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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: The Exotica Album

The Exotica Album

BBC Radio 3 - New Music Show, The Exotica Album

New music from Øyvind Torvund, Scott Wilson and Sara Caneva

Kate Molleson with music from Øyvind Torvund, Scott Wilson and Sara Caneva plus the latest new releases

Kate Molleson with the latest new music releases, live recordings and interviews. This week we hear more from the Ligeti Quartet's concert with Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre, given at Birmingham University last month and including works by Sara Caneva and BEAST's director and curator of this concert, Scott Wilson.  From a concert given at Glasgow's City Halls in February, Ilan Volkov conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Øyvind Torvund's The Exotica Album, an affectionate tribute to 1950s pop exoticism.  And from Slovenia we hear two pieces from a concert of new music for trumpet and electronics, plus the latest releases from 12 Ensemble, Zwerm and a re-issue of Alice Coltrane, live at Carnegie Hall in 1971.

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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