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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: Quotations, memories and transformations

Quotations, memories and transformations

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The latest in new music performance with Tom Service.

Tom introduces music from 2019 Eight Bridges Festival and Berliner Festspiele. Robert Worby talks to Judith Weir and Darragh Morgan, and Mary Dullea's home session is by Deirdre McKay.

Tom Service presents music from the 2019, Eight Bridges Festival: Christoph Bertrand's frenzied "Mana" performed by WDR Symphony Orchestra with conductor, Brad Lubman and Georges Aperghis' "Seesaw" performed by Klangforum Wien and conductor, Julien Leroy.  There is a live performance from BBC Symphony Orchestra of Olga Neuwirth’s trumpet concerto, "Miramondo Multiplo" played by Hakan Hardenberger and recorded at Berliner Festspiele last year.  For tonight's home session Darragh Morgan (violin) and Mary Dullea (piano) play "Secundum" by  Deirdre McKay, and new releases this week feature music by Helmut Lachenmann, Piers Hellawell, Kurt Schwitters and Yair Elazar Glotman & Mats Erlandsson.   Finally, the Robert Worby interview features Robert in conversation with Master of the Queen's Music, Judith Weir. 

Helmut Lachenmann:  Marche fatale 				
Nicolas Hodges (piano)

Christoph Bertrand:  Mana 
WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne
Brad Lubman (conductor)

Georges Aperghis: Seesaw 
Klangforum Wien
Julien Leroy (conductor)

Judith Weir: Nuits d’Afrique, IV. Le village
Ailish Tynan (soprano)
Hebrides Ensemble

Deirdre McKay: Secundum 
Darragh Morgan (violin)	
Mary Dullea (piano)

Piers Hellawell: Ground Truthing, III. Ruvido			
Hard Rain Ensemble

Helmut Lachenmann: Sakura mit Berliner Luft (2008) 
Helmut Lachenmann
Trio Accanto

Olga Neuwirth:  ...miramondo multiplo...  
Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor)

Kurt Schwitters: Ursonate (Segunda Parte) 
Adam de la Cour 
Neil Luck	

Yair Elazar Glotman & Mats Erlandsson		
Emanate  (extract )
Hilary Jeffery (trombone)
Lucy Railton (cello) 
Liam Byrne (viola da gamba)
Simon Goff (violin)
Yair Elazar Glotman (double bass)
Viktor Orri Arnarson (viola)
Sara Fors (vocals) 
Maria W Horn (organ)

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