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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: Cowboys, moths, birds and a long distance runner

Cowboys, moths, birds and a long distance runner

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The best in new music, this time inspired by cowboys, moths, birds, mortality and beyond.

Music inspired by the disappearing natural world, a dusty street in a cowboy film and the loneliness of a long-distance runner.

The New Music Show presented by Tom Service. 
Kate Molleson introduces the world premiere performance of Michael Gordon's latest choral work, a nod to American cowboy movies where the town marshal meets the bad guys. There's also one of Heiner Goebbels's scenic concerts, this one based on Franz Kafka texts on ageing and mortality. Leo Chadburn introduces seventy British common moth species and Cassie To explores a disappearing natural world in a chamber work inspired by the songs of five Australian bird species in danger of being silenced for ever. And the programme ends with a meditation on the loneliness of the long distance runner.  

Heiner Goebbels: The Excursion into the Mountains
Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier (conductor)

Cassie To:  Avialae (for flute,clarinet, cello, percussion and piano)	
Ensemble Offspring
		
Leo Chadburn: The Indistinguishables for narrator and string quartet	
Gemma Saunders (narrator), Bozzini Quartet

Sound of the Week: Hollie Harding talks about a sound that has inspired her work as a composer, researcher and curator of contemporary music. 

Michael Gordon: A Western (world premiere)	
Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier (conductor)

Tristan Murail: Tellur	
Sam Cave (guitar)
		
Laurence Crane: Piano Piece no.23 'Ethiopian Distance Runners'	
Mark Knoop (piano)

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