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Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2007: 3/5. With music by Rebecca Saunders, Harrison Birtwistle, Jonathan Harvey and Sam Hayden. Plus the art of Christina Kubisch.

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2007

Sara Mohr Pietsch and Robert Worby introduce highlights from the festival

3/5. This programme features two German ensembles, Musikfabrik and Ensemble Mosaik, playing the music of four British composers, while the German artist Christina Kubisch talks us through her 'Electrical Walk'.

Saunders: Stirrings Still (world premiere)
Musikfabrik
Etienne Siebens (conductor)

Birtwistle: Orpheus Elegies
Andrew Watts (countertenor)
Musikfabrik

Harvey: Sprechgesang
Peter Veale (oboe)
Musikfabrik

Hayden: Die Modularitaten (Modularities)
Ensemble Mosaik
Sam Hayden (conductor).

1 hour, 45 minutes

Broadcast

  • Sat 19 Jan 2008 23:15

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