New Music Show

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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: Sun Rings, a forest and the joy of activity

Sun Rings, a forest and the joy of activity

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

Tom Service presents more of the best in new music, including a new release of Terry Riley's Sun Rings from the Kronos Quartet, a piece by Linda Catlin Smith for 9 violins, a work by Rolf Wallin about speed and the joy of activity and Anna Meredith talks about her new album .

Max de Wardener – Kolmar (reprise)
Album: KOLMAR
Label: Village Green

Ivan Fedele: Ur for orchestra						
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Pierre-Andre Valade

Anna Meredith: Paramour
Album: FIBS 
Label: Moshi Moshi/Black Prince Fury

Ann Cleare: 93 million miles away for violin, cello and piano	
Fidelio Trio

Terry Riley: Sun Rings (Venus Upstream)
Kronos Quartet
Album: Sun Rings
Label: Nonesuch 

Linda Catlin Smith: Forest for 9 violins					
Mira Benjamin (leader)
Evie Hilyer-Ziegler
Izzy Morshead
Anne Han
Ella Fox
Hannah Bell
Amalia Young
Richard Montgomery
Amelia Gilmartin
Claudia Dehnke

Catherine Lamb: Parallaxis Forma (excerpt)						
Performer: Ensemble neon
Album: Niblock/Lamb 
Label: Hubro 

Rolf Wallin: Act for Orchestra 
BBC National Orchestra of Wales 
Jonathan Berman (conductor)

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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