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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 Secret Names

The Secret Names

BBC Radio 3 - New Music Show, The Secret Names

Music from Errollyn Wallen, Hanna Hartman and Rolf Hind.

The latest in composition, live performance and new releases including music from Errollyn Wallen, Hanna Hartman and Rolf Hind

Kate Molleson with specially recorded performances and the latest new releases. The BBC Singers and cellist Robin Michael perform Rolf Hind's new piece The Secret Names, Gabriella Teychenné conducts the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group in Xenakis's Ittidra, and we re-visit the New Music Biennial from 2019 for the collaborative partnership of Kit Downes, Aidan O'Rourke and writer James Robertson.  There's a new work by Errollyn Wallen performed by Liam Byrne and Jonas Nordberg, and we hear the latest releases from percussionist Noam Bierstone playing the music of Hanna Hartman, the duo of Eliza McCarthy and Laurie Tompkins plus American guitarist Mary Halvorson. And in this week's Sounding Change, Laurence Osborn reflects on the impact of social media on new music.

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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