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Hear and Now: Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2011

Hear and Now: Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2011: Episode 2

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Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2011

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2011, Episode 2

With music by Fabien Levy and Brian Ferneyhough. Plus Hear And Now 50 with Stephen Fry.

Robert Worby and Sara Mohr-Pietsch present music by Fabien Levy, Brian Ferneyhough and Francesco Filidei. Plus Hear And Now 50: Stephen Fry on Conlon Nancarrow's Study 21 Canon X.

Robert Worby and Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduce more highlights from this year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Ensemble Linea from Strasbourg play three UK premieres, including a major work by the leading British composer Brian Ferneyhough. 

Fabien Levy: Qwerwüchsig
Francesco Filidei: Finito ogni gesto
Brian Ferneyhough: Chronos Aion 

Plus, in the latest instalment of the Hear And Now 50, Stephen Fry describes his delight and bewilderment at first hearing Conlon Nancarrow's Study 21 "Canon X" for player piano. Nancarrow devoted his composing life to writing virtuosic canonic studies for this mechanical piano, often "unspeakably fast" music, as pianist Joanna MacGregor puts it.

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Programmes of highlights from the 2011 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby presents highlights from 2011's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. The largest of its type in the UK, the event features the best contemporary and new music

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