Radio 3's Fifty Modern Classics
Artists, musicians and composers introduce fifty key pieces of classical music composed between 1950 and 2000. As featured in the BBC Radio 3 programme, Hear & Now.
Podcasts
Witold Lutoslawski's Jeux Venitiens
Published: Nov. 25, 2012, 12:03 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 36 seconds
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Bernhard Lang's Differenz/Wiederholung 2
Published: Nov. 18, 2012, 12:03 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 2 seconds
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Eliane Radigue's Songs of Milarepa
Published: Nov. 11, 2012, 12:10 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 24 seconds
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Heiner Goebbels's Surrogate Cities
Published: Nov. 4, 2012, 12:10 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 37 seconds
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Gerard Grisey's Partiels
Published: Oct. 27, 2012, 11:10 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 22 seconds
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Igor Stravinsky's Requiem Canticles
Published: Oct. 20, 2012, 11:10 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 32 seconds
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Per Norgard's Symphony No.2
Published: Oct. 13, 2012, 11:10 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 48 seconds
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John Zorn's Carny
Published: Oct. 6, 2012, 11:10 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 11 seconds
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Jean Barraque's Chant apres chant
Published: Sept. 29, 2012, 11:10 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 53 seconds
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Alvin Lucier's I am sitting in a room
Published: Sept. 22, 2012, 11:10 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 29 seconds
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Gyorgy Kurtag's Officium Breve
Published: Sept. 15, 2012, 11:10 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 15 seconds
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Terry Riley's In C
Published: Sept. 8, 2012, 11:10 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 55 seconds
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Pauline Oliveros's V of IV
Published: Sept. 1, 2012, 11:10 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 47 seconds
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Gavin Bryars's Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Published: Aug. 25, 2012, 11:10 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 38 seconds
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Morton Subotnick's Silver Apples of the Moon
Published: Aug. 11, 2012, 11:05 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 23 seconds
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Giacinto Scelsi's Ygghur
Published: Aug. 4, 2012, 11:05 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 28 seconds
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Helmut Lachenmann's Mouvement
Published: July 14, 2012, 11:10 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 26 seconds
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Michael Nyman's The Draughtsman's Contract
Published: July 7, 2012, 11:10 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 45 seconds
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Hans Abrahamsen's Winternacht
Published: June 30, 2012, 11:10 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 55 seconds
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Claude Vivier's Lonely Child
Published: June 23, 2012, 11:10 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 22 seconds
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Galina Ustvolskaya's Octet
Published: June 9, 2012, 11:10 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 40 seconds
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Harrison Birtwistle's The Triumph of Time
Published: June 2, 2012, 11:10 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 7 seconds
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Kevin Volans's White Man Sleeps
Published: May 26, 2012, 11:05 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 7 seconds
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George Benjamin's At First Light
Published: May 12, 2012, 11:05 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 21 seconds
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Olivier Messiaen's Chronochromie
Published: May 5, 2012, 11:05 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 50 seconds
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Schaeffer & Henry's Symphonie pour un homme seul
Published: April 28, 2012, 11:05 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 42 seconds
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Philip Glass's Music in Twelve Parts
Published: April 7, 2012, 11:05 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 46 seconds
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Peter Maxwell Davies's Eight Songs for a Mad King
Published: March 18, 2012, 12:05 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 28 seconds
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George Crumb's Black Angels
Published: March 11, 2012, 12:05 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 2 seconds
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Gerald Barry's Piano Quartet No.1
Published: March 4, 2012, 12:10 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 57 seconds
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Toru Takemitsu's Kwaidan
Published: Feb. 26, 2012, 12:01 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 45 seconds
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Luigi Nono's Al gran sole carico d'amore
Published: Feb. 19, 2012, 12:05 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 26 seconds
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Milton Babbitt's Philomel
Published: Feb. 12, 2012, 12:05 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 29 seconds
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Jonathan Harvey's Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco
Published: Jan. 22, 2012, 12:05 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 33 seconds
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Karlheinz Stockhausen's Gruppen
Published: Jan. 15, 2012, 12:30 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 41 seconds
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Luciano Berio's Sinfonia
Published: Jan. 8, 2012, 12:05 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 39 seconds
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Arvo Part's Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
Published: Dec. 25, 2011, 12:05 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 35 seconds
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Morton Feldman's Extensions 3
Published: Dec. 18, 2011, 12:05 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 3 seconds
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Conlon Nancarrow's Study No.21
Published: Dec. 11, 2011, 12:05 a.m.Duration: 9 minutes 49 seconds
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Brian Ferneyhough's Bone Alphabet
Published: Dec. 4, 2011, 12:05 a.m.Duration: 11 minutes 1 second
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Howard Skempton's Lento
Published: Nov. 27, 2011, 12:05 a.m.Duration: 12 minutes 7 seconds
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Edgard Varese's Poeme electronique
Published: Nov. 13, 2011, 12:05 a.m.Duration: 10 minutes 41 seconds
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John Cage's 4'33"
Published: Nov. 6, 2011, 12:05 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 53 seconds
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Cornelius Cardew's The Great Learning
Published: Oct. 29, 2011, 11:05 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 11 seconds
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Iannis Xenakis's Nomos Alpha
Published: Oct. 22, 2011, 11:05 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 14 seconds
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Louis Andriessen's De Staat
Published: Oct. 15, 2011, 11:05 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 50 seconds
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Pierre Boulez's Le Marteau sans Maitre
Published: Oct. 8, 2011, 11:05 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 49 seconds
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Elliott Carter's String Quartet No.3
Published: Oct. 1, 2011, 11:05 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 3 seconds
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Gyorgy Ligeti's Atmospheres
Published: Sept. 24, 2011, 11:05 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 23 seconds
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Steve Reich's Different Trains
Published: Sept. 17, 2011, 11:05 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 20 seconds
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