Arditti Quartet - Sounds New Festival 2012
Ivan Hewett presents music by Brian Ferneyhough, Phillip Neil Martin, Harrison Birtwistle and Paul Max Edlin.
Ivan Hewett introduces a recording of the Arditti Quartet live in concert at the Sounds New festival of contemporary music in Canterbury. And in the latest instalment of the Hear and Now Fifty - celebrating modern classics from the late 20th-century - pianist Joanna MacGregor nominates Harrison Birtwistle's 1972 orchestral score The Triumph of Time, with commentary from writer Paul Griffiths.
Brian Ferneyhough: Exordium
Phillip Neil Martin: An Outburst of Time (part of the RPS/´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3 Encore project)
Arditti Quartet
Harrison Birtwistle: The Triumph of Time
Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Elgar Howarth
Paul Max Edlin: Frida Sketches (World premiere)
Arditti Quartet
The Encore project is a collaboration between the Royal Philharmonic Society and ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3 designed to give repeat performances and broadcasts of works by living British Composers which otherwise might be lost from view.
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Phillip Neil Martin
An Outburst of Time (RPS ENCORE selection) Duration: 11.00
Performers: Arditti Quartet
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Brian Ferneyhough
Exordium
Performers: Arditti Quartet
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Paul Max Edlin
Frida Sketches
Performers: Arditti Quartet
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Harrison Birtwistle
The Triumph of Time
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- Sat 2 Jun 2012 22:30´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3
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