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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: 18/02/2023

18/02/2023

BBC Radio 3 - New Music Show, 18/02/2023

Performances of new works by Greg Caffrey, Ed Bennett and Anselm McDonnell.

The latest in new music performance, including works by Greg Caffrey, Ed Bennett and Anselm McDonnell, played by the Ulster Orchestra and conducted by David Brophy.

Kate Molleson introduces recent performances by the Ulster Orchestra with conductor David Brophy, recorded last month at the Ulster Hall in Belfast:  Anselm McDonnell’s “Coruscate” which means bursts of lights; Ed Bennett’s “Freefalling” which is based on Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner's world record-breaking freefall jump in 2012 from an altitude of 39 kilometres; and Craig Ogden is the soloist in the premiere of Greg Caffrey’s “Environments II” a work written for solo guitar, strings and percussion.  Also on the programme, Splinters of Ebullient Rebellion, by the Swedish composer, Malin Bång and new releases by Pierre-Yves Martel, Elsa Bergman and Úna Monaghan.

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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