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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: 04/08/2012

04/08/2012

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, 04/08/2012

Music by Richard Ayres, Laurence Crane, and Marko Nikodijevic. Plus Scelsi's Ygghur.

Music by Richard Ayres, Laurence Crane and Marko Nikodijevic. And in the Hear and Now 50, cellist Frances-Marie Uitti and writer Paul Griffith discuss Giacinto Scelsi's Ygghur.

Ilan Volkov conducts a concert curated by Richard Ayres whose music, at once playful and serious, unashamedly juggles a mélange of accessible musical styles. Presented by Robert Worby, with contributions from Ayres, Laurence Crane, and Ilan Volkov.

Marko Nikodijevic: GHB/Tanzaggregat 
Laurence Crane: West Sussex Folk Material 
Richard Ayres: No. 9 MacGowan 
Richard Ayres: No. 46 
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov, conductor

And in the latest instalment of the Hear and Now Fifty, cellist Frances-Marie Uitti champions the music of Giacinto Scelsi, the Italian composer from an aristocratic background whose music looks to the east for inspiration. Uitti plays the 1960s 'Ygghur', Sanskrit for 'catharsis', the final part of Scelsi's autobiographical 'La Trilogia'. With commentary from Paul Griffiths.

Giacinto Scelsi: Ygghur
Frances-Marie Uitti, cello.

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