Radio 3's primary contemporary music programme, featuring live performances and studio sessions from the best new groups, and premiering works commissioned by the BBC
All available episodes (4 total)
Upcoming episodes (2 new)
Composers reveal the sounds that have captured their imaginations and inspired new music.
A user-friendly guide to a masterpiece of music’s post-War avant-garde.
Listen to Radio 3 broadcasts which break technological boundaries in sound.
Hear the incredible range of new music from 2017's festival, recorded in Hull and London.
Cut and Splice Festival returns, presented by Radio 3 and Sound and Music
Modern Muses is a major new series which focuses on composer-performer partnerships.
A series of conversations with composers in their workspaces.
Exploring the creative collaborations of the world’s leading composers and performers.
What sound inspires Thomas Larcher? That of rocks falling in the Tyrol.
The instrument inspired the composer and National guitarist's recent Piano Concerto
His piece 'Death of the Noise Artist' was premiered at Tectonics Festival in Glasgow
The sound recordist and composer talks about the gorgeous acoustics in Northumberland
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