Radio 3's Fifty Modern Classics Podcast
Artists, musicians and composers introduce fifty key pieces of classical music composed between 1950 and 2000. As featured in the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3 programme, Hear & Now.
Episodes to download
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Witold Lutoslawski's Jeux Venitiens
Sun 25 Nov 2012
Conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen celebrates the music of Polish composer and...
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Bernhard Lang's Differenz/Wiederholung 2
Sun 18 Nov 2012
Composer Matthew Shlomowitz makes the case for Austrian composer Bernhard Lang’s 2,...
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Eliane Radigue's Songs of Milarepa
Sun 11 Nov 2012
Author and journalist Rob Young nominates French composer Eliane Radigue's Songs of of...
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Heiner Goebbels's Surrogate Cities
Sun 4 Nov 2012
Hear and Now presenter Sara Mohr-Pietsch celebrates the music of German composer on...
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Gerard Grisey's Partiels
Sun 28 Oct 2012
Composer Julian Anderson singles out Partiels for orchestra, from French spectralist...
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Igor Stravinsky's Requiem Canticles
Sun 21 Oct 2012
Composer John Woolrich nominates Stravinsky's last completed work with orchestra,...
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Per Norgard's Symphony No.2
Sun 14 Oct 2012
Novelist and critic Philip Hensher makes the case for Per Norgard's Symphony No.
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John Zorn's Carny
Sun 7 Oct 2012
Critic and Hear and Now presenter Tom Service nominates American composer John Carny,...
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Jean Barraque's Chant apres chant
Sun 30 Sep 2012
Pianist Nicolas Hodges nominates Jean Barraque's Chant apres chant, one of just a of...
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Alvin Lucier's I am sitting in a room
Sun 23 Sep 2012
Sound artist Kaffe Matthews on Alvin Lucier’s I am sitting in a room and how it’s...
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Gyorgy Kurtag's Officium Breve
Sun 16 Sep 2012
Critic and Hear and Now presenter Ivan Hewett nominates Hungarian composer Gyorgy in...
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Terry Riley's In C
Sun 9 Sep 2012
Singer and conductor Paul Hillier celebrates Terry Riley’s icon of musical and to of...
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Pauline Oliveros's V of IV
Sun 2 Sep 2012
Composer and Hear and Now presenter Robert Worby singles out V of IV, an early work by...
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Gavin Bryars's Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Sun 26 Aug 2012
Gavin Bryars's mould-breaking 1971 score Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet is a work a...
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Morton Subotnick's Silver Apples of the Moon
Sun 12 Aug 2012
Four Tet’s Kieran Hebden explains why Silver Apples of the Moon by the American out...
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Giacinto Scelsi's Ygghur
Sun 5 Aug 2012
Cellist Frances-Marie Uitti celebrates the music of Giacinto Scelsi, the Italian from...
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Helmut Lachenmann's Mouvement
Sun 15 Jul 2012
Pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard champions the music of maverick German composer Helmut a...
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Michael Nyman's The Draughtsman's Contract
Sun 8 Jul 2012
Violinist Alexander Balanescu recounts his part in Michael Nyman's groundbreaking for...
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Hans Abrahamsen's Winternacht
Sun 1 Jul 2012
Author Paul Griffiths singles out this early work for ensemble by Danish composer Hans...
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Claude Vivier's Lonely Child
Sun 24 Jun 2012
The soprano Barbara Hannigan celebrates Claude Vivier’s profoundly moving work for...
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Galina Ustvolskaya's Octet
Sun 10 Jun 2012
Composer and writer Gerard McBurney nominates the austere and uncompromising Octet by...
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Harrison Birtwistle's The Triumph of Time
Sun 3 Jun 2012
Pianist Joanna MacGregor celebrates Harrison Birtwistle’s The Triumph of Time, an as...
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Kevin Volans's White Man Sleeps
Sun 27 May 2012
Choreographer Siobhan Davies nominates White Man Sleeps by the South African-born and...
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George Benjamin's At First Light
Sun 13 May 2012
Gillian Moore champions George Benjamin’s early orchestral score At First Light, its...
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Olivier Messiaen's Chronochromie
Sun 6 May 2012
Composer George Benjamin advocates the "exuberant, thrilling and virtuosic" orchestral...
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Schaeffer & Henry's Symphonie pour un homme seul
Sun 29 Apr 2012
Hollywood sound designer and film editor Walter Murch nominates Symphonie pour un seul...
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Philip Glass's Music in Twelve Parts
Sun 8 Apr 2012
Composer Nico Muhly nominates Philip Glass's Music in Twelve Parts, a large-scale set...
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Peter Maxwell Davies's Eight Songs for a Mad King
Sun 18 Mar 2012
Writer and critic Paul Driver explains why Maxwell Davies’s 8 Songs For A Mad King a...
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George Crumb's Black Angels
Sun 11 Mar 2012
Violinist David Harrington celebrates George Crumb's groundbreaking 1970 work for - to...
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Gerald Barry's Piano Quartet No.1
Sun 4 Mar 2012
Composer Anna Meredith nominates Gerald Barry's "bold and daring" Piano Quartet No.
