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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

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Ivan Hewett presents the BBC SO in music by Jack White, Linda Buckley and Richard Causton.

Ivan Hewett presents music by Jack White, Linda Buckley and Richard Causton played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Garry Walker. Plus Messiaen's Chronochromie.

Ivan Hewett presents the first of two programmes featuring new orchestral works developed through "Embedded" residencies with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Jack White: Digital Dust (world premiere)
Linda Buckley: Chiyo (UK Premiere) 
Richard Causton: Between Two Waves of the Sea 
BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Garry Walker

And in this week's Hear And Now Fifty, composer George Benjamin advocates the "exuberant, thrilling and virtuosic" orchestral piece Chronochromie by his former teacher, Olivier Messiaen; while Paul Griffiths describes the significance of the work in the European avant-garde scene of the 1960s.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Ivan Hewett presents orchestral works developed in Embedded residencies with the BBC SO

Ivan Hewett presents two programmes featuring new orchestral works developed through Embedded residencies with the BBC Symphony Orchestra

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