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Hear and Now: Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2013

Hear and Now: Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2013: Episode 1

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Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2013

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BBC Singers, Ensemble Linea and Irvine Arditti at the 2013 Huddersfield Festival.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces live music performed by the BBC Singers, Ensemble Linea and Irvine Arditti at the 2013 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces live music from the 2013 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival courtesy of the Strasburg based Ensemble Linea and Irvine Arditti. Their programme includes the UK Premiere of Brian Ferneyhough's liber scintillarum in the composer's 70th birthday year together with the World Premiere of a new hcmf// and BBC Radio 3 commission from James Clarke.

Sara also reports on another hcmf// and BBC Radio 3 commission from Cecilie Ore performed earlier today at the festival by the BBC Singers.


Bent Sorensen: Benedictus
Cecilie Ore: Come to the Edge (World Premiere)
BBC Singers
Nicholas Kok - conductor

Brian Ferneyhough: liber scintillarum (UK Premiere)
Raphaël Cendo: Rokh I (UK Premiere)
James Clarke: 2013 - V (World Premiere)
Ensemble Linea, Irvine Arditti - violin
Jean-Philippe Wurtz - conductor

Hector Parra: Fragments on Fragility
Arditti Quartet.

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