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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: Xenakis: La Légende d’Eer

Xenakis: La Légende d’Eer

BBC Radio 3 - New Music Show, Xenakis: La Légende d’Eer

Tom Service presents the latest in new music performance, including Kristine Tjogersen, Beat Furrer, Rebecca Saunders and Enno Poppe, Helen Grime, and Iannis Xenakis.

Tom Service introduces music from the 2022 Witten New Music Festival, including works by Kristine Tjogersen and Beat Furrer played by Ensemble Recherche and Trio Accanto. Rebecca Saunders and Enno Poppe have wanted to compose a work together for some time and tonight you can hear the result of that collaboration, Taste is premiered by violinist, Sarah Saviet with pianist, Joseph Houston.  

Also on the programme, Helen Grimes’s virtuosic, high energy and expressively nuanced Limina played by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conducted Catherine Larsen-Maguire, and to end tonight's programme Tom marks the centenary of the birth of Iannis Xenakis with La Légende d’Eer, a 45-minute long electro-acoustic tone-poem, designed for the opening of Centre Pompidou in Paris.

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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