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Hear and Now: Beat Furrer, Naomi Pinnock, Dai Fujikura

Beat Furrer, Naomi Pinnock, Dai Fujikura

12/03/2011

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, Beat Furrer, Naomi Pinnock, Dai Fujikura

Tom Service presents music by Beat Furrer, Naomi Pinnock and Dai Fujikura.

Tom Service presents music by Austrian-based Beat Furrer and two British composers of the younger generation, Naomi Pinnock and Dai Fujikura.

Swiss-born Beat Furrer is established as one of the leading lights of Austrian new music, and Naomi Pinnock and Dai Fujikura are from the younger generation of British composers. Tom Service talks to them all about their work, including one world premiere.

Beat Furrer: Xenos 
London Sinfonietta 
Beat Furrer (conductor)

Beat Furrer: Presto
Michael Cox (flute)
John Constable (piano)

Naomi Pinnock: Words (world premiere)
Omar Ebrahim (baritone) 
London Sinfonietta 
Beat Furrer (conductor)

Dai Fujikura: Recorder Concerto 
Jeremias Schwarzer (recorder) 
Ensemble Resonanz
Peter Rundel (conductor)

Beat Furrer: enigma
BBC Singers 
Nicholas Kok (conductor)

Beat Furrer: Nuun
Rolf Hind & Zubin Kanga (pianos)
Royal Academy of Music Manson Ensemble
London Sinfonietta 
Beat Furrer (conductor).

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