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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: Fragments and Sounding Change from Ukraine

Fragments and Sounding Change from Ukraine

BBC Radio 3 - New Music Show, Fragments and Sounding Change from Ukraine

Tom Service presents more of the best in new music performance.

Tom Service presents music by Kaija Saariaho and Tristan Murail performed by Wales's new music ensemble, Uproar. Composer Natalia Tsypryk talks about composing in Ukraine.

Tom Service presents the best in new music performance. This week's programme includes live recordings from Wales’s new music ensemble, Uproar - recorded earlier this year at Galeri Caernarfon and including Kaija Saariaho’s Lichtbogen, which was inspired by the Northern Lights, and Tristan Murail’s Winter Fragments. The Ivors Composer Awards are celebrating their twentieth anniversary and during the weeks leading up to an exclusive New Music Show dedicated to the awards on Saturday 19th November, we'll broadcast a work by a previous winner - this week, Skin by Rebecca Saunders. There are new releases of music by Kotoka Suzuki and John Luther Adams and this week's "Sounding Change" is presented by Natalia Tsypryk - a London based Ukrainian composer who talks about composition happening in Ukraine at the moment and about her own piece which she created using the sound of the air raid sirens she recorded in Kyiv this summer.

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