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Robert Worby and Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduce highlights from the 2016 Huddersfield Festival, including music by Rebecca Saunders, Michael Cutting, Jennifer Walshe and Xenakis.

Robert Worby and Sara Mohr-Pietsch with highlights from the 2016 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival including music from Rebecca Saunders and Jennifer Walshe.

The Austrian-based contemporary chamber orchestra Klangforum Wien made a welcome return to Huddersfield this year with a new work from Rebecca Saunders - "Skin" - which was inspired, in part, by the work of Samuel Beckett. Also in tonight's programme, an exciting collaboration between composer/vocalist Jennifer Walshe and the Arditti Quartet; highlights from a recital given by pianist Richard Uttley; and a look at the innovative work of the Stone Orchestra who create new instruments (lithophones) to examine relationships between music and stone.

Photo (c)Robert Worby

Including:

Rebecca Saunders: Skin (UK Premiere)
Juliet Fraser (soprano)
Klangforum Wien

Michael Cutting: I AM STRANGE (World Premiere)
Richard Uttley (piano)

Chaya Czernowin: fardanceCLOSE
Richard Uttley (piano)

Jennifer Walshe: Everything Is Important (UK Premiere)
Jennifer Walshe (voice)
Arditti Quartet

Iannis Xenakis: Keren
Frederic Belli (trombone).

2 hours

Music Played

  • Rebecca Saunders

    Skin

    Ensemble: Klangforum Wien. Singer: Juliet Fraser. Conductor: Titus Engel.
    • Donaueshinger Musiktage 2016.
    • Neos.
    • 1.
  • Michael Cutting

    I am strange loop V

    Performer: Richard Uttley.
  • Chaya Czernowin

    fardanceCLOSE

    Performer: Richard Uttley.
  • Jennifer Walshe

    EVERYTHING IS IMPORTANT

  • Iannis Xenakis

    Keren

    Performer: Frederic Belli. Ensemble: Hannover Trombone Unit.

Broadcast

  • Sat 17 Dec 2016 22:00

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