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Hear and Now: John Cage

John Cage

15/09/2012

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, John Cage

Robert Worby presents music by John Cage and Gyorgy Kurtag.

Robert Worby introduces music by John Cage, performed by Ilan Volkov with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, recorded as part of Glasgow's Merchant City Festival in July. And from the 2008 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Philip Thomas and Lore Lixenberg are the soloists in She Is Asleep, an early Cage work for voice, prepared piano and percussion. Plus in the latest instalment of the Hear and Now Fifty, Ivan Hewett nominates Hungarian composer Gyorgy Kurtag's Officium Breve in memoriam Andreae Szervanszky for string quartet. With commentary from writer Paul Griffiths.

John Cage: ear for EAR (Antiphonies); Concerto for Prepared Piano; Improvisation III

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and guest musicians
Ilan Volkov (conductor); John Tilbury (piano)

Gyorgy Kurtag: Officium Breve in memoriam Andreae Szervanszky
Keller Quartet 

John Cage: She Is Asleep 
Lore Lixenberg (voice); Philip Thomas (piano)
University of Huddersfield Percussion Ensemble.

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