New Music Show

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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: under_current

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BBC Radio 3 - New Music Show, under_current

Including music by Stefan Prins, Alissa Firsova and Garth Knox.

Music recorded in live in concert in Glasgow and Manchester, including Stefan Prins's under_current and Alissa Firsova's song-symphony Spell of Creation with contralto Jess Dandy.

Music recorded live in concert in Glasgow and Manchester, including Stefan Prins's under_current for electric guitar and orchestra which, begun in the first wave of the Pandemic, he calls his 'corona baby', a 'refuge, a house from which I could react on what’s happening beyond its walls, in which I could live and breathe freely, without masks or distancing.'  Setting Dylan Thomas, William Blake, Tennyson and Kathleen Raine, Alissa Firsova's 'Spell of Creation' advocates human harmony with the earth. And two young Colombian composers, Natalia Valencia and Santiago Lozano, react to grisly historical and contemporary events. 

Tom Service presents.

Garth Knox: Cinq Petites Entropies: 2. Parade &  3. Pluie 				      
Garth Knox (viola d’amore)

Alissa Firsova: Spell of Creation								
Jess Dandy (contralto)
BBC Philharmonic/Vimbayi Kaziboni 

Santiago Lozano: La pieza faltante (The missing piece)					
Ligeti Quartet

Stefan Prins: under_current 								
Yaron Deutsch (electric guitar)
BBC Scottish Symphpny Orchestra
Ilan Volkov (conductor) 

Natalia Valencia: Canción de cuna para los niños muertos (Lullaby for Dead Children)	
Ligeti Quartet

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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