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Tonight, a studio session by the ensemble Psappha, conductor Christopher Gayford. Stephen Pratt introduces the first performance of a BBC commission. Piers
Hellawell's Sound Carvings from the Ice Wall, followed by Paul Max Edlin 's Five Fantastic Islands and Anthony Powers ' Another Part of the Island. Tommy Pearson reports from the Cheltenham Festival, and at
11.45, a vintage recording of Xenakis's Psappha, performed by the work's dedicatee Sylvio Gualda (percussion).
Producer Alan Hall

Contributors

Conductor:
Christopher Gayford.
Introduces:
Stephen Pratt
Unknown:
Paul Max Edlin
Unknown:
Anthony Powers
Unknown:
Sylvio Gualda
Producer:
Alan Hall
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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