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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: Tectonics Festival Glasgow 2016

Hear and Now: Tectonics Festival Glasgow 2016: Episode 3: Laurence Crane, Michael Pisaro, Alvin Curran, Jon Rose

Laurence Crane, Michael Pisaro, Alvin Curran, Jon Rose

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Episode 3: Laurence Crane, Michael Pisaro, Alvin Curran, Jon Rose

Tectonics Festival Glasgow 2016

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, Tectonics Festival Glasgow 2016, Laurence Crane, Michael Pisaro, Alvin Curran, Jon Rose

From the 2016 Tectonics festival, music by Laurence Crane, Michael Pisaro and Alvin Curran

Robert Worby with music played at Tectonics Festival Glasgow 2016, by Laurence Crane, Michael Pisaro and Alvin Curran, plus a solo from violinist/improviser Jon Rose.

Robert Worby presents new music recorded at the Tectonics Festival in Glasgow earlier this month.
Tonight's music includes the world premiere of a BBC commission from Laurence Crane: Cobbled Section After Cobbled Section, performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov.
The orchestra also performs two more world premieres: Fields Have Ears (10), by Michael Pisaro, a piece for orchestra with piano (played by John Tilbury) inspired by standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon at night; 
and Musique Sans Frontieres by Alvin Curran, a spectacular site-specific piece spanning 3 different locations and adding bands of bagpipes, brass, saxophones and a choir to the orchestra.
Plus, an improvised solo from violin virtuoso Jon Rose.

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Robert Worby presents music performed at the Tectonics music festival in Glasgow

Robert Worby presents music performed at the Tectonics contemporary music festival in Glasgow

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