BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

BBC Radio 3

Radio 3

Migrated podcast image for: Radio 3’s Composers’ Rooms

Hear and Now

Discussion & Talk

Music: Classical

Music: Classical: Experimental & New

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: Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2010

Hear and Now: Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2010: Episode 1

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2010

Episode 1

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2010, Episode 1

Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby present works from Poppe, Kagel and Finnissy.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby present highlights from the 2010 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, including works from Enno Poppe, Mauricio Kagel and Michael Finnissy.

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival is the largest festival of its type in the UK, a truly international focus on the best in contemporary and new music. Founded in 1978, in the thirty plus years since, it has hosted numerous luminaries in the world of contemporary composition, including John Cage, Steve Reich, Harrison Birtwistle and Karlheinz Stockhausen. 

Over the next five weeks, Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby will be bringing you highlights from the 2010 festival, including World Premieres from Richard Barrett and Brian Ferneyhough and UK Premieres from Karlheinz Stockhausen, Peter Adriaansz and the festival's composer-in-residence Rebecca Saunders, alongside a host of other concert performances. Plus reports on some of the more unusual events at the festival, including a concert on a train, a musical powerpoint presentation from composer Trond Reinholdsten and a 12 hour performance of John Cage. 

In tonight's programme, string music features heavily, with Mauricio Kagel's String Quartet II, the UK Premiere of a new work by Enno Poppe for four string quartets, and Martijn Padding's violin concerto 'White Eagle'. Robert Worby will also be talking to Michael Finnissy about the UK Premiere of his new work 'Gedachtnis-Hymne' and Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores noise art from the Low Frequency Orchestra.

PLAYLIST

ENNO POPPE Wald (UK Premiere) 
Ensemble Resonanaz

MARICIO KAGEL 
Streichquartet II
Quatuor Bozzini

MARTIJN PADDING White Eagle 
Ensemble 10/10

MICHAEL FINNISSY Gedächtnis-Hymne (UK Premiere)
New London Chamber Choir
Rascher Quartet

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.

Highlights from the 2010 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby presents highlights from 2010's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. The largest of its type in the UK, the event features the best contemporary and new music

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Hear and Now

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2010

Episode 1

Genres

Brand

Series

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3