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Radio 3's Fifty Modern Classics Episodes

  1. Hans Abrahamsen's Winternacht

    Author Paul Griffiths singles out this early work for ensemble by Danish composer Hans...

  2. Gyorgy Ligeti's Atmospheres

    Film-maker Sophie Fiennes explains why she chose Gy枚rgy Ligeti's Atmosph猫res for the...

  3. Gyorgy Kurtag's Officium Breve

    Critic and Hear and Now presenter Ivan Hewett nominates Hungarian composer Gyorgy in...

  4. Giacinto Scelsi's Ygghur

    Cellist Frances-Marie Uitti celebrates the music of Giacinto Scelsi, the Italian from...

  5. Gerard Grisey's Partiels

    Composer Julian Anderson singles out Partiels for orchestra, from French spectralist...

  6. Gerald Barry's Piano Quartet No.1

    Composer Anna Meredith nominates Gerald Barry's "bold and daring" Piano Quartet No.

  7. George Crumb's Black Angels

    Violinist David Harrington celebrates George Crumb's groundbreaking 1970 work for - to...

  8. George Benjamin's At First Light

    Gillian Moore champions George Benjamin鈥檚 early orchestral score At First Light, its...

  9. Gavin Bryars's Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet

    Gavin Bryars's mould-breaking 1971 score Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet is a work a...

  10. Galina Ustvolskaya's Octet

    Composer and writer Gerard McBurney nominates the austere and uncompromising Octet by...

  11. Elliott Carter's String Quartet No.3

    Novelist and poet Mark Haddon explains what it is about Elliott Carter's String No...

  12. Eliane Radigue's Songs of Milarepa

    Author and journalist Rob Young nominates French composer Eliane Radigue's Songs of of...

  13. Edgard Varese's Poeme electronique

    Composer and former Battles frontman Tyondai Braxton nominates Poeme electronique by a...

  14. Cornelius Cardew's The Great Learning

    Pianist and Scratch Orchestra member John Tilbury speaks up for The Great Learning by...

  15. Conlon Nancarrow's Study No.21

    Stephen Fry describes his delight and bewilderment at first hearing Conlon Nancarrow's...

  16. Claude Vivier's Lonely Child

    The soprano Barbara Hannigan celebrates Claude Vivier鈥檚 profoundly moving work for...

  17. Brian Ferneyhough's Bone Alphabet

    Percussionist Steven Schick recalls how a chance meeting with Brian Ferneyhough led to...

  18. Bernhard Lang's Differenz/Wiederholung 2

    Composer Matthew Shlomowitz makes the case for Austrian composer Bernhard Lang鈥檚 2,...

  19. Arvo Part's Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten

    Roxanna Panufnik nominates Arvo Part's Cantus In Memoriam Benjamin Britten, simple and...

  20. Alvin Lucier's I am sitting in a room

    Sound artist Kaffe Matthews on Alvin Lucier鈥檚 I am sitting in a room and how it鈥檚...

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