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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: Psappha, Trio Accanto

Psappha, Trio Arcanto

18/04/2015

Psappha, Trio Accanto

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, Psappha, Trio Accanto

Rober Worby presents Psappha performing music by Piers Hellawell and David Fennessy.

Rober Worby with music from Psappha and Trio Accanto. Plus Modern Muses, featuring composer Michael Finnissy and pianist Ian Pace, and a report on a new audiovisual installation.

Presented by Robert Worby. 

Psappha perform music by Piers Hellawell and David Fennessy, from a recent concert at Manchester University, and from the 2014 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Trio Accanto play pieces by Toshio Hosokawa and Jo Kondo.

In Modern Muses, Hear and Now's new series exploring the creative process with today's leading composers and performers, Michael Finnissy and pianist Ian Pace talk about their collaboration on works including The History of Photography in Sound. Also in the programme, we hear Ian Pace performing an extract from that ground-breaking work.

And the composer Kerry Andrew travels to Berwick-upon-Tweed to report on a new audio-visual installation by the sound artist Susan Stenger, Sound Strata of Coastal Northumberland.

Piers Hellawell: Sound Carvings of Rano Raraku
David Fennessy: Big Lung (world premiere of concert version)
Psappha

Jo Kondo: A Shrub
Toshio Hosokawa: Vertical Time Study II
Trio Accanto.

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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