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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: 13/10/2012

13/10/2012

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, 13/10/2012

Ivan Hewett presents music performed at the 2012 Vale of Glamorgan Festival.

Ivan Hewett presents music performed at the 2012 Vale of Glamorgan Festival, from Qigang Chen, Philip Glass and Per Norgard. Plus the Hear and Now 50: Per Norgard's Symphony No 2.

Ivan Hewett presents music recorded at this year's Vale of Glamorgan Festival which has been committed to celebrating work by living composers for over four decades. 

Qigang Chen: Yuan 
Philip Glass: Violin Concerto 
Chloe Hanslip, violin
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Clark Rundell, conductor

And this week's Hear and Now Fifty, novelist and critic Philip Hensher makes the case for Per Norgard's Symphony No.2, one of the first works in which the Danish composer used his own 'infinity series' to determine melody and form. With commentary from Paul Griffiths. 

Per Norgard: Symphony No. 2
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Clark Rundell, Conductor.

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.

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