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Witold Lutoslawski's Jeux Venitiens
Conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen celebrates the music of Polish composer and...
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Toru Takemitsu's Kwaidan
Writer and musician David Toop celebrates Toru Takemitsu's soundtrack for Masaki 1964...
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Terry Riley's In C
Singer and conductor Paul Hillier celebrates Terry Riley’s icon of musical and to of...
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Steve Reich's Different Trains
Matthew Herbert, songwriter and electronic music producer, reflects on the continuing...
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Schaeffer & Henry's Symphonie pour un homme seul
Hollywood sound designer and film editor Walter Murch nominates Symphonie pour un seul...
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Pierre Boulez's Le Marteau sans Maitre
Sir Harrison Birtwistle singles out Pierre Boulez's 1950s cycle for voice and mixed a...
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Philip Glass's Music in Twelve Parts
Composer Nico Muhly nominates Philip Glass's Music in Twelve Parts, a large-scale set...
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Peter Maxwell Davies's Eight Songs for a Mad King
Writer and critic Paul Driver explains why Maxwell Davies’s 8 Songs For A Mad King a...
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Per Norgard's Symphony No.2
Novelist and critic Philip Hensher makes the case for Per Norgard's Symphony No.
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Pauline Oliveros's V of IV
Composer and Hear and Now presenter Robert Worby singles out V of IV, an early work by...
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Olivier Messiaen's Chronochromie
Composer George Benjamin advocates the "exuberant, thrilling and virtuosic" orchestral...
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Morton Subotnick's Silver Apples of the Moon
Four Tet’s Kieran Hebden explains why Silver Apples of the Moon by the American out...
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Morton Feldman's Extensions 3
Howard Skempton singles out Extensions 3 by the American composer Morton Feldman, a he...
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Milton Babbitt's Philomel
Jazz pianist Ethan Iverson nominates Milton Babbitt's Philomel for soprano and tape,...
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Michael Nyman's The Draughtsman's Contract
Violinist Alexander Balanescu recounts his part in Michael Nyman's groundbreaking for...
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Luigi Nono's Al gran sole carico d'amore
Theatre director Katie Mitchell describes her first encounter with the music of Luigi...
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Luciano Berio's Sinfonia
Conductor Richard Bernas recalls his momentous first encounter with Berio's Sinfonia,...
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Louis Andriessen's De Staat
Dutch composer Michel van der Aa salutes compatriot Louis Andriessen's 1976 work for...
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Kevin Volans's White Man Sleeps
Choreographer Siobhan Davies nominates White Man Sleeps by the South African-born and...
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Karlheinz Stockhausen's Gruppen
Finnish conductor and music director of Ensemble InterContemporain Susanna Malkki pays...
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Jonathan Harvey's Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco
Film director Barrie Gavin selects Jonathan Harvey's Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco, an of...
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John Zorn's Carny
Critic and Hear and Now presenter Tom Service nominates American composer John Carny,...
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John Cage's 4'33"
Artist Tacita Dean on John Cage's legendary 4'33" and how it provided an inspiration...
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Jean Barraque's Chant apres chant
Pianist Nicolas Hodges nominates Jean Barraque's Chant apres chant, one of just a of...
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Igor Stravinsky's Requiem Canticles
Composer John Woolrich nominates Stravinsky's last completed work with orchestra,...
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Iannis Xenakis's Nomos Alpha
Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy explains how Iannis Xenakis uses the symmetry of a cube...
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Howard Skempton's Lento
Artist Tom Phillips on Howard Skempton's Lento for orchestra, a completely tonal piece...
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Helmut Lachenmann's Mouvement
Pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard champions the music of maverick German composer Helmut a...
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Heiner Goebbels's Surrogate Cities
Hear and Now presenter Sara Mohr-Pietsch celebrates the music of German composer on...
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Harrison Birtwistle's The Triumph of Time
Pianist Joanna MacGregor celebrates Harrison Birtwistle’s The Triumph of Time, an as...
