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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: Philip Glass, Anthony Braxton and friends

Philip Glass, Anthony Braxton and friends

28/01/2017

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, Philip Glass, Anthony Braxton and friends

Kate Molleson presents music by American composers Philip Glass and Anthony Braxton.

Kate Molleson presents music by Philip Glass and Anthony Braxton, with highlights from a Glass Total Immersion day at the Barbican and the BBC SSO in UK premieres from Braxton.

Kate Molleson presents music by iconic American composers Philip Glass and Anthony Braxton. To launch the programme there are highlights from today's Philip Glass Total Immersion day at the Barbican in London, featuring pianists Robert Allan and Ben Smith playing some of Glass's piano Etudes and movements from Glassworks, and choral works from the BBC Singers and conductor Tecwyn Evans. Plus a BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra concert focusing on polymath composer and multi-instrumentalist Anthony Braxton: Ilan Volkov conducts world premieres of two of Braxton's closest collaborators, James Fei and Taylor Ho Bynum, framed by the UK premieres of Braxton's own 1970s Compositions Nos 27 and 63.

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