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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: Stockhausen's Cosmic Pulses

Stockhausen's Cosmic Pulses

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Cosmic Pulses and the Mysterious Benares Bells - Stockhausen and beyond.

The latest in new music: Tom Service presents sounds ranging tonight from the vast electronics of Stockhausen's Cosmic Pulses at the Royal Albert to music for a single clarinet.

Tom Service presents the latest sounds in new music ranging tonight from music for a single clarinet to the exigencies of the modern symphony and electronics as heard at last October's Donaueschingen Music Days. And, in 'Proms Premieres,' Tom revisits the unforgettable night in 2008 when Karl Heinz Stockhausen's Cosmic Pulses left the Proms audience gasping and bewildered. One critic wrote: "As rumbling and splintering noises ricocheted around the Albert Hall, it felt as if Stockhausen had dropped a microphone into deepest space." 

Hayley Suviste: NGC4993	
Rory Boyle: Burble for solo clarinet
Baptiste Chatel:  Quatre	
Giles Swayne:	Les poissons mélomanes', from Chansons dévotes et poissonneuses 
Michael Pelzel: Mysterious Benares Bells	
Gérard Grisey: Nout	

at 11.10pm: Proms Premiere

Karlheinz Stockhausen: Cosmic Pulses	 (Proms Premiere from 2008)			
Billy Strayhorn / Duke Ellington arr. Joost Buis: Chelsea Bridge
Harold Muenz	BeethovEnBloc. Tape composition with the 37 movements of Beethoven's 9 symphonies

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