Hear and Now

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents the first of two programmes of music from this year's Aldeburgh Festival. Artistic Director Thomas Ades conducts the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group in a concert that explores the music of composers Gyorgy Kurtag and Gyorgy Ligeti, as well as Gerald Barry's view of Beethoven and Ades's own instrumental fantasy Living Toys. Birmingham Contemporary Music Group: Natalia Zagorinskaia (soprano) Katalin Karolyi (mezzo-soprano) Stephen Richardson (bass) Thomas Ades (conductor) Ligeti: Sippal, Dobbal, Nadihegeduvel (with pipes, drums and fiddles) Gerald Barry: Beethoven Ades: Living Toys Gyorgy Kurtag: Messages of the Late Miss RV Troussova.