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Hear and Now: Donaueschingen New Music Festival 2016

Hear and Now: Donaueschingen New Music Festival 2016: Episode 1

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Episode 1

Donaueschingen New Music Festival 2016

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, Donaueschingen New Music Festival 2016, Episode 1

Highlights from the Donaueschingen Festival 2016, including a work by James Dillon.

Tom Service presents highlights from 2016's Donaueschingen new music festival, including James Dillon's The Gates, Michael Wertmuller's Discorde and a piece by Joanna Bailie.

For most of the year Donaueschingen is a sleepy Black Forest town famous as the source of the Danube and, among beer lovers at least, for its venerable brewery (established 1283). But since 1921, once a year, Donaueschingen has been the go-to destination to hear a succession of world premieres from the some of the world's great figures in new music in performances of the highest quality. With the help of composers and performers, Tom Service reports from last month's Donaueschinger Musiktage and presents the first of two programmes of featured highlights.

James Dillon: The Gates 
Arditti Quartet 
SWR Symphony Orchestra
Pierre-André Valade (conductor)

Michael Wertmüller: Discorde 
Steam Boat Switzerland
Klangforum Wien
Titus Engel (conductor)

Joanna Bailie: Music from Public Places 
SWR Vokalensemble
Améi String Quartet
Joanna Bailie (electronics)
Marcus Creed (conductor).

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Tom Service presents programmes featuring music from the 2016 Donaueschingen Festival

Tom Service presents programmes featuring music from the 2016 Donaueschingen Festival, with contributions from composers and performers.

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