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Hear and Now: Canterbury Sounds New Festival 2010

Hear and Now: Canterbury Sounds New Festival 2010: Episode 2

Episode 2

Canterbury Sounds New Festival 2010

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, Canterbury Sounds New Festival 2010, Episode 2

Music from the Canterbury New Sounds festival 2010, by Xenakis, Cage and Boulez.

Ivan Hewett presents performances from the 2010 Canterbury Sounds New festival. He talks to event director Paul Max Edlin and introduces music by Xenakis, Cage and Boulez.

Ivan Hewett presents the second of two programmes from the Canterbury Sounds New Festival and talks to festival director Paul Max Edlin. Including one of the great percussion works of the 20th century, Xenakis's Pleiades, and music from the 1940s by Cage and Boulez. 

Iannis Xenakis: Okho for 3 Djémbe Players 
Julian Warburton, Simon Limbrick, Adrian Spillett (djémbes)

John Cage: Amores 
Simon Limbrick, Adrian Spillett, Sophie Hastings (percussion)
Julian Warburton (prepared piano & conductor)

Pierre Boulez: Sonatine 
Sophie Cherrier (flute)
Dimitri Vassilakis (piano)

Iannis Xenakis: Pleiades 
Richard Benjafield, Sophie Hastings, Simon Limbrick, 
Mark Norman, Adrian Spillett, Scott Wilson (percussion)
Julian Warburton (conductor).

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Ivan Hewett presents performances from 2010's Canterbury Sounds New music festival

Ivan Hewett presents performances from 2010's Canterbury Sounds New contemporary music festival, which takes as its theme the number seven

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