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Hear and Now: Arditti Quartet - Sounds New Festival 2012

Arditti Quartet - Sounds New Festival 2012

02/06/2012

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, Arditti Quartet - Sounds New Festival 2012

A performance given by the Arditti Quartet at the 2012 Sounds New festival in Canterbury.

Ivan Hewett presents music by Brian Ferneyhough, Phillip Neil Martin, Harrison Birtwistle and Paul Max Edlin.

Ivan Hewett introduces a recording of the Arditti Quartet live in concert at the Sounds New festival of contemporary music in Canterbury. And in the latest instalment of the Hear and Now Fifty - celebrating modern classics from the late 20th-century - pianist Joanna MacGregor nominates Harrison Birtwistle's 1972 orchestral score The Triumph of Time, with commentary from writer Paul Griffiths. 

Brian Ferneyhough: Exordium
Phillip Neil Martin: An Outburst of Time (part of the RPS/BBC Radio 3 Encore project)
Arditti Quartet

Harrison Birtwistle: The Triumph of Time
Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Elgar Howarth 

Paul Max Edlin: Frida Sketches (World premiere)
Arditti Quartet 

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