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Music: Classical

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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

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Hear and Now: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

23/01/2016

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Music by Salvatore Sciarrino, Helmut Lachenmann, Joan Magrane Figuera and Jay Schwartz.

Matthias Pintscher conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in music by Salvatore Sciarrino, Helmut Lachenmann, Joan Magrane Figuera and Jay Schwartz. Plus music by Liza Lim.

Presented by Tom Service.

Matthias Pintscher conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in a concert recorded at Glasgow's City Halls.

Joan Magrané Figuera's ...secreta desolación... references Wagner's Parsifal, while another German musical revolutionary, Helmut Lachenmann, uses silences and large orchestral forces in Tableau, a work described as "mesmerising, startling and occasionally forbidding". Jay Schwartz's Delta combines "physics with the poetic and aesthetic dimensions of sound" and Salvatore Sciarrino's flute concerto, with soloist Matteo Cesari, offers a fragile soundworld on the edge of silence.

Plus, the latest of Hear and Now's series Modern Muses, features the composer Liza Lim and cellist Severine Ballon, and there's a chance to hear one of Liza Lim's most significant large scale works, The Compass, for solo flute, didgeridoo and orchestra.

Joan Magrane Figuera: ...secreta desolacion... (UK premiere)
Salvatore Sciarrino: Libro notturno delle voci* (UK premiere)
Jay Swartz: Delta - Music for Orchestra IV
Helmut Lachenmann: Tableau

*Matteo Cesari (flute)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra 
Matthias Pintscher (conductor)

Liza Lim: The Compass

Carin Levine (flute), William Bartin (didgeridoo)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Christoph Poppen (conductor).

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