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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: Stockhausen reimagined

Stockhausen reimagined

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The best in new music: a world premiere by Harrison Birtwistle and Stockhausen reimagined.

Tom Service presents two world premieres: electronic musician Actress reimagines Stockhausen's Welt-Parlament in "Sin {x} II" and "Duo for Eight Strings" by Harrison Birtwistle.

Tom Service presents the best new music in live performance, including the world premiere of a Duo for Eight Strings by Sir Harrison Birtwistle played by violist Lawrence Power and cellist Adrian Brendel and recorded at Wigmore Hall.  Birmingham Contemporary Music Group with sheng soloist, Wu Wei  and conductor, Julien Leroy give the premiere of Donghoon Shin's Concerto, Anecdote.  Robert Worby interviews veteran New York School composer Christian Wolff about his long life in music, as he visits London to perform his own music at the Barbican. And, the world premiere of a new opera 'Actress x Stockhausen Sin {x} II', a reimagining of Stockhausen's Welt-Parlament,  from contemporary electronic musician Actress, also known as Darren Cunningham, and recorded last week at London's Southbank Centre. The libretto was inspired by MPs debating the meaning of love during the Brexit no-confidence vote in December 2018. Actress joins forces with pianist Vanessa Benelli Mosell - a student of Stockhausen, the Netherlands Chamber Choir and conductor Robert Ames.

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