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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: The Contemporary Piano

Hear and Now: The Contemporary Piano: Episode 2

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The Contemporary Piano

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, The Contemporary Piano, Episode 2

Nicolas Hodges talks to Sara Mohr-Pietsch about contemporary pianists and piano repertoire

Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Nicolas Hodges explore the contemporary piano, with music by Boulez, Stockhausen, Cardew, Feldman and Finnissy. Plus Hear and Now 50: John Zorn's Carny.

As part of the Piano Season on the BBC, Nicolas Hodges joins Sara Mohr-Pietsch for the second of two programmes exploring the contemporary pianists and piano repertoire, including music by Boulez, Stockhausen, Cardew, Feldman and Finnissy. And in the Hear and Now 50, Tom Service introduces American composer John Zorn's Carny - a dazzling piano collage of everything from Mozart to Fats Waller, Chopin to Schoenberg, and cocktail piano to Elliott Carter.

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.

An exploration of aspects of the contemporary piano

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