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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: RSAMD Plug Festival

RSAMD Plug Festival

21/05/2011

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, RSAMD Plug Festival

Ivan Hewett presents a concert from the RSAMD Plug Festival in Glasgow.

Ivan Hewett presents a concert from the RSAMD Plug Festival in Glasgow, including world premieres from Andrew Toovey and Helmut Oehring with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Ivan Hewett presents a concert from the Plug Festival in Glasgow. Ilan Volkov conducts two major world premieres of BBC commissions with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and two new pieces by composition students at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

Andrew Toovey describes Ubu's Journey as "a piece for people who are passionate about all different kinds of music ... eclectic, multifaceted and filled with lots of things that really interest me." 

Helmut Oehring's POEndulum is based on Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum, a dark tale of a man stuck in a pit with the sentence of death swinging over him, and features a major role for extrovert vocal artist David Moss.

Andrew Toovey: Ubu's Journey
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor)
World premiere: BBC commission

Claire McCue: Surge 
RSAMD MusicLab
Ilan Volkov (conductor) 
World premiere 

Christopher Duncan (RSAMD student): Twine
RSAMD MusicLab
Ilan Volkov (conductor)
World premiere

Helmut Oehring: POEndulum - a monodrama for speaker and orchestra 
David Moss (speaker/singer/percussion)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor)
World premiere: BBC commission.

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