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Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and sessions

Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and studio sessions from the best new groups, and premiering works commissioned by the BBC

Hear and Now: 31/07/2010

31/07/2010

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, 31/07/2010

Ed McKeon presents new music by fORCH, Morla and Pwyll ap-Sian.

Ed McKeon introduces semi-improvised pieces by fORCH, Morla and the Smith Quartet; plus Pwyll ap-Sian's Gwales played by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Does music have to be composed, or can it be made up on the spot? Ed McKeon introduces new works that combine both approaches, recorded at festivals in Huddersfield and Sligo:

Richard Barrett and fORCH: part of fOKT 6

Morla: This May Not Have Happened
Morla and the Smith Quartet

And from the Bangor New Music Festival, a fully-composed orchestral work that travels from Mozart's Requiem to an imagined Utopia:

Pwyll ap-Sian: Gwales
BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Grant Llewellyn.

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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