In the wake of the recent Kurtag Festival in London, another chance to hear a concert from at last year's Huddersfield Festival, featuring Kurtag's String Quartet No 1, Officium Breve in Memoriam Andreae Svervansky and the UK premiere of Zwiegesprach. The Arditti Quartet is joined by Kurtag's son Gyorgy Kurtag Jr, who devised the electronic element. German vocal virtuosi Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart join the Arditti Quartet for Hilda Paredes 's Can Silim Tun , a setting of ancient Mayan spells for the bewitching of deer and spiders. The two groups team up again for Vaporby James Dillon , and electronics alone accompany the singers for a performance of Nova Mob by Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth. And by way of contrast, a new
CD release of Gavin Bryars 's Adrian Song Book performed by the soprano
Valdine Anderson with the Gavin Bryars Ensemble. Presented by Sarah Walker.