Verity Sharp visits the Bath Festival and reports on two concerts which took place earlier today. The Royal College of Music's New Perspectives Ensemble plays a sequence of international works mixing eastern origins with western practice: Toshio Hosokawa 's Landscape VI,
Liza Lim 's Voodoo Child, Voyage d'un Reveby QigangChen and Messiaen's Couleurs de la Cite Céleste. And the second part of the programme comes from a concert given by James Wood and the New London Chamber Choir who this year celebrate 20 years on the contemporary music scene. Two anniversary commissions receive their premieres tonight: David Sawer 's
Stramm Gedichte , and Luca Francesconi 's Let Me Bleed; and the concert includes Come Holy Ghost by Jonathan Harvey , and Claude Vivier 's 0 Kosmos.