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Hear and Now: Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2011

Hear and Now: Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2011: Episode 4

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2011

Episode 4

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2011, Episode 4

With music by Michael Parsons, James Saunders, Christian Wolff and Arvo Part.

Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby. Michael Parsons: Parapahrase. Saunders: Things whole and not whole. Wolff: Spring Two. Plus Hear and Now 50: music by Arvo Part.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby introduce performances from the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

The Basel Sinfonietta plays three UK premieres influenced by the Scratch Orchestra:

Michael Parsons: Parapahrase
James Saunders: things whole and not whole
Christian Wolff: Spring Two

And in the latest instalment of the Hear and Now Fifty, composer Roxanna Panufnik nominates Arvo Pärt's Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten, with commentary from music writer Paul Griffiths. Pärt's piece has become a minimalist classic, with its tolling funeral bell and descending string patterns expressing his sorrow at the death of a composer he greatly admired.

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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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