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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

Hear and Now: Harrison Birtwistle

Harrison Birtwistle

09/06/2012

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, Harrison Birtwistle

Harrison Birtwistle: Cortege, Five Distances, Carmen Arcadiae.

Tom Service, in conversation with Harrison Birtwistle, presents some of the British composer's music from the last three decades, including the UK premiere of In Broken Images.

Tom Service, in conversation with Sir Harrison Birtwistle, presents this Birtwistle Portrait concert, specially recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with the London Sinfonietta conducted by David Atherton 

Harrison Birtwistle: Cortege 
London Sinfonietta

Harrison Birtwistle: Five Distances for 5 Instruments
London Sinfonietta

Harrison Birtwistle: Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum 
London Sinfonietta
David Atherton, conductor

Harrison Birtwistle: In Broken Images (UK premiere)
London Sinfonietta
David Atherton, conductor

And in the Hear and Now 50, composer, writer and Russophile Gerard McBurney nominates the austere and uncompormising Octet by Galina Ustvolskaya, which changed his ideas of twentieth-century Russian music. And Gillian Moore, Head of Classical Music at the Souhtbank Centre puts the work into the context of the mid-twentieth century Soviet Union. 

Galina Unstvolskaya: Octet
Lyn Fletcher, Susie Meszaros, Christopher Tombling, Maya Iwabuchi (violins)
Sue Bohling and Margaret Tindale (oboes)
William Stephenson (piano)
Graham Cole (timpani).

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