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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: Musica Viva

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16/09/2017

Musica Viva

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, Musica Viva

Kate Molleson presents world premieres by Wolfgang Rihm and Milica Djordjevic.

Kate Molleson brings two world premieres from the Bavarian RSO's Musica Viva season: Quicksilver by Milica Djordjevic and Wolfgang Rihm's Requiem Verses.

Kate Molleson presents two world premieres from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra's Musica Viva season, including a major new work by Wolfgang Rihm with the orchestra's Chief Conductor Mariss Jansons on the podium. Plus Sound of the Week: a new weekly feature in which a composer talks about a sound that has caught their ear and informed their music - to launch the series tonight, Irish composer/performer/conceptual artist Jennifer Walshe has chosen an old cassette recording made by her mother. 

Milica Djordjevic: Quicksilver (2016, world premiere)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra,
Conductor Peter Rundel.

Wolfgang Rihm: Requiem Verses (2015-16, world premiere)
Mojca Erdmann (soprano),
Anna Prohaska (soprano),
Hanno Müller-Brachmann (bass-baritone),
Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra,
Conductor Mariss Jansons.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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