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Elision Ensemble at the 2011 City of London Festival

Duration:
1 hour, 30 minutes
First broadcast:
Saturday 27 August 2011

Hear and Now goes "Down Under" with a concert from this year's Antipodean-themed City of London Festival featuring the Australian-based Elision Ensemble. Their programme, recorded last month, includes works by some of Australia's leading composers.
There's also the second of two reports from Australian broadcaster Julian Day on cutting-edge Australian composers and new-music performers who are living and working in Europe.
Presenter Ivan Hewett is joined in the studio by Daryl Buckley, artistic director of Elision Ensemble.

Michael Finnissy: Aijal

Liza Lim: Invisibility

David Lumsdaine: Kangaroo Hunt

John Rodgers: Amor (from Inferno)

Percy Grainger: Random Round

Elision Ensemble

Michael Finnissy: Red Earth
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor).

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