tale', a piece that speaks not only to the mystery of Dillon's work, but also his ability to pull off feats of magic.

Joining Pharmakeia is something completely different: a piece of solo piano music from four years ago that has only now found its way to the stage. An artist whose piano work has been esteemed as ?the most significant contribution to the pianist's repertoire since Ligeti's Etudes', Dillon's Book of Elements series uses the instrument to build an insurmountable tension. In this broadcast, renowned Japanese pianist Noriko Kawai will premiere echo the angelus, traversing the piece's ?eerie silences' and ?unsettling mood'.

Kawai has maintained close contact with the composer's work since 2006, when she performed his piano piece Andromeda. She has had a long time to sit with echo the angelus, but for her, it's Fate that it should reach the world in 2020. She says it echoes a world in lockdown: ?it takes me to somewhere unknown, a deadly silence, where fragile, transient memories leave poignant, bittersweet afterimages'. One of Dillon's most evocative pieces ever, Kawai characterises it as ?heart-wrenching', a piece that emphasises the composer's love of fragile, breaking sound.

Due to Covid-19 restrictions, hcmf 2020 is taking place on Radio 3 and online for three days (Friday, November 20 ? Sunday, November 22) over what would normally have been the festival's first weekend. Two specially commissioned audio-visual installations will also be on show at venues in Huddersfield for a limited and socially distanced public.

The New Music Show across three consecutive nights presents exclusive live broadcasts showcasing the festival's varied programme, including premieres, fixtures of the experimental scene, and music by the icons and rising stars of contemporary classical music.

The broadcasts will include a 70th birthday concert for James Dillon tonight ? featuring the World Premiere of Pharmakeia from the London Sinfonietta and a specially recorded and previously unheard piano work written for Noriko Kawai ? as well as a plethora of premieres from Explore Ensemble on Friday, and two innovative duos last tonight: Heather Roche (clarinet) and Eva Z?llner (accordion); and piano/percussion combo GBSR Duo.

TOM SERVICE presents James Dillon, live from Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

Pia-Karin Helsing, soprano

Katarina Karnéus, mezzo

Anders Eriksson, barytone

Aaron Sunstein, organ

Erik Westberg's Vocal Ensemble

Strings from the Norrbotten Chamber Orchestra

Conductor Erik Westberg

The world premiere of B Tommy Andersson's oratorio Passio secundum Matthaeum.

Kate Molleson presents the world premiere of a major new work by Swedish composer B Tommy Andersson.

Plus recent releases of music by Kate Soper, Alvin Singleton, Lisa Streich and Ensemble Dedalus.

Kate Molleson with the world premiere of an Alice Purton work for cello and electronics.

Also in the programme, a new piece for microtonal accordion and electronics by French composer Oren Boneh and contrasting ideas exploring the musical and sonic possibilities of the solo viola from Jimena Maldonado, Olga Neuwirth and Frantz Loriot.

Kate Molleson features recordings from Danish group We Like We.

Also in the programme, a new piece for microtonal accordion and electronics by the Brussels-based composer Oren Boneh, new recordings of music by Olga Neuwirth for Klangforum Wien, and constrating ideas on the creative and sonic possibilities of the solo viola from Anselm McDonnell and Frantz Loriot.

Tom Service explores the latest in new music with tracks from Dai Fujikura and Zoe Martlew and from Marianne Schofield and Hermes Experiment and the Copenhagen Clarinet Choir. And, to mark the centenary this weekend of the birth of Luciano Berio, Tom revisits the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Italian Radicals Total Immersion event with music by Berio himself and by his friends and contemporaries Luigi Nono and Bruno Maderna. And, at the heart of the programme, a performance from Munich conducted by Simon Rattle of Berio's Laborintus II, a white-hot piece of music theatre written to mark the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri.

The latest in cutting-edge music. Also this week, recordings from Italian Radicals, the BBC Symphony Orchestra's exploration of the music of Luciano Berio and his contemporaries.

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TOM SERVICE pays tribute to Sir HARRISON BIRTWISTLE who died last week.

Also, Nicole Lizee talks about her musical Inspirations.

Tom Service reports on the Venice Music Biennale, with electronic music by Robert Henke and Brigitta Muntendorf, and our own recording of a world premiere by Julius Aglinskas.

Christopher Fox: ‘Rendered Account

Exaudi conducted by James Weeks

Gao Ping (??): ‘'Hu Yan' (6 pieces)

Nicole Ge Li (erhu)

Corey Hamm (piano)

Katia Beaugeais: ‘Breath by Breath

Katia Beaugeais (soprano saxophone)

Carola Bauckholt: ‘Vakuum, for two female voices with two vacuum cleaners

Neue Vokalsolisten

Johanna Vargas, high soprano

Truike van der Poel, mezzo-soprano

Lucia Ronchetti: `Never Bet the Devil Your Head`, an a cappella cabaret for four voices

[Text: after Edgar Allan Poe and Federico Fellini]

Martin Nagy, tenor

Guillermo Anzorena, baritone

Andreas Fischer, bass

Nathalie Joachim: ‘Dam Mwen Yo

Amanda Gookin (cello)

Nathalie Joachim (pre-recorded vocals)

Christoph Schiller: ‘Cartes No. 3

Cyril Bondi - Indian harmonium, pitch pipes, harmonica

Pierre-Yves Martel - viola da gamba, pitch pipes, harmonica

Christoph Schiller - spinet & preparations

Plus, from Austria, a recording of ‘Projections in Real Time' by Nicholas Morrish. A musical exploration of being in the present, performed by the Schallfeld Ensemble

Featuring music by Christopher Fox, Nathalie Joachim, Nicholas Morrish and Gao Ping

Christopher Fox: ‘Rendered Account

Exaudi conducted by James Weeks

Gao Ping (??): ‘'Hu Yan' (6 pieces)

Nicole Ge Li (erhu)

Corey Hamm (piano)

Katia Beaugeais: ‘Breath by Breath for solo soprano sax

Katia Beaugeais (soprano saxophone)

Carola Bauckholt: ‘Vakuum, for two female voices with two vacuum cleaners

Neue Vokalsolisten

Johanna Vargas, high soprano

Truike van der Poel, mezzo-soprano

Lucia Ronchetti: `Never Bet the Devil Your Head??, a cappella cabaret for four voices

[Text: after Edgar Allan Poe and Federico Fellini]

Martin Nagy, tenor

Guillermo Anzorena, baritone

Andreas Fischer, bass

Nathalie Joachim: ‘Dam Mwen Yo

Amanda Gookin (cello)

Nathalie Joachim (pre-recorded vocals)

Plus, from Austria, a recording of ‘Projections in Real Time' by Nicholas Morrish

Schallfeld Ensemble

Featuring music by Christopher Fox, Nathalie Joachim, Nicholas Morrish and Gao Ping

Tom Service with recordings of new music from around the world that challenge borders - political, physical, temporal and stylistic, including music for erhu and piano by Gao Ping, music for voice and cello by Nathalie Joachim, and new commissions from the 2020 Witten Festival. Also a chance to hear composer Christopher Fox in conversation with Robert Worby.

Lucia Ronchetti: `Never Bet the Devil Your Head??, an a cappella cabaret for four voices

Christoph Schiller: ‘Cartes No. 3

Cyril Bondi - Indian harmonium, pitch pipes, harmonica

Pierre-Yves Martel - viola da gamba, pitch pipes, harmonica

Christoph Schiller - spinet & preparations

Plus, from Austria, a recording of ‘Projections in Real Time' by Nicholas Morrish. A musical exploration of being in the present, performed by the Schallfeld Ensemble

Kate Molleson and Tom Service present a live, Boulez-themed edition of the show from the BBC's Maida Vale studios in London. Performing specially commissioned music tonight in front of a studio audience are Caoutchouc and Plus-Minus Ensemble. Caoutchouc is a duo comprising Jessie Marino and Serge Vuille, an uncategorisable mix of percussion, fiddle, spoken word and electronics, and tonight they explore texts by and about Pierre Boulez. Plus-Minus Ensemble perform two pieces by Boulez, his Derive I for six instruments, and the lesser known, rarely performed Structures I for two pianos. Plus-Minus also bring two brand new pieces, both “re-imaginings ? of older works: Alex Hills's response to Ruth Crawford Seeger's String Quartet, and Natacha Diels's take on Mexican composer Julián Carrillo's Preludio a Colón. Both works are co-commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and Plus-Minus Ensemble. Also tonight, Nothing Truly Ever Ends, a new work by British composer Charlotte Bray, commissioned and performed by Ensemble intercontemporain at the Paris Philharmonie in December; plus the first of this weekend's postcards from Paris: the 98 year old Betsy Jolas tells Kate about her first ever meeting with Boulez.

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Live from Maida Vale with performances by Caoutchouc and Plus-Minus Ensemble.

Caoutchouc and Plus-Minus Ensemble perform specially commissioned music live from the BBC's Maida Vale studios, including works by Boulez, Alex Hills and Natacha Diels.

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Muhal Richard Abrams: Celestial Birds - the bird song

Eliane Radigue: Occam river XV

Angharad Davies (violin), Dominic Lash (double bass)

New York Composers: TOM SERVICE talks to the singer and composer Kamala Sankaram, leader of Bombay Rickey, and operatic Bollywood surf ensemble.

Angela Sawyer: 'Hi

Angela Sawyer (comedienne) at Tectonics

Britta Bystr?m: A Walk to Brahms

Britta Bystr?m: Diagonal Musik

Malin Broman (violin), Chris Parkes (horn), Simon Crawford-Philips (piano)

Jano Doe: live performance at Caf? Oto, London

JOHN TILBURY: The Tiger's Mind

The best new music in live performances from the UK and beyond.

Kate Molleson presents a New Music Show, which ranges from the spare, refined textures of Eliane Radigue via the bawdy improvised comedy of Angela Sawyer to a live performance by cult electronic composer Jano Doe. Also tonight, a chance to hear from the New York based singer-composer Kamala Sankaram, the leader of Bombay Rickey, an operatic Bollywood surf ensemble. There's also music for Johannes Brahms's famous line up of violin, horn and piano including an award winning new work by Britta Bystr?m recorded at Sweden's Change Music Festival.

New York Composers: TOM SERVICE talks to the composer and soprano Kamala Sankaram.

SALLY BEAMISH: Glanz, for viola

Malin Briman (viola)

Milan Kni?ak: Broken music

Arturas Bum?teinas: Medica III (from the Lyrica archive)

Eden Lonsdale: Oasis

TOM SERVICE presents Apartment House in a performance of three contrasting chamber works.

Kate Molleson presents the world premiere of Bryn Harrison's Double Labyrinth, written in memory of Australian visual artist Richard Dunn, from a concert given by ELISION Ensemble in Melbourne; there's new music by Golnaz Shariatzadeh performed by Explore Ensemble at Another Sky festival, and Plus-Minus ensemble showcase the work of Polish composer Marta Śniady. Plus the latest new releases including an album of music for viola and electronics from Nathan Davis.

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Kate Molleson with new music from Bryn Harrison, Golnaz Shariatzadeh and Marta Śniady

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Produced by Michael Rossi.

Slowing of the past from Bryn Harrison.

Slowing of the past from Bryn Harrison and musical improvisation from Héloïse Werner and friends.

The music in this show includes a large-scale piano piece by Rolf Hind, called Bhutani, recorded at Aberdeen Sound; Kate Moore's piece “Suat Derviş. ? played by Nemeth Quartet in Huddersfield; a new work by Ailís Ní Ríain. “Calling Mutely Through Lipless Mouth ?, recorded by the Ulster Orchestra and conductor, David Brophy at a New Music Show concert in Belfast last month; and from a recent concert by the Kronos Quartet: Angelique Kidjo's “Yan Yan Kli Yan Senamido no.2 ? and “Keep going ? (Water) by Gabriella Smith.

Kate Molleson with the latest in new music performance.

New music performed by the Ulster Orchestra, Rolf Hind, and the Kronos Quartet. Plus Alexander Hawkins and Sofia Jernberg talk about their new album.

Kate Molleson introduces the latest in new music performance. There are recordings from the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, including Kate Moore's piece called “Suat Derviş. ? Suat Derviş was born in Turkey in 1905. She was a novelist, journalist, and political activist and the piece is a reflection as Suat Derviş approaches the end of her life and looks out to sea.

Also, the broadcast premiere of a new work commissioned by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society for Ensemble 10:10 and Ulster Orchestra by Ailís Ní Ríain. “Calling Mutely Through Lipless Mouth ? was recorded by the Ulster Orchestra and conductor, David Brophy at a New Music Show concert held in Belfast last month. Also two recent recordings from the Kronos Quartet: Angelique Kidjo's “Yan Yan Kli Yan Senamido no.2 ? and “Keep going ? (Water) by Gabriella Smith.

New music performed by the Ulster Orchestra and the Kronos Quartet.

Tom Service introduces some of the latest sounds in new music, including Aletheia, a work for wordless choir by the Lithuanian composer Žibuoklė Martinaitytė. Written following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, she says: 'Voice is our first and the very last instrument we have in our lifetime... from the very first baby's scream until the last breath and whisper... I was imagining that the only instrument people have even in situations of destruction, in the midst of war, is their voice.' Also in the programme is the premiere at Aberdeen Sounds of Ruth Morley's Reef, her reaction to the discovery by marine biologists that 'damaged reef systems will regenerate faster when recordings of a healthy reef are played in the area.' And also from Aberdeen Sounds comes Karen Power's Can you hear me now?, a work of solo viola composed to sit within Karen Power's Polar Soundings installation at the entrance to city's Academy Shopping Centre. This multi-channel installation featured recordings captured during the composer's decade-long quest to listen above, below and inside the ice in the North and South Poles.

Žibuoklė Martinaitytė: Aletheia

Carice Singers, George Parris (conductor)

Ruth Morley Reef (WP)

Red Note Ensemble

Jessie Cox: Remains Unvoiced

Elaine Mitchener (voice)

Paweł Malinowski: floating: disappearance

London Sinfonietta, Geoffrey Paterson (conductor)

Dubravko Detoni: Zaboravljene muzike [Forgotten Music] for String Quartet

Apartment House

Karen Power: Can you hear me now?

Katherine Wren (viola)

Cutting-edge and experimental music from Lithuania, Poland and the North and South Poles.

Cutting-edge and experimental new music in live performance, plus interviews and features.

Experimental music, including Ruth Morley's Reef, Karen Power's Can you hear me now? and a work for wordless chorus written in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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Missy Mazzoli: Vespers for a New Dark Age: Postlude

Joan Magran退 Figuera: Faula

London Sinfonietta conducted by Edmon Colomer

Yigit Ozatalay: Yok mu, var

Hezarfen Ensemble

Sarah Nemtsov: Starlings, sparrows

Trio Catch

Roberto Gerhard: Leo

Betsy Jolas: Rounds to catch

Ibukun Sunday: Underground

Tonight's show features exclusive concert recordings as usual, with the London Sinfonietta recorded at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, and Trio Catch recorded at Witten New Music Days in Germany. We recorded the Hezarfen Ensemble (from Turkey) at Bristol New Music Festival.

Roberto Gerhard studied with Schoenberg, and fled Spain after the Civil War, to live in England, where he composed a substantial body of work, including symphonies, ballet and opera. Leo was one of his last works, written the year before he died in 1970, and it's a richly realised and colourful piece in the modernist style that he developed. He dedicated the piece to his wife, whose star sign was Leo.

TOM SERVICE presents works by Joan Magrane Figuera and Roberto Gerhard.

Peter Knight: The softened shore

With Arvo Pärt turning 90 on 11th September, the New Music Show goes on a musical tour of Estonia, featuring some of his music, and exploring the range and depth of the country's contemporary composers and performers. We speak to Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi, and feature the latest recordings from the country.

As renowned Estonian composer Arvo Pärt turns 90, the New Music Show goes on a musical tour of Estonia.

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Charlemagne Palestine on the organ of St. John at Hackney

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Kate Molleson with the latest in new music performance.

Tom Service introduces a shatteringly powerful meditation on the accident at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant in April 1986.

Developed by Ukraine's Opera Aperta for performance at the Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv's flagship arts complex, the work was described by the Times critic, Richard Morrison, as: 'A modern Ukrainian masterpiece everyone needs to see.... an extended scream of rage, an elegy for lost humanity, a warning about nuclear annihilation, a brilliant meshing of film, dance, folksong, avant-garde instruments and electronic sounds... It comprises two hours of the most original and astonishing music-theatre I have ever seen.

Presented as seven scenes - Elektra, Dramma per Musica, The Little Accordion Girl, Rhea, Messe de Chornobyldorf, Orfeo ed Euridice, Saturnalia - the music quotes the Agnus Dei from Bach's B minor Mass, nursery rhymes and folksong and features dancers, singers and specially created instruments and electronics.

Chornobyldorf received its UK premiere at a single performance at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in October 2022 and the live recording has been specially re-mixed for this broadcast.

Chornobyldorf - an archaelogical opera

Composers, librettists: Roman Grygoriv and Illia Razumeiko

Musical instruments designer: Evgen Bal

Live-electronics: Georgiy Potopalskiy

Presented as an introduction and seven novellas - Elektra, Dramma per Musica, The Little Accordion Girl, Rhea, Messe de Chornobyldorf, Orfeo ed Euridice and Saturnalia - the music quotes the Agnus Dei from Bach's B minor Mass, nursery rhymes and Ukrainian folksong and features dancers, singers and specially created instruments and electronics.

Chornobyldorf received its UK premiere at a single performance at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in October 2022 and the live recording has been has been specially re-mixed with introductions to the seven novellas by Marichka Shtyrbulova and readings from the archaeological expeditions from Illia Razumeiko.

Yevhen Bal - Orfeo / Dionysus

Anne Bennent - Eurydice

Marichka Shtyrbulova - The Little Accordeon girl

Diana Ziabchenko - Dafne

Susanna Karpenko - Susanna

Yuliia Alieksieieva - Venere

Evgeny Malofeev - Ulysses

Anna Rudenko - Hannah

Ihor Boichuk - Heron

Nazgul Shukaiieva - Inanna

Mariia Potapenko - Urania, Young Eurydice

Khrystyna Slobodianiuk - Elektra

Georgii Potopalskyi - Pluto

Roman Grygoriv - Aristoxenos

IIlia Razumeiko - Pythagoras

Rhea-player creation - Winfried Ritch

The Orchestra of the Chornobyldorf: Roman Grygoriv - microtonal cymbals and guitar, Illia Razumeiko - microtonal bandura and guitar, Zoltan Almashi - cello, Ihor Boichuk - percussion

Roman Grygoriv - conductor

Music by Christian Wolff specially recorded at Music We'd Like to Hear.

Marking Christian Wolff's 90th birthday this year, Tom Service introduces two of his works. Plus music by Éliane Radigue, Georgia Koumará, Nilufar Habibian and Frank Zappa.

Christian Wolff, 90 this year, is the last living representative of the so-called New York School of composition, a group that included John Cage, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown and David Tudor. Tonight Tom Service introduces two of his works specially recorded at the Music We'd Like to Hear series in London. The programme also includes music by Éliane Radigue, Georgia Koumará, Nilufar Habibian, Alex Paxton and Frank Zappa.

Christian Wolff, 90 this year, is the last living representative of the so-called New York School of composition, a group that included John Cage, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown and David Tudor. Tonight he introduces three of his works and talks to Tom Service about his long career. The programme also includes music by Éliane Radigue, Georgia Koumará, Alex Paxton, Titus Engel and Frank Zappa.

Christian Wolff, 90 this year, introduces three of his works and talks to Tom Service about his long career. Plus music by Éliane Radigue, Georgia Koumará and Frank Zappa.

Geneva Lewis plays Andrew Norman's Sabina, written after he witnessed a sunrise at the church of Santa Sabina on Rome's Aventine Hill and Apartment House premiere Christopher Fox's Heaven as a Scroll: 'As I was working on Heaven as a scroll,' he says, 'I was haunted by images of the interior of the Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta in Torcello and its two great mosaics, in particular the Last Judgement that fills the west end of the church. Within the mosaic one can see an angel performing the task prescribed in Chapter 6, Verse 14 of the Book of Revelation: 'And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together'.

And, following the death last week of the revered composer, scholar and teacher Alexander Goehr, the Villiers Quartet plays his Vision of the Soldier Er (String Quartet No 5) from 2018. This twenty minute work takes as its starting point the Myth of Er, as found in the closing pages of Plato's Republic. As Alexander Goehr wrote: 'Initially I was taken by the image of the planets, circling the earth each with a siren sounding a single note. I tried to imagine what this might sound like all together. In the 4th movement, “I beheld light beams fastened like a ship's under girders, ? I tried to portray (in microcosm!) the eternal image, taking a 6 part mechanical canon by Messiaen as a point of departure.

Alexander Goehr: Vision of the Soldier Er (String Quartet No 5)

1. Battle-piece

2. “What drew me on in my own faltering ?

3. Punishments and Rewards

4. “I beheld light beams fastened like a ship's under-girders ?

5. Shapes and Shadows

6. Return to Earth

Tom Service introduces some of the latest sounds in New Music including two works inspired by ancient Italian churches - Santa Sabina near Rome and Santa Maria in Torcello.

Tonight, Tom Service presents Rebecca Saunders' hypnotic 'A Visible Trace' and Iranian composer Anahita Abassi's 'Situation II', performed by Frankfurt based Ensemble Modern. Composer, Deirdre McKay talks about how natural sounds compel her music in 'Sound of the Week' and there is 'cinema for the ear' courtesy of Apartment House as they perform Luc Ferrari's , 'Cellule 75: Force du rythme, et cadence force.' Finally, Finghin Collins is the soloist with the Ulster Orchestra in Deirdre Gribbin's gripping and piano concerto, 'The Binding of the Years' inspired by ancient time and Deirdre's own archaeological digs and to end the show, a soundscape for 'Saturday Night Late' takes us to the streets of Portugal.

Rebecca Saunders: Visible Traces

Anahita Abassi: Situation II: Dialogue

Luc Ferrari: Cellule 75: Force du rythme, et cadence force

Kerry Yong (piano)

Simon Limbrick (percussion)

Deirdre Gribbin: The Binding of the Years (revised)

Finghin Collins (piano)

Kate Molleson interviews American flautist Claire Chase.

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Pascale Criton: Hold

Goeyvaerts Trio

Stine Janvin: set from recent performance at Cafe Oto

Jan-Peter de Graaff: Reeks & Progressie ['Series and progression']

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Claudia Molitor: Decay Mix One

James Dillon: String Quartet no.8 (UK premiere)

Arditti Quartet

The latest happenings in the world of new and experimental sound and music

Ruth Goller M7

Kit DOwnes (organ)

Stine Janvin: Fake Synthetic Music set from a recent performance at Cafe Oto

~New Music Show: Kate Molleson samples some of the latest happenings in the world of new and experimental sound with a programme which ranges from the quiet meditations of Pascale Criton via the formality of a new quartet by James Dillon to the ear-splitting vocal experimentation of performance artist, Stine Janvin. There's also a substantial track from the latest 'vinyl' release of Claudia Molitor which contemplates the process of decay. As she says: Decay is a subject we are troubled by and drawn to in equal measures, because it implies decline and loss and also opens up to possibilities of change and transformation. Be it the fermentation process of food, the patina of treasured furniture, the warm sounds of an old cello...Decay embraces the melancholy of loss and rejoices in the promise of change.

Lisa Streich's Francesca and Claudia Molitor's Polymer Hauntings

James Luff: Some music for Molly

Anna Meredith: Tripotage Miniatures

Aurora Orchestra

Georgia Rodgers: Masking Set

Sara Rodrigues (alto)

Tansy Davies: Loopholes and lynchpins

Elizabeth Burley (piano)

Klein: For what worth

(featuring Matana Roberts)

Caitlin Rowley: Quiet Songs

Anders Hillborg: Cold Heat

Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by DAVID ZINMAN

LAURENCE CRANE: European towns (world premiere)

Juliet Fraser (soprano)

Colin Alexander (cello)

Stephanie Tress (cello)

Peteris Sokolovskis (cello)

Tansy Davies: Grind show

London Sinfonietta conducted by RICHARD BAKER

Kate Molleson hosts a special concert, recorded at Theatr Mwldan in Cardigan.

Kate Molleson introduces a performance of this epic trilogy inspired by Werner Herzog's eccentric 1982 film Fitzcarraldo. Fitzcarraldo is an opera-crazed obsessive, driven to construct an opera house in the Peruvian jungle, in the course of which he decides to haul a 320-ton steamship overland from one Amazonian river system to another: 'A vision had seized hold of me....the hunter gives up trying to calm him. It was the vision of a large steamship scaling a hill under its own steam, working its way up a steep slope in the jungle, while above this natural landscape, which shatters the weak and the strong with equal ferocity, soars the voice of Caruso, silencing all the pain and all the voices of the primeval forest and drowning out all birdsong. ? Fennessy writes that most of the music is inspired by these lines, the orchestra 'providing the setting and perhaps even the embodiment of what could be the true central character of this whole trilogy – the jungle itself and the river which flows through it.

David Fennessy: Conquest of the Useless

I Prologue: Fitzcarraldo, dreams of building an opera house in the middle of the Amazon jungle.

II Caruso: an extended fantasy, “born of the delirium of the jungle. ?

III Gold is the sweat of the sun, silver are the tears of the moon

Brian Ferguson (actor)

Jennifer Johnston (mezzo soprano)

David Fennessy (electric guitar)

Peter Dowling (electronics)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Jack Sheen (conductor)

(Recorded at City Halls, Glasgow 4 Nov 2023)

Cutting-edge new music - including David Fennessy's seventy-minute Conquest of the Useless

David Fennessy's Conquest of the Useless: inspired by Werner Herzog's film Fitzcarraldo about an opera-crazed obsessive driven to construct an opera house in the Peruvian jungle.

Cutting-edge new music, including David Fennessy's 70-minute Conquest of the Useless.

Tom Service presents world premieres by Cyborg Pianist Zubin Kanga and composer Anne Castex from the Constellations concert, a bold collaboration between Kanga, the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, and the French contemporary music ensemble L'Instant Donné. Plus bárru bára - new music by Jason Yarde for the Norwegian Naval Forces Band, and Nicholas Korth's Inscapes for Tenor, Horn and strings.

Tom Service presents world premieres by Zubin Kanga and Anne Castex, plus Jason Yarde.

Tom Service presents world premieres by Zubin Kanga and Anne Castex from the Constellations concert, given by Zubin, the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and L'Instant Donné.

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Featuring artists who have long brought climate and our earth into the heart of their work, we hear performances from composer and vocalist Laura Bowler and flautist Ruth Morley, electro-acoustic composer and sound artist Annie Mahtani, pianist and composer Xenia Pestova-Bennett with her Magnetic Resonator Piano and the Ligeti Quartet, at the forefront of new and contemporary music for more than a decade.

Presented by Kate Molleson.

New music and the environment

As the world gathers in Glasgow for the United Nations Climate Change Conference (Cop26), seeking to bring about closer and binding agreements on action required to tackle the major environmental issues we face, the New Music Show will be in Glasgow too, seeking to reflect on how music can respond.

Featuring artists who have brought climate and our earth into the heart of their work, we hear performances from composer and vocalist Laura Bowler and flautist Ruth Morley, electro-acoustic composer and sound artist Annie Mahtani, pianist and composer Xenia Pestova-Bennett with her Magnetic Resonator Piano and the Ligeti Quartet perform John Luther Adams' The Wind in High Places with an introduction recorded by the composer for the New Music Show tonight.

In tonight's Sounding Change, there's another chance to hear sonic artist Raven Chacon reflect on the way the natural world is filtered through his own work and the works of others.

BRIAN ENO: Like I was a spectator

Christian Jost: One small step

Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Gabriel Feltz

Conor Mitchell: Lunaria

Belfast Ensemble

Sarah Hennies: Everything Else

House of Bedlam

Laurence Osborn: Absorber

Zubin Kanga (keyboards)

Sholto Dobie: untitled work

Lisa Lim: Speak, be silent (1st movement)

Riot Ensemble

Kate Molleson introduces the world premiere performance of Michael Gordon's latest choral work, a nod to American cowboy movies where the town marshal meets the bad guys. There's also one of HEINER GOEBBELS's scenic concerts, this one based on FRANZ KAFKA texts on ageing and mortality. Leo Chadburn introduces seventy British common moth species and Cassie To explores a disappearing natural world in a chamber work inspired by the songs of five Australian bird species in danger of being silenced for ever. And the programme ends with a meditation on the loneliness of the long distance runner.

HEINER GOEBBELS: The Excursion into the Mountains

Theatre of Voices, PAUL HILLIER (conductor)

Cassie To: Avialae (for flute,clarinet, cello, percussion and piano)

Ensemble Offspring

Leo Chadburn: The Indistinguishables for narrator and string quartet

GEMMA SAUNDERS (narrator), Bozzini Quartet

Sound of the Week: Hollie Harding talks about a sound that has inspired her work as a composer, researcher and curator of contemporary music.

Michael Gordon: A Western (world premiere)

Tristan Murail: Tellur

Sam Cave (guitar)

LAURENCE CRANE: Piano Piece no.23 'Ethiopian Distance Runners

Mark Knoop (piano)

The best in new music, this time inspired by cowboys, moths, birds, mortality and beyond.

We hear the world premiere recording of David Fennessy's violin concerto 'Blood', with violinist Katherine Hunka and the voices of Chamber Choir Ireland, alongside the strings of the Irish Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Thomas Zehetmair (from Irish broadcaster RTE). Plus music specially recorded last month with vocal ensemble Exaudi at London's Milton Court, and the latest in new releases.

A world premiere recording of David Fennessy's 'Blood

The world premiere recording of David Fennessy's violin concerto, 'Blood', from Irish broadcaster RTE. Plus vocal ensemble Exaudi and the latest in new releases.

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Kate Molleson presents new music for string quartet from Caroline Bordignon and Yfat Soul Zisso, electronic sounds from Annie Mahtani and Curtis Roads, and a recording of Manchester ensemble Distractfold with pieces by founding member Sam Salem and American composer Weston Olencki. Plus the latest Sound of the Week and new releases.

Kate Molleson presents new music for string quartet by Caroline Bordignon and Yfat Soul Zisso, electronic sounds from Annie Mahtani and Curtis Roads, and a recording of Manchester ensemble Distractfold with pieces by founding member Sam Salem and American composer Weston Olencki. Plus this week's Sound of the Week with Kate Carr and a new release from Max de Wardener.

Tom Service presents the latest new music in performance including premieres from the recent Donaueschinger and Nordic Music Days. From Donaueschinger comes Franck Bedrossian's Feu sur moi for 24-part choir and electronics, a hair-raising descent into Hell to a text by Arthur Rimbaud. Also from this major German festival, we have Sara Glojnaric's glitteringly subversive DING, DONG, DARLING! for orchestra and fixed media, “A piece about queer joy. - about chasing that moment of joy, hope, and a sense of lightness triggered by another person's display of unabashed queer joy - It challenges the dominant narrative that being queer is exclusively rooted in pain or trauma and instead recognizes the resilience, resistance, and creativity of LGBTQ+ people.... it's a work filled with references and memories, embracing non normativity, pathos, hyper-pop, camp, glitter, youth, and sexuality in all its aspects and, most importantly, reclaiming joy as an integral part of my artistic practice ?.

And, from Glasgow's Nordic Music Days, the Chaos Quartet plays Leevi Räsänen's 'the two childhoods.' A work which emerges from the Finnish composer's 'Personal need to heal: 'Those who have experienced school violence know the profound and long-term consequences of when just simple words become weapons. Having thought for a long time, that the bullying I experienced during my childhood would've made me stronger - I realized that I had survived it by repressing almost all memories altogether. This piece aims to address that memory-mush -

And, in a show packed with thoroughbreds, comes Thomas van Dun's Rocailles de l'après vie.., the work which won the prestigious International Rostrum of Composers prize for composers under 30 in the Netherlands. The rocailles referring to those ornamental flourishes and flurries that define the gorgeous excesses of rococo churches. “The purpose of these visual stimuli is to delight people ?, Thomas says: “In Rocailles de l'après-vie - these become intertwined flutters and runs...Everything moves and through this overstimulation I want to put the listener in a state of trance. ?

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Tom Service presents some of the latest new music in live performance and recordings

Tom Service presents premieres from Donaueschinger Music Days of works by Franck Bedrossian and Sara Glojnaric plus Leevi Räsänen's 'the two childhoods', from Nordic Music Days.

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Tom Service presents the latest new music in performance including premieres from last month's Donaueschinger Music Days of Franck Bedrossian's Feu sur moi for 24-part choir and electronics and Sara Glojnaric's DING, DONG, DARLING! for orchestra and fixed media. Also tonight, the Chaos Quartet plays Leevi Räsänen's 'the two childhoods', at Nordic Days which took place in Glasgow last weekend.

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Tom Service presents some of the latest new music in live performance and recordings.

Tom Service presents premieres from Donaueschinger Music Days of works by Franck Bedrossian and Sara Glojnaric plus Leevi Räsänen's the two childhoods, from Nordic Music Days.

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The latest in new music from the GBSR Duo and Iceland's Dark Music Days.

Kate Molleson presents highlights from the Dounaueschingen Music Days 2025, he oldest contemporary music festival in the world, which this year explores 'Voices Unbound'. Tonight, Kate introduces a new homage to the memory of Pierre Boulez by Mark Andre, commissioned by SWR, plus world premieres of works by Naomi Pinnock, Hannah Hartman and Laure M. Hiendl.

Kate Molleson presents highlights from the Donaueschingen Music Days 2025.

Kate Molleson presents highlights from the Dounaueschingen Music Days 2025, including world premieres of works by Mark Andre, Naomi Pinnock, Hannah Hartman and Laure M. Hiendl.

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Kate Molleson talks with composer Alex Paxton about his new album Delicious and a new work, Don't Leave Me Behind, which we hear in a performance by Ensemble Modern at Wigmore Hall recorded last month. 12 Ensemble present new music for strings and electronics by Sasha Scott from this year's Norwich & Norfolk Festival; Plus-Minus ensemble play Thomas Stiegler's Paul Klee-inspired work for violin and piano Inferner Park 1; and we hear electronic producer Beatrice Dillon's latest venture into acoustic music with her Sift: Piano, Vibraphone, Other... performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov at Tectonics Glasgow. Plus new releases from Dawn of Midi's Qasim Naqvi, Weston Olincki, and previously unreleased material from two pioneers of their fields, electroacoustic composer Bernard Parmegiani and free improv pianist Cecil Taylor.

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A new work from Alex Paxton performed by Ensemble Modern

Kate Molleson with live recordings of new music by Alex Paxton, Sasha Scott and Beatrice Dillon plus a round-up of the latest new releases

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Clara Ianotta: Moult

WDR Symphony Orchestra

Michael Wendeberg (conductor)

HARRISON BIRTWISTLE: Three Songs from the Holy Forest

Alice Rossi (soprano)

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

Geoffrey Patterson (conductor)

Phill Niblock: Disseminate as Five String Quartets

Quatuor Bozzini

Ann Cleare: the physics of fog, swirling

Ensemblekollektiv Berlin

Titus Engel (conductor)

KAIJA SAARIAHO: Nymph?a

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Also in the show, music for solo violin and electronics played by Rakhi Singh, recorded in concert at Cheltenham Festival last month.

Kate Molleson presents recordings from this year's Eavesdropping festival of experimental music, curated by the singer Juliet Fraser and staged at London's Cafe OTO. Tonight, one of the world's leading players of the ondes martenot, Nathalie Forget, performs music by the Romanian composer Ana-Maria Avram and an improvisation in collaboration with vocalist Audrey Chen. Elsewhere in the programme, there's the chance to hear orchestral music by Katherine Balch and Oliver Leith in performances by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and BBC Symphony Orchestra. Plus Minus Ensemble with two of their 'covers' commissions - modern re-imaginings of landmark 20th-century compositions - and a suite of music for balls - marbles, ping-pong and basketballs - by Ryoji Ikeda recorded at the Barbican in February.

Live performances from the Eavesdropping festival of experimental music in London.

Cutting-edge and experimental new music in live performance, plus interviews and features.

Kate Molleson with live recordings from the Eavesdropping festival of experimental music in London as well as orchestral works by Katherine Balch and Ana Maria Avram.

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Music from Edinburgh-based artists and a conversation with author Val McDermid.

Kaija Saariaho: NoaNoa

Camilla Hoitenga (flute) with Jean-Baptiste Barri耀re (electronics)

Christopher Fox: Early one morning [for clarinet and bass clarinet]

Heather Roche (clarinets)

Christopher Rouse: Iscariot

Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Alan Gilbert (conductor)

Eduardo Reck Miranda: Lampedusa - opera in 3 acts

Emma Tring (soprano), Edward Price (bass), BBC Singers, Nicholas Chalmers (conductor)

recorded at the University of Plymouth, Plymouth Contemporary Music Festival.

Kaija Saariaho: Neiges for 12 cellos WP Recording

Cellos of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Clement Mao-Takacs (conductor)

~New Music Show - including Eduardo Reck Miranda's short opera 'Lampedusa.

Sarah Hennies: Reservoir 1

recorded at the Plymouth Contemporary Music Festival.

Tonight there's music for multi-layer guitar from Glasgow-based Andrew Paine and the world premiere of a new work by Edwin Hillier inspired by the Plastic Combustion artworks that Alberto Burri created in the 1950s and 60s. There's also Magnus Granberg's response to 'the crow,' from Schubert's Winterreise and the winning composition in the 2019 Uuno Klami Composition Competition by Andrea Porteri. He says that his works 'tell of archetypes, of journeys towards the unconscious, and Klecksophonic Lieder represents an important moment in this creative search.... If my cat walks on the piano, it will give rise to an irregular, seemingly casual composition, but if we transcribe that melody and make a specular counterpoint of it, the music will no longer seem so strange to us: it will suggest images, but above all it will stimulate our unconscious, projecting our darkest visions to our conscious mind and better understanding the desires of our deepest interiority.

Javier A. Garavaglia: SPACES: SUSPENDED - SCATTERED

Javier A. Garavaglia (electronics)

Edwin Hillier: Plastica (WP)

Explore Ensemble

Rebecca Saunders: A Visible Trace

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla (conductor)

Andrew Paine: SW / I-IV (The Domestic Tunings)

Andrew Paine (layered guitars, short wave radios, tapes, electronics and solo voice]

Andrea Portera: Klecksophonic Lieder

Valentina Coladonato (soprano), Kymi Sinfonietta, Olari Elts (conductor)

Rishin Singh): thirty oars (for dante)

Dante Boon (piano)

Magnus Granberg and Skogen: ‘Nun, es wird nicht weit mehr gehn

Contemporary sounds especially recorded from the UK and abroad.

Tom Service presents the latest in new music in a show which ranges from the multi-layered electro-acoustic music of New York sound artist Fred Szymanski via the cool, interlocking textures of Lithuanian-born Egidija Medeksaite, to the premiere performance of a major orchestral work by Bent Sørensen which has been occupying him for many years.

Fred Szymanski: Horn Volley

Egidija Medeksaite: Malakosha

Royal Northern Sinfonia, James Weeks (conductor)

Chia-Yin Ling: Intermezzo to the Minotaur

members of the Philharmonia Orchestra, Geoffrey Patterson (conductor)

Georges Aperghis: Graffitis (1980)

Christian Dierstein (percussion and vocalisation)

Bent Sørensen: Symphony No. 2 (first performance)

Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste (conductor)

Magnus Granberg & Skogen: ‘Nun, es wird nicht weit mehr gehn

Chia-Ying Lin: Intermezzo to the Minotaur

Plus, composer Tim Parkinson talks about his musical Inspirations.

Tom Service with a new interpretation of Peter Maxwell Davies's Eight Songs for a Mad King

Neil Charles: Bass Solos 3, 5, 9

Conlon Nancarrow / Lore Lixenberg: Study No. 6

Rolf Hind: Tiger's Nest (extract)

Clarence Barlow: 3,4,5 Reading nimbly through Ives' 3-Page Sonata and Schoenberg's 5 Piano Pieces; Dokumissa '87; Im Januar Am Nil

John Butcher/Joe McPhee: St Ida's Breath (Less her Neck and Teeth)

Lily Greenham: Circulation from Lingual Music

George Lewis: With Derek Bailey

Olly Woodrow Wilson: Cetus

Conlon Nancarrow / Lore Lixenberg: Study No. 3

Liza Lim: Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus: Dawn Chorus

White Boy Scream / Micaela Tobin: Bakunawa

Elaine Mitchener curates and presents two Christmas editions of the New Music Show.

Jennifer Walshe: A Late Anthology of Early Music: Ancient to Renaissance (extracts)

Angharad Davies/Rie Nakajima/Alice Purton: Wet metal

Katalin Ladik: White Bird, Ice Bird, Electric Bird

Matana Roberts: Borderlands - Brooklyn Rider (string quartet)

Andile Khumalo: Andile Khumalo - Ensemble Modern, Vimbayi Kaziboni (conductor)

Audrey Chen: Heavy

Olly Woodrow Wilson: Piano Piece for piano and electronic sound- Natalie Hinderas (piano)

Richard Thomas: I Saw; The Burst - Secluded Bronte

Pamela Z: Pop Titles 'You'; NEMIZ

Anton Lukoszevieze / Arturas Bumsteinas: Lazdinis; Ditk?n? - Zarasai duo

Yvette Janine Jackson: Destination Freedom

Elaine Mitchener curates and presents two Christmas editions of the New Music Show.

Tom Service with cutting-edge and experimental new music.

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George Lewis: Rainbow Family: With Derek Bailey

Katalin Ladik: Phonopoetics

Elaine Mitchener curates and presents two Christmas editions of the New Music Show.

Elaine Mitchener is an experimental vocalist, movement artist and composer. She curates two special editions of the New Music Shows this Christmas. Elaine's playlists are inspired by improvisation, experimental and performance art: works old and new as well as those that have inspired her work as an artist. Throughout the show Elaine is joined online by her new music friends. Today she talks to composer and Professor of American Music at Columbia University, George Lewis about Rainbow Family, a `slice of electro-acoustic music history?? which has just been released on the Carrier label, and to vocalist and composer Lore Lixenberg talks to Elaine about her new project, Nancarrow Karaoke which is about to be released on LP.

Neil Charles: Bass Solos 3, 5, 9

Conlon Nancarrow / Lore Lixenberg: Study No. 6

ROLF HIND: Tiger's Nest (extract)

Clarence Barlow: 3,4,5 Reading nimbly through Ives' 3-Page Sonata and Schoenberg's 5 Piano Pieces; Dokumissa '87; Im Januar Am Nil

John Butcher/Joe McPhee: St Ida's Breath (Less her Neck and Teeth)

Lily Greenham: Circulation from Lingual Music

George Lewis: With Derek Bailey

Olly Woodrow Wilson: Cetus

Conlon Nancarrow / Lore Lixenberg: Study No. 3

Liza Lim: Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus: Dawn Chorus

White Boy Scream / Micaela Tobin: Bakunawa

Jennifer Walshe: A Late Anthology of Early Music: Ancient to Renaissance

Elaine Mitchener curates and presents two Christmas editions of the New Music Show.

Elaine Mitchener is an experimental vocalist, movement artist and composer. She curates the second of two New Music Shows this Christmas. Elaine's playlists are inspired by improvisation, experimental and performance art: works old and new, as well as those that inspire her work as an artist. Throughout the show Elaine is joined online by her new music friends. Tonight Elaine talks to Jennifer Walshe, Audrey Chen and Anton Lukoszevieze and there are specially recorded introductions from Matana Roberts and RICHARD THOMAS.

Jennifer Walshe: A Late Anthology of Early Music: Ancient to Renaissance (extracts)

Angharad Davies/Rie Nakajima/Alice Purton: Wet metal

Katalin Ladik: White Bird, Ice Bird, Electric Bird

Matana Roberts: Borderlands - Brooklyn Rider (string quartet)

Andile Khumalo: Andile Khumalo - Ensemble Modern, Vimbayi Kaziboni (conductor)

Audrey Chen: Heavy

Olly Woodrow Wilson: Piano Piece for piano and electronic sound- Natalie Hinderas (piano)

RICHARD THOMAS: I Saw; The Burst - Secluded Bronte

Pamela Z: Pop Titles 'You'; NEMIZ

Anton Lukoszevieze / Arturas Bumsteinas: Lazdinis; Ditk?n? - Zarasai duo

Yvette Janine Jackson: Destination Freedom

Kate Molleson presents a selection of some of the best new music releases, from solo voice to soundscapes, and introduces our first Home Session, specially recorded at home in Wales by harpist Rhodri Davies, playing a medieval harp that he designed himself.

Siria: Boa Lingua

Adrian Democ: Canon from Kvarteto

Apartment House

Lucy Railton & Peter Zinovieff: RFG Inventions for Cello and Computer

Beatriz Ferreyra : Echos

Home Session: Rhodri Davies performs his new piece for telyn rawn (medieval Welsh harp)

Lea Bertucci: Wind Piece

Lawrence Dunn: While we are both

Juliet Fraser (soprano)

Robert Barry: Physics out of school hours

Kate Molleson presents a selection of the best new music releases.

Kate Molleson introduces some of the latest sounds, including a performance of Beat Furrer's astonishing Piano Concerto and the world premiere of the most recent instalment of Éliane Radigue's epic Occam series. Recorded at Wigmore Hall a fortnight ago at the culmination of London Contemporary Music Festival's 10th anniversary programme, Ensemble Klang performs Occam Delta XXIII by the 92-year-old composer, one of the early pioneers of drone music. And, at the BBC Studios in December, Nicolas Hodges is the soloist in Swiss-born Austrian composer Beat Furrer's Piano Concerto. A work which ranges, from the subtlest articulations to an almost brutal power, it explores piano sound, especially its 'resonances, overtone spectra and pedalizations,' and ends in a vortex of notes hammered out in the highest register.

Kate Molleson introduces some of the most adventurous sounds in experimental music.

The latest sounds, including the world premiere of the latest instalment of Éliane Radigue's epic Occam series and a performance of Beat Furrer's astonishing Piano Concerto.

Kate Molleson introduces some of the latest sounds, including a performance of Beat Furrer's astonishing Piano Concerto and the world premiere of the most recent instalment of Éliane Radigue's epic Occam series. Recorded at Wigmore Hall a fortnight ago at the culmination of London Contemporary Music Festival's 10th anniversary programme, Ensemble Klang performs Occam Delta XXIII by the 93-year-old composer, one of the early pioneers of drone music. And, at the BBC Studios in December, Nicolas Hodges is the soloist in Swiss-born Austrian composer Beat Furrer's Piano Concerto. A work which ranges, from the subtlest articulations to an almost brutal power, it explores piano sound, especially its 'resonances, overtone spectra and pedalizations,' and ends in a vortex of notes hammered out in the highest register. Also in the show, two parts of Christopher Trapani's Noise Uprising, an 'electronic collage' capturing the sound and spirit of port cities around the world. Tonight's journey take us to Lisbon, Istanbul, Smyrna, Piraeus and Honolulu in the company of vocalist Sofia Jernberg and the ensemble Zwerm.

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Finnish composer Lara Poe's Kaamos, is a ten-minute long orchestral exploration of the unique limbo between darkness and daylight whilst Enno Poppe's 50-minute Prozession - `Procession?? - is a breathtakingly imaginative homage to the processional music of Berlioz and Mahler. But Poppe's work uses the orchestra - which includes electric guitars, trumpets and saxophones - with the utmost economy. The performance from Cologne-based Ensemble Musikfabrik was one of the hottest tickets at last November's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

Enno Poppe's 50-minute Prozession from Huddersfield and Lara Poe's Polar Night.

Tom Service with new music by Mark Simpson and David Horne, played by Ensemble 10:10.

Exaudi sing music by Linda Catlin Smith and J\u00fcrg Frey.

Tom Service presents the latest new music in performance with a focus tonight on the work of composer Matthew Shlomowitz, who discusses his recent collaborations and projects including Explorations in Polytonality and Other Musical Wonders - we hear Volume 2 from that series in a recording by Apsara at London's Cafe Oto in June. Also tonight, Lisa Streich's new trumpet concerto Meduse, performed by the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra with soloist Simon Höfele, a recording of Dai Fujikura's Glacier for bass flute, as well as new releases from Matilde Meireles, Ueno Takashi and Oliver Coates.

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Tom Service with new music from Matthew Shlomowitz and Lisa Streich.

Tom Service with new music from Matthew Shlomowitz and Lisa Streich plus music for solo bass flute by Dai Fujikura.

Tom Service presents the latest new music in performance, including Matthew Shlomowitz's suite of short pieces for recorders, Explorations in Polytonality and Other Musical Wonders Volume 2, performed by Apsara at London's Cafe OTO last June. Also tonight, Lisa Streich's new trumpet concerto Meduse performed by the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra with soloist Simon Höfele, and a recording of Dai Fujikura's Glacier for bass flute.

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The Explore Ensemble and their director Nicholas Moroz present music from Clarence Barlow, Oliver Leith and Lisa Illean, amongst others, for a variable line-up, ranging from electronics to small chamber ensemble. And Philipp Maintz's Piano Concerto is heard in its latest form at the 2020 Musikprotokoll in Linz.

Philipp Maintz: Piano Concerto

Joonas Ahonen (piano)

ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra, MARIN ALSOP (conductor)

The latest music: Philipp Maintz's Piano Concerto and a BBC session from Explore Ensemble.

Kate Molleson presents the latest in new music performance, including a studio session from the Explore Ensemble, directed by Nicholas Moroz.

MICHAEL FINNISSY: Alternative Readings

JAMES WEEKS: Summer

Clara Iannotta: Limun

Mauro Lanza: JSB Bleibet Meine Freude

Cassandra Miller: Perfect Offering

plus new radiophonic music from the recent Counterflows Festival in Glasgow, by Annea Lockwood and Nakul Krishnamurthy.

The latest in new music performance with Explore Ensemble in session.

Kate Molleson presents the latest in new music, with a studio session by Explore Ensemble.

The Explore Ensemble and their director Nicholas Moroz present music from Lisa Illean, Oliver Leith and Clarence Barlow, amongst others. And Tom talks to Phlipp Maintz about his long-held fascination with writing a piano concerto. Also tonight, a disturbing work for vocalist and ensemble by Jason Yarde dedicated to the memory of George Floyd.

The latest in new music performance, with a BBC session from Explore Ensemble

The Explore Ensemble and their director Nicholas Moroz present music from Lisa Illean, Oliver Leith and Clarence Barlow, amongst others. And Tom talks to Philipp Maintz about his long-held fascination with writing a piano concerto. Also tonight, a disturbing work for vocalist and ensemble, by Jason Yarde dedicated to the memory of George Floyd.

TOM SERVICE presents more of the best in new music performance, with a round-up from some of 2021's most important festivals, including Musikprotokoll in Austria, Donaueschingen in Germany and the UK's Hudddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

Mochizuki: Intrusions

Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra

conducted by Ilan Volkov

Simon Steen-Andersen: Pretty sound (up and down)

Zubin Kanga (keyboards)

Loic Destremau: No musical equivalent

dissonArt ensemble

Enno Poppe: Hirn

Natasha Barrett: Hidden Values

(electronic music)

Beat Furrer: Tableaux

SWR Symphony Orchestra

Conducted by Brad Lubman

Christian Winther Christensen: andante con moto

Georgia Rodgers: Ringinglow

Loic Destremau: Faulty Waterwork

Simon Steen-Andersen: Pretty sound (up & down)

Kate Molleson presents the latest in new music performance, including a studio session from the Fidelio Trio, and music from the recent Tectonics Festival in Glasgow.

Ellen Arkbro: it's been a long time

Zinc & Copper

Daniela Terranova: Black Ink On Rice Paper

Barbara Monk Feldman: Verses

George Barton (vibraphone)

Ingrid Laubrock: Drilling (Part One)

Mesias Maiguashca: El mundo en que vivimos

David Fennessy: Piano Trio no.2 In Memoriam Spencer Boney

Edgardo Rudnitzky: Musica Nocturna

Philip Corner: MusicArt Ideal

Philip Corner and Tectonics performers

Keith Tippett: The Sigh

Jim O'Rourke: Too Compliment

From the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Symphonic Electronics season event earlier this year, a performance of Steven Daverson's Figures Outside a Dacha, With Snowfall, and an Abbey in the background inspired by the final scene from Andrei Tarkovsky's film Nostalghia, in the UK premiere of a BBC co-commission. Also featured tonight: Riot Ensemble in concert with duo concertos by Shin Kim and Andrea Balency-Béarn, student composers at the Royal Academy of Music; Belfast's Hard Rain Ensemble perform the music of Polish composer Agnieszka Stulgińska; a live set from Tim Cape and Alex Ward recorded at London's Cafe Oto; plus a selection of the latest new releases. With Tom Service.

Tom Service with new music by Steven Daverson, Andrea Balency-Béarn and Shin Kim plus a set from Tim Cape and Alex Ward live at Cafe Oto and a round-up of new releases.

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Linda Buckley: Fire and Ice

Red Note Ensemble

Stefan Prins: Piano Hero no.1

Zubin Kanga (keyboard)

Carola Bauckholt: Zugvogel

Calefax Reed Quintet

Kenneth Hesketh: Uncoiling the River

Clare Hammond (piano)

BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by MARTYN BRABBINS

Lisa Illean: Cantor

Alice Rossi (soprano)

BCMG

Kate Molleson presents new music recorded in concert and new CD releases.

Red Note Ensemble and Any Enemy

The programme also includes music by Benjamin Tassie, Delia Derbyshire, Melinda Maxwell and Heloise Werner.

A major new work from Liza Lim plus recordings from Birmingham including a collaborative project between composers and the piano trio, Flow Unit 3 - introduced by Kate Molleson.

Jocelyn Campbell describes his forever1990 as 'a very personal collage of dreamstates and musical fragments that have been swimming in and out of my consciousness for years...a sort of musical diary, a fluid collage of my own ideas set into a continuous and unbroken thread spanning from the present moment all the way back to my childhood.' And this fifty minute work certainly took Wigmore Hall by storm at its premiere at the end of June. Also from that concert comes a study in friction: Clara Iannotta's Limun for violin, viola and two page-turners. Also in the show Chiyoko Slavnics' Constellations for piano and sound waves from Music we'd Like to Hear.

Cutting-edge experimental music especially recorded around the UK and beyond

Jocelyn Campbell's forever1990 premiered by Riot Ensemble at Wigmore Hall and Tonia Ko's Surge Out from Cafe Oto's Eavesdropping. Also works by Tonia Ko and Donnachy Dennehy.

TOM SERVICE presents the best in new music performance. This week's programme includes live recordings from the Uproar Ensemble, recorded earlier this year at Galeri Caernarfon in Wales, including KAIJA SAARIAHO's Lichtbogen, from 1986 which was inspired by the Northern Lights, and Tristan Murail's piece, written in 2000, Winter Fragments.

TOM SERVICE presents the best in new music performance. This week's programme includes live recordings from Wales's new music ensemble, Uproar - recorded earlier this year at Galeri Caernarfon and including KAIJA SAARIAHO's Lichtbogen, which was inspired by the Northern Lights, and Tristan Murail's Winter Fragments. The Ivors Composer Awards are celebrating their twentieth anniversary and during the weeks leading up to an exclusive New Music Show dedicated to the awards on Saturday 19th November, we'll broadcast a work by a previous winner - this week, Skin by Rebecca Saunders. There are new releases of music by Kotoka Suzuki and John Luther Adams and this week's 'Sounding Change' is presented by Natalia Tsypryk - a London based Ukrainian composer who talks about composition happening in Ukraine at the moment and about her own piece which she created using the sound of the air raid sirens she recorded in Kyiv this summer.

TOM SERVICE presents more of the best in new music performance.

Kate Molleson presents the freshest cutting-edge and experimental new music.

Kate has a performance from Belfast's Sonorities Festival as Panos Ghikas, Wobbly and Jennifer Walshe fuse acoustic and sampled sound in a thrilling live show to explore the limits of sound, text and time in FUTURE PEOPLE (ARE JUST OPTIONAL). Kate chats to Jennifer and Panos about how the piece explores our relationship with history, our future and technology.

Kate also presents music by the East Asian ensemble Shio Mo, a Soliloquy for harp and electronics from the Bangor Music Festival and we celebrate 100 years of the BBC Singers with a work by Hannah Kendall inspired by the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Plus new music by guitarist Raphael Roginski, saxophonist John Butcher, a stunningly beautiful song setting by Anders Hillborg and pop star Eva Dahlgren and sound artist and composer Lia Kohl's audio love letter to unloved everyday sounds.

A concert from the Sonorities Festival as Panos Ghikas, Wobbly and Jennifer Walshe explore the limits of sound, text and time in Future People (Are Just Optional)

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Plus recent releases by Mayssa Jallad, Lucy Railton and Catherine Lamb; and a big orchestral work, Enno Poppe's Fett, recorded in concert in Switzerland.

Kate Molleson with the latest in new music performance, featuring Gavin Bryars.

Kate Molleson presents new music in performance, including works by Gavin Bryars, played by Phaedra Ensemble and trumpeter Laura Jurd at Kings Place, London.

Tom Service with the very latest in new music performance including new recordings of pieces by Emily Howard and Gavin Bryars.

The latest in new music from Anna Korsun, Gerald Barry and Georg Friedrich Haas.

Tom Service introduces some of the latest sounds from the world of new music including recordings from the Illuminate Women's Music series, a report on a 200-day-long performance at the Venice Biennale and a recent day of concerts at Wigmore Hall featuring the chamber music of Gerald Barry. There's Ukrainian, Anna Korsun's Plexus played to great acclaim recently by Riot Ensemble at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and a modern classic in the form of Georg Friedrich Haas's Concerto grosso No. 1 for 4 Alphorns and Orchestra in a performance from the year's Salzburg Festival.

Tom Service presents a special focus on George Benjamin in his 60th birthday year, with new recordings of a selection of his orchestral works.

George Benjamin: Duet for piano and orchestra

Tamara Stefanovich (piano)

George Benjamin: Mind of Winter

Claire Booth (soprano)

George Benjamin: Dance Figures

BBC Philharmonic conducted by Clark Rundell

plus Robert Worby's in-depth interview with George Benjamin discussing his life in music.

Also in tonight's show, a Home session from Neil Luck, a radiophonic extravaganza about poltergeists; there's new music for ensemble by Clara Iannotta and Michelle Lou, played by the London Sinfonietta and Distractfold; and trombonist Gary MacPhee plays Arne Nordheim's The Return of the Snark.

Kate Molleson presents more of the best in new music performance, including recordings from Aberdeen Sound and Huddersfield Contemporary Music festivals, and a focus on composer George Lewis from Borealis - a festival for experimental music in Bergen.

George Lewis is a senior figure in American music, he was a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in Chicago and an electronic computer music pioneer, and he is currently Professor of American Music at Columbia University.

George Lewis: Big Shoulders, Sharp Elbows (world premiere)

Norwegian Navy Band

Fumiko Miyachi: Hedge

NEXT Ensemble

Heinz Holliger: Pneuma

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

conducted by Ilan Volkov

Sarah W退ry: Gang bang

Nadia Ratsemandresy (ondes Martenot)

Martin Matalon: Formas de Arena

Ensemble TM+

George Lewis: Memorial

Elaine Mitchener (vocal) and tape

George Lewis: Kulokker (world premiere)

new releases from Toupaye and Kristine Tjogersen, and a focus on composer George Lewis from Borealis - a festival for experimental music in Bergen.

Norwegian Naval Forces Band conducted by Ingar Bergby

Lori Freedman: To the bridge

Lori Freedman (bass clarinet & voice)

New music by George Lewis, Fumiko Miyachi, Heinz Holliger and Lori Freedman

Music by George Lewis from Darmstadt, and a major new work by Laurence Crane

Kate Molleson looks forward to Gy\u00f6rgy Kurt\u00e1g's opera Endgame at the BBC Proms.

Kate Molleson looks forward Gy\u00f6rgy Kurt\u00e1g's opera Endgame at the BBC Proms.

Kristine Tjogersen: Spiracle

Norwegian Navy Band

Daya Zvezdina: The boy with a wolf eye is melting and there is nothing I can do

Apartment House

ANTHONY BRAXTON: Ghost Trance Music

Plus Minus with Kobe Van Cauwenberghe (guitar)

Raquel Garc퀀a-Tomကs: Aequae

London Sinfonietta

Also tonight, in our Sounding Change feature, composer and performer ALWYNNE PRITCHARD considers the impact of motorised road traffic on her environment and her own music.

Kate Molleson presents new music from ANTHONY BRAXTON and Anna Clyne.

Michael Oesterle: Kingfisher

Bozzini Quartet

Royal Norwegian Navy Band

Darya Zvezdina: The boy with a wolf eye is melting & there is nothing I can do

Larry Goves: Borneo Rivers 2

Heather Roche (clarinet)

Daphne Oram: Still Point (1st movement)

Shiva Feshareki (turntables)

James Bulley (electronics)

London Contemporary Orchestra conducted by Robert Ames

Nicole Lizee: Sepulchre

Ensemble Resonanz

Matthew Shlomowitz and Friends: Home Session

Linda Catlin Smith: Nuages

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov

Matthew Shlomowitz: Glücklich glücklich freude freude

Mark Knoop (piano and synthesizer)

SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Emilio Pomarico

Rhodri Davies: Ffarwel Arddol

Rhodri Davies (harp)

Carla Rees: Nightsong

Carla Rees (flute)

Nicole Lizee: Sepulchre

Ensemble Resonanz

Matthew Shlomowitz and Friends: Home Session

Linda Catlin Smith: Nuages

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov

Matthew Shlomowitz: Glücklich glücklich freude freude

Mark Knoop (piano and synthesizer)

SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Emilio Pomarico

Rhodri Davies: Ffarwel Arddol

Rhodri Davies (harp)

Carla Rees: Nightsong

Carla Rees (flute)

Soosan Lolavar interviews Hannah Kendall about the influences behind the works on her recent portrait album Shouting Forever into the Receiver; we hear a new work from Cassandra Miller performed by Apartment House at London's Cafe Oto; and from this year's Norfolk & Norwich Festival, Oliver Leith's Doom and the Dooms for electric guitar and ensemble, performed by Sean Shibe, 12 Ensemble and GBSR Duo, conceived as a live set by an imagined band from an alternative reality.

Soosan Lolavar with live performance of new work by Oliver Leith and Cassandra Miller plus an interview with composer Hannah Kendall

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Kate Molleson presents music from a recent Apartment House concert featuring the work Juta Pranulyt? and Zoltan Jeney, recorded at London's Wigmore Hall last month. We have another past winner from the Ivors Composer Awards in our series celebrating the event's 20th anniversary: Harrison Birtwistle's Night's Black Bird, and a live recording of Larry Goves's House of Bedlam ensemble, from a recent performance at Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. Plus new releases from Koma Saxo, Herva and In Situ Ens.

As the composer says: 'In this suite of seven movements I am aiming for a new kind of symphonic experience. It involves immersive listening, and a way of sharing in the noticing of often inconsequential, yet hugely-beautiful sounds. The music aims to capture both the delicate fragility and massive power of our world, and to illustrate simply what we stand to lose in the environment crisis we are now in. It is my view that through the act of noticing our surroundings we can begin to value our world more. Natural elements are frequently referenced in the music (weather, times of day, natural phenomena and the seasons), as are the human imprints left in our world (machinery, vehicles, pattern-making, conversation). Hearing Places celebrates the rich audio and visual patterns found all around us, and I've spent the last year travelling to all corners of Wales collecting field recordings and video clips of interesting places that have captured my imagination. These small building blocks of pitch, rhythm, and pattern in turn then became the materials for the creation of the music itself. Sometimes I simply made a natural emotional response in terms of mood and feeling, and at other times took a more forensic approach....Sometimes a place may be recognisable, but very often it remains abstract and mysterious.

Colin Riley: Hearing Places

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Matthew Coorey (conductor)

Cutting-edge music including Colin Riley's Hearing Places inspired by the Welsh landcsape

The latest in new music including the world premiere of Colin Riley's Hearing Places, inspired by a year-long quest to capture the fragility and power of the Welsh landscape.

As the composer says: 'In this suite of seven movements I am aiming for a new kind of symphonic experience. It involves immersive listening, and a way of sharing in the noticing of often inconsequential, yet hugely-beautiful sounds. The music aims to capture both the delicate fragility and massive power of our world, and to illustrate simply what we stand to lose in the environment crisis we are now in. It is my view that through the act of noticing our surroundings we can begin to value our world more. Natural elements are frequently referenced in the music (weather, times of day, natural phenomena and the seasons), as are the human imprints left in our world (machinery, vehicles, pattern-making, conversation). Hearing Places celebrates the rich audio and visual patterns found all around us, and I've spent the last year travelling to all corners of Wales collecting field recordings and video clips of interesting places that have captured my imagination. These small building blocks of pitch, rhythm, and pattern in turn then became the materials for the creation of the music itself. Sometimes I simply made a natural emotional response in terms of mood and feeling, and at other times took a more forensic approach....Sometimes a place may be recognizable, but very often it remains abstract and mysterious.

Tonight, Kate Molleson presents intensely jubilant orchestral music built on the heartbeat of his unborn daughter by David Fennessy, and Cairo-based Maurice Louca's ensemble unveil a panoramic suite with elements of cosmic jazz, Arabic melody, trancelike Yemeni music and minimalism. Plus an in-depth interview with the increasingly significant Berlin-based composer Rebecca Saunders: she has built entire pieces on something as small as the shift from one pitch to another, while recently, her music has taken a sculptural approach to space as well as sound.

And a spotlight on two leading Canadian composers with very individual voices - Cassandra Miller and Linda Catlin Smith.

Christian Winther Christensen: Almost in G (1st movement)

Scenatet

David Fennessy: The Ground (WP, BBC Commission)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Thomas Dausgaard

Emily Hall: Two songs: 'I am Happy' & 'End of the Ending

Hermes Experiment

Maurice Louca: 'Elephantine' & 'Al Khawaga

Ensemble led by Maurice Louca (piano, guitar)

Robert Worby interviews composer Rebecca Saunders in depth about her music.

Hildur Gu

Kate Molleson introduces some of the latest sounds in the world of new music.

Tom Service introduces the latest sounds in new music including the sound artist, Sara Pinheiro's live responses to the sound of a radio in her Reticencias, and the whisper-thin delicacies of German master, Helmut Lachenmann's String Quartet No. 2 'Dance of the Blessed Spirits'. Also tonight, in the Robert Worby Interview, Stephen Montague - who turned eighty earlier this year - talks to Robert about his work as a pianist, composer. As he says: 'I write music to engage an audience, to seduce them sometimes by stealth...Variety is my oxygen.

Tom Service introduces a pick of some of the latest sounds in new music.

Tom Service with the latest in new music performance.

Miguel Flores: Lorca: Lost Tapes

Mira Calix: DMe

CH Loh: Morning at Klang harbour

Mei Yi Foo, piano

Tania Leon: Indigena

Ensemble Moderne

inti figgis-vizueta - no words

Gleb Kanasevich - clarinet and electronics

Anna Meredith: Fin like a Flower

Joel Rust: Pack of Orders

Jennifer Curtis & Tyshawn Sorey: Invisible Ritual

Daniel Kidane: Foreign Tongues

Max Baillie and Vahajn Matossian: Super String Blue

The latest in new music performance, with Kate Molleson.

Kate Molleson with an eclectic selection of new music, including works by CH Loh from the Malaysian Composers' Collective, Tania Leon and inti figgis-vizueta, along with music recently recorded by Hermes Experiment in the Concert Hall of Broadcasting House:

Walter Smetak: Espelhos

The Hermes Experiment

Max Baillie and Vahakn Matossian: Super String Blue

Walter Smetak & Conjunto de Microtons: Convite

Klaus Lang: ABD

Also today, a look at New York composer Du Yun, born and raised in Shanghai, China, who works at the intersection of orchestral, opera, chamber music, theatre, cabaret, oral tradition, public performances, sound installation, electronics, visual arts, and noise.

Rebecca Saunders: Molly's Song 3

Marie-Christine Zupancic (flute), Christopher Yates (viola), Tom McKinney (guitar)

ANDREW TOOVEY: Music for the painter Jack Smith

Ed Pether (solo violin), Nathanael Gubler (solo viola),

with ensemble - Renate Sokolovska (flute), Mana Shibata (oboe), Stanley Kaye-Smith (bassoon), Iris van den Bos (percussion), Laura Farre Rozada (piano), Boglarka Gy怀rgy (violin), James Heathcote (cello), Michael Coleby (conductor)

At first glance, the one predictable thing about Du Yun, the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, performer, and multimedia artist, is her unpredictability. Dig deeper, though, and you can sense the conjoined strands of curiosity and compassion that run through everything she makes.

Georg Friedrich Haas: Hommage

Kate Molleson presents a show which takes us from Georg Friedrich Haas's sensitive response to the work of Bridget Riley - on show for another fortnight at London's Hayward Gallery - to the soundscape of a burning piano. And before that comes the macabre humour and delirium of 'History of Bestiality,' for percussion and experimental rock band: it's a fusion of contemporary music, noise, cabaret, spoken words, pop and rock inspired by Jens Bjørneboe's 'Bestiality Trilogy.

Georg Friedrich Haas: Hommage ࠀBridget Riley

London Sinfonietta, Brad Lubman (conductor)

MoE/Pinquins: Good night, The dream (taken from page 127 `The moment of freedom`), Before the Cock Crows

Annea Lockwood: Piano Burning

Clipping Ensemble

The best new music including a hommage to Bridget Riley by Georg Friedrich Haas.

Sam Longbottom & Tanguy Pocquet: threaded/spinning/abrading/possibly breaking

Simon Knighton: Sound Sculpture No 6

Julian Anderson: Tombeau

Nunca vi Granada

Tom in conversation with Eugene Ughetti about his and Philip Samartzis's Antarctic inspired sound installation `Polar Force - Array'.

Cat Hope; Tone Being for solo tam tam

Decibel

Larry Goves: Crow Rotations

Juliet Fraser (soprano)

Tom Service presents concert performances by BCMG and House of Bedlam.

Julian Anderson: Tombeau, Nunca vi Granada

TOM SERVICE presents the latest cutting-edge new music in performance, including the work of experimental collective Bastard Assignments live at Snape Maltings in Aldeburgh earlier this month, highlights from a recent Nonclassical event in London showcasing House of Bedlam and the pianist Zubin Kanga, UK premieres of orchestral works by Ana Lara and Bruno Mantovani performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and Angharad Davies's Solo Violin and Four Bass Amps recorded at Cafe Oto in London as part of the Kammerklang series.

The best new music in live performance, plus interviews and features. With TOM SERVICE.

TOM SERVICE presents the latest cutting-edge new music in performance, including the work of experimental collective Bastard Assignments live at Snape Maltings in Aldeburgh earlier this month, highlights from a recent Nonclassical event in London showcasing Larry Gove's group House of Bedlam and the pianist Zubin Kanga, UK premieres of orchestral works by Ana Lara and Bruno Mantovani performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and Angharad Davies's Solo Violin and Four Bass Amps recorded at Cafe Oto in London as part of the Kammerklang series.

Described as music that moves, that rages, and ultimately that unites us, Houses Slide describes one woman's intimate psychological journey to figure out her response to the climate crisis, from an initial depressing realisation of the gravity of the issue, through to her refusal to be overwhelmed and decision to take positive action.

Laura Bowler Houses Slide (2021: world premiere)

Jessica Aszodi, mezzo-soprano

Matt Fairclough, live electronics

Sian Edwards, conductor

Kate Molleson presents the world premiere of Laura Bowler's Houses Slide

Also on the programme, music commissioned for Crash Ensemble's Reaction project as part of New Music Dublin 2021, and new releases from Tansy Davies, Carmen Baliero and Yuji Takahashi.

David Fennessy: JACK for two unplugged electric guitars

Rachael Lavelle: There is the Space Between Your Hand and Mine

Yuji Takahashi: 6 Stoicheia

Tokyo Contemporary Soloists

Yoichi Sugiyama, conductor

Anna Murray: Cross-purposes

Carmen Baliero: Dale

Carmen Baliero, singer

Anselm McDonnell: Cross-purposes

Deirdre Gribbin: Provoked City

Tansy Davies: Dune of Footprints

Norwegian Radio Orchestra

Karen Kamensek, conductor

Carmen Baliero: Solo

Saxophone legend Evan Parker leads an improvised set with his Electro-Acoustic Quartet, soprano Lore Lixenberg sings surreal songs by Isidore Isou, violist Elisabeth Smalt plays music by Frank Denyer, Anthony Brown and Carl Raven (saxophones) play a duet by Composer In Residence Hanna Hartman, and pianist Philip Thomas plays early pieces by the New York modernist Morton Feldman.

Kate Molleson hosts a concert live from the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

Omri Abram: Zohar (UKP)

Riot Ensemble

Heinz Holliger: Increschantum (UKP)

Juliet Fraser (soprano) and Sonar Quartet

Ann Cleare: eyam IV (UKP)

Hanna Hartman: Message from the lighthouse (UKP)

Jonny Axelsson (percussion)

Isou: Juvenal Symphony no.4 (excerpt)

Highlights from the 2019 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

Owen Green: Race to the bottom (WP)

Owen Green (cardboard box and electronics)

Hanna Hartman: Central heating (UKP)

Dafne Vicente-Sandoval (bassoon and potato starch)

Lisa Streich: Zucker (UKP)

Riot Ensemble conducted by Aaron Holloway-Nahum

Frank Denyer: The fish that became the sun (WP)

Benjamin Marquise Gilmore (violin)

Octandre Ensemble conducted by John Hargreaves

Plus reports on Christine Sun Kim's new work for Ensemble Contrechamps,Deaf, Not Mute; and Iced Bodies, a piece for melting ice sculpture by Seth Parker Woods and Spencer Topel.

Kate Molleson presents live from this year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the first of four programmes from this long-running key event in the new music world. Tonight we hear a live performance of Anthony Braxton's Composition 284 - part of the composer's Ghost Trance Music system - by guitarist Kobe Van Cauwenberghe and turntablist Mariam Rezai. Also tonight, the eight trumpets of the Monochrome Project perform a new work by one of this year's featured composers, Wadada Leo Smith, keyboardist Zubin Kanga plays the dazzling music of Alex Paxton, and Tom Service explores Yrttitarha, one of the multimedia installations at the festival, an interactive herb garden from Finnish artist Tytti Arola.

Live edition from Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

Kate Molleson presents a live performance of Anthony Braxton's Composition 284 by guitarist Kobe Van Cauwenberghe and turntablist Mariam Rezai.

Kate Molleson presents live from this year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the first of four programmes from this long-running key event in the new music world. Tonight we hear a live performance of Anthony Braxton's Ghost Trance Music by guitarist Kobe Van Cauwenberghe and turntablist Mariam Rezai, the Arditti Quartet with a new work from Diana Soh and the eight trumpets of the Monochrome Project with a new work by one of this year's featured composers, Wadada Leo Smith.

Kate Molleson presents a live edition from this year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, including a performance of Anthony Braxton's Ghost Trance Music.

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Tom Service reports from this year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, with interviews and live recordings from across this 10-day international event. Tonight, music for string quartet by featured composer Wadada Leo Smith; we'll hear the fruits of a collaboration between GBSR Duo (UK) and Twenty Fingers Duo (Lithuania), as well as pieces from Finland's defunensemble and the eight trumpets of the Monochrome Project.

Tom Service with highlights from this year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

Tom Service with live recordings and interviews from this year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival including featured composer Wadada Leo Smith

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Kate Molleson with more recordings from this year's event, including a world premiere from featured composer Claudia Molitor and excerpts from Christopher Trapani's Noise Uprising for the guitars of Belgian group Zwerm and the voices of Sophia Burgos and Sofia Jernberg, a work he describes as a 'polystylistic atlas' exploring connections between musical traditions around the world as heard on the 78 rpm records of yesteryear.

Kate Molleson with more from this year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

Kate Molleson with recordings from this year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival including works by Christopher Trapani and Claudia Molitor.

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Tom Service presents the final installment of music from this year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Keyboard player Zubin Kanga performs the world premiere of Alex Ho's Cyborg Etudes, the duos of Twenty Fingers and GBSR combine for the music of Lithuanian composer Julius Aglinskas, and we hear a complete performance of Enno Poppe's monumental new piece for 10 drum kits, Streik, co-commissioned by hcmf// and performed by Percussion Orchestra Cologne.

Tom Service with the last installment of highlights from this year's event

Tom Service with the final installment of highlights from this year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, including music by Alex Ho, Julius Aglinskas and Enno Poppe.

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Tom Service reports from the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival with highlights from the first weekend including Riot Ensemble playing Anna Korsun, feedback-inspired electronic music by Yoko Konishi and a work for eight trumpets by Lithuanian composer Juste Janulyte, performed at a late night concert by The Monochrome Project at St Paul's Hall. Ensemble intercontemporain showcase the music of Composer In Residence Lisa Streich, and we hear from the Ukrainian composers behind Chernobyldorf, a dystopian, 'archaeological' opera which was staged at Bates Mill Blending Shed on the opening night of the festival.

Eric Gee: Mouthpiece 37 (UKP)

Ensmble Lovemusic

Heloise Tunstall-Behrens: Tricomes (WP - BBC R3 Commission)

Riot Ensemble

Misato Mochizuki: Brains

Lisa Streich: Sternenstill (UKP)

Cat Hope/Lionel Marchetti: The Earth Deafeats Me

Decibel

Una Monaghan: Notwithstanding (WP)

Una Monaghan (harp)

Saxophone legend Evan Parker leads an improvised set with his Electro-Acoustic Quartet, soprano Lore Lixenberg sings surreal songs by Isidore Isou, violist Elisabeth Smalt plays music by Frank Denyer, Anthony Brown and Carl Raven (saxophones) play a duet by Composer In Residence Hanna Hartman, and pianist Philip Thomas plays early pieces by the New York modernist Morton Feldman.

Kate Molleson hosts a concert live from the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

Heinz Holliger: Increschantum (UKP)

Juliet Fraser (soprano) and Sonar Quartet

Christine Sun Kim: New Work (UKP)

Ensemble Contrechamps

Hanna Hartman: Message from the lighthouse

Jonny Axelsson (percussion)

Highlights from the 2019 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

Tom Service introduces highlights from the recent Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, including music by Composer In Residence Hanna Hartman and senior Swiss modernist Heinz Holliger, and a report on an audio-visual installation by Claudia Molitor at Temporary Contemporary Gallery.

Omri Abram: Zohar (UKP)

Riot Ensemble

Ann Cleare: eyam IV (UKP)

Hanna Hartman: Message from the lighthouse (UKP)

Isou: Juvenal Symphony no.4 (excerpt)

Ann Cleare: On magnetic fields

Riot Ensemble

Rodrigo Constanzo: solo percussion improvisation

Hanna Hartman: Termite territory (UKP)

We Spoke

Ann Cleare: Eyam IV

Tom Service introduces highlights from the 2019 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

Tom Service introduces highlights from the recent Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, including music by Composer In Residence Hanna Hartman and by Ann Cleare, and an interview with Nadia Ratsimandresy about the mysterious soundworld of the ondes Martenot.

Leafcutter John: Line Crossing

Zeena Parkins: Charette

Nadia Ratsimandresy (ondes Martenot)

Charmaine Lee: Smoke, airs

Wet Ink

Ivan Fedele: Breath and break

Ensemble Contrechamps

Tom Service introduces highlights from the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, including the world premiere of a major work by Frank Denyer, and reports on happenings around the festival.

Owen Green: Race to the bottom (WP)

Owen Green (cardboard box and electronics)

Hanna Hartman: Central heating (UKP)

Dafne Vicente-Sandoval (bassoon and potato starch)

Lisa Streich: Zucker (UKP)

Riot Ensemble conducted by Aaron Holloway-Nahum

Frank Denyer: The fish that became the sun (WP)

Benjamin Marquise Gilmore (violin)

Octandre Ensemble conducted by John Hargreaves

Plus reports on Christine Sun Kim's new work for Ensemble Contrechamps,Deaf, Not Mute; and Iced Bodies, a piece for melting ice sculpture by Seth Parker Woods and Spencer Topel.

Tonia Ko: Soothe a tooth

Stephen Upshaw (viola)

Jenny Hettne: Whispering c(h)ords, quietly falling

Riot Ensemble conducted by Aaron Holloway-Nahum

James Dillon: Emblemata: Carnival

Red Note Ensemble conducted by Geoffrey Paterson

Chaya Czernowin: Fast darkness I: I can see your turned eyes from inside your body

Hannah Kendall: Tuxedo: 'Hot summer no water

Louis McMonagle (cello)

The Huddersfield Festival is the UK's leading festival for new music, and this year's composer in residence was Chaya Czernowin, whose major piece for orchestra and bass clarinet 'Fast darkness..' features in tonight's show.

Czernowin's work is often compared to archaeology. Rather than writing linear pieces, her music digs downwards, into the earth, in search of sounds and sensations.

Tom Service talks to her and other featured composers, and reports on the sound installations that also ran during the festival.

Tom Service presents highlights from last week's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

Exciting international new music from first-class performers, and interviews with the featured composers, all recorded at the UK's leading festival of new music. The programme includes performances from Zubin Kanga and the London Sinfonietta and the UK premiere of a major new work by the festival's composer-in-residence, Chaya Czernowin, 'Fabrication of Light' performed by Ensemble MusikFabrik.

Laurence Osborn: 'Absorber

Zubin Kanga (piano/electric keyboard)

Zubin Kanga: 'Steel on Bone' (World Premiere performance)

Zubin Kanga (piano/live electronics)

Lisa Illean: 'Januaries

Edmon Colomer (conductor)

Michael Pelzel: 'Birds, Bells and Bees

Arditti Quartet

Chaya Czernowin: 'Fabrication of Light' (UK premiere)

Enno Poppe (conductor)

Jenny Hettne: Whispering c(h)ords, quietly falling

Tonia Ko: Soothe a tooth

Riot Ensemble

James Dillon: Emblemata: Carnival

Red Note Ensemble

Chaya Czernowin: Fast darkness I: I can see your turned eyes from inside your body

The Huddersfield Festival is the UK's leading festival for new music, and this year's composer in residence was Chaya Czernowyn, whose major piece for orchestra and bass clarinet Fast darkness I features in tonight's show.

Czernowin's work is often compared to archaeology. Rather than writing linear pieces, her music digs downwards, into the earth, in search of sounds and sensations.

TOM SERVICE talks to her and other featured composers, and reports on the sound installations that also ran during the festival.

TOM SERVICE presents highlights from last week's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

Exciting international new music from first-class performers, and interviews with the featured composers, all recorded at the UK's leading festival of new music. The programme includes performances from Zubin Kanga and the London Sinfonietta and the UK premiere of a major new work by the festival's composer-in-residence Chaya Czernowin, 'Fabrication of Light' performed by Ensemble MusikFabrik.

Today's programme features music by Egidija Medekšaitė performed by Apartment House - the Lithuania-based composer who finds links between sound, digital technology and textiles. EXAUDI and James Weeks give the Uk premiere of Jürg Frey's 'Polyphonie der Wörter', whilst members of the Lucerne Contemporary Festival Orchestra pay a visit to Huddersfield with a new piece by Nigerian born composer Charles Uzor. And Kate talks to composer-in-residence Jennifer Walshe and introduces the world premiere of a major new piece by her, 'Ireland: A Dataset', featuring the Tonnta Vocal Ensemble, saxophonist, Nick Roth, and Úna Monaghan.

Plus, news, features and other highlights from this major international contemporary music event.

UK and world premieres from one of the foremost contemporary music festivals.

Kate Molleson is in Huddersfield for HCMF 2023 with a selection of specially made recordings from Apartment House, EXAUDI and from featured composer-in-residence Jennifer Walshe.

Today's programme features music by the Lithuanian composer Egidija Medekšaitė performed by Apartment House - Lithuania is one of the featured nations in this year's festival. EXAUDI and James Weeks give the UK premiere of Jürg Frey's 'Polyphonie der Wörter', whilst members of the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra pay a visit to Huddersfield with a piece by the Nigerian/Swiss composer Charles Uzor that was inspired by the killing of George Floyd. And Kate talks to composer-in-residence Jennifer Walshe, about her featured exhibition illustrating her interest in AI generated text scores. The programme also features the world premiere of a major new work by her, a 'radio play', 'Ireland: A Dataset', performed by the Tonnta vocal ensemble, saxophonist Nick Roth and Úna Monaghan.

Plus, news, interviews and other highlights from this major international contemporary music event.

Performances at HCMF 2023 by Apartment House, EXAUDI and a Jennifer Walshe premiere.

Kate Molleson is in Huddersfield for HCMF 2023 with a selection of specially made recordings from Apartment House, EXAUDI and a premiere by composer-in-residence Jennifer Walshe.

As well as features and reports from an action-packed festival, tonight's programme includes Skull, an important new work by featured composer Rebecca Saunders. Given its UK premiere at Huddersfield by the Oslo Sinfonietta, Skull follows on from Skin and Scar as the final panel in a triptych of ensemble pieces she has written on the theme of bodily surfaces and cavities. Written for 14 instruments, it draws on an image by Haruki Murakami of a skull enveloped by and containing a profound silence, ‘Held like smoke within. It is unfathomable, eternal, a disembodied vision cast upon a point in the void.

Also tonight, the vocal group Exaudi premiere a new work by Jürg Frey, another of the featured artists at Huddersfield in this, his 70th birthday year. Because I Could Not Stop for Death takes its inspiration from a poem by Emily Dickinson and Bai Juyi, both of which reflect on the transience of life. The Dickinson begins: 'Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me.

And we stay in the half-light as Turkish composer Didem Coskunseven takes us on what he describes as a 'sonic script,' an imaginary midnight journey populated with the diverse sonic palette of electric guitar, sax, percussion, electric piano, bass synthesiser and live electronics.

UK and world premieres from the 2023 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival edition, including premieres of Jürg Frey's vocal work Because I Could Not Stop for Death and Rebecca Saunders's ensemble piece Skull.

Tonight's programme includes Skull, an important new work by featured composer Rebecca Saunders. Given its UK premiere at Huddersfield by the Oslo Sinfonietta, Skull follows on from Skin and Scar as the final panel in a triptych she has written on the theme of bodily surfaces and cavities. Written for 14 instruments, it draws on a passage in a novel by Haruki Murakami describing a skull enveloped by and containing a profound silence, ‘Held like smoke within. It is unfathomable, eternal, a disembodied vision cast upon a point in the void.' Also tonight, the vocal group Exaudi premiere a new work by Jürg Frey, another of the featured artists at Huddersfield in this, his 70th birthday year. Because I Could Not Stop for Death takes its inspiration from a poem by Emily Dickinson and Bai Juyi, both of which reflect on the transience of life. The Dickinson begins: 'Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me.

And we stay in the half-light as Turkish composer Didem Coskunseven takes us on what he describes as a 'sonic script,' an imaginary midnight journey populated with the diverse sonic palette of electric guitar, sax, percussion, electric piano, bass synthesiser and live electronics. And there's a ten minute walk with the members of ‘We in Front' a walking group who join up for a walk through Huddersfield's Afro-Caribbean heritage.

Kate Molleson presents live from this year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the first of four programmes from this long-running key event in the new music world. Tonight, Explore Ensemble perform a new work by Bryn Harrison and the French ensemble ONCEIM perform the music of American-Swiss artist and composer Christian Marclay.

Kate Molleson presents live from this year's event, including a new work by Bryn Harrison

Kate Molleson live from this year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, with music by Bryn Harrison and Christian Marclay.

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Kate Molleson presents live from this year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the first of four programmes from this long-running key event in the new music world. Tonight, Explore Ensemble perform a brand new work from Bryn Harrison and the French ensemble ONCEIM perform the music of American-Swiss artist and composer Christian Marclay.

Kate Molleson presents live from the opening weekend of this year's event and features new music by Bryn Harrison and Christian Marclay.

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Tom Service presents more recordings from this year's event including the first UK performance by the American Mivos Quartet of Sarah Hennies' Borrowed Light, a fragile, gradually evolving, long-form work that demands close listening. Also featured tonight: the Estonian Electronic Music Society Ensemble - part of their set at Bates Mill Photographic Studio last weekend; and marking the 90th birthday of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra we hear their recording of Harrison Birtwistle's Night's Black Bird (2004), inspired by the melancholic songs of Elizabethan composer John Dowland.

Tom Service presents the UK premiere of Sarah Hennies' Borrowed Light for string quartet.

Tom Service with recorded highlights from this year's festival including the Estonian Electronic Music Society Ensemble and the UK premiere of Sarah Hennies' Borrowed Light.

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Tom Service presents the UK premiere of Daniel Bjarnason's first major symphonic work, I Want to be Alive, which was recorded by the BBC Symphony Orchestra at their Icelandic Chill weekend in London. Plus music by Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Alex Paxton and the latest in cutting-edge and experimental new music.

Cutting-edge and experimental new music in live performance, plus interviews and features.

Tom Service presents the UK premiere of Daniel Bjarnason's first major symphonic work, I Want to be Alive. Plus the latest in cutting-edge and experimental new music.

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Kate Molleson features new music by Jason Yarde and David Lang.

Kate Molleson with specially recorded performances including Amber Priestly's 'For Jocelyn Bell Burnell' - a BBC commission which was premiered by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Ilan Volkov at the recent Tectonics Festival in Glasgow. Kate marks the centenary of Iannis Xenakis with a performance of his work for harpsichord and chamber orchestra, 'A l'le de Gor退e' given by Go?ka Isphording and the Riot Ensemble with conductor, Toby Thatcher. Paul Hillier's Theatre of Voices perform David Lang's 'The Little Match Girl Passion' which sets Hans Christian Andersen's story, 'The Little Match Girl', in the format of Bach's 'Saint Matthew Passion.' There are new releases by the Norwegian improvising trio, Mokus and the Berlin-based guitarist, Julia Reidy. This week's look back at a decade of New Music Biennial pieces is Jason Yarde's 'Skip, Dash, Flow' from 2012. And, as we celebrate the Platinum Jubilee this week, Gerald Barry talks about the power of hymns, anthems and mass singing as well as his settings of 'Rule Britannia' and 'God Save the Queen.??

Tom Service presents two new recordings of Icelandic music by Anna Thorvaldsdottir and Bara Gisladottir, from February's BBC 'Total Immersion' Icelandic weekend. We also celebrate the 90th birthday of English composer and pianist Mike Westbrook. And we hear the latest in new music releases from around the world.

Cutting-edge and experimental new music in live performance, plus interviews and features.

Tom Service presents specially recorded Icelandic music, as well as celebrating pianist and composer Mike Westbrook's 90th birthday.

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Hawar Tawfiq: Unificazione (UK Premiere)

JAC VAN STEEN (conductor)

Linas Baltas: Illusions for chorus

BBC Singers

Nicholas Chalmers

(Plymouth Contemporary Music Festival)

Rebecca Saunders: Molly's song I for ensemble

BCMG

Julien Leroy (conductor)

Pauline Oliveros: Portrait of MANUEL ZURRIA

MANUEL ZURRIA (flute)

Camden Arts Centre, London

Featuring the best new music in live performance, plus interviews and features.

Kate Molleson presents the latest sounds in new music from around the UK and beyond.

Kate Molleson explores some of the latest sounds in New Music including Rufus Isabel Elliot's the stones in the river by our camp in the forest, the space on the ground where we sit. After its premiere at Tectonics in May, one critic said that this was a work 'whose seasick sliding sounds and unwaveringly slow pace spoke deeply of trauma and hope.' Also in the programme, Kalie Malone's 'Does Spring Hide its Joy,' for sine wave oscillators which, she says, 'is an attempt to digest the countless life transitions and hold time together. And beginning this week, a new series in which artists share some of their musical inspirations.' This week, it's Manchester-based violinist, composer and music director Rakhi Singh.

Presented by Tom Service

Kaija Saariaho: 'Dolce Tormento

Camilla Hoitenga (solo piccolo)

Louise Rossiter: Homo Machina

Louise Rossiter (electronics)

Evan Johnson: Linke Hand eines Apostel (WP)

Goska Isphording (harpsichord), Riot Ensemble, Aaron Holloway-Nahum (conductor)

Kaija Saariaho: 'Lonh' for soprano and electronics

Raph䀀ele Kennedy (soprano), Jean-Baptiste Barri耀re (electronics)

at approx 11pm:

Robert Worby Interview: Robert talks to the sound designer Ann Cleare

Shih-Hui Chen: Fantasia on the Theme of Guanglingsan for Zheng and Chinese Orchestra

Hsin-Fang Hoi (zheng), Little Giant Chinese Orchestra, Shih-Sheng Chen (conductor)

Fero Kiraly: Tidal C

Electronic music explored and the Hans Durer-inspired sounds of a stifled harpsichord

Presented by Kate Molleson.

Jennifer Walshe: tracks from An Late Anthology of Early Music

at approx 11.15pm:

AKA - Shiva Fesharekis Bab-Khaneh Gatehouse of Memory

Kate Molleson celebrates International Women's Day 2025 on the New Music Show, with a selection of cutting-edge live recordings, including the world premiere recording of a new piece by Shiva Feshareki, from the recent BBC Symphony Orchestra Total Immersion: Symphonic Electronics day. Plus, music from some of the best women composers, including Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Kaija Saariaho, and Lucia Dlugoszewski, and Kate's selection of new releases.

Kate Molleson presents live recordings and new releases, all by women composers

Kate Molleson celebrates International Women's Day 2025 on the New Music Show, with a selection of cutting-edge live recordings and new releases, all by women composers.

Full list of samples used by Shiva Feshareki in her piece Bab-Khaneh: Gatehouse of Memory:

Hayedeh - Gole Sang

Foreigner - Waiting for a Girl Like You (Live)

Paul McCartney & Wings - My Love

Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas (The St Anthony Singers & English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Anthony Lewis)

Shlump - Zero Gravity

Truth - Strange Dreams (Biome Remix)

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The best new music in live performance, plus interviews and features. With Tom Service.

Kate Molleson and Tom Service present this year's Ivors Classical Awards, recorded on Tuesday 12th November at BFI Southbank.

The Ivors Classical Awards is one of the highlight's of the UK's contemporary music scene. It's also a great chance to catch up on what's in the air across the spectrum of new music with a wide range of categories from chamber, orchestral, choral and stage music to community projects and sound art.

On the shortlist of 36 composers there are works which reflect a variety of important and topical themes: Julian Anderson's ECHOES – commissioned for Classical Pride – and Philip Venables' music theatre piece The Faggots and their Friends Between Revolutions both focus on sexuality and queer communities, whilst Joanna Marsh's Batter My Heart, Oliver Leith's Hallelujah Amen and Cassandra Miller's The City, Full of People focus on religion and spirituality. Some of the nominated works use music as a form of activism and to raise awareness of important topics, including Hannah Conway's FLY/WORK/GROW which highlights the devastating impact of temporary accommodation and homelessness has on child health and development. Nature and climate change is also a regular theme within contemporary classical music and sound art. Nominated works with this theme include Christian Mason's environmental cantata The Singing Tree, Gavin Higgins' Horn Concerto – which celebrates his relationship with forests and love of woodlands – and Tiding II (silentium) by Lisa Illean which focuses on the ocean. Other works inspired by the ocean and water are Benjamin Tassie's A Ladder is Not the Only Kind of Time, Dan Jones's Each Tiny Drop and Duncan MacLeod's Orasaigh.

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Kate Molleson and Tom Service present this year's Ivors Classical Awards celebrating achievements in contemporary classical composition.

The Ivors Classical Awards - which took place on Tuesday at BFI Southbank - is one of the highlight's of the UK's contemporary music scene. It's also a great chance to catch up on what's in the air across the spectrum of the music scene with a wide range of categories from chamber, orchestral, choral and stage music to community projects and sound art.

Nature and climate change is also a regular theme within contemporary classical music and sound art. Nominated works with this theme include Christian Mason's environmental cantata The Singing Tree, Gavin Higgins' Horn Concerto – which celebrates his relationship with forests and love of woodlands – and Tiding II (silentium) by Lisa Illean which focusses on the ocean. Other works inspired by the ocean and water are Benjamin Tassie's A Ladder is Not the Only Kind of Time, Dan Jones's Each Tiny Drop and Duncan MacLeod's Orasaigh.

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Kate Molleson with music from Sasha J Blondeau, Hyelim Kim and J\u00fcrg Frey

This week, Robert Worby's interview guest is British composer, Howard Skempton.

And this week, ROBERT WORBY interviews American composer and performer GEORGE LEWIS.

Kate Molleson presents a work from the New Music Biennial 2021, She Who by Jessica Curry.

Kate Molleson presents the latest in new music performance including music by Janet Beat recorded at the Tectonics Festival in Glasgow: Juliet Fraser sings 'Puspawarna' which is an ancient Javanese word relating to flowers; and principal viola of the BBC SSO, Scott Dickinson plays Circe for solo viola. There's also an extract from Silvia Tarozzi's live set from her album, 'Mi specchio e rifletto.' This week's music from the New Music Biennial is 'She Who' by Jessica Curry which takes two texts written by American feminist poet Judy Grahn. Kate also features the BBC Symphony Orchestra with conductor, Ryan Wigglesworth, and pianist, Yu Kosuge performing Piano Concerto No.3 'Impulse' by DAI FUJIKURA, who describes the solo piano and orchestra as one living organism. There are new releases by Jasmine Morris and Annea Lockwood, and ROBERT WORBY talks to the American composer and performer, GEORGE LEWIS.

Tom Service presents the world premiere of Dai Fujikura's Concerto for sho and ensemble, alongside Misato Mochizuki's Etheric Blueprint from 2006 with Kazuki Yamada conducting the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group in a concert given last month. Also featured tonight: For Anthony Braxton by Tyshawn Sorey - commissioned and performed by pianist Jonathan Biss in a recent concert at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester; Belfast's Hard Rain Ensemble perform Deirdre Gribbin's Ghost Memories, Portuguese percussion from the Drumming Mallet Quartet live in Lisbon, and soprano Stephanie Lamprea with a recent work for voice and electronics by Scottish composer Erin Thomson, recorded at Juliet Fraser's Eavesdropping Festival at London's Cafe Oto in March. New releases come from Matmos, Rashad Becker and, continuing the Japanese theme, Beatrice Dillon's Basho, inspired by the work of philosopher Kitarŀ? Nishida and a new track from Japanese prog rockers Happy Family.

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group perform works by Dai Fujikura and Misato Mochizuki

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A new studio session from Jennifer Walshe and Neil Luck

Tom Service introduces some of the most exciting sounds in new music including the premiere of Scott Lygate's Engines and Men, a concerto for contrabass clarinet which brings to life the mighty Dalmellington Ironworks which lie abandoned in the heart of Ayrshire's Doon Valley.

Also in the programme, the premiere of Klaus Lang's emblemata sonantes, a forty-five-minute exploration in sound for soprano, organ, harpsichord and ensemble tuned in meantone temperament of the 52 room Eggenberg Palace outside Graz in Austria. Just as the palace, with its 52 rooms, represents the weeks of the year, emblemata sonantes is organized so that the work's 365 measures correspond exactly to the calendar of the year 1625, with its days, weeks, and Catholic feast days.

And, in an ongoing series, the soprano Juliet Fraser talks to Tom about what's on her Listen List at the moment. As a singer, essayist, director of East London's eavesdropping and programme director of VOICEBOX, a new initiative for contemporary vocal performance, who knows where she'll take us?

Tom Service presents music including premieres by Klaus Lang and Scott Lygate.

Cutting-edge and experimental new music in live performance, plus interviews and features.

The best and latest in cutting-edge and experimental new music including the world premiere of Klaus Lang's emblemata sonantes, a musical imagining of Graz's Eggenberg Palace.

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Kate Molleson with music from Sasha J Blondeau, Hyelim Kim and J\u00fcrg Frey

Julius Eastman: Joy Boy

Kory Reeder: Blue Colour Field Tryptic

Jurga Šarapova: Songs of Meat

Lidia Zielinska: Klangor

SWR Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tito Ceccherini

Sean Clancy and Andy Ingamells: This Is About

Gloria Coates: Violin Sonata no.2

Carolin Widman (violin)

Olivia Block: Flue

Tom Service presents a specially recorded studio session by Apartment House.

Kate Molleson presents a live recording of Klaus Lang's Diaphonia for electric guitar and ensemble performed by Yaron Deutsch and Riot Ensemble; we hear Christof Ressi's Am Anfang war das A for ensemble and electronics from Black Page Orchestra at Warsaw Autumn; and from last month's Tectonics Glasgow the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux's Luminance. Plus the latest new releases from Mary Halverson, Joke Lanz, Hannah Kendall and Giuliano d'Angolini.

New music from KIaus Lang, Mary Halverson and Hannah Kendall

Riot Ensemble and Yaron Deutsch perform Klaus Lang's Diaphonia for electric guitar and ensemble plus new releases from Mary Halverson and Hannah Kendall

Kate Molleson presents a live recording of Klaus Lang's Diaphonia for electric guitar and ensemble performed by Yaron Deutsch and Riot Ensemble; we hear Christof Ressi's Am Anfang war das A for ensemble and electronics from Black Page Orchestra at Warsaw Autumn; and from last month's Tectonics Glasgow the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra perform Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux's Luminance. Plus the latest new releases from Mary Halvorson, Joke Lanz, Hannah Kendall and Giuliano d'Angiolini.

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New music from KIaus Lang, Mary Halvorson and Hannah Kendall.

Riot Ensemble and Yaron Deutsch perform Klaus Lang's Diaphonia for electric guitar and ensemble plus new releases from Mary Halvorson and Hannah Kendall.

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Kate Molleson presents a selection of new music for the Christmas season, including works by Jurg Frey, Carla Bley and Gloria Coates

Music by Laure M. Hiendl, performed by Collegium Novum Zürich, and recorded by Swiss Radio. 'Seht meine Wunden und an meinen Beinen, die Narben meiner Wunden' (See my wounds and on my legs, the scars of my wounds) takes as its inspiration Édouard Glissant's 'Philosophy of World Relations', and deals with music-as-space.

And we hear more music from last year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Show, as well as the latest new releases.

Music from Sonic Matter Z\u00fcrich.

We hear a monumental work by Vienna-based coposer Laure M Hiendl, performed by Collegium Novum Zürich.

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Christopher Fox: This is the wind (2018)

Fidelio Trio

Pauline Oliveros Trio for flute, piano and page turner (1977)

MANUEL ZURRIA (flute); Mark Knoop (piano)

Eliane Radigue: Occam XVII

Dominic Lash (double bass)

Per Nørg?rd: Symphony No,7 (2006)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

Radio 3's weekly exploration of the world of contemporary classical music

Christopher Fox: This is the wind (world premiere)

Tom Service with the world premieres of Laurence Osborn's Mute and Ed Bennett's Belonging.

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Elsa Justel: La radio, ?a d?tend (2001)

JAMES WEEKS: Leafleoht (2017)

Cassandra Miller: Lazy, Rocking (2017), Juliet Fraser (soprano)

Francesco Filidei: Finito ogni gesto (2008)

Recorded at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2018

Sarah Davachi: Oscen (World Premiere, BBC Commission)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ilan Volkov

Recorded at Tectonics Glasgow 2019

AKA Elsa Justel, JAMES WEEKS, Sarah Justel

TOM SERVICE introduces recordings by the Bozzini Quartet, Divertimento Ensemble and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in works by JAMES WEEKS, Francesco Filidei and Sarah Davachi. Plus a new release from Argentinian electroacoustic composer Elsa Justel and Mariam Rezaei's Sound of the Week, the chirping and flapping of hummingbirds.

Tom Service finds out what composer Leo Chadburn is listening to at the moment, and he presents more highlights from the Donaueschingen Music Days 2025, including the world premiere of Georges Aperghis' Tell Tales, performed by EXAUDI and the violist Tabea Zimmermann making her debut at the festival.

Tom Service talks to Leo Chadburn about his listening, plus premieres from Donaueschingen.

Tom Service finds out what composer Leo Chadburn is listening to at the moment, and more highlights from the Donaueschingen Music Days 2025, including Georges Aperghis' Tell Tales.

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Music by Anna Meredith, Sean Noonan, Katherine Norman, Michael Finnissy, Anna Korsun, and a new BBC commission from Mariam Rezaei for four turntables.

A New Music Show concert with Ligeti Quartet, Distractfold, Kate Ledger and Mariam Rezaei.

A live studio concert with the Ligeti Quartet, Zubin Kanga, Skylla and George Barton.

Brand new works for string quartet inspired by Ligeti's Etudes for piano.

Kate Molleson presents a mix of specially recorded new music and new releases. And, on the eve of the Winter Solstice, she'll find some tracks to keep you warm on those long, dark winter nights.

From the Manchester Collective's recent South Bank Centre concert 'Lights and Places,' there's a work by Mathis Saunier inspired by the experiences of musician friends recording 'neutral' sounds for use in computer-generated compositions, those sounds treated like factory-made components to be used in anything from toys to industrial machinery. Also from that concert comes Jocelyn Campbell's new work for string trio, imagined as he sat on the night bus at 3am with the world drifting by - lights flickering vaguely though through the steamed up windows. And, from this year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, there's vocal music by Arvo Pärt and Finnish composer Joel Järventausta's setting of words by Sara Teasdale musing on the power of nature to prevail, ending with a nod to Hildegard von Bingen's responsory O nobilissima viriditas – O most noble greenness.

From Manchester Collective:

Alex Groves: Alula

Mathis Saunier: HYPERMEMORIA

A piece for violin, cello, electric guitar, electronics, light system, and participative audience

Errollyn Wallen: All the Blues I see

Jocelyn Campbell: 3AM: Lights and places flicker endlessly, passing by alongside old memories that evoke but will not linger...

Anna Meredith: tuggemo

From Huddersfield Contemporary Music Ferstival:

Irene Buckley: Liminalis

Darragh Morgan (violin and electronics)

Joel Jarventausta: There will come soft rains

Arvo Pärt: The Beatitudes

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On the eve of the Winter Solstice, Kate Molleson has some tracks for the long dark nights.

Cutting-edge and experimental new music in live performance, plus interviews and features.

On the eve of the Winter Solstice, Kate Molleson finds some tracks for those long, dark winter nights. And, as usual, the best and latest in cutting-edge and experimental music.

On the eve of the Winter Solstice, Kate Molleson find some tracks for the long dark nights

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TOM SERVICE presents the best new music in live performance, plus interviews and features.

Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra explore the spatial potential of Glasgow's Old Fruitmarket in New Mountain, Reaching Plane. And, in her Ofelia, the Swedish composer Lisa Streich finds romance by artificially placing the listener inside a closed piano. As she says: 'This forced entrance into the body of the instrument makes it fragile... I often thought of Ophelia from Shakespeare's Hamlet when composing this piece.' There'll also be a taster, fresh from Bergen's 2023 Borealis experimental music festival.

Lisa Streich's hauntingly tender Ofelia and more.

Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra explore the spatial potential of Glasgow's Old Fruitmarket in New Mountain, Reaching Plane. And, in her Ofelia, the Swedish composer Lisa Streich finds romance by artificially placing the listener inside a closed piano. As she says: 'This forced entrance into the body of the instrument makes it fragile... I often thought of Ophelia from Shakespeare's Hamlet when composing this piece.' There'll also be a taster, fresh from Bergen's 2023 Borealis experimental music festival as Swedish-Ethiopian vocalist Sofia Jernberg performs ???-???? - Amharic for Veil. .

Kate Molleson introduces recordings from last December's London Contemporary Music Festival in conversation with the festival's directors Igor Toronyi-Lalic and Jack Sheen. Music by La Monte Young, Heleen van Haegenborgh, Alwynne Pritchard and Cerith Wyn Evans as well as a performance by the Japanese duo O Yama O. Also tonight Robert Worby interviews Swedish composer and sound artist Hanna Hartman, a new release of recordings surveying the career of American cellist Charles Curtis, and to end, the sound of a late-night drive through Khartoum, Sudan.

Tom Service presents a concert from the London Contemporary Music Festival, recorded earlier this month in Hackney, East London. As ever with this exciting festival, there is a huge variety of new music and sound art. The LCMF Orchestra play three major new commissions by improvisers Maggie Nicols and Sofia Jernberg, and composer Laurence Crane, alongside an extremely rare performance of Yves Klein's influential – and infamous – Monotone-Silence Symphony (1947/61), all conducted by Jack Sheen. Also in this show: Gag, a new quartet by Edward Henderson; the UK premiere of KIND, by German composer Lisa Streich, for guitar, hairclips and egg slicer; and a new live set by cult electronica artists EVOL. Plus an extraordinary presentation of a 5,000-year-old tradition that nearly went extinct in the 20th century: the Kurdish art of dengbêj-singing. One of the masters of the form, Dengbêj Kazo, showcases this highly expressive, highly refined story-telling form.

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Tom Service introduces more music from September's Venice Biennale, including two major world premieres for orchestra. Luca Francesconi's Sospeso - A Suspension of Disbelief for amplified orchestra, Fancesconi says, was born of 'episodes of a perhaps unconscious suspension of continuity... Spontaneous epiphanies that defied the teleological effort' and he gnomically adds that 'The scream, the braying of the donkey is perhaps the most convincing demonstration of the existence of God.

Salvatore Sciarrino's Nocturnes creates an individual, dream-like sound world where references to previous nocturnes and night music emerge from a disconcerting background of mysterious breathing and spooky skittering punctuated by sudden crashes.

From Belfast, another world premiere. Northern Ireland-born Simon Mawhinney's orchestral A Pillar of Light for Haydn commemorates not the composer but Haydn Robarts, who died in 2020, aged 19, from cancer. And Hannah Kendall's Tuxedo: Between Carnival for soprano and ensemble uses, newspaper headlines, Biblical phrases and a text by Jean-Michel Basquiat to disturbing effect.

Tom Service introduces major world premieres from September's Venice Music Biennale.

From Venice, two major world premieres: Luca Francesconi's Sospeso - A Suspension of Disbelief, and Salvatore Sciarrino's Nocturnes.

Tom Service introduces more music from September's Venice Biennale, including the world premiere of Luca Francesconi's Sospeso - A Suspension of Disbelief. For amplified orchestra, Francesconi says it was born of 'episodes of a perhaps unconscious suspension of continuity... Spontaneous epiphanies that defied the teleological effort' and gnomically adds that 'The scream, the braying of the donkey is perhaps the most convincing demonstration of the existence of God.

In George Lewis's Tales of the Traveller, recorded by the London Sinfonietta earlier this year, a solo instrument travels the limits of imagination against a notated ensemble part. And, from Belfast, Northern Ireland-born Simon Mawhinney's A Pillar of Light for Haydn commemorates not the composer but Haydn Robarts, who died in 2020, aged 19, from cancer.

Tom Service introduces music from September's Venice Biennale.

From Venice, Luca Francesconi's Sospeso - A Suspension of Disbelief. Plus, from the UK, George Lewis's Tales of the Traveller and Simon Mawhinney's A Pillar of Light for Haydn.

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Elena Firsova's Double Concerto for Violin, Cello, written in 2015.

Jeffrey Mumford: `echoes from within brightening fabric...fragments of quickened light??

soloists from the BBC Philharmonic

Edmund Finnis: Quartet No 1 `Aloysius??

Anna Clyne: October Rose

The Manchester Collective

Elena Firsova: Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra, op. 139

Vadim Gluzman, violin

Johannes Moser, cello

Norrk怀ping Symphony Orchestra

Michail Jurowski, conductor

Elena Firsova's Double Concerto for Violin, Cello, written in 2015 inspired by a line from Boris Pasternack: 'Art is constantly preoccupied with two things. It always meditates about Death and in this way inevitably it creates Life.

Michael Cutting & Vitalija Glovackyte (Hyperdawn): ‘Bleach

Larry Goves: `Music inspired by Siouxsie and the Banshees' ‘Suburban relapse' played with little regard for coordination or tuning` - House of Bedlam

Sabrina Schroeder:   ‘Bone Games' - Distract Fold

Charlie Straulig: ‘One to One‘ (extract) - Kinetic

Kelly Jayne Jones: ‘Reed Flute Is Fire 1. `A Fire That Had To Burn Forever` (extract)

Mauricio Pauly: Charred Edifice Shining for string trio and electronics - Distractfold

David Birchall: ‘Pomona Project

Ricardo Climent: ‘S.Laag' for bass clarinet and electronics (2016) - Marij van Gorkom (bass clarinet)/Ricardo Climent (electronics)

Charlotte Bray: ‘Caught In Treetops' - Benedict Holland (solo violin), Psappha conducted by Mark Heron.

The latest in new music performance from London Contemporary Music Festival and Witten

The latest in new music performance from London Contemporary Music Festival and Witten

AKA Marja Ahti's Membranes - On The Brink Of Collapse

Tom Service presents a recording of French composer Mark Andre's ...selig ist..., a major new work for piano and electronics performed by Pierre Laurent Aimard and SWR Experimental Studio at Donaueschingen Festival in October. Also tonight: music from Linda Catlin Smith's Dirt Road for violin and percussion performed by violinist Larissa O'Grady and Caitríona Frost at last year's Lovely Music Festival in Dundalk; Øyvind Torvund's quirky and evocative symphonic poem Forest Morning recorded by the BBC Symphony Orchestra; a rarely heard postcard piece from American pioneer James Tenney performed by the Harmonic Space Orchestra in Huddersfield; and scintillating electroacoustic sounds from British composer Manuella Blackburn with a track from her latest release Interruptions.

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Tom Service with music for piano and electronics by Mark Andre

Tom Service presents a recording of French composer Mark Andre's ...selig ist... for piano and electronics performed by Pierre Laurent Aimard and SWR Experimental Studio.

Tom Service presents a recording of French composer Mark Andre's ...selig ist..., a major work for piano and electronics performed by Pierre Laurent Aimard and SWR Experimental Studio at Donaueschingen Festival in October. Also tonight: music from Linda Catlin Smith's Dirt Road for violin and percussion performed by violinist Larissa O'Grady and Caitríona Frost at last year's Lovely Music Festival in Dundalk; Øyvind Torvund's quirky and evocative symphonic poem Forest Morning recorded by the BBC Symphony Orchestra; a rarely heard postcard piece from American pioneer James Tenney performed by the Harmonic Space Orchestra in Huddersfield; and scintillating electroacoustic sounds from British composer Manuella Blackburn with a track from her latest release Interruptions.

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Tom Service introduces some of the most exciting sounds in new music ranging from the epic to the intimate.

Many of the performances come from recent members of Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme including Miroslav Srnka's Standstill for harpsichord and orchestra performed by Mahan Esfahani, Reena Esmail's Darshan played by Geneva Lewis and Sandra Boss's ÆTER, for ebows and instruments premiered at Glasgow's Nordic Days by the Chaos Quartet. And, from viola player, Timothy Ridout, comes the world premiere at the Berlin Philharmonie of Mark Simpson's Hold Your Heart in Your Teeth. The title comes from the Romanian proverb meaning ‘to go forwards in life with courage and faith, despite fear and trepidation', appropriate, Mark Simpson says for any concerto soloist who relies upon immense courage and self-belief as they are pushed to their very limits.

The latest cutting edge music including performances from recent New Generations Artists the violinist Geneva Lewis, harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani and viola player Timothy Ridout.

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Arnold: Rill 69

Philip Thomas (piano)

Bozzini Quartet

And a major new radiophonic piece:

Jennifer Walshe and Jon Leidecker: Limitless Potential

Performed by Jon Leidecker & Jennifer Walshe, with additional performances by Style Kincaid, Arthur Chen, Anna Devin and John Hess.

Material sourced from Open AI's MuseNet and Benjamin Genchel's Python recreation of Harriet Padberg's 1964 Thesis, 'Computer Composed Canon and Free Fugue.`

Kate Molleson presents new music, including a profile of composer Martin Arnold.

Rebecca Saunders: murmurs

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

Julien Leroy (conductor)

Luke Styles: Memories Of A Foreign Land Called Home

Mayke Nas: Down the Rabbit Hole

Jac van Steen (conductor)

Ashley Fure: Feed Forward

Vimbayi Kaziboni (conductor)

Featuring the best new music in live performance, plus interviews and features.

New music from Mica Levi, Okkyung Lee and Maya Verlak.

Explore Ensemble gives the world premiere of Alex Paxton's Spit Crystal Yeast-rack, dripping (

Michael Finnissy and Plus-Minus explore a form of musical intelligence in the premiere of his tender M.I. Musical Intelligence. And, from Tectonics, electric guitarist Yaron Deustch gives the UK premiere of Andreas Dohmen's FPP I (leçons du mardi).

Michael Finnissy's Musical Intelligence Andreas Dohmen's FPP I (le\u00e7ons du mardi).

Michael Finnissy's tender M.I. Musical Intelligence from Plus-Minus and Andreas Dohmen's FPP I (leçons du mardi) premiered at Tectonics by the electric guitar of Yaron Deutsch.

Kate Molleson presents exclusive recordings of Riot Ensemble performing minimal to maximal music by Corie Rose Soumah and Anna Meredith. Plus Elaine Mitchener performs Yvette Janine Jackson's Waiting, an untitled improvisation by Fred Frith and Heiner Goebbels from the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, and new releases in cutting-edge and experimental music.

Kate Molleson presents Riot Ensemble in music by Corie Rose Soumah and Anna Meredith.

Cutting-edge and experimental new music in live performance, plus interviews and features.

Kate Molleson presents exclusive recordings of Riot Ensemble playing Corie Rose Soumah and Anna Meredith. Plus new releases of the latest in cutting-edge and experimental music.

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A resonant and haunting music-drama by one of the 21st century's most original creative minds.

Isabelle Eberhardt (1877–1904) was an explorer, nomad, journalist, novelist, passionate romantic, Sufi, and one of the most unique and unusual women of her era. Missy Mazzoli's chamber opera evokes her short, untrammelled life in words and music of uncompromising beauty and imagination.

Isabelle Eberhardt.... Kitty Whately..... (mezzo soprano)

BBC Singers

BBC Symphony Orchestra Ensemble

Sofi Jeannin (conductor)

Isabelle Kettle (director)

The latest in new music - Missy Mazzoli's Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt - the UK premiere at last weekend's Total Immersion.

TOM SERVICE with music by Monika Dalach, Jan Martin Smordal and Philippe Hurel.

Neil Luck: Unmeasured preludes

Max Syedtollan: Four Assignments

Max Syedtollan (vocal)

Plus-Minus ensemble

Tania Le　n:

Nirmali Fenn: Scratches of the Wind

Daniel Havel (alto flute)

Sarah Hennies: Falsetto for toy bells

House of Bedlam

Dominic Murcott: The Harmonic Canon, Part I

arx duo (playing a specially constructed bell)

Jia Guoping: The Wind sounds in the sky for sheng, cello and percussion

Wu Wei (sheng)

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Julien Leroy (cond)

?liane Radigue: Occam XXI

Angharad Davies (violin)

Kate Molleson showcases the latest new music in specially recorded performances.

Katev Molleson showcases the latest new music in specially recorded performances.

Hard Rain Ensemble in Belfast

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Daniel Mayer: acousmatic piece

Michael Parsons: Tenebrio (1995)

Michael Parson (1980s music computer using FM synthesis )

Julia Reidy: From new album, 'In Real Life

Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)

Carola Bauckholt: Doppelbelichtung

Karin Hellqvist (violin) and bridsong

Chaz Underriner: Nocturne series: 8

For violin, tenor sax, electric guitar, percussion, piano and field recording

Kluster5 Ensemble

Kate Molleson presents Philip Glass's Music in Eight Parts, a previously lost work, recently re-discovered and recorded in lockdown by the Philip Glass Ensemble. The group's music director Michael Riesman tells the story of its making. Also tonight new releases from Leo Chadburn and Jim O'Rourke, Carla Rees's Sound of the Week and a specially recorded home session by Heloise Werner.

Kate Molleson introduces music by Sarah Hennies, Debit and John White.

Tom Service with recordings from standard issue, Bozzini Quartet and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.

Tom Service presents exclusive recordings.

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The Woman and the hare for soprano, speaker and ensemble

Claire Booth (soprano)

Simone Leona Hueber (reciter)

Stefan Asbury (conductor)

Fantasia upon all the notes for ensemble

Kate Molleson presents two works by Harrison Birtwistle performed by the Nash Ensemble and recorded at London's Wigmore Hall in April; composer, Brian Irvine introduces his Sound of the Week which has has a nautical connection; there is glitch minimalism for soprano and tape by John McGuire and Kate introduces her selection of new releases including music by Erika Fox and Linda Catlin Smith

Caf退 Warsaw 1944

III. Scherzo ???????

IV. Lament and Coda??????

Goldfield Ensemble

Richard Baker (conductor)

??Among the Tarnished Stars

??Apartment House:

??Anton Lukoszevieze (piano), Mira Benjamin (violin)

Heather Roche (clarinet) & Philip Thomas (piano)

A Cappella

Beth Griffith (soprano)

Tom Service presents a studio session performed by Welsh new music ensemble UPROAR.

Tom Service with newly commissioned work from the Welsh new music ensemble UPROAR, a new release from electronic composer Natasha Barrett, a track from a new collection of archive recordings by the American saxophonist and composer Julius Hemphill plus the collaboration of British composer Matthew Wright and American soprano Claron McFadden, recorded as part of Ensemble Klang's Musical Utopias online festival.

Tom Service with music from Welsh ensemble UPROAR and electronic composer Natasha Barrett.

LAURENCE CRANE: Holt Quartet

Bozzini Quartet

Tatjana Kozlova-Johannes: Lighting the Fire

Estonian National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Taavi Kull

ELAINE MITCHENER: Myths & Dreams

ELAINE MITCHENER (vocal)

Jason Yarde (saxophone)

Neil Charles (bass)

Eliane Radigue: Occam IV

Julia Eckhardt (viola)

Plus Sound Of The Week: Australian composer and sound artist Julian Day describes a sound that has inspired his work.

The latest in new music including Nakul Krishnamurthy's One Million Dancing Shivas

Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, reversioned by Neil Luck, plus sound artist Nell Catchpole

Tom Service introduces an extraordinary reversioning or reversioning of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto by Neil Luck. Chihiro Ono will play the solo violin part completely straight, accompanied by ARCO, an ensemble of improvising musicians and live electronics. It was recorded at Cafe OTO in London last year. And, sound artist, composer and performer Nell Catchpole has created a special Sounding Change for the New Music Show while dredging in Tees estuary in the north east of England.

Tom Service presents Neil Luck's new piece Children are Emperors: a Punch and Judy Oblique, in a performance given at London's Cafe Oto in January, with the composer on voice and objects, Adam de la Cour (voice and electronic guitar) and Cameron Dodds (voice and 'rubberised hands'). Also tonight, live performances of orchestral work by Misato Mochizuki, Philippe Manoury and Katherine Balch, and new releases from electroacoustic composer Natasha Barrett and conceptual artist Yoko Ono.

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Tom Service features Neil Luck's new piece Children are Emperors, recorded live at London's Cafe Oto in January. Plus new music from Natasha Barrett and Misato Mochizuki.

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Sarah Hennies learned about a neurological theory called “motor tapes ? from Oliver Sacks' book Musicophilia, and the concept stuck with her for years. The theory comes from neuroscientist Rodolfo Llinás, who posited that many of our thoughts, memories, and physical movements operate via a series of “looping tapes, ? with the goal of reducing the amount of energy the brain uses while doing common, repetitive tasks. Llinás' theory fitted with the way Sarah Hennies experienced her own memories and the evolution of her identity and her fifty five minute long “Motor Tapes ? premiered in Darmstadt by Ensemble Dedalus is the result.

Also, the late John White's Concertino for Bass Clarinet and String Trio and a track from Vasco Trilla's recent release, The Bell Slept Long In Its Tower.

Cutting-edge and experimental new music including Sarah Hennies' Motor Tapes

Cutting-edge and experimental music in live performances - including the premiere of New York composer Sarah Hennies' Motor Tapes from Darmstadt and Alex Paxton's Od Ody Pink'd.

Kate Molleson introduces some of the latest sounds in New Music including the premieres of New York composer Sarah Hennies's Motor Tapes and Alex Paxton's Ody Pink'd.

Also, the late John White's Concertino for Bass Clarinet and String Trio and tracks from Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra's recent release, 'We demand​.​.​.​everything now!

Cutting-edge and experimental music - including the premiere of New York composer Sarah Hennies' Motor Tapes from Darmstadt and Alex Paxton's typically exuberant Od Ody Pink'd.

Tom Service presents world premieres of new choral works performed by EXAUDI, including hush, shush, shh by Jake Thorpe, Doce me facere by Michael Finnissy and Keepsakes by Hollie Harding. Plus Mark David Boden's Chasing Sunlight performed by Sinfonia Cymru at the New Music Biennal Festival in Bradford and Hannah Hartmann's Message from the Lighthouse performed by Jennifer Torrence at Tectonics in Glasgow.

World Premieres given by EXAUDI plus Mark David Boden at the Bradford New Music Biennal.

Tom Service presents world premieres of new choral works by Jake Thorpe, Michael Finnissy and Hollie Harding, plus Mark David Boden's Chasing Sunlight from the New Music Biennal.

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Elizabeth Alker and Linton Stephens present recordings from this year's New Music Biennial which is staged across two weekends over the Summer in London and Bradford, the UK's City of Culture for 2025. Bradford was the location for last weekend's event and from there we'll hear specially commissioned works by Xenia Pestova Bennett, Daniel Kidane and Mark David Boden among others, performed in four venues across town including St George's Hall, The Underground, Bradford Cathedral and the city's brand new arts space Loading Bay.

Recordings from this year's New Music Biennial in Bradford.

Elizabeth Alker and Linton Stephens present recordings from this year's New Music Biennial event in Bradford.

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Arlene Sierra: Urban Birds

Xenia Pestova, Kathleen Supove and Sarah Nicolls (pianos)

Jose Miguel Fernandez (electronics)

Luke Styles: The Girls Who Wished to Marry Stars

Juice Vocal Ensemble

Trish Clowes (saxophones)

Christopher Montague (electric guitar)

Louise McMonagle (cello)

Callum Gourlay (double bass)

James Maddren (drums)

Yann Seznec: Currents

Yann Seznec, Hugh Jones, Sam Beste

Piers Hellawell with Bourne Davis Kane: Sound Carvings, Strange Tryst

Samuel Bordoli: Grind

Words by Bill Bankes-Jones

Roundhouse Choir

Osnat Schmool (conductor)

Andy Scott: A Child Like You

Anna-Clare Monk (soprano)

Lauren Scott (harp)

Michael Fowles (conductor).

Staged by the PRS for Music Foundation to coincide with this year's Commonwealth Games, the first ever New Music Biennial showcases new commissions from a wide range of composers across the UK in two special events held in London and Glasgow. In this second programme, recorded at Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall on the closing weekend of the Games, we hear a collaboration between the folk trio Lau and the Elysian Quartet, 20 pianos from around the world sampled by Matthew Herbert, Niraj Chag's family journey from India to Britain, a film score by Dobrinka Tabakova, a journey in sound between the Highlands and Canada from Mary Ann Kennedy and Scott Macmillan, plus music for shipping container by Jez Colborne, a work for steel pans and accordion by Alistair Anderson and a piece about the lost tradition of Scottish cattle droving by Matheu Watson and Luke Daniels.

Presented by Robert Worby.

Lau: The Bell That Never Rang

Elysian String Quartet

Matthew Herbert: 20 Pianos

Sam Beste (electronic keyboard)

Niraj Chag: You Run on Tracks, Not Roads

Priti Menon, Denyse Anyogu (vocals)

Vikaash Sankadecha (Indian percussion)

Harvin singh (drums)

Niraj Chag (laptop / creative director)

Matheu Watson and Luke Daniels: New World Drovers

Patsy Reid (fiddle)

Matheu Watson (electric guitar)

James Fagan (bouzouki)

Luke Daniels (melodeon and zither banjo)

Mac Morin (piano and step dancer)

Alistair Anderson: Panning for Gold

Alistair Anderson (accordion)

Wendy Doyle (steel pans)

Adam Cogdon (DJ)

Laura Connolly (clog dancer)

Jez Colborne: Gift

Jez Colborne and members of Mind the Gap Theatre Company

Mary Ann Kennedy and Scott Macmillan: Aiseag (The Ferryboat)

Mary Ann Kennedy (singer/harp)

Scott MacMillan (guitar)

Aonghas MacNeacail and Christine MacDonald (narrators)

Colin Grant (Cape Breton fiddle)

Angus MacKenzie (pipes)

Brodie Jarvie (bass)

Allan Og MacDonald (percussion)

Inverness Gaelic Choir

Scottish Festival Strings

Dobrinka Tabakova: Pulse

Rolf Hind (piano)

Richard Uttley (piano)

Richard Benjafield (percussion)

George Barton (percussion)

Robert Campion (gamelan)

Isabelle Carr退 (gamelan).

Luke Daniels (melodeon & zither banjo)

Aonghas MacNeacail & Christine MacDonald (narrators)

Claire M Singer: Gleann Ciùin

London Contemporary Orchestra conducted by Robert Ames

Forest Swords (aka Matthew Barnes): Trespassing

Immix Ensemble

Arun Ghosh: AMBHAS

For large wind orchestra and clarinet solo

Gazelle Twin & Max de Wardener: The Power and the Glory

Gazelle Twin (vocal)

BBC Concert Orchestra

Kate Molleson presents music from the New Music Biennial at London's South Bank Centre

Roderick Williams: Three Songs from Ethiopia Boy

Chineke!

Numb Mob: Where to Build in Stone

Edmund Finnis: The Centre Is Everywhere

Manchester Collective

Jessica Curry: She Who

National Youth Choirs of Great Britain

Kate Molleson presents music from the New Music Biennial at London's South Bank Centre.

Kate Molleson presents highlights from the New Music Biennial 2019, which took place at the South Bank Centre in London last weekend. World premiere performances of newly commissioned music for a diverse range of performing artists and groups.

Sam Eastmond: Brit-Ish Suite; 1. The Pink Shagpile Carpet Song (AKA The King Of Spank)

Spike Orchestra

Dan Jones - Music for 7 Ice Cream Vans [excerpt]

ROLF HIND: Tiger's Nest for gamelan, 2 prepared pianos & percussion

Colin Currie (percussion)

ROLF HIND (piano)

Zubin Kanga (piano)

Isabelle Carr退 (gamelan soloist)

Robert Campion (gamelan soloist)

Southbank Gamelan Players

David Fennessy: Panopticon

Psappha

Yazz Ahmed: The Moon Has Become

For jazz ensemble

Paul Purgas: Tape Music

(electronic and tape music)

Martin Green: Split The Air

The National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain conducted by Robert Childs

Rakhi Singh / Sebastian Gainsborough: It

NYX Electronic Drone Choir, Vessel and Rakhi Singh (violin)

Keeley Forsyth: Bog Body

Dr Toby Young: Breathlines

Amy Dickson (saxophone)

Armonico Consort conducted by Christopher Monks

TOM SERVICE introduces new works recorded at the New Music Biennial in Coventry last week.

(electronic & tape music)

NYX Electronic Drone Choir, Vessel & Rakhi Singh (violin)

Coby Sey: From The Vestry

London Contemporary Orchestra

Philp Herbert: Towards Renewal

BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Alpesh Chauhan

Roopa Panesar: The Crossing

Al MacSween (piano)

Roopa Panesar (sitar)

Afrodeutsche: Unquiet

Manchester Camerata conducted by Robert Ames

Also tonight, two pieces recorded at previous New Music Biennials:

Brian Irvine and Jennifer Walshe: 13 Vices

Jennifer Walshe voice

PAUL DUNMALL (saxophone)

PAUL ROGERS (double bass)

Mark Sanders (percussion)

Red Note Ensemble string players

Brian Irvine (conductor)

Philip Venables and David Hoyle - Illusions

David Hoyle (performance artist)

London Sinfonietta conducted by RICHARD BAKER

TOM SERVICE presents world premiere performances from the New Music Biennial 2022

Presented by Kate Molleson

The latest in new music including Onur T\u00fcrkmen's moving Kur\u015fundan (of lead)

~New Music Show: the latest sounds from the world of New Music - including Onur Türkmen's Kur?undan (of lead), a moving lament for past times in a performance given in Bristol by the Hezarfen Ensemble, whose mission is to explore the relationship between eastern and western music.

BCMG conducted by RICHARD BAKER

Peteris Vasks: String Quartet no.3

Navarra Quartet

John Luther Adams: movements from Canticles of the Holy Wind

The Crossing conducted by Donald Nally

LAURENCE CRANE: Estonia

Cikada ensemble

Arvo P䀀rt: 4th Symphony `Los Angeles??

Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen

TOM SERVICE presents new music of calm contemplation to round off Christmas Day.

Kate Molleson presents a Norwegian focus, including GŀOLOGI by Alwynne Pritchard and Eva Pfitzenmaier - a piece about walking in Bergen; Rolf Gupta's In Memoriam, from the Borealis Festival in Bergen; Cikada Ensemble playing Liza Lim and Clara Iannotta from Oslo's Ultima Festival; and Carmen Villain recorded in Bristol.

Kate Molleson presents New Year New Music, favourite pieces chosen by Radio 3 presenters.

Kate Molleson joins in Radio 3's European Roadtrip with recordings from the WDR Orchestra and conductor Elena Schwarz at the Eight Bridges festival in Cologne - including Clara Iannotta's The Purple Fuchsia Bled Upon The Ground, with pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Arnulf Herrmann's Manische Episode – A Beethoven Commentary for Orchestra. There's also new recordings from CAOUTCHOUC, Brique, Burn the Furniture and Laetitia Sonami, and more live music highlights from last year including Claire M. Singer's Fairge, and Liza Lim's Cello Concerto 'A Sutured World'.

To listen using most smart speakers, just say “Ask BBC Sounds to play New Music Show ?

Kate Molleson with a round-up of new releases for the new year plus a recording from the Eight Bridges festival in Cologne.

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Kate Molleson presents new recordings from Aberdeen's Sound Festival.

Kate Molleson presents highlights from sound festival, recorded in Aberdeen in October 2025, including Una Monaghan's new work, In Formation, and Zubin Kanga giving the world premieres of Ryan Gleave's Gulf and Neil Luck's 8.5 Traditional English Folk Songs. Plus the latest new releases for the New Year, and the world premiere of Koka Nikoladze's Masterpiece for ensemble and video, given at the Donaueschingen music festival in Autumn last year.

Kate Molleson presents new recordings and world premieres from sound festival in Aberdeen.

Kate Molleson presents highlights from sound festival in Aberdeen, including music by Una Monaghan, Ryan Gleave and Neil Luck, plus the latest new releases and Kola Nikoladze.

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Rhiannon Giddens: Ten Thousand Voices

Bent Sørensen: Phantasmagoria

Trio Con Brio

Esperanza Spalding: Winter sun

David Lang: Mystery Sonatas: Glory

Augustin Hadelic (violin)

JOHN ADAMS: Gnarly Buttons (III. Put Your Loving Arms Around Me)

MICHAEL COLLINS (clarinet)

London Sinfonietta

Diana Baroni Trio: La manana

Jimmy Lopez: America Salvaje!

Norwegian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Paul Mealor : Ubi caritas

The Cambridge Singers, John Rutter (conductor)

Charles Wuorinen: It happens like this

The Group for Contemporary Music

Djuro Zivkovic: On the guarding of the heart

Ensemble Ernst

(The ten postcard composers who chose these pieces: Anna Clyne, James B Wilson, Dominique Le Gendre, Jay Capperauld, Dobrinka Tabakova, Tunde Jegede, Shirley Thompson, ERROLLYN WALLEN, David Ho-Yi Chan, Anselm McDonnell.)

Launching New Year, New Music, ten composers introduce new music that has inspired them.

The choice is theirs - will there be vast orchestral symphonic works, intimate piano miniatures, strange electronic moods? Perhaps all of the above!

Tom Service presents this eclectic selection, tune in to find out what our listeners have chosen.

Favourite pieces written since the millennium, chosen by our listeners.

Tonight, recordings from the launch of Birmingham Record Company, and music from the recent Only Connect festival in Norway.

Caroline Shaw: Limestone and felt

Attacca Quartet

Jan-Peter de Graaff: Caf退 de nuit, UKP

BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jac van Steen

Kirsty Devaney: Root

BCMG Next/Thallein Ensemble conducted by Michael Colebey

Sophie Lacaze: Apr耀s avoir contempl退 la lune

BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pierre-Andr退 Valade

Mesias Maiguashca: Nemos Orgel

Lauren Redhead (organ)

Alistair Zaldua (live electronics)

Recorded at Only Connect Festival, Stavanger, Norway last month

Catherine Lamb: Parallaxis Forma

Ensemble neoN

Plus composer Richard Youngs talks about his Sound Of The Week.

Featuring the best new music in live performance, plus interviews and features.

Tonight, recordings from the launch of Birmingham Record Company, and our own BBC Symphony Orchestra showcasing young European composers.

Joe Cutler: Slippery music

BCMG Next/Thallein Ensemble conducted by Michael Colebey

Jan-Peter de Graaff: Caf退 de nuit, UKP

BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jac van Steen

Kirsty Devaney: Root

Lauri Kilpio: Piano concerto (Shades of light) UKP

Joonas Ahonen (Piano)

BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo

Plus Dave Smith plays his own piano music, recorded at Tectonics Festival; and composer Richard Youngs talks about his Sound Of The Week.

Featuring the best new music in live performance, plus interviews and features.

AKA Night Cafe And Nemo's Organ

Tonight, recordings from the launch of Birmingham Record Company, and music from the recent Only Connect festival in Norway.

Caroline Shaw: Limestone and felt

Attacca Quartet

Sophie Lacaze: Apr耀s avoir contempl退 la lune

BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pierre-Andr退 Valade

Mesias Maiguashca: Nemos Orgel

Lauren Redhead (organ)

Alistair Zaldua (live electronics)

Recorded at Only Connect Festival, Stavanger, Norway last month

Catherine Lamb: Parallaxis Forma

Ensemble neoN

Plus composer Richard Youngs talks about his Sound Of The Week.

Nirmali Fenn: Scratches of the Wind

Daniel Havel (alto flute)

Sarah Hennies: Falsetto for toy bells

House of Bedlam

Dominic Murcott: The Harmonic Canon, Part I

arx duo (playing a specially constructed bell)

Jia Guoping: The Wind sounds in the sky for sheng, cello and percussion

Wu Wei (sheng)

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Julien Leroy (cond)

ɀliane Radigue: Occam XXI

Angharad Davies (violin)

Kate Molleson showcases the latest new music in specially recorded performances.

Kate Molleson with the latest from the world of new music, including the first performance of Hollie Harding's NOH TRIPTYCH inspired by the ancient Japanese Noh theatre tradition

Kate Molleson presents music by Britta Byström and Maja S.K.Ratkje from a concert given on Thursday by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at Glasgow's City Halls, part of the Nordic Music Days festival which celebrates music and sounds from Scotland and the Nordic region. Also tonight - lovemusic ensemble recorded live at Aberdeen Sound earlier this month, and Robert Worby reflects on the 50th anniversary of Kraftwerk's Autobahn album, part of Radio 3's Autobahn at 50 weekend.

To listen on most smart speakers just say “ask BBC Sounds to play New Music Show

Kate Molleson with music by Britta Byström and Maja S.K.Ratkje performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra last Thursday as part of Nordic Music Days.

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The plot revolves around the misadventures of such characters as Tobbin, a Virtual Reality obsessed Cockney urchin; Windows Twanky (an AI Dame); and Blotto the sock puppet, as they traverse the pitfalls and pumice stones of the year 2035!

Adam de la Cour is a London-based composer, performer and film-maker, well-known on the experimental scene. His music sometimes resembles genres such as contemporary classical, experimental, free improvisation, heavy metal and other ‘popular' styles. He has made short films for Cartoon Network's late night cable broadcasting block, Adult Swim, and has appeared on Radio 3 and BBC Radio 6 Music performing live carpentry with Neil Luck. He is part of ARCO Collective and a co-founder of squib-box.

Tom Service presents Oh Bobby! - an experimental Christmas pantomime by Adam de la Cour.

Mette Nielsen: Slow Race

Betsy Jolas: Music for Joan

George Barton & Siwan Rhys

Larry Goves: happy/fat/boomf

Liza Lim: movements from Atlas of the Sky (UK Premiere)

Jessica Aszodi (soprano)

Jennifer Walshe: G.L.O.R.I.-

BirdWorld: set 1

Larry Goves: Untitled (Music for melody instruments, bearing balls, corks and electronic sounds) (World premiere)

David Fennessy: Small brown spots

Natasha Anderson - More (UK Premiere)

BirdWorld: set 2

Oliver Leith: good day good day bad day bad day (8th movement)

Amber Priestley: Abroad to beg your bacon ((World premiere)

Part One

Christophe Guiraud: Hiera Picra Hellebores

Tom Pauwels (electric guitar)

Alex Groves: Curved Form (No. 4)

Eliza McCarthy (piano)

Crewdson & Cevanne: Two Sisters; Two Machines

Cevanne (vocal, harp, electronics)

Crewdson (electronics)

Ed Bennett: Sometimes Everything Falls Apart

Decibel, conducted by Daniele Rosina

Interval: Secret Playlist

Part Two

Egidija Medeksaite: Malakosha

John Luther Adams: Nunataks

Crewdson & Cevanne: They Forgot; Sisa's Well

James Tenney: Harmonium I

Tom Pauwels (bowed 7 string electric guitar & electronics)

Joe Cutler: Extended Play

Paula Matthusen: In Absentia

Galya Bisengalieva (violin)

Katherine Tinker (piano)

Simon Hendry (electronics)

Kathrin Denner: Shakti (UKP)

Simon H怀fele (trumpet)

Fausto Romitelli: Trash TV Trance

Yaron Deutsch (electric guitar)

Elena Rykova: 101% mind uploading

Craig Apps (percussion)

Elsa Bradley (percussion)

Chaya Czernowin: Black Flowers

Kaan Bulak: Fantasy for Trumpet (WP)

Kaan Bulak (electronics)

Rebecca Saunders: Study

John Luther Adams: In a Treeless Place, Only Snow

London Contemporary Orchestra conducted by Robert Ames

(Recorded at LSO St Luke's in London last April)

Part One

Christophe Guiraud: Hiera Picra Hellebores

Tom Pauwels (electric guitar)

Alex Groves: Curved Form (No. 4)

Eliza McCarthy (piano)

Crewdson & Cevanne: Two Sisters; Two Machines

Cevanne (vocal, harp, electronics)

Crewdson (electronics)

Ed Bennett: Sometimes Everything Falls Apart

Decibel, conducted by Daniele Rosina

Interval: Secret Playlist

Part Two

Egidija Medeksaite: Malakosha

John Luther Adams: Nunataks

Crewdson & Cevanne: They Forgot; Sisa's Well

James Tenney: Harmonium I

Tom Pauwels (bowed 7 string electric guitar & electronics)

Joe Cutler: Extended Play

Paula Matthusen: In Absentia

Galya Bisengalieva (violin)

Katherine Tinker (piano)

Simon Hendry (electronics)

Kathrin Denner: Shakti (UKP)

Simon H怀fele (trumpet)

Fausto Romitelli: Trash TV Trance

Yaron Deutsch (electric guitar)

Elena Rykova: 101% mind uploading

Craig Apps (percussion)

Elsa Bradley (percussion)

Chaya Czernowin: Black Flowers

Kaan Bulak: Fantasy for Trumpet (WP)

Kaan Bulak (electronics)

Rebecca Saunders: Study

John Luther Adams: In a Treeless Place, Only Snow

London Contemporary Orchestra conducted by Robert Ames

(Recorded at LSO St Luke's in London last April)

Plus a large-scale work for turntables and ensemble:

Shiva Feshareki: Opus Infinity

Ensemble Modern

Shiva Feshareki (turntables)

(recorded at Frankfurt LAB, Feb 2020)

Kate Molleson is joined by composer/performer Kerry Andrew to review new music releases.

Orchestral premieres from Germany and Switzerland, and chamber music and song from London.

World premieres by Beat Furrer in Lucerne and Philipp Maintz in Cologne, chamber music at Cafe Oto, and at Wigmore Hall, songs by Sasha Scott, Thomas Adès and Laurie Anderson.

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The latest in new music performance, and an interview with Pamela Z.

Tonight there's Patricia Alessandrini's 'A complete history of Music,' for string quartet and electronics and Carola Baukholt's 'Solastalgia,' for violin, tape and video from the Witten New Music Days, and Martin Schüttler's 'i wd leave leaf & dance,' from Donaueschinger. And, from Wien Modern, a contemporary classic from by Georg Friedrich Haas, his Open Spaces II (in memory of James Tenney) for four spatially distributed groups of instruments. Plus an eclectic mix of the latest releases.

A two-hour deep-dive into the latest sounds in contemporary music

Tonight there's Patricia Alessandrini's 'A complete history of Music,' for string quartet and electronics and Carola Baukholt's 'Solastalgia,' for violin, tape and video from the Witten New Music Days, and Martin Schüttler's 'i wd leave leaf & dance,' from Donaueschinger. And, from Wien Modern, a contemporary classic by Georg Friedrich Haas, his Open Spaces II (in memory of James Tenney) for four spatially distributed groups of instruments. Plus an eclectic mix of the latest releases.

Tom Service presents a dazzling selection of specially recorded music from some of today's top composers and performers, including world premieres by Beat Furrer in Lucerne and Philipp Maintz in Cologne. Plus clarinets, trombones and horn at Cafe Oto, and, at Wigmore Hall, songs by Sasha Scott, Detlev Glanert, Thomas Adès and Laurie Anderson sung by mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska with Sean Shibe on guitar.

Orchestral premieres from Germany and Switzerland, and chamber music and song from London.

World premieres by Beat Furrer in Lucerne and Philipp Maintz in Cologne, plus chamber music at Cafe Oto and, at Wigmore Hall, songs by Sasha Scott, Thomas Adès and Laurie Anderson.

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Kate Molleson with the very latest from the contemporary music scene, including the world premiere recording of Piers Hellawell's Rapprochement, a concerto written for the pianist Clare Hammond, who joins conductor Jamie Phillips and the Ulster Orchestra. Also, exclusive Radio 3 recordings of music by composer/performer, Zubin Kanga and the Cello Sonata inspired by Elizabeth I by Joseph Phibbs. New releases this week include recent music from Linda Catlin Smith, and contemporary tracks inspired by folk music from Maja Ratkje and the Coras Trio. And ahead of the Ivors Classical Awards next week, Kate introduces music from a selection of nominees including Naomi Pinnock, Ben Nobuto and Alex Paxton.

The latest in new music performance including music by Zubin Kanga, Naomi Pinnock, Piers Hellawell, Joseph Phibbs and Linda Catlin Smith.

Tom Service presents the latest in new music performance, including a fiftieth birthday concert event for Michael Wolters, tracks to mark the recent passing of two composers, and Robert Worby talks to percussionist Eddie Prevost about his long career in free improvisation, and his legendary group AMM.

Mira Calix: an infinite thrum (archipelago)

Joanna Bailie: He just missed the train

Plus Minus Ensemble with Kobe Van Cauwenberghe (electric guitar)

(recorded at Cafe Oto in London in February)

Anna Clyne: This Lunar Beauty

Sarah Dacey (soprano)

Riot Ensemble conducted by Aaron Holloway-Nahum

(recorded at Birmingham Barber Institute in February)

Michael Wolters: The Low Miracles (part one)

Suzi Purkis (soprano)

Michael Wolters (compere/vocalist)

Thallein Ensemble conducted by Daniele Rosina

(recorded at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, last November)

Philip Jeck and Faith Coloccia: Acquire the Air

Mandy Leung: Funeral March from Bells of Wrath

BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Ryan Bancroft

Lawrence English: Viento/Antarctica

Tom Service presents World and UK premieres from this year's BBC Proms.

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Graham Fitkin: R Zero

Duncan Honeybourne (piano)

Contemporary Piano Soundbites: Composers in Lockdown 2020

Brett Dean: Piano Concerto, 'Gneixendorf Music - A Winter's Journey' (Premiere)

Jonathan Biss (piano

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Afkham

John Croft: ‘Lost Songs

No. 4,...And Lily... About the Ankles... (On the Daughters of Lycambes)

No. 5,...All...Perishes

No. 6, The Moon Has Set, and the Pleiades

Juliet Fraser (soprano)

John Croft (electronics)

Oudom Southammavong (electronics)

Jordan Dykstra: ‘Arrow of Time

Reinier van Houdt (piano and hand-crank siren)

Jordan Dykstra (field recordings and electronic programming)

Adam Forkner (additional drum programming)

Linda Buckley - `Discordia??

Joby Burgess  percussion (canna sonora)

Linda Buckley electronics

Ana Sokolovi?: ‘Commedia dell'arte

`Colombina?? (I/2)

`Innamorati?? (III/3)

Bozzini Quartet

Daniel Bjarnason: ‘Processions' - III. `Red Handed??

V퀀kingur Hei

Psappha Session:

Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade: Three etudes for piano and flowerpots

Lucy Armstrong: The Executioner's Pond

Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Spectrum

John Casken; Winter Reels

Conrad Marshall (flute)

Matt Dunn (clarinet)

Benedict Holland (violin)

Heather Wallington (viola)

Jennifer Langridge (cello)

James Manson (double bass)

Benjamin Powell (piano)

Tim Williams (percussion)

Clark Rundell (conductor)

Manchester's Psappha perform music especially for the programme.

Manchester's Psappha perform music recorded especially for the programme, and Kate Molleson has new offerings from Alex Paxton, Pamela Z and Clair. Also in the programme percussion music by Daniel Wohl and a work about memory and recollection from America, 'An Atlas of Time' by the Chinese born composer, Wang Lu.

The Psappha Session:

Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Spectra

TOM SERVICE presents music from the 2019, Eight Bridges Festival: Christoph Bertrand's frenzied Mana performed by WDR Symphony Orchestra with conductor, Brad Lubman and Georges Aperghis' Seesaw performed by Klangforum Wien and conductor, Julien Leroy. There is a live performance from BBC Symphony Orchestra of Olga Neuwirth's trumpet concerto, Miramondo Multiplo played by Hakan Hardenberger and recorded at Berliner Festspiele last year. For tonight's home session Darragh Morgan (violin) and Mary Dullea (piano) play Secundum by Deirdre McKay, and new releases this week feature music by Helmut Lachenmann, PIERS HELLAWELL, KURT SCHWITTERs and Yair Elazar Glotman & Mats Erlandsson. Finally, the ROBERT WORBY interview features Robert in conversation with Master of the Queen's Music, JUDITH WEIR.

Helmut Lachenmann: Marche fatale

Nicolas Hodges (piano)

Christoph Bertrand: Mana

WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne

Brad Lubman (conductor)

Julien Leroy (conductor)

JUDITH WEIR: Nuits d'Afrique, IV. Le village

Ailish Tynan (soprano)

Hebrides Ensemble

Deirdre McKay: Secundum

PIERS HELLAWELL: Ground Truthing, III. Ruvido

Hard Rain Ensemble

Helmut Lachenmann: Sakura mit Berliner Luft (2008)

Trio Accanto

Olga Neuwirth:...miramondo multiplo...

Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet)

Sakari Oramo (conductor)

KURT SCHWITTERs: Ursonate (Segunda Parte)

Adam de la Cour

Neil Luck

Emanate (extract )

Hilary Jeffery (trombone)

Lucy Railton (cello)

LIAM BYRNE (viola da gamba)

Simon Goff (violin)

Yair Elazar Glotman (double bass)

Viktor Orri Arnarson (viola)

Sara Fors (vocals)

Maria W Horn (organ)

Interwoven throughout the performance are medieval hymns by the 12th century mystic Hildegard of Bingen in new arrangements by James Weeks. Arvo P䀀rt's Missa Syllabica?is one of the purest expressions of his tintinnabulation technique, while Cage's?Ear for EAR?has an almost Gregorian purity. Alvin Lucier's Unamuno explores the acoustics of a single chord while Catherine Lamb's song/form spins a slow melody from the natural resonance of the harmonic series.

The programme is completed by a world premiere from young French composer Brendan Champeaux, and a newly-revised piece by veteran American composer Gloria Coates. Rainbow Across the Night Sky features the composer's trademark glissandi and as well the sounds of kazoos played by the ensemble.

Also on the programme, Cassandra Miller's prize-winning About Bach performed by the Bozzini Quartet at Wigmore Hall at the beginning of December.

New music of mystical beauty for Christmas Eve with Kate Molleson.

ALVIN LUCIER's Unamuno explores the acoustics of a single chord while Catherine Lamb's song/form spins a slow melody from the natural resonance of the harmonic series. Arvo P䀀rt's Missa Syllabica?is one of the purest expressions of his tintinnabulation technique, while Cage's?Ear for EAR?has an almost Gregorian purity.

The programme is completed by a world premiere from young French composer Bernard Champeau, and a newly-revised piece by veteran American composer Gloria Coates, a rainbow of shimmering glissandi. Interwoven throughout, medieval hymns by the 12th-century mystic Hildegard of Bingen, in new arrangements by JAMES WEEKS.

Tom Service with the latest from the world of new music - Daisy Press and the Aleph Guitar Quartet perform Austrian composer Bernhard Lang's The Cold Trip, a meta-composition based on Schubert's Winterreise in a performance from Louth; Leonidas Kavakos performs Unsuk Chin's Violin Concert Shards of Silence with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Munich; and we hear Jay Capperauld's Inertia of a Bona Fide Psychopath in a recent recording by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Also tonight: Listen List, a new feature inviting artists and composers to share the music filling their ears this week, starting tonight with Manchester Collective's Rakhi Singh. Plus new releases from American Peruvian guitarist Jorge Espinal, French experimentalist Laetitia Sonami and the duo of Teo Dora An Drea.

New music from Bernhard Lang, Unsuk Chin and Jay Capperauld.

Tom Service with live recordings of works by Bernhard Lang, Unsuk Chin and Jay Capperauld plus new releases from Jorge Espinal, Laetitia Sonami and Rakhi Singh's Listen List.

Tom Service with the latest from the world of new music - Daisy Press and the Aleph Guitar Quartet perform Austrian composer Bernard Lang's The Cold Trip, a meta-composition based on Schubert's Winterreise in a performance from Louth; Leonidas Kavakos performs Unsuk Chin's Violin Concert Shards of Silence with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Munich; and we hear Jay Capperauld's Inertia of a Bona Fide Psychopath in a recent recording by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Also tonight: Listen List, a new feature inviting artists and composers to share the music filling their ears this week, starting tonight with Manchester Collective's Rakhi Singh. Plus new releases from American Peruvian guitarist Jorge Espinal, French experimentalist Laetitia Sonami and the duo of Teo Dora An Drea.

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Also tonight, a performance of Tristan Murail's Le lac written inspired by a view from his home: Every day, every hour, the lake has a different light, a new mood. It is ever present but ever changing, reflecting and magnifying the incessant movement of the seasons and climates. And, alongside this modern classic, the world premiere of 'Cloud Shadow,' written for the Nash Ensemble by Simon Holt.

Raven Chacon reflects on the role of the environment in new music.

In Birmingham, under the watchful eye of Philip Cashian, two young composer (Kinna Whitehead and Alexander Papp) explore the venerable medium of the piano trio. And threaded through it all, Kate shares some of her favourite recent releases.

Philip Cashian: Kink

Flow Unit 3

Jessie Cox: Time is nothing but a Story.

Lin Liao (director)

Kinna Whitehead: Sonic House

Alexander Papp: Snatch

Noa Frenkel (vocals)

Rebecca Saunders's searing vocal work features the extraordinary contralto of Noa Frenkel.

Rebecca Saunders's searing Us Dead Talk Love, recorded at Bludenzer Days of Contemporary Music, plus composer-saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock's Thinking Holes from Donaueschingen.

LOUIS ANDRIESSEN: May

Orchestra of the 18th Century

Cappella Amsterdam

conducted by Daniel Reuss

Plus new electronic music from University of Huddersfield's FluCoMa project.

And ROBERT WORBY has an in-depth conversation with Richard Causton about his compositional ideas and aims.

TOM SERVICE presents LOUIS ANDRIESSEN's last major work, May.

Kate Molleson returns to Venice, with more music from last year's Biennale Musica, as well as music from the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra. Plus music by Olga Neuwirth and Richard Baker, performed by the UPROAR Ensemble in Merthyr Tydfil last year. And the latest in new releases.

Our thanks to Vidda Le Feber (sound engineer / producer) for the recording of UPROAR Ensemble.

Kate Molleson, with more music from the Venice Biennale

Kate Molleson returns to Venice, with more music from last year's Biennale. Plus music from the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra.

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The title is inspired by the Alto Rhapsody by Brahms and the texts are also by the composer Frank Corcoran. Robert Worby talks to composer Edward Cowie about art, music and sciences as he celebrates his 80th birthday.

Kate Molleson talks to composer Rhodri Davies about the new music he's discovering now.

Cutting-edge and experimental new music in live performance, plus interviews and features.

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Included in the programme:

Laurence Osborn: Micrographia - V ?Fifth Figure - Wings of Flies?

Riot Ensemble

Gunnar Geisse: ?Piano Concerto? Mvts 1a-1c ?

Samantha Fernando: ?Kinesphere? for solo flute

MICHAEL COX (flute)

Kristina Wolfe: ?A Mere Echo Of Aristoxenus?

Wet Ink Ensemble

Neil Luck: ?Brother?

Satoko Doi-Luck, (harpsichord)

Alex Paxton (trombone)

Gunnar Geisse: ?Rhythm Changes?

Gunnar Geise (laptop guitar)

Param Vir: ?Hayagriva?

Sch?nberg Ensemble

Micha Hamel conductor

Annea Lockwood: ?Becoming Air?

Nate Woolley (trumpet)

Erika Fox: Quasi Una Cadenza

Goldfield Ensemble

George Lewis: Timelike Weave (UK premiere)

Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)

[Recorded at Glasgow Tectonics 2019]

Richard Ayres: No.50 (The Garden) (recorded at UK premiere at Southbank Centre)

Joshua Bloom (bass)

Sound Intermedia

London Sinfonietta, Geoffrey Paterson (conductor)

Paola Livorsi: Lamenti

Helsinki Chamber Choir, Nils Schweckendiek (conductor)

Tom Service presents a focus on the composer Richard Barrett, with some recent concert performances of his music recorded at Bangor New Music festival and at Leeds University; and an in-depth interview with the composer by Robert Worby.

Also tonight, new CD releases of music by Alex Paxton, Tansy Davies and Jan Martin Smørdal; and the world premiere performance of Outside the Realm of Time, by Agata Zubel, for voice and orchestra, recorded in concert in Germany.

Tonight, Kate Molleson evokes a Pagan ritual with music by Hungarian composer Bence Kutrik and we hear Norwegian Sigurd Fischer Olsen's 'Sserenades'. Mark Knoop and MANUEL ZURRIA perform LAURENCE CRANE's Gli Anni Prog (the ?years of prog'), a piece that draws inspiration from an Italian book about 70s prog rock legends Genesis. We hear some sonic mutations and mimicry in new releases from Swedish-Finnish electroacoustic composer Marja Ahti and People Like Us, pianist Nicolas Hodges performs Simon Steen-Andersen's ground (and piano) breaking Concerto for piano, sampler, video and orchestra with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Thomas Dausgaard, and our Sound of the Week is the plaintive wail of an escalator at the Hague that sparked the imagination of Welsh composer Andrew Lewis.

People Like Us: Bing Bong

Bence Kutrik: Ritual

Klara Babel (harp)

Janos Szepesi (clarinet)

Zalan Kovacs (tuba)

Zoltan Varga & Adam Maros (percussion)

International Rostrum of Composers 2018

LAURENCE CRANE: Gli Anni Prog

Mark Knoop (piano)

MANUEL ZURRIA (Flute)

Sigurd Fischer Olsen: Sserenades for female voice and ensemble

Sofia Jernberg (vocals)

BIT20 Ensemble

Peter Sebastian Szilvay (conductor)

Marja Ahti - Rooftop Gardens

Simon Steen-Andersen: Concerto for piano, sampler, video and orchestra

Nicolas Hodges (piano)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard.

Featuring the best new music in live performance, plus interviews and features.

Rolf Hind's new work Blue to the Throat is a sequence of eight movements for the singer Elaine Mitchener who performed it at Wigmore Hall with Apartment House. Each of the movements takes a different view from philosophy, poetry and nature of the idea of the throat from Catholic blessings of the throat, to Sanskrit and the natural world and an eloquent new poem by Dante Micheaux. Also in the programme, Aftermath of the Overflow, the third of Giulia Monducci's Avenue works for large ensemble is performed by Klangforum WIen. And, amongst the new releases, is a celebration of the sounds of Greece from Spyros Polychronopoulos and Jannis Anastasakis.

Saariaho: Light and Matter

Red Note Ensemble

Blue to the Throat (2024) world première

Blessing, StrĀ? Prst Skrz Krk, Whitethroat, The Syllables, Two Songs: Furnace of Bliss • Blue to the Throat, Cordhouse and Nodobotoke

Elaine Mitchener (voice), Apartment House

Giulia Monducci: Avenue #3 / Aftermath of the Overflow

Klangforum Wien, Lin Liao (conductor)

Cutting-edge and experimental new music in live performance, interviews and new releases.

The latest sounds from the world of new music, including the premiere of Rolf Hind's Blue to the Throat - eight movements for the singer Elaine Mitchener, exploring the throat.

The latest in new music performance with TOM SERVICE

Ryoji Ikeda's Metal Music, and Tansy Davies selects her Listen List.

Cutting-edge and experimental new music in live performance, plus interviews and features.

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Kate Molleson presents the usual mix of live recordings, new releases and interviews. Tonight we hear the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with Donghoon Shin's cello concerto Nachtergebung, inspired by the poetry of Georg Trakl; the BBC Philharmonic perform Ailís Ní Ríain's The Land Grows Weary of its Own, which reflects on climate change and bird populations; and Apartment House present a piano quintet by Icelandic composer Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarson recorded at London's Cafe Oto. Plus in the second of our new feature series Listen List, the American singer-songwriter Sam Amidon shares three tracks he thinks we should hear.

Sam Amidon shares his latest listening plus Donghoon Shin's cello concerto.

Kate Molleson with live recordings of works by Donghoon Shin and Ailis Ni Riain, plus Sam Amidon shares his latest listening.

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Sami Klemola's Ghost notes for hammond organ and orchestra receives its premiere at Helsinki's Dark Music Days and Oliver Sellwood's Alias States is heard for the first time at Kings Place in London. There's also the haunting sound of de-tuned pianos from the Edu Haubensak and Andrew Hugill talks about 'Spectrum Sounds,' his collection of seven short pieces of music commissioned by the BBC as part of the 'Culture in Quarantine' Programme for Disabled Artists.

The latest in new music performance including Ghost States for hammond organ and orchestra

Sami Klemola's Ghost Notes for Hammond organ and orchestra receives its premiere at Helsinki's Dark Music Days and and Oliver Sellwood's Alias States is heard for the first time at Kings Place in London. There's also the haunting sound of de-tuned pianos from the Finn Edu Haubensak and Andrew Hugill talks about 'Spectrum Sounds' by his collection of seven short pieces of music commissioned by the BBC as part of the 'Culture in Quarantine' Programme for Disabled Artists.

The latest in new music performance, including Ghost Notes for Hammond organ and orchestra

Kate Molleson presents a US focus tonight with a look at some of the new and experimental music coming out of Philadelphia, Dallas and LA, while composer Sarah Hennies shares three tracks she is obsessed with and thinks we should hear. Also featured tonight: the world premiere of a new work by Mexican composer Luis Fernando Amaya performed by the London Sinfonietta in Huddersfield; and Stone Drawn Circles perform the music of Nicole Lizée at the Aberdeen Sound Festival.

Sarah Hennies shares her essential listening with Kate Molleson.

American composer Sarah Hennies shares her essential listening with Kate Molleson plus a new work from Luis Fernando Amaya.

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The programme features music from JOE CUTLER, Simon Hall, Andy Ingamells and Maya Verlaak, Ryan Latimer, Annie Mahtani Michael Wolters and Paul Norman.

BCMG perform music from both sides of the globe taking in composers from across the history of the group.

Collette Overdijk (violin)

Mark O'Brien (clarinet)

Ulrich Heinen (cello)

JOHN REID (piano)

Ma Xiao-Quin; Back To The Beginning - Sililoquies and Dialogues

JULIAN ANDERSON: Capriccio for solo piano

Charlotte Bray: Midnight Interludes for clarinet and piano

OLIVER KNUSSEN: Eccentric Melody for solo cello

Fumiko Miyachi: Hedge

HARRISON BIRTWISTLE: Roddy's Reel for bass clarinet and on-line audience.

Music from BCMG and with a West Midlands connection

Ma Xiao-Quin; Back To The Beginning - Sililoquies & Dialogues

Charlotte Bray: Midnight Interludes for clarinet & piano

As well as the BCMG performances the programme also features music from Joe Cutler, Simon Hall, Andy Ingamells and Maya Verlaak, Ryan Latimer, Annie Mahtani, Michael Wolters and Paul Norman.

BCMG perform music from 'both ends of the globe, taking in composers from across the history of the group'.

Oliver Leith: Balloon

William Cole: Absence

Hermes Experiment

Jürg Frey: Elemental Realities

SWR Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart, conducted by Tito Ceccherini

Oliver Leith: Uh huh yeah

Garth Knox: Quartet for one

Lawrence Power (viola)

Eva Reiter: W䀀chter

Eva Reiter (bass flute)

Susanne Fr怀hlich (bass flute)

Mike Schmid (flute)

German Chamber Choir

Linda Buckley: Kyrie

Salvatore Sciarrino: Hermes

Karin de Fleyt (flute)

Tansy Davies: The rule is love (WP)

Elaine Mitchener (vocal)

London Sinfonietta conducted by Richard Baker

Francis Dhomont: En cuerdas

Lauri Kilpio: Shades of light

Joonas Ahonen (piano)

BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo

Tansy Davies: Soul canoe

Red Note Ensemble

TOM SERVICE presents international new music, including Canadian acousmatics, a magnetic resonator piano, and chamber music by Tansy Davies. He also talks to New York flautist Claire Chase, and ROBERT WORBY interviews Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas.

Xenia Pestova Bennett: Actinium

Xenia Pestova Bennett (magnetic resonator piano)

Georg Friedrich Haas: Trombone Concerto

Mike Svoboda (trombone)

SWR Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alejo P退rez

Marcos Balter: ECHO (from Pan)

Claire Chase (flute)

Pauchi Sasaki: Gama XV

Claire Chase (bass flute)

Pauchi Sasaki (violin)

Clemens von Reusner: Anamorphosis

Tom Service with music by Georgia Rodgers and Sam Salem in performances by Plus-Minus Ensemble, Distractfold and the BBC Philharmonic

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Kate Molleson celebrates International Women's Day 2025 on the New Music Show, with a selection of cutting-edge live recordings, including the world premiere recording of a new piece by Shiva Feshareki, from the recent BBC Symphony Orchestra Total Immersion: Symphonic Electronics day. Plus, music from some of the best women composers, including Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Kaija Saariaho, and Lucia Dlugoszewski, and Kate's selection of new releases.

Full list of samples used by Shiva Feshareki in her piece Bab-Khaneh: Gatehouse of Memory:

Hayedeh - Gole Sang

Foreigner - Waiting for a Girl Like You (Live)

Paul McCartney & Wings - My Love

Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas (The St Anthony Singers & English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Anthony Lewis)

Shlump - Zero Gravity

Truth - Strange Dreams (Biome Remix)

Kate Molleson presents live recordings and new releases, all by women composers.

Kate Molleson celebrates International Women's Day 2025 on the New Music Show, with a selection of cutting-edge live recordings and new releases, all by women composers.

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Kate Molleson introduces Shiva Feshareki's Divine Feminine, hot from its world premiere a couple of nights ago.

For her latest project, Shiva Feshareki has joined forces with the librettist, Karen McCarthy Woolf, choreographer Rebecca Namgauds and creative producer and singer Emma Tring to create DIVINE FEMININE, an immersive spatial opera which invokes ancient feminine deities.

As they sing and recite, the voices of the characters of the opera are transformed electronically on turntables and via a live‑sculpted 360° soundscape of “divine” geometric spatialisation.

Drawing on the duplexities of the Goddess, ancient vocal, and folk traditions from Iran, pre-Christian Ireland, Native America, West and Central Africa, Nordic Europe, Gregorian Europe, Bulgaria, Byzantium, and Assyrian Mesopotamia, the work is a trance-led invocation of transformation and connection to nature and the cosmos.

Karen McCarthy Woolf's libretto includes ballads, Afghan women's landays and incantatory ghazal from Persia.

As she says: '...In The Divine Feminine we are using our voices to reach up and out, to an inclusive pantheon of deities from a plethora of cultures around the world, in the hope that this connection might do something to correct the patriarchal mess in which we find ourselves!

Performed at the church of St-Martin-in-the-Fields by the upper voices of the BBC Singers, turntabalist Shiva Fesharekia with soloists Emma Tring and Mary Pearce along with Vox Next Gen and the flautist Karin de Fleyt conducted by Lucy Goddard.

Co-commissioned by BBC Radio 3.

Cutting-edge music for the eve of International Women's Day.

Cutting-edge and experimental new music in live performance, plus interviews and features.

Cutting edge music including the premiere of Shiva Feshareki's Divine Feminine, a 360° soundscape of “divine” geometric spatialisation.

Karen McCarthy Woolf's libretto includes ballads, anonymous Afghan women's landays and incantatory ghazal from Persia.

Performed at the church of St-Martin-in-the-Fields by the upper voices of the BBC Singers, turntabalist Shiva Fesharekia and singers Emma Tring, Karin de Fleyt, Mary Pearce, with Vox Next Gen conducted by Lucy Goddard.

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Kate Molleson presents the world premiere of Silicon by Robert Laidlow.

Tom Service presents the world premiere of Silicon, by Robert Laidlow.

Silvia Tarozzi shares her essential listening with Kate Molleson.

Cutting-edge and experimental new music in live performance, plus interviews and features.

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Tom Service with a recording of Simon Steen-Anderson's new work grosso, for amplified quartet, Leslie loudspeakers and orchestra, in the premiere performance by Yarn/Wire, the SWR Symphony Orchestra and conductor Susanne Blumenthal at last October's Donaueschingen festival in Germany.

To listen using most smart speakers, just say “Ask BBC Sounds to play New Music Show ?

Tom Service presents a recording of Simon Steen-Anderson's new work grosso, premiered at the Donaueschingen festival in October.

Tom Service introduces Simon Steen-Andersen's new work grosso, for amplified quartet, Leslie loudspeakers and orchestra, in the sensational premiere performance at last October's Donaueschingen festival in Germany. Also from Donaueschingen, George Lewis's concerto for symphonic orchestra, improvising human soloist, and improvising AI-pianist: The Reincarnation of Blind Tom was inspired by the extraordinary life of the enslaved nineteenth century pianist and composer Thomas Wiggins, who is, as George Lewis says, 'Metaphorically reincarnated as Tom using Artificial Intelligence and his own Voyager interactive 'virtual improvisor'.

Along with these blockbusters, there's a short work for Conch Shell by Wan Ying and the Colin Currie and his Percussion Quartet play David Horne's Pulse for solo marimba and Aileen Sweeney's Starburst, a work she says 'inspired by the astrophysical process of a starburst in which stars are born at a particularly fast rate and also by a well-known brand of fruit-flavoured chewy sweets which I was often partial to on trips to the corner shop as a kid.

Tom Service presents a recording of Simon Steen-Andersen's new work grosso, premiered at the Donaueschingen festival in October

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Tom Service presents recorded highlights from this year's Skaņu Mežs festival for experimental music that took place in Riga, Latvia, in October.

With music from:

John Butcher [solo sax]

Joan La Barbara [solo vocals]

Shabaka Hutchings / Hamid Drake [saxophone / drums]

Balss Lūzums [choral, cello and electronics]

R3YWYA [electronics]

Laine Luize Freidenberga / Ernests Vilsons [solo double bass]

Pierce Warnecke & Matthew Biederman - field recordings

Tom Service with recordings from Latvia's Ska\u0146u Me\u017es festival of experimental music.

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Music from Ash Fure, Alvin Singleton and Leo Chadburn

Tom Service introduces performances by Natacha Diels, Apartment House and Eliza Carthy.

Tom Service presents music for multiple cassette players by Aki Onda.

Tom Service presents more of the best new music releases and exclusive concert recordings. Tonight we'll hear Natacha Diels's piece Somewhere Beautiful, recorded live at Cafe Oto in east London and performed by Natacha herself alongside the Plus-Minus ensemble. We've also got exclusive recordings of Apartment House performing Albert M Fine's delicate work for piano and strings, White on White, plus Eliza McCarthy performing Tim Parkinson's piano piece '2015' at the Music We'd Like to Hear summer series. And we pay tribute to the amazing composer Gloria Coates who passed away in August 2023, including another chance to hear something from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's concert of Gloria Coates's symphonic work recorded in 2018.

Tom Service introduces performances by Natacha Diels, Apartment House and Eliza McCarthy.

Tom Service presents music from the recent Sound Festival in Aberdeen.

Tom Service presents the latest in new music performance, including highlights from the recent Sound Festival in Aberdeen, with solos from bass clarinetist Sarah Watts; the duo of Ben Goldscheider (horn) and Huw Watkins (piano); and composer/vocalist Laura Bowler premieres her piece Wicked Problems, joined by Ruth Morley (flute).

William Basinski: The Wheel of Fortune

Hildegard Westerkamp: Fantasie for horns II

Alasdair Nicolson: Bring my pipes and I'll go home

Ian Matheson: While we wait

Sarah Watts (clarinets)

Laura Bowler: Wicked Problems

Deirdre Mackay: Postcards from a fragile planet

Laura Bowler (vocal)

Marta ?niady: - c_ut

e_#1

European Workshop for Contemporary Music conducted by Rüdiger Bohn

J怀rg Widmann: Air for solo horn

Huw Watkins: Lament

Pete Stollery: The vivid, speechless air

William Sweeney: Russet, green, two platings

Adrian Mocanu: Metamorphoses

Tyshawn Sorey: Cascade in Slow Motion

Lola de la Mata: sense titol 1

Ausias Garrigos (clarinet)

Finnissy: Janne

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov

Huihui Cheng: Sonic Leak

Ensemble Nikel

Zo? Martlew: Salamander

Ruth Rosales (bassoon)

Bryn Harrison: Dead Time

Wet Ink

B?rang?re Maximin: Walking barefoot, Imaginary quintet

Joseph Bates: Sparrow

Marianne Schofield (double bass)

Lee Fraser: Pline Expol A

Juliet Fraser: Loop 2 (Wallace Stevens)

Lola de la Mata: [LAND] & OTHER HAZARDS

Ausias Garrigos (bass clarinet)

Oliver Leith: Good Day Good Day Bad Day Bad Day (parts 1 - 4)

George Barton (percussion)

Siwan Rhys (piano)

TOM SERVICE introduces music by OLIVER KNUSSEN, the British premiere of a major work for bassoon inspired by Kafka, Study for Metamorphosis; HARRISON BIRTWISTLE's Three Songs from the Holy Forest ? settings of poems by Robin Blaser, which Birtwistle also set in his The Moth Requiem; and ELLIOTT CARTER's Mosaic composed for the Nash Ensemble in 2004. There's brand new work by Scottish composer, Genevieve Murphy which was recorded at the BBC's Tectonics Festival in Glasgow and is performed by the composer herself as well as Scottish piper, Brighde Chaimbeul, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor, Ilan Volkov - In An Agitated World was inspired by Murphy's Fear of Spiders. Also, a new release of music from Iran by Fozi? Majd, the Ulster Orchestra perform Ian Wilson's Licht/ung and this week's Sound of the Week comes from composer, Claudia Molitor.

Stefan Asbury (conductor)

David Brophy (conductor)

Dreamland

Darragh Morgan (violin)

Patrick Savage (violin)

Fiona Winning (viola)

Deirdre Cooper (cello)

Claire Booth (soprano)

Study for 'Metamorphosis' for solo bassoon

Ursula Leveaux (bassoon)

Calm In An Agitated World

Genevieve Murphy (vocalist and tape)

Brighde Chaimbeul (pipes)

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

standard issue play music by Lisa Illean and Joanna Bailie, counter-tenor Michał Sławecki sings Rafał Ryterski's Totentanz, and violinist Ellie Wilson plays an evocative set.

From the BBC Symphony Orchestra's Symphonic Electronics season event earlier this year, a performance of Steven Daverson's Figures Outside a Dacha, With Snowfall, and an Abbey in the Background, inspired by the final scene from Andrei Tarkovsky's film Nostalghia, in the UK premiere of a BBC co-commission. Also featured tonight: Riot Ensemble in concert with duo concertos by Shin Kim and Andrea Balency-Béarn, student composers at the Royal Academy of Music; Belfast's Hard Rain Ensemble perform the music of Polish composer Agnieszka Stulgińska; a live set from Tim Cape and Alex Ward recorded at London's Cafe Oto; plus a selection of the latest new releases. With Tom Service.

Tom Service with new music by Steven Daverson, Andrea Balency-Béarn and Shin Kim, plus a set from Tim Cape and Alex Ward live at Cafe Oto and a round-up of new releases.

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~New Music Show: Kate Molleson introduces the latest new sounds - from the whispered intimacies of Frank Denyer's String Quartet to the battle between the innocent self and the temptations of the world in Ying Wang's new work for violin and ensemble. There's new music too from Pierre-Yves Mac退, Stevie Wishart and Nomi Epstein and also George Benjamin's classic from 1980 inspired by the eerie tension as the New Mexico desert landscape is overwhelmed by a vast storm.

Adam Stanovi?: Metallurgic

Frank Denyer: String Quartet from new album The Boundaries of Intimacy

Ying Wang: Schmutz

Stevie Wishart: Between cities in sound (Eurostar)

George Benjamin: Ringed by the flat horizon

Nomi Epstein: Combine, Juxtapose, Delayed Overlap

Pierre-Yves Mac退: rhapsodie-sur-fond-vert cello and electronics

The best in new music: a world premiere by Harrison Birtwistle and Stockhausen reimagined.

Tom Service presents the best new music in live performance, including the world premiere of a Duo for Eight Strings by Sir Harrison Birtwistle played by violist Lawrence Power and cellist Adrian Brendel and recorded at Wigmore Hall. Birmingham Contemporary Music Group with sheng soloist, Wu Wei and conductor, Julien Leroy give the premiere of Donghoon Shin's Concerto, Anecdote. Robert Worby interviews veteran New York School composer Christian Wolff about his long life in music, as he visits London to perform his own music at the Barbican. And, the world premiere of a new opera 'Actress x Stockhausen Sin {x} II', a reimagining of Stockhausen's Welt-Parlament, from contemporary electronic musician Actress, also known as Darren Cunningham, and recorded last week at London's Southbank Centre. The libretto was inspired by MPs debating the meaning of love during the Brexit no-confidence vote in December 2018. Actress joins forces with pianist Vanessa Benelli Mosell - a student of Stockhausen, the Netherlands Chamber Choir and conductor Robert Ames.

Hayley Suviste: NGC4993

Rory Boyle: Burble for solo clarinet

Baptiste Chatel: Quatre

Giles Swayne: Les poissons m退lomanes', from Chansons d退votes et poissonneuses

Michael Pelzel: Mysterious Benares Bells

G退rard Grisey: Nout

at 11.10pm: Proms Premiere

Karlheinz Stockhausen: Cosmic Pulses (Proms Premiere from 2008)

Billy Strayhorn / Duke Ellington arr. Joost Buis: Chelsea Bridge

Harold Muenz BeethovEnBloc. Tape composition with the 37 movements of Beethoven's 9 symphonies

Cosmic Pulses and the Mysterious Benares Bells - Stockhausen and beyond.

Tom Service with the latest releases and live performances of new music from across the UK. Tonight, we hear George E. Lewis's Tales of the Traveller featuring soprano Nina Guo as soloist with the London Sinfonietta; the Hebrides Ensemble perform Helen Grime's Pierrot Miniatures, inspired by the commedia dell'arte charcter and the poems of Albert Giraud; and the Villiers Quartet perform Jack Van Zandt's Strange Loops, a title referencing a mathematical paradox from the writings of scientist Douglas Hofstadter. Plus, the latest releases from composers Annette Vande Gorne, Clara Kim, Leo Chadburn and Japanese cassette tape artist Aki Onda.

To listen using most smart speakers, just say “Ask BBC Sounds to play New Music Show”

The best and latest in cutting-edge and experimental new music. Exclusive recordings, new releases, interviews and features from around the UK, Europe and across the world.

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Annea Lockwood: Streaming, Swirling, Converging

Barbara Ellison: Sedukuduku

Gerald Barry: No people

Ensemble Musikfabrik

Conducted by Mariano Chiacchiarini

Bill Hopkins: Musique de L'Indifference

BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov

Juro Kim Feliz: Pangkur

Liminar Ensemble

Laure M Hiendl: White Radiance

ELAINE MITCHENER (vocal)

MAM.manufaktur für aktuelle musik

Helen Thorington: Calling to mind

TOM SERVICE presents new music by Annea Lockwood, Gerald Barry and Barbara Ellison.

LUC FERRARI: Didascalies for cello or viola, piano and electronics

TERRY RILEY: Sun Rings (Venus Upstream)

Ivan Fedele: Ur for orchestra

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Pierre-Andre Valade

Ann Cleare: 93 !Milligan Papers, The

Ann Cleare: 93 million miles away for violin, cello and piano

Fidelio Trio

Linda Catlin Smith: Forest for 9 violins

Mira Benjamin (leader)

Evie Hilyer-Ziegler

Izzy Morshead

Anne Han

Ella Fox

Hannah Bell

Amalia Young

Richard Montgomery

Amelia Gilmartin

Claudia Dehnke

Rolf Wallin: Act for Orchestra

BBC National Orchestra of Wales

Jonathan Berman (conductor)

Tom Service presents more of the best in new music, including a new release of Terry Riley's Sun Rings from the Kronos Quartet, a piece by Linda Catlin Smith for 9 violins, a work by Rolf Wallin about speed and the joy of activity and Anna Meredith talks about her new album.

Max de Wardener - Kolmar (reprise)

Album: KOLMAR

Label: Village Green

Anna Meredith: Paramour

Album: FIBS

Label: Moshi Moshi/Black Prince Fury

Album: Sun Rings

Label: Nonesuch

Catherine Lamb: Parallaxis Forma (excerpt)

Performer: Ensemble neon

Album: Niblock/Lamb

Label: Hubro

~New Music Show: TOM SERVICE explores the margins of sound with the premiere of a new work at Musikprotokoll from the Serbian composer and sound artist, Svetlana Maraš. There's also 'Orrery,' a piano piece of hypnotic beauty from JOHN LELY in which, in a score consisting of 36 pages of crotchets - looking almost like wallpaper- he gently explores, through subtle changes, the tones, colours, balances and sonorities of the piano. It takes its title from mechanical models of the Solar System and lies on the cusp of human and mechanical performance. And, as a tribute to George Crumb, the Kronos Quartet plays Black Angels, 'Thirteen Images from the Dark Land,' his savagely eloquent response to the Vietnam War.

Also, an in-depth interview by Robert Worby with composer Frank Denyer, whose music is distinguished by a keen sensitivity to sound. Each of his works is written for a unique combination of instruments, more often than not a combination that no composer has dreamed of before.

Tom Service presents more of the best new music in exclusive concert recordings, including the world premiere performance of Symphonies in Chains by Piers Hellawell, played by the Ulster Orchestra in Belfast in January, as well as a recording from Aberdeen's Sound Festival last year of Graham Fitkin's Tracking Yesterday's England, composed for the five reeds of Calefax and cellist Matthew Barley. Also, an in-depth interview by Robert Worby with composer Frank Denyer, whose music is distinguished by a keen sensitivity to sound. Each of his works is written for a unique combination of instruments, more often than not a combination that no composer has dreamed of before.

Matmos: Peacock Cage

Graham Fitkin: Tracking Yesterday's England

Calefax Reed Quintet

Matthew Barley, cello

Hannah Kendall: Spark Catchers

Chineke! Orchestra

Kevin John Edusei, conductor

Liza Lim: Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus (i. Anthropogenic Debris)

Klangforum Wien

Peter Rundel, conductor

Piers Hellawell: Symphonies in Chains

David Brophy, conductor

John Luther Adams: Become Desert

Seattle Symphony Chorale

Ludovic Morlot, conductor

TOM SERVICE presents the latest in new music performance, including movements from a large-scale work for ensemble and mechanical objects, recorded at last November's hcmf 2021:

Mauro Lanza and Andrea Valle: Systema Naturae 1 and 2

Explore Ensemble directed by Nicholas Moroz

And from the Bangor Music Festival in North Wales, recorded in February:

Irene Buckley: Liminalis

Darragh Morgan (violin)

Electroacoustic Wales (electronics)

Plus, orchestral music recorded in concert in Glasgow:

J怀rg Widmann: Freie Stücke

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by J怀rg Widmann

(from an Afternoon Concert, 27 January 2022, Glasgow City Halls)

Also tonight, new releases from Mark Vernon, Matilde Meireles and Maurice Louca, and new from Huddersfield Contemporary Records:

Liza Lim: The Su Song Star Map

Dejana Sekulic (violin)

TOM SERVICE presents movements from Mauro Lanza and Andrea Valle's Systema Naturae.

Kate Molleson presents the latest in new music performance, including movements from a large-scale work for ensemble and mechanical objects, recorded at last November's hcmf 2021:

Kate Molleson presents movements from Mauro Lanza and Andrea Valle's Systema Naturae.

Mauro Lanza & Andrea Valle: Systema Naturae 1 & 2

Taking its title from Carl Linneaus's Systema Naturae, the instruments and performers are themselves treated as objects of discovery. As each of the fifty parts of the work focuses on a newly named fauna or flora, the world of observation and categorisation takes on a musical life of its own.

Systema Naturae - Maura Lanza and Andrea Valle's homage to discovery.

Ahead of next week's BBC-wide focus on AI, Tom Service presents the work of composer Robert Laidlow, co-commissioned by BBC Radio 3 for the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. TECHNO-UTOPIA is the first orchestral piece to use embedded AI instruments and draws on thousands of hours of recordings from the orchestra's archive.

Cutting-edge and experimental new music in live performance, plus interviews and features.

Tom Service presents a new work by Robert Laidlow, co-commissioned by BBC Radio 3 for the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Kate Molleson with highlights from Tectonics Glasgow 2024

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Kate Molleson reports from Tectonics Glasgow.

Kate Molleson presents music from the first day of Tectonics Glasgow, the annual two-day festival co-curated by Ilan Volkov and Alasdair Campbell and which takes place over a weekend at City Halls. In tonight's programme we hear the world premieres of BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra commissions by Linda Buckley and Scott McLaughlin, alongside electronic and improvised sets recorded in the Old Fruitmarket throughout the day, including computer music pioneer Carl Stone and Colombian-born experimentalist Lucrecia Dalt.

Kate Molleson presents music from last year's Tectonics Glasgow, the annual two-day festival co-curated by Ilan Volkov and Alasdair Campbell and which takes place over a weekend at City Halls. In tonight's programme we hear the world premieres of BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra commissions by Linda Buckley and Scott McLaughlin, alongside electronic and improvised sets recorded in the Old Fruitmarket throughout the day including computer music pioneer Carl Stone and Colombian-born experimentalist Lucrecia Dalt. (Rpt).

Kate Molleson with highlights from Tectonics Glasgow 2023.

Kate Molleson reports from last year's Tectonics Glasgow which took place at City Halls and featured an adventurous mix of new orchestral work, improvised and electronic music.

Kate Molleson presents the first of two programmes of music from Tectonics Glasgow 2025, the annual two-day festival curated by Ilan Volkov and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Tonight, we hear the electronic sets of both Beatrice Dillon and local artist Lauren Sarah Hayes, recorded in the Old Fruitmarket, plus world premieres of two searingly honest orchestral works that confront grief, by the Italian composer Clara Iannotta and the American composer Timothy McCormack, and conducted at City Halls by Ilan Volkov. The flautist Richard Craig showcases the extremes his instrument can reach in works by Patricia Alessandrini and Mesias Maiguashca, drummer Mark Sanders and saxophonist Rachel Musson collaborate with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and we take a sonic walk around the spaces of City Halls in Orvind Torvund's Symphony.

Il y a plus d'eau que prevu sur la lune for contrabass flute and electronics (2020)

Richard Craig (flute)

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

strange bird – no longer navigating by a star (UK Premiere)

MARK SANDERS / RACHEL MUSSON

Improvisation – New Collaboration

Mark Sanders (drums / percussion)

Rachel Musson (saxophone)

a vapor (no body, no image) (World Premiere)

Ty Bouque (singer)

Adventurous new music and sound art from Tectonics Glasgow 2025

Kate Molleson presents music from Tectonics Glasgow 2025, the annual two-day festival curated by Ilan Volkov and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Adventurous new music and sound art from this year's Tectonics Glasgow

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Kate Molleson with more from Tectonics Glasgow.

Kate Molleson with more from last year's Tectonics Glasgow, the annual two-day festival co-curated by Ilan Volkov and Alasdair Campbell. Recorded at City Halls concert hall and Old Fruitmarket, we hear premieres of BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra commissions by Ian Power, William Dougherty and Ingrid Laubrock, plus experimental sounds from improviser Jérôme Noetinger and instrument builder Limpe Fuchs.

Kate Molleson with more highlights from Tectonics Glasgow 2023.

Kate Molleson with more from Tectonics Glasgow 2023 – a second dose of adventurous new music and specially commissioned work.

Andrew Hamilton: c (UK Premiere)

Jennifer Walshe: The Site Of An Investigation (UK Premiere)

Christian Wolff: Old Shoe, New Shoe (World Premiere)

Joey Baron (jazz drums)

Robyn Schulkowsky (percussion)

Jennifer Walshe (singer)

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Luc Ferrari: Programme commun for harpsichord and tape

Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord)

plus a report on Lucie Vitkova's live performance installation, Makeup Scores: Environmental Music.

Christian Wolff's BBC commission, Old Shoe, New Shoe was inspired by a large painting by Philip Guston, and the result is a sonic landscape of some scale. Two solo percussionists interweave with the orchestra, constantly changing performing situations: moving from leader, to follower; from written notes to free improvisation.

Jennifer Walshe's The Site of An Investigation ranges wildly over our contemporary predicament, taking in microplastics, Facebook likes, grief, precarity, interplanetary colonisation, artificial intelligence and loss. The work is coloured by shifts between raw emotion and the blackest humour.

Festival co-curator Ilan Volkov says, `Tectonics Glasgow Festival is the highlight of my year. The festival of course keeps changing but its main strength is really showing a diverse range of new music from classical composers using notation, improvisers without any notation, to electronic music, sound art and performance art as well.??

Highlights from Tectonics festival in Glasgow, presented by Kate Molleson.

Highlights from Tectonics 2019, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's annual festival of new and experimental music featuring music, presented by Kate Molleson.

Juliana Hodkinson All Around (BBC Commission, World Premiere)

Mauro Lanza Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (BBC Co-Commission, UK Premiere)

Martin Arnold The Gay Goshawk (World Premiere)

Angharad Davies (violin)

Sharron Kraus (voice)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov (conductor)

also tonight:

Anahita Abbasi Intertwined Distances

and Julia Reidy 's Brace, brace for guitar and voice

Ilan Volkov leads the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in two BBC Commissions: Juliana Hodkinson's All Around, which aims to extend the reach of our listening into real and imaginary spaces, and Mauro Lanza's Experiments in the Revival of Organisms. Borrowed from the 1940 film which documents Soviet research into the resuscitation of clinically dead organisms, Lanza's two-section piece is built around a short quotation from the last movement of Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony. Composer Martin Arnold is drawn to Scottish ballads in The Gay Goshawk. In his sweeping work, the lyrics absorb and mediate weird metamorphoses of so many sound worlds, from psychedelic transmutations of late 14th century polyphony to Brill Building pop-jazz, as they tell their stories.

Brace, brace is Julia Reidy's dread-tinged incantation of desolate strumming and slow-moving pitch sequences.

The electronic element of Anahita Abbasi's Intertwined Distances came out of a close collaboration between Esfahani and the composer.

Tectonics festival in Glasgow - more highlights presented by Kate Molleson.

Martin Arnold (melodica)

and Julia Reidy 's Brace, brace for 12 string guitar and voice

and a report on Radiophrenia, Glasgow's pop-up radio experimental music station

Kate Molleson presents live from this year's Tectonics festival in Glasgow.

Kate Molleson with more live music from the Tectonics festival in Glasgow.

Kate Molleson and Tom Service present live from this year's Tectonics festival in Glasgow.

Live from Glasgow's City Halls, Kate Molleson presents the first of two broadcasts from this year's Tectonics festival with music by Michael Parsons, Scott McLaughlin and Egidija Medekšait?, performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with clarinet soloist Heather Roche. Also tonight music for electronics by Close Scrape (the duo of Adam Linson and Matthew Wright) and Iain Findlay-Walsh.

Kate Molleson presents live from this year's Tectonics festival in Glasgow.

Kate Molleson and Tom Service with more live music from the Tectonics festival in Glasgow

Kate Molleson presents a second night of live music from this year's Tectonics festival staged at Glasgow's City Halls, with music by Tania L退on, Arnulf Herrmann and Graciela Paraskevaidis, performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, plus sets from the duo of Hannah Ellul and Rebecca Wilcox, and Irish performance and sound artist Olivia Furey.

Kate Molleson with more live music from the Tectonics festival in Glasgow.

At the heart of Tectonics are Ilan Volkov and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra who premiere new works from Joanna Ward and Pascale Criton and many others. There are also the genre-melting compositions and self-made instruments of Douglas R Ewart, Kristine Tjøgersen's musical echoes of nature's ecosystem and FUJI

TA with his water sounds synthesised from multiple aquariums and hand-fabricated pipe organ who was in residence at City Halls all weekend.

~New Music Show at Tectonics Glasgow, hosted last weekend by Ilan Volkov and the BBC SSO.

At the heart of Tectonics are Ilan Volkov and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra who premiered new works from Liza Lim and Pascale Criton. A vernal theme was explored in a collaboration between Silvia Tarozzi and Cassandra Miller and Kristine Tjøgersen celebrated Oslo's Botanical Gardens - both above and below ground. A featured composer was the pioneering Glasgow-based octogenarian Janet Beat and Kate caught up with FUJI

TA, resident at City Halls all weekend with his haunting sound installation for three bubbling aquaria and handmade pipe organ.

Kate Molleson presents music from Tectonics Glasgow 2024 co-curated by Ilan Volkov and Alastair Campbell in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Featuring music by Elaine Mitchener, Salvatore Sciarrino and the UK premiere of Six Scenes for turntables and orchestra by Mariam Rezai and Matthew Shlomowitz.

Kate Molleson with highlights from Tectonics Glasgow 2024

Kate Molleson with highlights from Tectonics Glasgow 2024, an adventurous mix of new orchestral work, improvised and electronic music.

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Day Two of Tectonics Glasgow - adventurous new music and specially commissioned work

Kate Molleson presents more highlights from Tectonics Glasgow, the annual two-day festival staged at City Halls and curated by Ilan Volkov in association with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Tonight, we hear improvisations from Norwegian jazz musician Kjetil Moster and Jorgen Traeen, the world premieres of two orchestral works by Barbara Monk Feldman and Eleonor cully Boehringer, plus UK premieres of Gloria Coates's immersive percussion work, Ecology 2, and Ludus 1 by Hilda Dianda.

JORGEN TRAEEN & KJERTIL MOSTER

Kjetil Moster (saxophone / clarinet / electronics / amplifier)

Jorgen Traeen (modular synthesizer / sampler / electronics)

WALTER ZIMMERMANN

Riuti: Rodungen und Wuestungen (1981)

Jennifer Torrence (percussion)

The Northern Shore (World Premiere)

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

BAUDOUIN OOSTERLYNCK

Ronron (1976) & In Resonances (1978)

Benedicte Davin (vocalist and visual artist)

Sink / Seep (World Premiere)

Ecology 2 (1978)(UK Premiere)

MARIA CECILIA VILLANUEVA

Cielo Gris for solo flute (2023)

Richard Craig (flute)

Ludus 1 (UK premiere)

Kate Molleson with more from Tectonics Glasgow - a second dose of adventurous new music and specially commissioned work.

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Tom Service presents more of the latest in new music performance, with concert recordings from Cologne and London, archive highlights from the Tectonics Festival in Glasgow, and an At Home session from keyboardist Steve Beresford.

Georges Aperghis: Teeter-Totter

Klangforum Wien

Hanna Hartman: Crush

Distractfold

Beresford: At Home Session Piece

Steve Beresford (keyboards)

Butcher/Edwards/Sanders: Signal

John Butcher (saxophones), John Edwards (double bass) and Mark Sanders (drums)

Lawrence Dunn: Ambling, walking

David Fennessy: Prologue (Silver are the tears of the moon)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov

Bernard Parmegiani: Outremer

Natalie Forget (ondes Martenot)

Santiago D퀀ez Fisher: if at first it sounded like rain

Kate Molleson presents the latest in new music performance, including The Double by Jennifer Walshe and Wobbly; Mauro Lanza's Gretchen and the Fragment on Machines played by Talea Ensemble; Lisa Streich's Ālv, Alv, Alva played by the London Sinfonietta conducted by Jack Sheen; and Cassandra Miller's Thanksong played by Bozzini Quartet

Kate Molleson presents new music by Jennifer Walshe, Wobbly and Cassandra Miller.

Kate Molleson presents new music by Jennifer Walshe, Wobbly and Cassandra Miller.

Tom Service introduces the latest in experimental music including from Aberdeen Sound, Ben Nobuto's The Art of Sinking for portable keyboard and child's voice inspired by Alexander Pope's satirical The Art of Sinking Poetry and from St Paul's Hall, Huddersfield, a free improvisation for pipe organ and saxophone from Heiner Goebbels and Raymond MacDonald. Also from last year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival comes leading Lithuanian composer, Raminta Šerkšnytė's Oriental Elegy inspired by Alexander Sokurov's film which, she says, shocked her with its 'subtlety, ingenious fantasy and the deepest reflection of the mysterious world of nature sounds - the ripple of water, the murmur of wind and the rustle of the trees.' And the natural world is also the inspiration for Oliver Pashley's Inflorescence, the botanical term for a cluster of flowers on a plant's stem. Also in the show is Egidija Medekšaitė's Prakanda, from the Sanskrit word for a tree trunk, a work in which she mapped the images of tree rings into melodic lines, each with its own time, pitch, timbre and articulation.

Ben Nobuto: The Art of Sinking

Zubin Kanga (ROLI keyboard)

Raminta Šerkšnytė: Oriental Elegy

Mivos Quartet

Oliver Pashley: Inflorescence

Hermes Experiment

Egidija Medekšaitė: Prakanda

Ensemble Kwartludium

Heiner Goebbels (pipe organ), Raymond MacDonald (saxophone)

Cutting-edge and experimental new music in live performance, plus interviews and features.

The latest in experimental new music including Ben Nobuto's The Art of Sinking for keyboard and child's voice and an Improvisation from Heiner Goebbels and Raymond MacDonald.

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Cassandra Miller: The city, full of people

Chamber Choir Ireland, conducted by Paul Hillier

Linda Buckley: Discordia

Joby Burgess (percussion)

Wukir Suryadi: Madep Manteb

Ensemble Modern

Alvin Singleton: String Quartet No. 2 “Secret Desire To Be Black ?

Mivos Quartet

Kate Molleson presents recordings from the Darmstadt Summer Course 2023.

Kate Molleson presents the latest in new music performance, including recordings from the Darmstadt Summer Course 2023, and Irish composer Linda Buckley shares her inspirations.

New music from \u00d8yvind Torvund, Scott Wilson and Sara Caneva

Kate Molleson with music from Øyvind Torvund, Scott Wilson and Sara Caneva plus the latest new releases

TOM SERVICE with music by Russell Haswell, Hakki Cengiz Eren and Nwando Ebizie.

TOM SERVICE with music by Russell Haswell, Chiyoko Szlavnics and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith.

TOM SERVICE presents live recordings of music by Georges Aperghis, Hans Abrahamsen and Chiyoko Szlavnics - all recorded at this year's Witten festival, a major piece by multi-disciplinary artist Russell Haswell in collaboration with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and a new release from the American electronic composer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. Plus Nwando Ebizie explores ideas of Afrofuturism and ritual music in our ongoing series of composer thinkpieces, Sounding Change.

AKA Russell Haswell, Chiyoko Szlavnics, Nwando Ebizie

Laurie Anderson (arr. Jamie Hamilton): O Superman

Jamie Doe (vocal)

Rhia Parker (vocal)

Phaedra Ensemble

Alvin Lucier: Unamuno

Bozzini Quartet

Paraskevaidis: Libres en el sonido presos en el sonido

Ensemble Aventure

Jennifer Walshe: Happiness starts right now

Jennifer Walshe (vocal & electronics)

Tansy Davies: Grand mutation

Ensemble Court-circuit

Erika Fox: Osen shomaat

BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov

Karlheinz Essl: Gold.Berg.Werk (excerpt)

Xenia Pestova Bennett (piano)

Ed Bennett (electronics)

Walter Smetak: Espelhos

Miguel Flores: Lorca: Lost Tapes

Mira Calix: DMe

CH Loh: Morning at Klang harbour

Mei Yi Foo, piano

Tania Leon: Indigena

Ensemble Moderne

inti figgis-vizueta - no words

Gleb Kanasevich - clarinet and electronics

Anna Meredith: Fin like a Flower

Joel Rust: Pack of Orders

Jennifer Curtis & Tyshawn Sorey: Invisible Ritual

Max Baillie and Vahakn Matossian: Super String Blue

Walter Smetak & Conjunto de Microtons: Convite

Klaus Lang: ABD

The latest in new music performance, with Kate Molleson.

Tom Service presents the latest music from the Hermes Experiment, recorded at Sinfonia Smith Square in London, and the world premieres of both Dai Fujikura's Ritual at the Lucerne Festival and Malika Kishino's Quinta materia at the Witten Contemporary Chamber Music Festival. Plus Ensemble Modern play Anna Meredith's Tripotage Miniatures and Tom has some of the most exciting new albums.

Tom Service presents new music by the Hermes Experiment, Dai Fujikura and Malika Kishino.

Tom Service presents the latest music from the Hermes Experiment, plus the world premieres of Dai Fujikura's Ritual in Lucerne and Malika Kishino's Quinta materia in Witten.

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TOM SERVICE and Sara Mohr-Pietsch celebrate the best new works by composers writing for classical, jazz and sound art in the UK as they host the awards ceremony which took place at the British Museum on Wednesday night. First presented in 1956, an Ivor represents peer recognition as they are judged by fellow composers and music creators in categories including jazz, large and small scale, solo, vocal or choral composition and sound art. Among the nominees are Alex Paxton, Nikki Iles, Lynne Plowman, Tansy Davies, Laura Bowler, Ed Hughes and Nwando Ebizie.

The New Music Show at the Ivors Composer Awards 2021 for classical, jazz and sound art.

Kate Molleson and Tom McKinney present this year's Ivors Classical Awards, recorded on Tuesday 11th November at BFI Southbank.

The Ivors Classical Awards is one of the highlights of the UK's contemporary music scene, and a chance to catch up on what's in the air across the spectrum of new music with a wide range of categories from chamber, orchestral, choral and stage music to community projects and sound art.

Presented by Kate Molleson and Tom McKinney

Kate Molleson and Tom McKinney host this year's Ivors Classical Awards celebrating achievements in contemporary classical composition

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Hannah Peel and Tom Service hosted this year's awards ceremony at BFI Southbank on Tuesday evening.

Previously known as The Ivors Composer Awards and before that the British Composer Awards, the event is always lively and topical and is a brilliant introduction to the world of new music. 11 Ivor Novello Awards will be presented to eight category winners and three Gift of the Academy Award winners. One of the Gift of the Academy Awards goes to the much-loved composer John Rutter who will be awarded the prestigious Academy Fellowship,

The nominated works paint a picture of the topics and issues that are important to people today, ranging from the disco era's safe spaces for LGBTQIA+ individuals (Jasper Dommett Disco! Disco! Good! Good?) to sugar plantations and the writings of Ocean Vuong (Hannah Kendall shouting forever into the receiver and Even sweetness can scratch the throat). Some of the composers have used their works to tell the stories of real people, including artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz (Philip Venables Answer Machine Tape, 1987) and JFK's sister Rosemary Kennedy (Brian Irvine Least Like The Other: Searching for Rosemary Kennedy), whereas others gain inspiration from ancient texts (Bushra El-Turk Ka and Athanasia Kontou Antigone: Pure in her crime).

Poetry plays an important role in some of the nominated pieces, including Thomas Adès' Növények which is a setting of seven poems by four Hungarian poets, Omri Kochavi's Kishtatos

קישתתוס which features a new text by Israeli poet Amira Hess and Naomi Pinnock's Landscape takes inspiration from Louise Glück's set of five poems. Similarly, Elliptics by Emily Howard is a setting of a poem with the same name by Michael Symmons Roberts, and Comme l'espoir/you might all disappear by Josephine Stephenson is based on a short French poem by Antoine Thiollier. Scientific literature is also linked to some of the nominated works, with Brett Dean's In This Brief Moment using The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin as a starting point, and Newton Armstrong was influenced by Rachel Carson's In The Sea Around Us for his work The Book of the Sediments.

The Ivors Classical Awards 2023, hosted by Hannah Peel and Tom Service earlier this week.

The Ivors Classical Awards 2023, hosted by Hannah Peel and Tom Service - a celebration of the best new music and sound art by British, Irish or UK resident composers.

Tom Service and Sara Mohr-Pietsch celebrate the best new works by composers writing for classical, jazz and sound art in the UK as they host the awards ceremony which took place at the British Museum on Wednesday night. First presented in 1956, an Ivor represents peer recognition as they are judged by fellow composers and music creators in categories including jazz, large and small scale, solo, vocal or choral composition and sound art. Among the nominees are Alex Paxton, Nikki Iles, Lynne Plowman, Tansy Davies, Laura Bowler, Ed Hughes and Nwando Ebizie.

The New Music Show at the Ivors Composer Awards 2021 for classical, jazz and sound art.

Tom Service presents new music performed by the JACK Quartet recorded at the Wigmore Hall.

Tom Service presents new music performed by the JACK Quartet, recorded at Wigmore Hall.

Mira Calix: an infinite thrum (archipelago)

Joanna Bailie: He just missed the train

Plus Minus Ensemble with Kobe Van Cauwenberghe (electric guitar)

(recorded at Cafe Oto in London in February)

Anna Clyne: This Lunar Beauty

Sarah Dacey (soprano)

Riot Ensemble conducted by Aaron Holloway-Nahum

(recorded at Birmingham Barber Institute in February)

Michael Wolters: The Low Miracles (part one)

Suzi Purkis (soprano)

Michael Wolters (compere/vocalist)

Thallein Ensemble conducted by Daniele Rosina

(recorded at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, last November)

Philip Jeck and Faith Coloccia: Acquire the Air

Mandy Leung: Funeral March from Bells of Wrath

BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Ryan Bancroft

Lawrence English: Viento/Antarctica

Eddie Prevost talks to ROBERT WORBY about improvising.

Presented by Tom Service, including the world premiere performance of The Passion of Mary Magdalene by British composer Tansy Davies.

Tansy Davies's radical reimagining of the Easter story is told from the perspective of Mary Magdalene, disturbing traditional Gospel narratives around Mary as a figure and bringing her spiritual significance into the light.

Drawing on the non-canonical Gospel of Mary and poetry by Ruth Fainlight, and by blending period instruments with electric guitar, the Dunedin Consort, Anna Dennis as Mary Magdalene and Marcus Farnsworth as Jesus present this intense three-part epic that recasts Mary as a powerful female presence – in the composer's words, ‘a wise woman in the desert, this kind of raw oracle'. Davies's dramatic Passion hints at unearthing buried truths and the hope of a world cleansed of its demons.

The world premiere of a major new work by British composer Tansy Davies.

Cutting-edge and experimental new music in live performance, plus interviews and features.

The world premiere of British composer Tansy Davies's The Passion of Mary Magdalene, recorded at the Barbican in London with the Dunedin Consort.

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Tom Service plays the latest in new music, including 'The Poet's Favourite Places', a new choral work by Julian Philips (performed by Exaudi, in an exclusive recording for the New Music Show), music by Zubin Kanga from this year's New Music BIennial in Bradford, and a tribute to Danish composer Per Nørgård, who died recently.

The latest in new music, with Tom Service.

Tom Service presents the latest in new music, including a new choral work by Julian Philips, music by Zubin Kanga and a tribute to Per Nørgård.

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Matt Rogers: Working for the Pea Fox

Tom Lessels (clarinets)

Laurence Crane: Estonia

Royal Northern Sinfonia conducted by James Weeks

Michael Hersch: The script of storms

Ah Young Hong (soprano)

BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tito Muကoz

Riot Ensemble new solo commissions:

Aidan Teplitzky: Penn and/or Teller

Sam Wilson (percussion)

Oliver Brignall: Always interrupted

Ruth Rosales (bassoon)

Carmen Ho: Unknown

Claudia Racovicean (piano)

Anna Korsun: Marevo (WP)

(for two singing saws, two violins, two cellos and keyboard)

Ensemble Modern conducted by Lin Liao

Ezko Kikoutchi: D'Hypnos

We Spoke

Tim Parkinson: HeadPhoneHead; Here Comes A Monster; They've Got A Good View Of The Shard

George Barton (percussion)

Siwn Rhys (piano)

Michael Hersch's The script of storms sets nine poems by Fawzi Karim (1945-2019), Iraqi poet and painter. Born in Baghdad in 1945, he lived in Lebanon and then London. Michael Hersch writes: `Karim's world is a remarkable and disquieting place; a landscape of empathy, beauty, but also war and unspeakable horror... his experience of the 1958 coup he witnessed in Iraq as a boy haunts his poetry.?? This is a dark and powerful new work, with graphic descriptions of war. It was recorded in concert at the BBC Maida Vale studios in January.

George Barton and Siwan Rhys (voices)

Kate Molleson with specially recorded performances and the latest new releases. The BBC Singers and cellist Robin Michael perform Rolf Hind's new piece The Secret Names, Gabriella Teychenn退 conducts the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group in Xenakis's Ittidra, and we re-visit the New Music Biennial from 2019 for the collaborative partnership of Kit Downes, Aidan O'Rourke and writer James Robertson. There's a new work by Errollyn Wallen performed by Liam Byrne and Jonas Nordberg, and we hear the latest releases from percussionist Noam Bierstone playing the music of Hanna Hartman, the duo of Eliza McCarthy and Laurie Tompkins plus American guitarist Mary Halvorson. And in this week's Sounding Change, Laurence Osborn reflects on the impact of social media on new music.

Music from Errollyn Wallen, Hanna Hartman and Rolf Hind.

Also in the programme, Kate catches up with Lawrence Dunn to talk about his sextet 'Suite', written for Explore Ensemble and a chance to hear Helen Grimes' 2nd String Quartet.

Pamela Z: Density 2036: Part VI (2019)

Claire Chase

David Bailey: Etude (Moderato in 3/4, 1967)

Noel Akchote (guitar)

Helen Grime: String Quartet No 2

Heath Quartet

Lawrence Dunn: Suite (Sextet - 2021)

Christian Mason: The Singing Tree (2020-23) World Premiere

Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart

Johanna Vargas (soprano)

Truike van der Poel (mezzo)

Martin Nagy (tenor)

Guillermo Anzorena (baritone)

Andreas Fischer (bass)

Finchley Children's Music Group

Michael Wendeberg Conductor

Edbrass Brasil: ‘Invisible Orchestra' (extract)

Edbrass - percussions, chants, leafs, horns, soundfields and piano

Bartira - black electronics

Leo Fran瀀a -mono keyboard

Eric Barbosa - percussions

Kalunga - percussions, built instruments

Rodrigo Rodo - live electronics, sound objects, samples

Kate Molleson with music from Pamela Z, Lawrence Dunn, Helen Grime and Christian Mason.

Kate Molleson with music from Pamela Z, Noel Akchote and Kali Malone and the first performance of a major new work from Christian Mason to a text by Paul Griffiths, presented by BCMG last month at Birmingham Town Hall and recorded specially for the programme.'The Singing Tree', which explores our relationship with trees.

Also in the programme, Kate catches up with Lawrence Dunn to talk about his sextet 'Suite', written for Explore Ensemble and a chance to hear Helen Grimes's Second String Quartet, composed for the Heath Quartet.

Kali Malone.: ‘Does Spring Hide Its Joy' v2.2 (extract)

Kali Malone (organ)

Stephen O'Malley (electric guitar)

Lucy Railton (cello)

Mira Martin-Gray: 'Play Each Note As If It Will Help

Mira Martin-Gray (voice, synthesizers & electronics)

Germaine Lui (balloon)

Naomi McCarroll-Butler (bass clarinet, flute, homemade flutes)

Mark Zurawinski (drums and percussion)

Bartira - black eletronics

Rodrigo Rodo - live eletronics, sound objects, samples

Kate Molleson with music from Pamela Z, Lawrence Dunn, Kali Malone and Christian Mason.

Music by Sofia Gubaidulina, Anders Hillborg, Yuting Chan, Yingying Wen and Michael Finnisy

The BBC Symphony Orchestra performs Sofia Gubaidulina's The Wrath of God and Anders Hillborg's Dreaming River and ensemble Shui Mo plays music by Yuting Chan, Yingying Wen.

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Just退 Janulyte: Unanime for eight trumpets

Marco Blauuw (trumpet)

Martyna Pozna?ska: Alles, was du.....

Christina Kubisch: Kupfer Himmel

Hugues Dufourt: L'Atelier rouge d'apr耀s Matisse

Ensemble Nikel

Benjamin Scheuer: Acht Arten zu atmen

Kilian Herold (clarinet)

Teodoro Anzelotti (accordion)

Elnaz Seyedi: Felsen - unerkl䀀rlich, for eight trumpets

Brigitta Muntendorf: Theatre of Echo (2nd movement)

Andreas Grau (piano)

Gotz Schumacher (piano)

Tom Service presents the latest in new music performance.

Just? Janulyte: Unanime for eight trumpets

Marco Blauuw (trumpet)

Martyna Pozna?ska: Alles, was du....

Christina Kubisch: Kupfer Himmel

Hugues Dufourt: L'Atelier rouge d'apr?s Matisse

Ensemble Nikel, directed by Aaron Holloway-Nahum

Patricia Alessandrini: A Complete History of Music

Jack Quartet

Benjamin Scheuer: Acht Arten zu atmen

Kilian Herold (clarinet)

Teodoro Anzelotti (accordion)

Elnaz Seyedi: Felsen - unerkl?rlich, for eight trumpets

Brigitta Muntendorf: Theatre of Echo (2nd movement)

Andreas Grau (piano)

Gotz Schumacher (piano)

TOM SERVICE presents the latest in new music performance.

Tom will talk to the orchestra's conductor, Peter Wiegold and vocalist Rouhangeze, both also composers for the orchestra.

Also tonight, in the run-up to this year's IVORS composer awards, we play a previous winning work: Unsuk Chin's Cello Concerto, played by Alban Gerhardt with the Seoul Philharmonic.

TOM SERVICE presents the latest in new music, featuring a concert by the Third Orchestra.

Also tonight, more exclusive concert recordings including Romitelli's Professor Bad Trip, played by Uproar! in Caernarvon, and electronic music from the recent Convergence Festival in Leicester.

Tom Service focuses on some of the artists appearing at Tectonics in Glasgow.

Tonight's show includes the world premiere of Upstream heavy tune by jazz trumpeter Laura Jurd and Chaya Czernowin's HIDDEN, as performed in Huddersfield, in which the string quartet treats the act of playing music, 'as an observation, using instruments not to create sound, but to sift through it. ' Also, Thomas Larcher's The Living Mountain, inspired by the memoir of the Scottish poet and nature writer Nan Shepherd. And Liza Lim's Sex magic: IX. The Slow Moon Climbs for bass flute and a new track from the Kurdish experimentalists Duo Moment from Iraq.

The latest in new music: Thomas Larcher's The Living Mountain and Chaya Czernowin's Hidden

Kate Molleson introduces some of the latest sounds, including Thomas Larcher's The Living Mountain and Chaya Czernowin's Hidden - 'A never-ending sonic pleasure'.

Michael Wertmuller: The Blade Dancer

Cathy Milliken: Piece 43 For Now

SWR Symphony Orchestra conducted by Titus Engel

Newton Armstrong: Thread-Surface

Plus-Minus Ensemble

Oliver Leith: Taxa

BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov

Kate Molleson presents the latest in new music performance

Kate Molleson presents new music in concert and on CD, including performances from last autumn's Donaueschingen Music Days, and a recent release of experimental music from Cairo.

Muhal Richard Abrams: Quartet no.1

Rova Saxophone Quartet

Amina Claudine Myers: Crossings

Nadah El-Shazly: Sekket el amwal

Lisa Illean: Tiding

Yaron Deutsch (electric guitar)

Bryn Harrison: Three Descriptions of Place and Movement

Bozzini Quartet

Joanna Ward: From the trees and from my friends (bean piece 3)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov

Ailie Ormston: Units

Ailie Ormston (electronics)

James Westoby (piano)

Bryn Harrison is a well-established British composer, but this is his first string quartet (composed last year), and a major statement, lasting a full hour.

A first string quartet is a landmark moment for any composer, but this one is particularly signicant. The ensemble of four stringed instruments is ideally suited to the disorienting labyrinthine structures, intricate repetitions, and extended durations that have characterised much of Harrison's recent work. Kate Molleson will talk to the composer before introducing the quartet.

Kate Molleson presents the latest in new music, including Bryn Harrison's string quartet

Lisa Illean: Tiding

Yaron Deutsch (electric guitar)

Bryn Harrison: Three Descriptions of Place and Movement

Bozzini Quartet

Joanna Ward: From the trees and from my friends (bean piece 3)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov

Ailie Ormston: Units

Ailie Ormston (electronics)

James Westoby (piano)

Bryn Harrison is a well-established British composer, but this is his first string quartet (composed last year), and a major statement, lasting a full hour.

A first string quartet is a landmark moment for any composer, but this one is particularly significant. The ensemble of four stringed instruments is ideally suited to the disorienting labyrinthine structures, intricate repetitions, and extended durations that have characterised much of Harrison's recent work. Kate Molleson will talk to the composer before introducing the quartet.

Kate Molleson with works by Bryn Harrison, Lisa Illean, Joanna Ward and Ailie Ormston.

Tom Service presents more recorded highlights from last month's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival including a performance by the French group ONCEIM of Genevieve Murphy's Together We Feel and Alone We Experience in which the musicians attempt to 'become bagpipe'. And in the latest Listen List, British-Japanese composer Ben Nobuto shares three standout tracks he thinks we should hear.

ONCEIM perform the music of Genevieve Murphy

French ensemble ONCEIM performs the music of Genevieve Murphy, and British-Japanese composer Ben Nobuto shares his latest listening

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Kate Molleson presents exclusive recordings of Riot Ensemble performing at Milton Court in London, in a programme called 'Too Much Is Never Enough', including Alex Paxton's Shrimp BIT Babyface and Eden Lonsdale's Tränen und Ozeane. Also, from Aberdeen's Sound 2025, Lara Agar's ON THE WAY OUT, and from the 2025 Donaueschingen Music Festival Anna Korsun's Vivrisses. plus new releases of the latest in cutting-edge and experimental music.

Kate Molleson presents exclusive recordings including Alex Paxton's Shrimp BIT Babyface.

Cutting-edge and experimental new music in live performance, plus interviews and features.

Kate Molleson presents exclusive recordings of Riot Ensemble, including Alex Paxton's Shrimp BIT Babyface. Plus new releases of the latest in cutting-edge and experimental music.

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Tonight's show includes the UK premiere of Chicago-born Henry Threadgill's Sixfivetwo, a work which pushes the boundaries of the string quartet, that most traditional of forms. As Henry Threadgill says: 'It's a shame that the classical concert world doesn't understand how important improvisation is - Everything is about exploration. We get to where we are because of exploration - and we won't improve anything unless we have an improvisational approach to life.

Also tonight, the world premiere in Cologne of Kristine Tjøgersen's Pelagic Dreamscape: 'In the middle of the open ocean, in the pelagic island landscape, you hear the repetitive drumming song of the common snipe. The buzzing of insects tickles your ear before everything is swallowed up by big waves. Rolling up and down with powerful forces; the pelagic zone can be thought of as an imaginary cylinder or water column between the surface of the sea and the bottom. We are flying, we are on solid ground, we are floating, we are underwater.

And, in 'Inspirations', the Berlin-based composer, media artist and performer Jessie Marino talks about what inspires her to write works which, she says, 'transcend the conventional materials of composition and help audiences locate music in the most commonplace activities and relations.

The latest in new music from Henry Threadgill and Jessie Marino, plus the latest tracks.

The latest in new music performance including the UK premiere of Chicago-born Henry Threadgill's Sixfivetwo for string quartet and Jessie Marino talking about her Inspirations.

TOM SERVICE presents music by Cassandra Miller, Arlene Sierra and Jurg Frey.

Plus, new CD releases from Rolf Wallin, Pamela Z, Nick Storring, Jesse Marino and Anna Webber.

Shlomowitz: Parlour Nancarrow

Mark Knoop (piano)

Oyvund Torvund: Untitled School

Chenxi Wang and Yeji Jung (pianos)

Timoth?e de la Morinerie and Javier Verduras (percussion)

Sky Macklay: Trrhythms

Ilya Gringolts (violin)

Clara Iannotta: Troglodyte Angels Clank By

Klangforum Wien conducted by Enno Poppe

Anthony Pateras: Pseudacusis

Anthony Pateras (piano) and ensemble

Jorge E Lopez: Disparates

ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by MARIN ALSOP

TOM SERVICE presents music from the Tectonics 2021 and Musikprotokoll 2020 festivals.

Zachary James Watkins: Black Phase

Tom Service presents.

Garth Knox: Cinq Petites Entropies: 2. Parade & 3. Pluie

Garth Knox (viola d'amore)

Alissa Firsova: Spell of Creation

Jess Dandy (contralto)

BBC Philharmonic/Vimbayi Kaziboni

Santiago Lozano: La pieza faltante (The missing piece)

Ligeti Quartet

Stefan Prins: under_current

Yaron Deutsch (electric guitar)

BBC Scottish Symphpny Orchestra

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

Natalia Valencia: Canción de cuna para los niños muertos (Lullaby for Dead Children)

Including music by Stefan Prins, Alissa Firsova and Garth Knox.

Music recorded in live in concert in Glasgow and Manchester, including Stefan Prins's under_current and Alissa Firsova's song-symphony Spell of Creation with contralto Jess Dandy.

~New Music Show: Tom Service introduces the latest sounds in new music. The show tonight includes Unsuk Chin's Le Silence des Sir耀nes, a scene for soprano and orchestra based on the Greek myth of the sirens who lured sailors to their destruction in the depths of the sea with their singing - with texts from Homer's Odyssey, James Joyce's Ulysses and Franz Kafka. There's also a track from John Zorn's latest album 'Calculus,' and Christian Kobi's 'Cathedral, 'a pure, dramatic, and vague exhalation in an empty space,' that space being a vast underground former warehouse in Switzerland. Plus a reflection from Jacob ter Veldhuis on William Blake's poem, 'The Garden Of Love.

Antonio D'Amato: 'Une rencontre

Georgina MacDonell Finlayson: 'To Glenesk

Any Enemy, Pete Stollery (conductor)

Orjan Matre:

Kate Molleson presents Unsuk's Xi performed by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group alongside the world premieres of Sylvia Lim's Moss that Holds from Tectonics in Glasgow, Jessie Marino's No Salt from the Witten New Music Days 2025, and Alexander Papp's deformed figures as part of the Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

JULIA ULEHLA & DALAVA

Open Your Ear to the Great Below

Riot Ensemble

Aaron Holloway-Nahum (conductor)

Moss that Holds (world premiere)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Ilan Volkov (conductor)

No Salt (world premiere)

Ensemble Musikfabrik

UNSUK CHIN

Xi for Ensemble and Tape (1998)

Nicolo Foron (conductor)

Unsuk Chin's Xi plus world premieres from Sylvia Lim, Jessie Marino and Alexander Papp.

Kate Molleson presents Unsuk's Xi alongside the world premieres of Jessie Marino's No Salt, Sylvia Lim's Moss that Holds and Alexander Papp's deformed figures.

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The latest in new music performance with Kate Molleson.

Kate Molleson presents the latest in new music performance, including new commissions from young Welsh composers performed by the UPROAR ensemble. Robert Worby interviews Anna Meredith and we hear from Norway's Borealis Festival (with a world premiere recording of Raven Chacon's 'Owl Song'). There's also a recording made last year in Berlin by the Arditti Quartet of Tansy Davies' 'Nightingales: Ultra-Deep Field, choral music from David Fennessy, music by Sarah Hennies and the House of Bedlam as well as new releases from Portugal and Brazil and piano music by Brian Ferneyhough.

The composers for the UPROAR session featured are:

Claire Victoria Roberts: Lust and Lustre

Ashley John Long: Shadow Play

Mark Bowden: Voices on the Air

Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Entropic Arrows

Tom talks to featured composers and introduces concert performances with a focus on new forms of experimental music theatre, including music by Georges Aperghis, Helena Tulve, Michel van der Aa, Gemma Ragues and Timothy Cape.

TOM SERVICE presents concert performances from the Venice Biennale Musica.

The latest in new music, including premieres from the Venice Biennale Musicale.

~New Music Show: TOM SERVICE introduces the latest in new music including performances from the Biennale Musicale, a city-wide celebration of choral music which took place in Venice a couple of weeks ago. Tonight's show includes world premieres of Christina Kubisch's 'Il viaggio della voce,' and GEORGE LEWIS's 'Amo,' to texts from the 18th century philosopher Anton Wilhelm Amo who was brought to Germany as a small child from Axim in present-day Ghana.There's also a string quartet by Gerald Resch which took as its starting point a quartet by Beethoven and Britta Bystr?m's 'A Room of One's Own,' inspired by VIRGINIA WOOLF.

Kate Molleson reports from the 2024 Venice Biennale, on the water and off, with music by Rebecca Saunders (this year's recipient of the Lion d'Or Lifetime Achievement Award), Santa Ratniece and Ash Fure, as well as Tyshawn Sorey.

To listen on most smart speakers just say “ask BBC Sounds to play New Music Show

Kate Molleson from Venice's Biennale

Kate Molleson reports from the Venice Music Biennale

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The libretto is by playwright Alice Birch ('Anatomy of a Suicide'; 'Normal People '; 'Lady Macbeth), and the cast includes Anna Dennis in the title role, in a work that explores ideas about routine, uncertainty and the collapsing of time.

Also in tonight's programme, further recordings marking the tenth anniversary of the South Bank Centre's 'New Music Biennial'.

Daniel Elms: Bethia

Tom Coult: Violet (premiere production)

Violet - Anna Dennis (soprano)

Felix - Richard Burkhard (baritone)

Laura - Frances Gregory (mezzo)

Clockkeeper - Andrew Mackenzie-Wicks (tenor)

London Sinfonietta conducted by Andrew Gourley

Sound design - Ian Dearden

Bell sound design - Jasmin Kent Rodgman

Director - Jude Christian

Anna Meredith: HandsFree

National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain

(rec Hull Minster 2017)

Paul Bentley-Angell (tenor)

Ashley Turnell (tenor)

Simon Gallear (baritone)

Thomas Flint 9bass)

Christian Barraclough (trumpet)

Mark Keith (carillon)

Craig White (piano)

Emily Blackledge (synthesizer)

Tom Service presents the UK premiere of Wadada Leo Smith's String Quartet No 17, a response to the events of 6 January 2021 and the attack on the Capitol building in Washington DC. We hear from Smith about the ideas behind this work and about his Ankhrasmation system of graphic musical notation. The hour-long piece was given its UK premiere at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in November. Also tonight: lovemusic ensemble perform a work by Ann Cleare for bass flute and two shadowing instruments, from a series of pieces Cleare has written dealing with ideas of isolation and infiltration; and the BBC Symphony Orchestra take us on a walk in the forest with a Symphonic Poem by Øyvind Torvund for orchestra and playback.

To listen using most smart speakers, just say “Ask BBC Sounds to play New Music Show ?

Tom Service with music by Wadada Leo Smith, Ann Cleare and Øyvind Torvund in performances by Ligeti Quartet, lovemusic ensemble and the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Tom Service presents the UK premiere of Wadada Leo Smith's String Quartet No 17, a response to the events of 6 January 2021 and the attack on the Capitol building in Washington DC. We hear from Smith about the ideas behind this work and about his Ankhrasmation system of graphic musical notation. The hour-long piece was given its UK premiere at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in November. Also tonight Jack Sheen conducts the BBC symphony Orchestra in a performance of Francesca Verunelli's Tune and Re-Tune from a recent concert at the BBC studios in Maida Vale.

Tom Service with music by Wadada Leo Smith and Franesca Verunelli in performances by Ligeti Quartet and BBC Symphony Orchestra.

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Cecile Marti: Seeing Time 1

Basel Sinfonietta conducted by Baldur Bronniman

Esa-Pekka Salonen: Objets Trouves

Lawrence Power (viola)

Bara G퀀slad　ttir: Os

Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ryan Bancroft

Tazul Tajuddin: Kabus Pantun

Mei Yi Foo (piano)

Oscar Bianchi: Exordinum

Angelica Negron: Las Desparecidas

Amanda Gookin (cello)

Katharina Rosenberger: Rein

Ellen Fullman and Theresa Wong: Harbors - Part 2

The latest sounds in the world of new music from Gazelle Twin and Gabriel Prokofiev.

Kate Molleson introduces some of the latest sounds including the premiere of James Weeks's Weligwic, a work which hovers on the very margins of orchestral sound, a half-light world, overcast and subdued. Also tonight, Akanthos, a classic of musical modernism by Iannis Xenakis, whose centenary is celebrated this year and, in advance of a performance at the New Music Biennial at the beginning of next month, The Power and the Glory from Gazelle Twin and Max Wardener, an elegiac anti-idyll exploring themes of English heritage. And, in Sounding Change, Gabriel Prokofiev talks about his latest album, Howl and 'untangling signal from noise, truth from lies and how political protest sometimes emerges from this overload.

Music by Georg Friedrich Haas and Ond\u0159ej Ad\u00e1mek

The latest in new music, with works by Chiyoko Szlavnics, Leo Chadburn and Tansy Davies.

As part of the BBC's Wild About Nature week (6-12 October), Kate Molleson features music especially recorded by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, including works by Lisa Streich, Nicholas Korth and Toshio Hosokawa. We also hear music by Okkyung Lee, and a soundscape recorded near the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan.

The New Music Show goes wild about nature.

To mark the BBC's Wild About Nature week (6-12 October), Kate Molleson features music especially recorded by the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

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Kate Molleson with music from Peter Garland, Isabel Mundry and Jacqueline Nova.

Kerry Andrew with the latest in new music performance - Ilan Volkov conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in music by American composers Courtney Bryan and Talib Rasul Hakim, plus new releases from Christopher Otto of the JACK Quartet, oboist-composer Kyle Bruckmann and Chilean sound artist Paula Schopf.

Composer Soosan Lolavar guest presents the show for the next two weeks, with the usual mix of live recordings, new releases and interviews. Tonight: Lawrence Dunn's new work Lori written for Zubin Kanga as part of his ongoing Cyber Soloist project exploring the realm of performer/technology interface; new music from Iranian electroacoustic composer Deniz Tafaghodi and British composer Nekka Cummins; we hear violinist-composer Sarah Saviet live at Eavesdropping festival; and from a concert given in Munich earlier this year, Rebecca Saunders' To An Utterance, performed by pianist Nicolas Hodges and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Soosan Lolavar with new music from Lawrence Dunn, Deniz Tafaghodi and Nekka Cummins plus a recording of Rebecca Saunders' To An Utterance for piano and orchestra.

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Tom Service with music from Gavin Bryars, Rebecca Saunders and Emily Hall.

Tom Service with live recordings of music by Gavin Bryars, Rebecca Saunders, Emily Hall and Enno Poppe.

Kate Molleson introduces new music from this year's Witten Days New Music Festival, including music for solo double bass by Milica Djordjevic, and a piece for accordion clarinet and violin by Luca Francesconi. There's a shimmering tribute to composer Janet Beat and chance to hear a live recording of Michael Zev Gordon's Violin Concerto performed by Carolin Widmann with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor, Catherine Larsen-Maguire. New releases this week include music by the improvising duo, Silvia Tarozzi and Deborah Walker, and an extract from the most recent recipient of Norway's prestigious Arne Nordheim Composers Prize, Jan Martin Smørdal, his new album and collaboration with ؀ystein Wyller Odden called Kraftbalanse.

GILLIAN MOORE with new music from Liza Lim, Maja Ratkje and Tyondai Braxton.

Tom Service presents the best and latest in cutting-edge and experimental new music, including the world premiere of Laurence Osborn's Mute, Kenneth Hesketh's Ein Lichtspiel performed by Ensemble 10/10, Dani Teo playing Sasha Scott's Down the Rabbit Hole at Cafe OTO, and Claire Singer's Ode to Saor performed at Aberdeen Sound. Plus a mesmerising performance of Steve Reich's Mallett Quartet by the Colin Currie Quartet at King's Place in London.

The world premiere of Laurence Osborn's Mute plus Kenneth Hesketh's Ein Lichtspiel.

Tom Service presents the best and latest in cutting-edge and experimental new music, including the world premiere of Laurence Osborn's Mute, plus Kenneth Hesketh's Ein Lichtspiel.

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Nina C. Young: Agnosco veteris

BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tito Muကoz

Lauren Sarah Hayes: Moon via spirit

Lauren Sarah Hayes (live electronics)

Lisa Bielawa: Broadcast from home (Chapter 1)

Sound of the Week: Jo Thomas on the Synchrotron

Julia Simpson: Fete

Therese B. Ulvo: Woven Fingerprints

Ellen Ugelvik (piano)

Andreas Ulvo (piano)

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Edward Gardner

Stevie Wishart: Eurostar - A Journey between Cities in Sound

Hermes Experiment

Davies/Lang/Lukoszevieze: Unfurling

Tom Service introduces music from the 2022 Witten New Music Festival, including works by Kristine Tjogersen and Beat Furrer played by Ensemble Recherche and Trio Accanto. Rebecca Saunders and Enno Poppe have wanted to compose a work together for some time and tonight you can hear the result of that collaboration, Taste is premiered by violinist, Sarah Saviet with pianist, Joseph Houston.

Also on the programme, Helen Grimes's virtuosic, high energy and expressively nuanced Limina played by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conducted Catherine Larsen-Maguire, and to end tonight's programme Tom marks the centenary of the birth of Iannis Xenakis with La L退gende d'Eer, a 45-minute long electro-acoustic tone-poem, designed for the opening of Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Also on the programme, Helen Grimes's virtuosic, high energy and expressively nuanced Limina played by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conducted Catherine Larsen-Maguire, and to end tonight's programme Tom marks the centenary of the birth of Iannis Xenakis with La L退gende d'Eer, a 45-minute long electro-acoustic tone-poem, designed for the opening of Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Myriam Van Imschoot: Hola Hu

Myriam Van Imschoot & Doreen Kutzke (vocals)

Shiva Feshareki: Dialogue

Shiva Feshareki (turntables)

BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Andre de Ridder

Arash Moradi: Works for solo tanbur

Plus a feature on the thriving New Music scene in Glasgow

Kate Molleson presents music from Glasgow's Counterflows and the New Music Biennial.

Kate Molleson reports on the thriving New Music scene in Glasgow, and introduces performances from Glasgow's Counterflows Festival (new takes on yodelling and Iranian tanbur). Also tonight, a work for turntables and orchestra featured at the New Music Biennial. Plus, ROBERT WORBY talks to David Toop about his life in music, from an early recording on BRIAN ENO's Obscure label, to a recent opera for Aldeburgh.

JAMES TENNEY: Changes 1 (from 64 Studies for harp)

Music by Cassandra Miller, Laurie Spiegel, Kit Downes, Kate Carr, Morton Feldman, You Are Wolf, Jlin with Holly Herndon, Blue-Eyed Hawk, Angharad Davies and Tish Mukarji, Ruth Goller, David Young, and Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Tom Service presents an eclectic mix of new music

Also on the show, Maya Dunietz's Mammoths, a weird and wonderful sound installation for five pianos and the UK premiere of Heinz Holliger's Ad marginem inspired by a painting by Paul Klee. Plus music for flute, electronics and found objects recorded in the underground spaces of Basel by Clara de Asis and Mara Winter.

The latest sounds in the contemporary music scene presented by Kate Molleson.