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Hear and Now: Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2012

Hear and Now: Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2012: Episode 3

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Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2012

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Music from 2012's Huddersfield Festival: Rebecca Saunders, Naomi Pinnock, Christopher Fox.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby focus on string quartets at the 2012 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Music from Rebecca Saunders, Naomi Pinnock and Christopher Fox.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby introduce highlights from Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2012. Tonight's programme focuses on the String Quartet with new music from Rebecca Saunders, Naomi Pinnock and Christopher Fox performed by the Arditti and Bozzini Quartets. Also featuring a report on John Tilbury's four-and-a-half-hour performance of Morton Feldman's "For Philip Guston".

Naomi Pinnock String Quartet No.2: Traces (UK premiere) (co-commissioned by hcmf// & Witten) (2012) 
ARDITTI QUARTET 

Rebecca Saunders Fletch (2012) 
ARDITTI QUARTET 

Simon Steen- Andersen- String Quartet No. 2 (UK premiere) 
BOZZINI QUARTET

Christopher Fox- Chambre privée 
BOZZINI QUARTET

Paul Archbold Nine memos for string quartet 
ARDITTI QUARTET.

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Programmes featuring highlights from the 2012 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby introduce a series of programmes of highlights from the 2012 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

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