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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: B Tommy Andersson

B Tommy Andersson

BBC Radio 3 - New Music Show, B Tommy Andersson

The world premiere of B Tommy Andersson's oratorio Passio secundum Matthaeum.

Kate Molleson presents the world premiere of a major new work by Swedish composer B Tommy Andersson.

Kate Molleson presents the world premiere of Swedish composer B Tommy Andersson's Passio secundum Matthaeum, a modern oratorio inspired by the churches of Rome and with a text based on the Gospel of Matthew in the Latin Vulgate. The work is commissioned by the Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble together with nine parishes from around Sweden. 

Pia-Karin Helsing, soprano
Katarina Karnéus, mezzo
Anders Eriksson, barytone
Aaron Sunstein, organ

Erik Westberg’s Vocal Ensemble
Strings from the Norrbotten Chamber Orchestra
Conductor Erik Westberg

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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