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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: Rolf Hind's Blue to the Throat for Elaine Mitchener

Rolf Hind's Blue to the Throat for Elaine Mitchener

BBC Radio 3 - New Music Show, Rolf Hind's Blue to the Throat for Elaine Mitchener

Cutting-edge and experimental new music in live performance, interviews and new releases.

The latest sounds from the world of new music, including the premiere of Rolf Hind's Blue to the Throat - eight movements for the singer Elaine Mitchener, exploring the throat.

Tom Service introduces some of the latest sounds from the world of new music, including the premiere of Rolf Hind's Blue to the Throat.

Rolf Hind’s new work Blue to the Throat is a sequence of eight movements for the singer Elaine Mitchener who performed it at Wigmore Hall with Apartment House. Each of the movements takes a different view from philosophy, poetry and nature of the idea of the throat from Catholic blessings of the throat, to Sanskrit and the natural world and an eloquent new poem by Dante Micheaux.  Also in the programme, Aftermath of the Overflow, the third of Giulia Monducci's Avenue works for large ensemble is performed by Klangforum WIen. And, amongst the new releases, is a celebration of the sounds of Greece from Spyros Polychronopoulos and Jannis Anastasakis.

Saariaho: Light and Matter
Red Note Ensemble

Blue to the Throat (2024) world première
Blessing, Strč Prst Skrz Krk, Whitethroat, The Syllables, Two Songs: Furnace of Bliss • Blue to the Throat, Cordhouse and Nodobotoke 
Elaine Mitchener (voice), Apartment House

Giulia Monducci: Avenue #3 / Aftermath of the Overflow	
Klangforum Wien, Lin Liao (conductor)

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