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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: 13/07/2013

13/07/2013

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, 13/07/2013

Tom Service presents orchestral music by Sebastian Currier, Qigan Chen and Mark Bowden.

Tom Service with music from the 2013 Vale of Glamorgan Festival. Sebastian Currier: Microsymph; Quanta. Mark Bowden: Heartland Concerto. Qigang Chen: Enchantements oublies.

Tom Service presents the first of two programmes from the 2013 Vale of Glamorgan Festival. Tonight the music ranges from a frantically paced ten minute symphony by the American, Sebastian Currier to Chinese-born Qigan Chen's Enchantements oubliés in which he seeks to capture something of the powerful beauty of the natural world. Also on the bill is the concert premiere of a captivating percussion concerto by Mark Bowden, the BBC NOW's composer in residence.

Sebastian Currier: Microsymph (UK premiere)

Mark Bowden: Heartland Concerto (Concert world premiere)
Julian Warburton (percussion)

Sebastian Currier: Quanta (European premiere)

Qigang Chen: Enchantements oubliés

BBC National orchestra of Wales
Richard Baker (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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