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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: Leaf-light, hummingbirds and Tokyo by night

Leaf-light, hummingbirds and Tokyo by night

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

Recordings by the Bozzini Quartet, Divertimento Ensemble and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in works by James Weeks, Francesco Filidei and Sarah Davachi.

Tom Service introduces recordings by the Bozzini Quartet, Divertimento Ensemble and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in works by James Weeks, Francesco Filidei and Sarah Davachi. Plus a new release from Argentinian electroacoustic composer Elsa Justel, Mariam Rezaei's Sound of the Week - the chirping and flapping of hummingbirds - and to end, a recording of Tokyo's Kabukicho district on a Saturday night.

Elsa Justel: La radio, ça détend (2001)

James Weeks: Leafleoht (2017)
Bozzini Quartet

Cassandra Miller: Lazy, Rocking (2017), Juliet Fraser (soprano)

Francesco Filidei: Finito ogni gesto (2008)
Divertimento Ensemble
Recorded at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2018

Sarah Davachi: Oscen (World Premiere, BBC Commission)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ilan Volkov
Recorded at Tectonics Glasgow 2019

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