Cowboys, moths, birds and a long distance runner
Music inspired by the disappearing natural world, a dusty street in a cowboy film and the loneliness of a long-distance runner.
The New Music Show presented by Tom Service.
Kate Molleson introduces the world premiere performance of Michael Gordon's latest choral work, a nod to American cowboy movies where the town marshal meets the bad guys. There's also one of Heiner Goebbels's scenic concerts, this one based on Franz Kafka texts on ageing and mortality. Leo Chadburn introduces seventy British common moth species and Cassie To explores a disappearing natural world in a chamber work inspired by the songs of five Australian bird species in danger of being silenced for ever. And the programme ends with a meditation on the loneliness of the long distance runner.
Heiner Goebbels: The Excursion into the Mountains
Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier (conductor)
Cassie To: Avialae (for flute,clarinet, cello, percussion and piano)
Ensemble Offspring
Leo Chadburn: The Indistinguishables for narrator and string quartet
Gemma Saunders (narrator), Bozzini Quartet
Sound of the Week: Hollie Harding talks about a sound that has inspired her work as a composer, researcher and curator of contemporary music.
Michael Gordon: A Western (world premiere)
Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier (conductor)
Tristan Murail: Tellur
Sam Cave (guitar)
Laurence Crane: Piano Piece no.23 'Ethiopian Distance Runners'
Mark Knoop (piano)
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Heiner Goebbels
The Excursion into the Mountains
Lyricist: Franz Kafka. Choir: Theatre of Voices. Conductor: Paul Hillier. -
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Cassie To
Avialae (for flute,clarinet, cello, percusssion and piano)
Ensemble: Ensemble Offspring.- Offspring Bites 2.
- Ensemble Offspring.
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Leo Chadburn
The Indistinguishables for narrator and string quartet
Ensemble: Bozzini Quartet. Narrator: Gemma Saunders. -
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Sarah-Jane Summers
Petrichor
Performer: Sarah-Jane Summers.- Kalopsia.
- Eighth Nerve Audio.
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Sarah-Jane Summers
Susurrus
Performer: Sarah-Jane Summers.- Kalopsia.
- Eighth Nerve Audio.
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Hollie Harding
Melting, Shifting Liquid World
Performer: Nic Pendlebury. Ensemble: Trinity Laban String Ensemble. -
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Michael Gordon
A Western
Choir: Theatre of Voices. Conductor: Paul Hillier. -
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Tristan Murail
Tellur
Performer: Sam Cave.- Refracted Resonance: Contemporary music for Guitar.
- 惭茅迟颈别谤.
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Laurence Crane
Piano Piece no.23 'Ethiopian Distance Runners'
Performer: Mark Knoop.
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- Sat 21 Sep 2019 22:00成人快手 Radio 3
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