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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: Whorl Whirling Wings

Whorl Whirling Wings

BBC Radio 3 - New Music Show, Whorl Whirling Wings

The latest in new music, with works by Chiyoko Szlavnics, Leo Chadburn and Tansy Davies.

The latest in new music performance including works by Chiyoko Szlavnics, Leo Chadburn and Tansy Davies.

Kate Molleson introduces the premiere of Canadian composer Chiyoko Szlavnics's Whorl Whirling Wings for 6 voices and electronics, inspired by the writings of classics scholar Anne Carlson and performed by EXAUDI at this year's Witten Festival. With the Ivors Composer Awards celebrating its 20th anniversary there's a chance to hear a winning work from 2016, Leo Chadburn's Freezywater, based on 49 topographical features and places adjacent to the M25 motorway. New releases come from producers Klein and Kode9, and we hear Tansy Davies in conversation with Robert Worby as part of his ongoing series of composer interviews, including a complete broadcast of Davies's work Falling Angel, which takes its name from a painting by the German artist Anselm Kiefer.

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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