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How to love new music

All noise and no tunes?

Why is contemporary classical music often thought of as hard work and how can we learn to love it?

With music from Beethoven to Birtwistle to Burna Boy and Stormzy, new music fan Tom Service has words of encouragement.

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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony no. 13 in F major K.112

    Performer: Prague Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Telarc.
    • 80273.

  • The Human League

    Don't You Want Me

    • VIRGIN.
    • CDV-2792.

  • Little Mix

    Oops (feat. Charlie Puth)

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Egmont - incidental music Op.84

    Conductor: Claudio Abbado. Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • DG.
    • 471627-2.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no. 5 in C minor Op.67

    Conductor: Osmo VΓ€nskΓ€. Performer: Minnesota Orchestra.
    • BIS.
    • SACD1825/26.

  • Richard Strauss

    Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche Op.28

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • ORFEO.
    • C878141A.

  • Franz Liszt

    A Faust symphony S.108 with optional male chorus

    Performer: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: IvΓ‘n Fischer.
    • Philips.
    • 454 460.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Tzigane - rapsodie de concert for violin and piano

    Performer: Claire DΓ©sert. Performer: Philippe Graffin.
    • avie.
    • AV2059.

  • Harrison Birtwistle

    Panic for saxophone, drums and orchestra

    Performer: John Harle. Performer: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davies.
    • ARGO.
    • 4521042.

  • Kaija Saariaho

    Graal theatre - concerto for violin and orchestra

    Performer: Gidon Kremer. Performer: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen.
    • sony.
    • G010001403109B.

  • Luciano Berio

    Sinfonia for 8 solo voices and orchestra vers. 1969 [5 movements]

    Performer: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA.
    • DECCA-4258322.

  • Iannis Xenakis

    Pleiades for percussion ensemble

    Performer: Kroumata Percussion Ensemble.
    • BIS.
    • CD-482.

  • Elisabeth Lutyens

    Quartet no. 6 Op.25 for strings

    Performer: Fanny Mendelssohn.
    • Trouba.
    • TROCD01418.

  • Elliott Carter

    Epigrams for piano trio

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras. Performer: Pierre‐Laurent Aimard.
    • Ondine.
    • ODE 1296-2.

  • Johann Pachelbel

    Canon and gigue in D major for 3 violins and continuo

    Performer: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Performer: Daniel Hope.
    • DG.
    • 4778094.

  • Iannis Xenakis

    Keqrops for piano and orchestra

    Performer: Roger Woodward. Performer: Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra.
    • DG.
    • 447 115-2.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Quartet in D major Op.64`5 (Lark) for strings

    Performer: Amadeus Quartet.
    • DG.
    • 439479-2.

  • Harrison Birtwistle

    Earth dances

    Performer: Nouvel Ensemble Moderne. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • DG.
    • 4770702.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no. 9 in D minor Op.125 (Choral)

    Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • DG 4690002.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mass in B minor BWV.232

    Performer: Dunedin Consort. Conductor: John Butt.
    • LINN.
    • CKD354.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo in A minor K.511 for piano

    Performer: Maria JoΓ£o Pires.
    • Brilliant Classics.
    • 94271.

  • Elisabeth Lutyens

    The Skull - music for the film

    Conductor: Jac van Steen. Performer: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra.
    • NMC.
    • NMCD073.

  • Helmut Lachenmann

    Mouvement - Vor der Erstarrung for ensemble

    Performer: Nouvel Ensemble Moderne. Conductor: PΓ©ter EΓΆtvΓΆs.
    • ECM.
    • 1789.

  • Stormzy Feat Ed Sheeran And Burna Boy

    Own It

    • Atlantic β€Ž-.
    • 0190295403034.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 5 Jan 2020 17:00
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  • Fri 10 Jan 2020 16:30
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  • Sun 5 Sep 2021 17:00
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  • Fri 10 Sep 2021 16:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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