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New Music from Witten

Tom McKinney presents music from the 2018 Witten Days for New Chamber Music festival in Germany.

Tom McKinney presents music from 2018 Witten Days for New Chamber Music Festival
Every year musicians and music lovers from all around the world gather in the Germany city of Witten for this international festival of contemporary music.
Since 1969, the festival Witten Days for New Chamber Music has been setting the mark for what is new in contemporary music and has become a meeting point for avant-garde music, connoisseurs and music lovers. For the past five decades many important musical works have been heard in Witten for the very first time.

1 hour, 30 minutes

Music Played

  • Ashley Fure

    A Library on Lightning

    Ensemble: Klangforum Wien. Conductor: Emilio Pomàrico.
  • Vito Žuraj

    Tension

    Ensemble: Klangforum Wien. Conductor: Emilio Pomàrico.
  • Mark André

    Selig sind

    Performer: Jörg Widmann.
  • Gordon Kampe

    Fat-finger Error

    Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mariano Chiaccharini.

Broadcast

  • Sat 11 Aug 2018 22:30

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