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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

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James Dillon, Hector Parra, Morton Feldman - 2014 Huddersfield Festival

05/08/2017

Music We'd Like to Hear

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Robert Worby presents a recording of guitarist Seth Josel and music by David Bedford.

Robert Worby presents music by David Bedford and highlights from a recent event promoted by London composer-performer collective Music We'd Like to Hear.

Robert Worby introduces highlights from a recent concert promoted by Music We'd Like to Hear, a London-based collective of composer-performers. Recorded last month at St Mary-at-Hill in the City of London, it features ensemble pieces by Sarah Hughes and Nomi Epstein, and American guitarist Seth Josel playing Hauke Harder and Christian Wolff. Also in tonight's programme, a recording of David Bedford's large-scale work for electric guitars, percussion and orchestra, Star's End, marking the 80th anniversary of the composer's birth.

David Bedford: Star's End
Mats Bergstrom (electric guitar)
Pete Wilson (bass guitar)
Steve Barnard (percussion)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Edwin Outwater (conductor) 
 
Producer Philip Tagney.

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