Episode 2
Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby with highlights from 2009's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. With works by Matthew Shlomowitz, Emmanuel Nunes and Bill Thompson.
Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Robert Worby introduce further highlights of the 2009 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the UK's largest festival of new music.
Featuring two ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3 commissions: the Ictus Ensemble in the UK premiere of The Leuven Triptych, by one of the festival's featured composer; and James Dillon and Quatour Diotima in the world premiere of Theme Street Parade by the Australian composer Matthew Shlomowitz.
Robert also drops in to hear Bill Thompson's Shifting Currents; there is music from another of the festival's featured composers as Noriko Kawai gives the UK premiere of piano music by Emmanuel Nunes; and Philip Thomas talks us through his week-long performance of a piece by Michael Pisaro which explores the number Pi.
Matthew Shlomowitz: Theme Street Parade (³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3 commission; world premiere)
Quatour Diotima
Emmanuel Nunes: Litanies du feu et de la mer I
Noriko Kawai
Bill Thompson: Shifting Currents (excerpt)
James Dillon: The Leuven Triptych (³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3 commission: UK premiere)
Ictus Ensemble.
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- Sat 9 Jan 2010 23:00³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3
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