Pre-Hear
Companion programme to Hear and Now, the contemporary music showcase, offering more of the best new music
Pre-Hear - 01/03/2008
Johannes Kalitzke conducts the BBC SO in two contrasting works for orchestra by Australian Liza Lim and Karen Tanaka from Japan. Tanaka: Guardian Angel. Lim: The Tree of Life.
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Pre-Hear - 03/01/2009
In an invitation concert from the BBC's Maida Vale studios, the Arditti Quartet give the world premiere performance of Michael Rosenzweig's Second String Quartet, a BBC commission.
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Pre-Hear - 03/05/2008
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Kenneth Young perform Lyell Cresswell's Concerto for Orchestra and String Quartet.
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Pre-Hear - 03/10/2009
Solo and orchestral music by three American composers across two generations: Evan Ziporyn, David Lang and William Bolcom.
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Pre-Hear - 04/04/2009
Chamber works by Jonathan Harvey, James MacMillan and Osvaldo Golijov, and including the first performance of a BBC commission by Anthony Payne.
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Pre-Hear - 05/04/2008
BBC NOW/Diego Masson/Grant Llewellyn. Beethoven: Overture (Die Weihe des Hauses). Downie: forms 6: event aggregates for orchestra. Goehr: Fugue on the notes of the fourth psalm.
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Pre-Hear - 06/06/2009
Two works by British composers with unusual approaches to symphonic repertoire. John White's 5th Symphony is for six players and Richard Ayres' No37b is a symphony in all but title.
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Pre-Hear - 06/12/2008
Stephen Layton conducts the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, in a performance of Pawel Lukaszewski's O Antiphons.
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Pre-Hear - 07/06/2008
Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in two contrasting works by Judith Weir exploring the theme of heaven and earth. Weir: Forest; Moon and Star.
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Pre-Hear - 08/12/2007
Petri Sakari conducts the BBC NOW in Vasks' Viatore for string orchestra, plus cellist David Geringas joins them for Tuur's Concerto for cello and orchestra.
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Pre-Hear - 09/02/2008
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales play works by Downie and Holloway. Downie: forms 6: event aggregates for orchestra. Holloway: Scenes from Schumann - 7 paraphrases for orchestra.
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Pre-Hear - 09/08/2008
Martyn Brabbins conducts Rolf Hind (piano) and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Per Norgard's Concerto in due tempi for orchestra.
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Pre-Hear - 11/07/2009
Pianist Ian Brown on Benjamin's Piano figures and the BBCSSO, under Ilan Volkov, on Knussen's Concerto for violin and orchestra, with soloist Elizabeth Layton.
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Pre-Hear - 16/02/2008
Featuring a touching elegy by young British composer Joe Duddell, written in memory of two school friends. Duddell: The Realside. BBC Singers/James Morgan.
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Pre-Hear - 17/01/2009
The Herold Quartet perform Vaclav Zahradnik: String Quartet No 2 in D.
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Pre-Hear - 20/09/2008
Featuring James MacMillan's Sinfonietta, performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, with the composer conducting.
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Pre-Hear - 20/12/2008
Pegasus conducted by Matthew Altham in contemporary Christmas-themed choral music by Elizabeth Poston, Richard Allain and Morten Lauridsen.
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Pre-Hear - 21/03/2009
The Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra conducted by Juha Kangass perform Per Norgard's Fugitive Summer and Constellations.
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Pre-Hear - 22/11/2008
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Carlos Kalmar perform Donhanyi's Konzertstucke in D for cello and orchestra, Op 12, with Alban Gerhardt (cello).
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Pre-Hear - 23/02/2008
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Pierre-Andre Valade perform Scottish composer Jennifer Martin's Hearing Pictures.
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Pre-Hear - 24/01/2009
Featuring the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Valery Gergiev, and Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin) performing Gubaidulina: In tempus praesens.
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Pre-Hear - 24/11/2007
Ilan Volkov conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Cresswell's The Voice Inside, with violinist Elizabeth Layton and soprano Julie Moffat.
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Pre-Hear - 25/10/2008
The BBC Symphony Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin perform Britten's Sinfonia da requiem, Op 20 and Mark-Anthony Turnage's Your Rockaby, with saxophonist Martin Robertson.
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Pre-Hear - 27/02/2010
Featuring pieces by British composer Joe Cutler. Music for cello and strings. Robin Michael (cello), BBC Concert Orchestra/Charles Hazlewood. Clavinola Music. Mary Dullea (piano).
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Pre-Hear - 27/10/2007
Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra with soprano Catherine Bott in Joe Duddell's Not Waving But Drowning.
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Pre-Hear - 28/03/2009
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Robert Spano perform Golijov: Last Round for strings (1996) and Michael Gandolfi: The Garden of Cosmic Speculation for orchestra.
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Pre-Hear - 28/11/2009
Music with an electronic edge for piano and ensemble by Michael Edwards and Tristan Murail. Edwards: For Magda Cordell. Murail: Treize couleurs du soleil couchant.
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Pre-Hear - 29/09/2007
The BBC NOW conducted by Petri Sakari perform Lindberg's Campana with horn player David Pyatt, and Rautavaara's Symphony No 8 (The Journey).
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Pre-Hear - 29/11/2008
The BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Stephen Jackson perform Vaughan Williams's Hodie - a Christmas masterwork using texts from the Bible, Milton and Thomas Hardy.
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Pre-Hear - 29/11/2008
The Phoenix Chorale under Charles Bruffy perform Jean Belmont Ford's Electa for choir, timpano and bass drum.
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Pre-Hear - 30/08/2008
Featuring choral and instrumental music by Chinese emigre composers Chen Yi and Raymond Liu. Odaline de la Martinez conducts Lontano and the BBC Singers.
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Pre-Hear - 31/05/2008
Another chance to hear part of a concert given at the Usher Hall during the 2002 Edinburgh International Festival. MacRae: Sleep at the Feet of Daphne. MacMillan: Symphony No 2.
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Pre-Hear - Albert Schnelzer
Two works from a new CD by Swedish composer Albert Schnelzer: Frozen Landscape; Predatory Dances. With Tobias Ringborn (violin), Claes Gunnarsson (cello), Francisca Skoogh (piano).
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Pre-Hear - Anthony Payne, Anthony Gilbert, Judith Weir
Music by British composers. Anthony Payne: The Stones and Lonely Places Sing. Anthony Gilbert: ... Into the Gyre of a Madder Dance. Judith Weir: Piano Concerto.
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Pre-Hear - Australian Instrumental Music
Solo and chamber music by four Australian composers: Ross Edwards, Mark Pollard, Carl Vine and Peter Sculthorpe, whose 80th birthday falls in 2009.
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Pre-Hear - Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Bedford: Or voit tout en aventure. Claire Booth (soprano), Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/Oliver Knussen. Donatoni: Cloches. Birmingham Contemporary Music Group/Diego Masson.
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Pre-Hear - Cage/Feldman/Tenney
Music by three pioneering figures in American contemporary music of the mid-20th century: John Cage, Morton Feldman and James Tenney.
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Pre-Hear - Chansons Francaises
Chansons Francaises: Recorded at London's Little Venice Festival, the BBC Singers and conductor David Hill perform choral music by Poulenc, Ravel, Berkeley, Milhaud and Salvador.
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Pre-Hear - Choral music by Judith Bingham
The BBC Singers conducted by David Hill perform choral music by Judith Bingham, including Gleams of a Remoter World.
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Pre-Hear - Dutilleux
Two works by French composer Henri Dutilleux: Three Preludes for solo piano from 1973-1988 (soloist - Robert Levin); The Shadows of Time. Boston Symphony Orchestra/Seiji Ozawa.
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Pre-Hear - Ensemble 10/10
Clark Rundell conducts Ensemble 10/10 in Martland: Reveille for ensemble. Pratt: Double Act. David Horne: Phantom instruments. Graham Fitkin: Subterfuge (Hilary Browning - cello).
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Pre-Hear - Italian Music for Voices, Pianos and Percussion
The Exaudi vocal ensemble directed by James Weeks sings works by Gesualdo, Sciarrino and Scelsi, and a variety of hands play Aldo Clementi's curiously fascinating piano pieces.
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Pre-Hear - Jonathan Harvey, Simon Holt, Julian Anderson
Music by British composers. Harvey: Marahi. Les Jeunes Solistes/Richard Safir. Holt: Feet of Clay. Ulrich Heinen (cello). Anderson: Stations of the Sun. BBC SO/Oliver Knussen.
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Pre-Hear - Laurence Crane, Howard Skempton and Michael Finnissy
Music by composers Laurence Crane, Howard Skempton and Michael Finnissy, whose music represents a particular seam in English music, distinct from the European modernist mainstream.
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Pre-Hear - Laurence Crane, Michael Nyman
Music by two composers associated with the English experimentalist tradition: Laurence Crane's enigmatic miniatures, followed by Michael Nyman's personal brand of minimalism.
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Pre-Hear - Lumsdaine/Grange
Peter Wiegold directs the music ensemble Gemini in works by David Lumsdaine and Philip Grange, recorded in London in 2007. Lumsdaine: Mandala III. Grange: A Puzzle of Shadows.
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Pre-Hear - Music for Viola and Orchestra
Music featuring the viola. Thomas Larcher: Still, for viola and chamber orchestra (soloist Kim Kashkashian). Morton Feldman: The Viola in My Life IV (soloist Marek Konstantynowicz).
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Pre-Hear - New Music Recorded in Ireland
Pieces from Klaas de Vries, Frederic Rzewski and Donnacha Dennehy are performed by pianist Joanna MacGregor, featuring the Ulster and RTE National Symphony orchestras.
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Pre-Hear - Nigel Osborne, Adrian Jack
Two chamber works - Nigel Osborne's trio The Piano Tuner played by the Fidelio Trio, and Adrian Jack's Sixth String Quartet performed by the Arditti Quartet.
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Pre-Hear - Odaline de la Martinez
Music by Cuban-born composer and conductor Odaline de la Martinez, who founded her new music group Lontano 35 years ago, opening performance channels for composers across the board.
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Pre-Hear - Peter Sculthorpe
Two works by Australian veteran composer Peter Sculthorpe, who turned 80 in 2009: Kakadu and Mangrove, performed by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra conducted by Stuart Challender.
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Pre-Hear - Piano Music from Japan
Hiroaki Takenouchi performs piano music from Japan with connections to the world of visual art: Dai Fujikura's moromoro for piano and tape, and Toru Takemitsu's Les yeux clos II.
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Pre-Hear - Pierrot Lunaire
Arnold Schoenberg's fantastical expressionist monodrama Pierrot Lunaire in a performance given in St Peter's Church, Canterbury as part of the 2010 Sounds New Festival.
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Pre-Hear - Rain
Musical evocations of rain: Toru Takemitsu: Rain Coming. Judith Weir: The Welcome Arrival of Rain. Barry Guy: After the Rain.
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Pre-Hear - Rolf Hind/Murail
Rolf Hind performs Tristan Murail's 1977 piano solo Territoires de l'oubli, a work built from the instrument's natural resonances and recorded at the BBC's Total Immersion weekend.
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Pre-Hear - The Death of Balder
The Death of Balder: A choral re-telling of the 12th-century saga in which a Norse god is killed by a dart. Hughes: The Death of Balder. James Morgan conducts the BBC Singers.
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Pre-Hear - The Four Sections
Steve Reich's 1987 score The Four Sections is performed by the orchestra that gave the UK premiere in 1988 - the London Symphony Orchestra under Michael Tilson Thomas.
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Pre-Hear - Trios from Austria
Music from Austria by Arnold Schoenberg and Johannes Maria Staud: Verklaerte Nacht in a version for piano trio and Staud's Sydenham Music, for flute, viola and harp.
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Pre-Hear - Widman - Violin Concerto
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov, with Christian Tetzlaff, perform the Violin Concerto by Munich-born composer Jorg Widman.
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