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20th Century RadicalsEpisodes

  1. 01/02/2026

    Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century.

  2. Halim El-Dabh: A life of vibration

    Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century.

  3. Helmut Lachenmann: The Beauty of Decay

    Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century.

  4. Henry Cowell: Shock, scandal and the New York subway

    Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century.

  5. Betsy Jolas: language, breath, and living sound

    Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century

  6. Daphne Oram: Nature and machine are one

    Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century

  7. A Very Christmas Radical: Jonathan Harvey

    Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century

  8. Tristan Murail: the birth and death of sounds

    Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century.

  9. Anthony Braxton: Agency and ancestry

    Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century.

  10. Ustvolskaya: Brutality, extremity and God

    Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century

  11. Talib Hakim: Incantation and awakening

    Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century.

  12. The Two Pierres: War as creator, machine as musician

    Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century.

  13. Milton Babbitt: Strictly systematic structuring of sounds

    Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century.

  14. Luciano Berio: Adventures with the human voice

    Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century

  15. Harry Partch: Ancient Greece, carpentry and hearing between the lines

    Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century.

  16. György Ligeti: Complexity, alienation, horror

    Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century

  17. György Kurtág: Brevity, intensity and the past

    Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century.

  18. Luigi Nono: Revolutionary song, and the retreat into sound

    Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century.

  19. John Cage: rhythm over melody, and the I Ching

    Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century.

  20. Witold Lutoslawski: fate, struggle and controlling chance

    Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century.

  21. Harrison Birtwistle: ritual and the ancient past

    Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century.

  22. Knussen: A God of small things

    Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century.

  23. Radigue: The slow search for sound within sound

    Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century

  24. Eastman: sexuality, race and repetition

    Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century

  25. Cardew: Democracy and U-turns

    Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century.

  26. Schoenberg: Breaking harmony

    Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century.

  27. Feldman: Tactile listening and surface tension

    Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century

  28. Gubaidulina: Religious Rebel

    Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century

  29. Xenakis: Birds, Buildings and the Horror of War

    Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century

  30. Kagel: Magic Realism, With Added Pepper

    Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century.

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