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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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Hear and Now: New Music North West

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20/01/2018

New Music North West

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, New Music North West

Tom McKinney presents new music from the north west of England.

Tom McKinney presents new music from the north west of England in performances by the BBC Philharmonic and the Psappha ensemble.

Tom McKinney presents a concert by the BBC Philharmonic and Psappha ensemble, part of New Music North West, a festival showcasing talented British composers from the north west of England.

Mario Duarte: Metztli 
Grace-Evangeline Mason: Kintsukuroi (Golden Repair)
Daniel Kidane: Sirens
Laura Bowler: 3811 Nautical Miles
Larry Goves: hollow yellow willow (world premiere)
David Horne: Resonating Instruments
Tom Coult: Two Games and a Nocturne

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BBC Philharmonic
Mark Heron (conductor)

Also tonight: Sound of the Week: composer Alwynne Pritchard describes a particular sound that has inspired her own compositions.

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