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John Cage

Robert Worby presents music by John Cage and Gyorgy Kurtag.

Robert Worby introduces music by John Cage, performed by Ilan Volkov with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, recorded as part of Glasgow's Merchant City Festival in July. And from the 2008 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Philip Thomas and Lore Lixenberg are the soloists in She Is Asleep, an early Cage work for voice, prepared piano and percussion. Plus in the latest instalment of the Hear and Now Fifty, Ivan Hewett nominates Hungarian composer Gyorgy Kurtag's Officium Breve in memoriam Andreae Szervanszky for string quartet. With commentary from writer Paul Griffiths.

John Cage: ear for EAR (Antiphonies); Concerto for Prepared Piano; Improvisation III

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and guest musicians
Ilan Volkov (conductor); John Tilbury (piano)

Gyorgy Kurtag: Officium Breve in memoriam Andreae Szervanszky
Keller Quartet

John Cage: She Is Asleep
Lore Lixenberg (voice); Philip Thomas (piano)
University of Huddersfield Percussion Ensemble.

1 hour, 25 minutes

Last on

Sat 15 Sep 201222:30
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

    ear for EAR (Antiphonies)

    Composer: John Cage Performed By: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov (conductor)

  • BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

    Concerto for Prepared Piano

    Composer: John Cage Performed By: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov (conductor); John Tilbury (piano)

  • BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

    Improvisation III

    Composer: John Cage Performed By: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ilan Volkov (conductor)

  • Keller Quartet

    Officium Breve in memoriam Andreae Szervanszky

    Composer: Gyorgy Kurtag Performed By: Keller Quartet

  • University of Huddersfield Percussion Ensemble

    She Is Asleep

    Composer: John Cage Performed By: University of Huddersfield Percussion Ensemble, Lore Lixenberg (voice); Philip Thomas (piano)

Broadcast

  • Sat 15 Sep 201222:30
    BBC Radio 3

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