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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.

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Composers Daniel Bjarnason and Jordan Dykstra bring the piano to the fore.

Tom Service and composers Daniel Bjarnason and Jordan Dykstra bring the piano to the fore with recent recordings of new music for the instrument including the Brett Dean Concerto.

Tom Service is joined by composers Daniel Bjarnason and Jordan Dykstra for a programme which brings the piano to the fore with recordings of music by both for the instrument, alongside the new Beethoven inspired Brett Dean Concerto, commissioned by Jonathan Biss as a response the ‘Emperor’ Concerto. Also in the programme, music for string quartet by Ana Sokolović and electronics and percussion by Linda Buckley, and songs by John Croft performed by Juliet Fraser, plus a recently commissioned response to lockdown from pianist Duncan Honeybourne.

John Casken:  Tempus Pangendi   
Duncan Honeybourne (piano)
Contemporary Piano Soundbites: Composers in Lockdown 2020
 
Brett Dean: Piano Concerto, 'Gneixendorf Music - A Winter's Journey' (Premiere)
Jonathan Biss (piano)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Afkham

John Croft: ‘Lost Songs’
No. 1. “ ...Kiss... Began ... Knowledge”
No. 2. “...Desire ...Completely .... If (I Can?)”
Juliet Fraser (soprano)
John Croft (electronics)
Oudom Southammavong (electronics)

Jordan Dykstra: ‘Arrow of Time’
Reinier van Houdt (piano and hand-crank siren) 
Jordan Dykstra (field recordings and electronic programming) 
Adam Forkner (additional drum programming) 

Linda Buckley - “Discordia” 
Joby Burgess  percussion (canna sonora)
Linda Buckley electronics

Ana Sokolović: ‘Commedia dell’arte’
“Colombina” (I/2)
“Innamorati” (III/3)
Bozzini Quartet

Daniel Bjarnason: ‘Solitudes’ for piano, prepared piano, orchestra and electronics.
Daníel Bjarnason: Pianos/Electronics
Reykjavík Sinfonia conducted By Daníel Bjarnason

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