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Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (2/4): Ligeti Quartet play Wadada Leo Smith

Tom Service with live recordings and interviews from this year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival including featured composer Wadada Leo Smith

Tom Service reports from this year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, with interviews and live recordings from across this 10-day international event. Tonight, music for string quartet by featured composer Wadada Leo Smith; we'll hear the fruits of a collaboration between GBSR Duo (UK) and Twenty Fingers Duo (Lithuania), as well as pieces from Finland's defunensemble and the eight trumpets of the Monochrome Project.

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Sat 30 Nov 2024 22:30
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Music Played

  • Lisa Robertson

    am fΓ sach

    Ensemble: Defunensemble.

  • Lawrence Dunn

    Double Sonata

    Ensemble: Twenty Fingers Duo. Ensemble: GBSR Duo.

  • Brona Martin

    Easel Soundscapes

    Performer: Brona Martin.

  • Wadada Leo Smith

    String Quartet No. 3 (Black Church: A First World Gathering of the Spirit)

    Performer: Ligeti Quartet.

  • Claudia Molitor

    Fever

    Performer: Monochrome Project.

  • Matilda SeppΓ¤lΓ¤

    the monstrous bond of togetherness

    Performer: Defunensemble.

Broadcast

  • Sat 30 Nov 2024 22:30
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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