Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2007 [Hear And Now]

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0120080105Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2007

Sara Mohr Pietsch and Robert Worby introduce highlights from the festival.

1/5. The programme includes music from two Dutch ensembles, and festival director Graham McKenzie talks about the year's Dutch theme and the opening event of the festival, The Night of the Unexpected.

Misato Mochizuki: Silent Circle

Mayke Nas: La Belle Chocolati耀re

Nieuw Ensemble

Ed Spanjaard (conductor)

Brice Pauset: Vita Nova (s退r退nades)

Irvine Arditti (violin)

Thomas Simaku: Insomnio

James Wood: De telarum mechanicae (On the mechanics of weaving)

Ulrich P怀hl.

Festival director Graham McKenzie talks about this year's Dutch theme.

Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and sessions

0220080112Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2007

Sara Mohr Pietsch and Robert Worby introduce highlights from the festival.

2/5. This programme focuses on the 2007 festival's composer-in-residence Yannis Kyriakides, in his roles as concert hall composer, creator of extended and more theatrical works, and artistic director of the ensemble MAE.

Kyriakides: Leger Demain

Reinier van Houdt

Yannis Kyriakides (conductor)

Kyriakides: Zeimbekiko 1918; Dreams of the Blind

Robert Ashley: Tap Dancing in the Sand

Robert Ashley (conductor).

With music by the 2007 festival's composer-in-residence Yannis Kyriakides.

Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and sessions

0320080119Huddersfield 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)

Etienne Siebens (conductor)

Birtwistle: Orpheus Elegies

Andrew Watts (countertenor)

Harvey: Sprechgesang

Peter Veale (oboe)

Hayden: Die Modularitaten (Modularities)

Sam Hayden (conductor).

With music by Rebecca Saunders, Harrison Birtwistle, Jonathan Harvey and Sam Hayden.

Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and sessions

0420080126Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2007

Robert Worby introduces highlights from the festival.

4/5. Featuring music from Ensemble Mosaik and highlights of Ensemble MAE's concert focusing on the work of the pioneering American composer Robert Ashley.

Robert Ashley: Hidden Similarities; Outcome Inevitable.

Robert Ashley (conductor)

Sandoval: Mosaicos

Carlos Sandoval (conductor)

Finnendahl: Schnitt/Stelle (version 4)

Orm Finnendahl (conductor)

Wertmueller: DECORPOREAL

Michael Wertmueller (conductor)

Robert Ashley: Love is a Good Example

With music by Robert Ashley, Carlos Sandoval, Orm Finnendahl and Michael Wertmueller.

Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and sessions