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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: Explore Ensemble, New Releases, Laurence Crane, Håkon Stene

Explore Ensemble, New Releases, Laurence Crane, Håkon Stene

08/10/2016

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, Explore Ensemble, New Releases, Laurence Crane, Håkon Stene

Robert Worby presents Explore Ensemble at the 2016 Principal Sound Festival.

Robert Worby presents Explore Ensemble at the 2016 Principal Sound Festival. Plus Modern Muses, with Laurence Crane and Hakon Stene, and Matthew Kaner reviewing new music releases.

Presented by Robert Worby

Including music from the Principal Sound festival performed by Explore Ensemble, the latest in Hear and Now's Modern Muses series with composer Laurence Crane and percussionist Håkon Stene, and Radio 3's Embedded Composer in 3, Matthew Kaner, joins Robert to review new music releases.

Enno POPPE: Gelöschte Lieder
FELDMAN: Spring of Chosroes
GRISEY: Talea
ROMITELLI: Domeniche alla periferia dell'impero

Explore Ensemble
Nicholas Moroz & Arne Gieshoff (artistic directors)

New releases with Matthew Kaner:

Mark BOWDEN: Lyra - 3rd movement (extract)
Oliver Coates (cello)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Grant Llewellyn (conductor)
NMC D214

Hans ABRAHAMSEN: Three Little Nocturnes - no.3
Arditti Quartet
Frode Haltli (accordion)
ECM 2496

Angharad DAVIES/Tisha MUKARJI: For Lucio II 
Angharad Davies (violin)
Tisha Mukarji (piano)
ANOTHER TIMBRE AT99

Peter ADRIAANZ: Enclosures - no.1
Trio Scordatura
ERGODOS ER25

Image (c) Shelia Burnett.

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