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New Year New Music - Tansy Davies

As part of the New Year New Music season, composer Tansy Davies, whose opera Between Worlds recently premiered at the Barbican, presents a personal choice of music.

As part of the New Year New Music season, composer Tansy Davies, whose opera Between Worlds was recently premiered at the Barbican, presents a personal choice of music. Her choices include pieces by her former composition teacher, Simon Bainbridge, and by Gerald Barry, Joe Cutler, George Benjamin and György Ligeti. The programme also includes the first broadcast of her own piano concerto, Nature.

1 hour, 58 minutes

Last on

Sat 2 Jan 2016 13:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Simon Bainbridge

    Concertante In Moto Perpetuo

    Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Ensemble: Simon Bainbridge Ensemble. Conductor: Simon Bainbridge.
    • NMC : NMCD126.
    • NMC.
    • 4.

  • Gerald Barry

    Piano Quartet No. 1

    Performer: Noriko Kawai. Ensemble: Nua Nos. Conductor: Dairine Ni Mheadhra.
    • Gerald Barry.
    • NMC.
    • 1.

  • Salvatore Sciarrino

    Caprice no. 2

    Performer: Aisha Orazbayeva.
    • Outside.
    • Nonclassical.
    • 13.

  • Rolf Wallin

    Act

    Performer: Jaap van Zweden. Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • ONDINE : ODE 1118-2.
    • ONDINE.
    • 1.

  • George Benjamin

    Upon Silence

    Singer: Susan Bickley. Ensemble: Fretwork. Conductor: George Benjamin.
    • NIMBUS : NI-5505.
    • NIMBUS.
    • 1.

  • Joe Cutler

    Sikorski B

    Ensemble: Noszferatu.
    • NMC : NMCD166.
    • NMC.
    • 6.

  • Cassandra Miller

    Warblework: Swainson's Thrush

    Ensemble: Bozzini Quartet.
    • COLLECTION : QB CQB 1113.
    • COLLECTION.
    • 1.

  • Thomas Larcher

    Two songs from A Padmore Cycle

    • What Becomes.
    • Harmonia mundi.
    • 25.

  • Tansy Davies

    Nature, Piano Concerto

    Performer: Huw Watkins. Ensemble: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group.

  • Hans Abrahamsen

    Schnee, Canon 1a

    Ensemble: Recherche Ensemble.
    • WDR : 3 9101592.
    • WDR.
    • 1.

  • György Ligeti

    Hamburg Concerto

    Performer: Marie Luise Neunecker. Performer: Sybille Mahni. Performer: Simon Breyer. Performer: Thomas Bernstein. Performer: Ozan Cakar. Ensemble: Asko Ensemble. Conductor: Reinbert de Leeuw.
    • TELDEC : 8573-88263.
    • TELDEC.
    • 1.

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