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Music: Classical: Experimental & New

Cutting-edge and experimental new music in live performance, plus interviews and features.

The best and latest in cutting-edge and experimental new music. Kate Molleson and Tom Service present exclusive recordings, new releases, composer interviews and features.

The best and latest in cutting-edge and experimental new music. Kate Molleson and Tom Service present exclusive recordings, new releases, composer interviews and features from around the UK, Europe and across the world.

New Music Show: Rituals, Prog rock and bendy reality

Rituals, Prog rock and bendy reality

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Featuring the best new music in live performance, plus interviews and features.

Kate Molleson with the best new music in live performance, plus new releases, features and interviews with composers and performers.

Featuring the best new music in live performance from around the UK and the world, plus new releases, features and interviews with composers and performers.

Tonight, Kate Molleson evokes a Pagan ritual with music by Hungarian composer Bence Kutrik and we hear Norwegian Sigurd Fischer Olsen's 'Sserenades'. Mark Knoop and Manuel Zurria perform Laurence Crane’s Gli Anni Prog (the ‘years of prog’), a piece that draws inspiration from an Italian book about 70s prog rock legends Genesis. We hear some sonic mutations and mimicry in new releases from Swedish-Finnish electroacoustic composer Marja Ahti and People Like Us, pianist Nicolas Hodges performs Simon Steen-Andersen’s ground (and piano) breaking Concerto for piano, sampler, video and orchestra with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Thomas Dausgaard, and our Sound of the Week is the plaintive wail of an escalator at the Hague that sparked the imagination of Welsh composer Andrew Lewis.

People Like Us: Bing Bong 	

Bence Kutrik: Ritual 
Klara Babel (harp) 
Janos Szepesi (clarinet) 
Zalan Kovacs (tuba) 
Zoltan Varga & Adam Maros (percussion) 
International Rostrum of Composers 2018

Laurence Crane: Gli Anni Prog 							
Mark Knoop (piano) 
Manuel Zurria (Flute)

Sigurd Fischer Olsen: Sserenades for female voice and ensemble
Sofia Jernberg (vocals)
BIT20 Ensemble
Peter Sebastian Szilvay (conductor)
International Rostrum of Composers 2018

Marja Ahti - Rooftop Gardens 
  
Simon Steen-Andersen: Concerto for piano, sampler, video and orchestra 
Nicolas Hodges (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard.

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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