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Hear and Now: Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2012

Hear and Now: Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2012: Episode 5

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2012

Episode 5

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2012, Episode 5

Music from 2012's Huddersfield Music Festival, by Hans Abrahamsen and Maja Ratkje.

Robert Worby and Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduce highlights from the 2012 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. With Hans Abrahamsen, Maja Ratkje and Glenn Branca.

Robert Worby and Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduce the final programme of highlights from Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2012. The last of five editions of Hear and Now featuring music from hcmf// 2012 focuses on the festival's truly international scope, contrasting works by Scandinavian composers Hans Abrahamsen and Maja Ratkje and music from the Irish Crash Ensemble including American composer Glenn Branca.

Hans Abrahamsen String Quartet No. 4 (UK premiere) (2012) 
ARDITTI QUARTET 

Maja S K Ratkje And Sing While Thou On Pressed Flowers Dost Sleep (2012) (World premiere) 
ENSEMBLE CIKADA

Donnacha Dennehy Streetwalker
CRASH ENSEMBLE

Gerard Pesson Cassation
ENSEMBLE CIKADA

Sam Hayden surface / tension (2012) (World premiere) 
ENSEMBLE CIKADA

Glenn Branca Thought (hcmf// co-commission) UK Premiere
CRASH ENSEMBLE.

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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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