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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: Venice Biennale Musicale 2021

Venice Biennale Musicale 2021

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The latest in new music including premieres from the Venice Biennale Musicale.

The latest in new music including performances from the Venice Biennale Musicale 2021.

New Music Show: Tom Service introduces the latest in new music including performances from the Biennale Musicale, a city-wide celebration of choral music which took place in Venice a couple of weeks ago. Tonight's show includes world premieres of Christina Kubisch's 'Il viaggio della voce,' and George Lewis's 'Amo,' to texts from the 18th century philosopher Anton Wilhelm Amo who was brought to Germany as a small child from Axim in present-day Ghana.There's also a string quartet by Gerald Resch which took as its starting point a quartet by Beethoven and Britta Byström's 'A Room of One's Own,' inspired by Virginia Woolf.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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