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Hear and Now: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group at 30

23/09/2017

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group at 30

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Tom Service presents the 30th anniversary concert of Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.

Tom Service presents the 30th anniversary concert of Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, including works composed by Ondrej Adamek, Rebecca Saunders and Helmut Lachenmann.

Tom Service presents a special concert given by Birmingham Contemporary Music Group recorded earlier this month to celebrate their 30th anniversary. The BCMG has grown into one of the foremost contemporary music ensembles today and their anniversary concert features three ground-breaking works that have been written since their founding in 1987 - Ondřej Adámek's Sinuous Voices, Rebecca Saunders' Into the Blue, and Helmut Lachenmann's Zwei Gefühle. 

Plus the third part of Hear and Now's archive feature on the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival at 40, in which Andrew Kurowski talks to Robert Worby about the Festival's changing perspectives, including recordings of Claudia Molitor's Paper Cut by Apartment House from the 2008 Festival and Rebecca Saunders' String Quartet by the Arditti Quartet at the 2012 Festival. 

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BCMG @ 30
Ondřej Adámek: Sinuous Voices (2004/09) 
Rebecca Saunders: Into the Blue (1996) 
BCMG
Emilio Pomàrico (conductor)

HCMF @ 40 
Archive feature Andrew Kurowski in conversation with Robert Worby: 'Changing Perspectives' (Part 3 of 4)
Claudia Molitor: Paper Cut (hcmf 2008)
Apartment House
Rebecca Saunders: Fletch for string quartet (hcmf 2012) 
Arditti Quartet

BCMG @ 30
Helmut Lachenmann: 
Zwei Gefühle - Musik mit Leonardo (1992) 
BCMG
Emilio Pomàrico (conductor).

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