Hear and Now

Does music have to be composed, or can it be made up on the spot? Ed McKeon introduces new works that combine both approaches, recorded at festivals in Huddersfield and Sligo: Richard Barrett and fORCH: part of fOKT 6 Morla: This May Not Have Happened Morla and the Smith Quartet And from the Bangor New Music Festival, a fully-composed orchestral work that travels from Mozart's Requiem to an imagined Utopia: Pwyll ap-Sian: Gwales BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Grant Llewellyn.