Contemporary Music Festival - May 20th 2011 to May 29th 2011
Composers from this year's Sounds New on Radio 3 Saturday
Posted on: 19th Apr 2012
Music from some of the composers featuring at Sounds New next month coming up on Radio 3: three new pieces, commissioned as part of the New Music 20x12 for the Cultural Olympiad, and others can be heard on Radio 3’s Hear and Now this Saturday.
Anna Meredith’s HandsFree will be performed by the National Youth 
Orchestra, whilst Sally Beamish’s Spinal Chords, with actress Juliet Stevenson as narrator, is played by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment . The Manchester Chorale and Black Dyke Mills Band perform Luke Carver Goss’ Pure Gold: a 4X4 Relay Race, with the inimitable tones of Ian Macmillan (he of The Verb fame) narrating.
Also in the programme: Harrison Birtwistle and Colin Matthews.
At Sounds New next month, Sally Beamish’s Kyle: song for solo piano can be heard in a lunchtime concert on Thursday 10 May, whilst Harrison Birtwistle’s Grimethorpe Aria is performed by the Grimethorpe Colliery Band in Canterbury Cathedral on Saturday 12 May.
Here’s Sally Beamish talking about the inspiration behind Spinal Chords.
The Hear and Now programme will then be available on iPlayer for a week.
Posted by Daniel Harding.