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Hear and Now: Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2016

Hear and Now: Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2016: Episode 2

Episode 2

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2016

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2016, Episode 2

Including music by Bunita Marcus, Naomi Pinnock, Christian Mason and Olga Neuwirth.

Live at the Huddersfield Festival. Bunita Marcus: Music for Japan. Naomi Pinnock: Music for Europe. Christian Mason: In a World of Invisible Waves. Olga Neuwirth: incidendo/fluido.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby present the second of two live Hear and Now concerts from Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. You can hear the German/Icelandic Ensemble Adapter playing music by Bunita Marcus and a Naomi Pinnock world premiere in tribute to the cult Japanese ensemble Sound Space Ark, and British pianist Richard Uttley in pieces by Christian Mason and Olga Neuwirth. Plus Taiwan-born soprano Peyee Chen in two solo works by Michael Finnissy and free improvisation from British trumpeter Percy Pursglove and Norwegian drummer Thomas Stronen. 


Programme includes:

Bunita Marcus: Music For Japan (UK premiere)
Naomi Pinnock: Music for Europe (world premiere)
Ensemble Adapter

Christian Mason: In a world of invisible waves: a butterfly (UK premiere) 
Richard Uttley (piano)

Olga Neuwirth: Incidendo/fluido
Richard Uttley (prepared piano & electronics) 

Michael Finnissy: Song 1; Song 16 
Peyee Chen (soprano)

Free improvisation by Percy Pursglove (trumpet) and Thomas Stronen (drums).

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Coverage of the 2016 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby present coverage of the 2016 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

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