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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: Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2018 4/4

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2018 4/4

BBC Radio 3 - Hear and Now, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2018 4/4

Robert Worby and Tom McKinney with further highlights from Huddersfield

Highlights from the 2018 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival including the premiere of a major piece by Rebecca Saunders, inspired by James Joyce and given by Musikfabrik.

The premiere of a major piece by Rebecca Saunders inspired by the final chapter of James Joyce's Ulysses and performed by soprano Juliet Fraser with Ensemble MusikFabrik features in this last programme of dedicated coverage from the 2018 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Plus a report on a performance of Samuel Beckett's miniature music drama Quad, in a production by Sophie Fetokaki

Programme:
Nick Morrish Rarity: Life of lines II	
United Instruments of Lucilin

Clara Ianotta: Dead wasps in a Jam-jar III
Arditti Quartet

Rebecca Saunders: Yes (UKP)	
Juliet Fraser (soprano)
Musikfabrik conducted by Enno Poppe

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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