30/07/2022
Tom Service presents the latest in new music performance, with a focus on Alexander Goehr, including an in-depth interview and the world premiere of his work The Master Said.
Tom Service presents the latest in new music performance, with a focus on Alexander Goehr. Goehr has been a leading figure in new music over a career of some 70 years, and this programme will include Robert Worby's in-depth interview with him as well as world premiere performances of recent works - The Queen of Sheba, a setting of texts by James Joyce and The Master Said, a half hour meditation on the transmission of ideas, music, and culture performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wale and conductor Catherine Larsen-Maguire. In the first half of the programme music from the recent Music and Maths Festival in Birmingham, including new works by Sergio Luque and Emily Howard.
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Alexander Goehr
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Performer: Richard Hosford. Performer: Alasdair Beatson. Singer: Héloïse Werner.![]()
Sergio Luque
It Is Happening Again
Performer: Sergio Luque.![]()
Emily Howard
Compass
Ensemble: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. Conductor: Gabriella Teychenné.![]()
Madeleine Cocolas
And then I watch it fall apart
- Spectral.
- Room40.
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Julian Anderson
Another Prayer
Performer: Benjamin Nabarro.![]()
Alexander Goehr
The Master Said Op.99
Performer: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Narrator: Mark Lewis Jones. Conductor: Catherine Larsen-Maguire.
Broadcast
- Sat 30 Jul 202222:00BBC Radio 3
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