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Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and sessions

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Hear and Now: Luigi Nono, Olga Neuwirth, George Crumb

Luigi Nono, Olga Neuwirth, George Crumb

10/03/2012

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, Luigi Nono, Olga Neuwirth, George Crumb

Robert Worby presents music by Luigi Nono, Olga Neuwirth and George Crumb.

Robert Worby presents vocal works. Luigi Nono: Donde estas, hermano; la fabbrica illuminata. Olga Neuwirth: Songs (Hommage a Klaus Nomi). Plus Hear and Now 50: Crumb: Black Angels.

Robert Worby presents two vocal works by the great Italian Modernist Luigi Nono, and Olga Neuwirth's homage to cult singer Klaus Nomi; and a classic 20th Century quartet by Crumb is this week's focus in the Hear And Now Fifty.

Nono: Donde estas Hermano? 
Nono: La fabbrica Illuminata 
Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart

In the latest instalment of the Hear and Now Fifty, David Harrington celebrates George Crumb's groundbreaking 1970 work for electric string quartet, Black Angels - the work which inspired him to form the Kronos Quartet. And Gillian Moore puts the piece in context, as a work full of dark foreboding and extreme sounds, in direct reaction to the Vietnam War.

George Crumb: Black Angels
Kronos Quartet 

Olga Neuwirth: songs from Hommage à Klaus Nomi 
Andrew Watts (counter-tenor)
Sound Intermedia
London Sinfonietta conducted by Gerry Cornelius.

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