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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: The script of storms

The script of storms

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Tom Service presents the best in new music performance

Tom Service presents new Lockdown commissions for the Riot Ensemble, and a powerful setting of Iraqi poet Fawzi Karim for soprano and orchestra by Michael Hersch.

Tom Service presents the best in new music performance, including some new Lockdown commissions for the Riot Ensemble, and the world premiere of a powerful setting of Iraqi poet Fawzi Karim for soprano and orchestra by Michael Hersch.
Matt Rogers: Working for the Pea Fox 
Tom Lessels (clarinets)
Laurence Crane: Estonia  
Royal Northern Sinfonia conducted by James Weeks
Michael Hersch: The script of storms  
Ah Young Hong (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tito Muñoz
Riot Ensemble new solo commissions:
Aidan Teplitzky: Penn and/or Teller					
Sam Wilson (percussion)      
Oliver Brignall:  Always interrupted					
Ruth Rosales (bassoon)
Carmen Ho: Unknown
Claudia Racovicean (piano)
Anna Korsun:  Marevo	(WP)						
(for two singing saws, two violins, two cellos and keyboard)
Ensemble Modern conducted by Lin Liao
Ezko Kikoutchi:  D’Hypnos					 	  
We Spoke 
Tim Parkinson: HeadPhoneHead; Here Comes A Monster; They've Got A Good View Of The Shard	
George Barton and Siwan Rhys (voices)

Michael Hersch's  The script of storms sets nine poems by Fawzi Karim (1945-2019), Iraqi poet and painter. Born in Baghdad in 1945, he lived in Lebanon and then London. Michael Hersch writes: “Karim’s world is a remarkable and disquieting place; a landscape of empathy, beauty, but also war and unspeakable horror... his experience of the 1958 coup he witnessed in Iraq as a boy haunts his poetry.” This is a dark and powerful new work, with graphic descriptions of war. It was recorded in concert at the BBC Maida Vale studios in January.

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