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Hear and Now: Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2015

Hear and Now: Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2015: Episode 3

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Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2015

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2015, Episode 3

With music by George Lewis, Jurg Frey, Jonty Harrison and Karen Rehnqvist.

With Robert Worby and Sara Mohr-Pietch. With George Lewis's opera Afterword, plus works by Jurg Frey, Jonty Harrison and Karen Rehnqvist and a performance by Klangforum Wien.

Robert Worby and Sara Mohr-Pietsch continue coverage of this year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival with a broadcast of American composer and improviser George Lewis's opera Afterword, which celebrates the work of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), a pioneering collective of musicians that took root in Chicago in 1965. 

And as part of Radio 3's Northern Lights season, a recording of Karen Rehnqvisst's Arktis Arktis!, the Swedish composer's orchestral ode to the Arctic inspired by a polar expedition in 1999. 

George Lewis: Afterword
Joelle Lamarre (soprano)
Julian Terrell Otis (tenor)
Gwendolyn Brown (contralto)
International Contemporary Ensemble
David Fulmer (conductor) 

Recorded at the Lawrence Batley Theatre last month.

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Coverage of the 2014 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

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