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Hear and Now: Jonathan Harvey, Walter Murch

Jonathan Harvey, Walter Murch

28/04/2012

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, Jonathan Harvey, Walter Murch

Tom Service presents Jonathan Harvey's Song Offerings and Summer Clouds Awakening.

Tom Service presents Jonathan Harvey's Song Offerings and Summer Clouds Awakening. Plus the Hear and Now 50: Symphonie pour un homme seul by Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry.

Tom Service introduces two contrasting vocal works by one of the UK's leading composers.

Jonathan Harvey: Song Offerings 
Claire Booth, soprano
Nash Ensemble
Lionel Friend, conductor

Jonathan Harvey: Summer Clouds Awakening 
Latvian Radio Choir/James Wood
Jonathan Harvey (electronics), Carl Faia (electronics), Clive Williamson (synthesizer), Ilona Meija (flute) & Arne Deforce (cello) 

And in the latest instalment of the 'Hear and Now Fifty', the American film editor and sound designer Walter Murch nominates 'Symphonie pour un homme seul' by Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry, music he first heard on the radio as a schoolboy and which influenced his subsequent work in the field of film sound. Author and journalist Rob Young puts the work in context of post-war Paris and Schaeffer's early experiments at French Radio which led to the birth of musique concrete.

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