Hear and Now - BBC SSO, Skempton, Cardew, Wolff, Feldman

Robert Worby presents a concert from Glasgow featuring four composers who rose to prominence in the 1960s: Feldman and Wolff in the "New York School", while in England, Cardew and Skempton founded the Scratch Orchestra. Howard Skempton: Lento Cornelius Cardew: Bun no. 1 Christian Wolff: Spring Morton Feldman: Piano and Orchestra John Tilbury (piano) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov Also in this programme, a review of recent CD releases of New Music. Album: Sounding Music Artists: AMM CD: Matchless Recordings MRCD77 Album: Old School/John Cage Artists: Zeitkratzer CD: zeitkratzer records zkr 0009 Album: Music for Piano and Strings by Morton Feldman Artists: The Smith Quartet with John Tilbury DVD: Matchless Recordings MRDVD-01