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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: Symphonies in chains

Symphonies in chains

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

Tom Service presents the best in new music, including the world premiere of Symphonies in Chains by Piers Hellawell, plus an interview by Robert Worby with composer Frank Denyer

Tom Service presents more of the best new music in exclusive concert recordings, including the world premiere performance of Symphonies in Chains by Piers Hellawell, played by the Ulster Orchestra in Belfast in January, as well as a recording from Aberdeen’s Sound Festival last year of Graham Fitkin’s Tracking Yesterday’s England, composed for the five reeds of Calefax and cellist Matthew Barley.  Also, an in-depth interview by Robert Worby with composer Frank Denyer, whose music is distinguished by a keen sensitivity to sound. Each of his works is written for a unique combination of instruments, more often than not a combination that no composer has dreamed of before.

Matmos:              Peacock Cage
                        
Graham Fitkin:	   Tracking Yesterday’s England
                           Calefax Reed Quintet
			   Matthew Barley, cello

Hannah Kendall:  Spark Catchers
                           Chineke! Orchestra
                           Kevin John Edusei,  conductor
 
Liza Lim:	           Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus (i. Anthropogenic Debris)
                           Klangforum Wien
		           Peter Rundel, conductor

Piers Hellawell:   Symphonies in Chains
                          Ulster Orchestra
			  David Brophy, conductor

John Luther Adams:	 Become Desert
			         Seattle Symphony Chorale
                                 Seattle Symphony
                                 Ludovic Morlot, conductor

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