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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: Traveller Song

Traveller Song

BBC Radio 3 - New Music Show, Traveller Song

Tom Service presents music by Cassandra Miller, Arlene Sierra and Jurg Frey.

Tom Service presents new music in performance, including Jurg Frey's Second String Quartet and Cassandra Miller's Traveller Song.

Tom Service with the latest new music in performance. This week, a live recording of Apartment House from a concert given at London's Wigmore Hall in March including Jurg Frey's Second String Quartet and a rare performance of German composer Michael von Biel's String Quartet with Accompaniment, music which like that of Helmut Lachenmann achieves a musique concrete sound world but with acoustic instruments. Also tonight, from the 2019 Warsaw Autumn festival, a performance of Cassandra Miller's Traveller Song, an exploration of the composer's "singing impulses" while singing along to an Alan Lomax recording of a Sicilian cart driver. The musicians of Plus Minus Ensemble play alongside overlaid recordings of Miller's voice in a piece she describes having a "quasi-shamanistic keening". There's new electronic music from Isambard Khroustaliov, and continuing our series of New Music Biennial recordings from the last ten years we hear Arlene Sierra's Urban Birds for piano, disklavier and electronics from 2014.

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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