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Hear and Now: Cheltenham Festival

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12/08/2017

Cheltenham Festival

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, Cheltenham Festival

Tom McKinney presents new music from the Cheltenham Festival.

Tom McKinney presents new music from the Cheltenham Festival. Ensemble Court-Circuit plays Trybucki, Bertrand and Giguare, and Piatti Quartet plays Phibbs, Bloom and Turnage.

Tom McKinney presents new music recorded at the Cheltenham Festival last month.

Adrien Trybucki: Magma 
Christophe Bertrand: Madrigal
Patrick Giguère: Le sel de la terre 
Thallein Ensemble
Atelier XX/21
members of Ensemble Court-Circuit

Mark-Anthony Turnage: Contusion
Darren Bloom: Five Brief Lessons
Joseph Phibbs: String Quartet No.1
Piatti Quartet 

French new music experts Ensemble Court-Circuit join ensembles from the conservatoires of Birmingham and Lyon to perform works by some of the most inventive French contemporary composers celebrating micro-tonality and the physicality of sound. And from the UK, the Piatti Quartet showcase new quartets by British and American composers. 
Also tonight, a new piece for junk electronics by Vitalija Glovackyte recorded at a Kammer Klang concert in London.

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