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I Want to be Alive

Tom Service presents the UK premiere of Daniel Bjarnason's first major symphonic work, I Want to be Alive. Plus the latest in cutting-edge and experimental new music.

Tom Service presents the UK premiere of Daniel Bjarnason's first major symphonic work, I Want to be Alive, which was recorded by the BBC Symphony Orchestra at their Icelandic Chill weekend in London. Also recorded in London, Plus-Minus Ensemble performs covers of Ruth Crawford Seeger by Alex Hills and Hildegard Knef by Lisa Streich, and Elaine Mitchener sings Lore Lixenberg's Cosmic Voice Party. Plus new releases of the latest in cutting-edge and experimental new music from Jonas Cambien, Alex Paxton, Thomas Adès, Christina Kubisch, Juli Deák and Annea Lockwood.

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Music Played

  • Jonas Cambien

    Silverware Vibrating Inside Grand Piano

    Performer: Jonas Cambien.
    • MAN EATING TREE.
    • Sonic Transmissions.
    • 3.

  • Alex Hills

    Andante and Presto No Longer for String Quartet (after Ruth Crawford Seeger String Quartet 1931)

    Ensemble: Plus-Minus Ensemble.

  • Loré Lixenberg

    Cosmic Voice Party

    Performer: Shamica Ruddock. Performer: Pat Thomas. Singer: Elaine Mitchener.

  • Anna Thorvaldsdottir

    Transitions

    Performer: Dominic Stokes.

  • Alex Paxton

    Up-slide + Shake up and smell the rain (from Candyfolk Space Drum)

    Performer: Alex Paxton. Performer: David Ingamells. Choir: Children's Chorus from The Belham Primary School. Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: Aga Serugo-Lugo.
    • Candyfolk Space Drum.
    • Jonah Records.

  • Thomas Adès

    Forgotten Dances: V. Carillon de Ville (for Hector Berlioz)

    Performer: Sean Shibe.
    • Vesper.
    • Pentatone.
    • 5.

  • Daníel Bjarnason

    I want to be Alive - Trilogy for Orchestra

    Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Karlsen.

  • Christina Kubisch

    Gaming in Silence

    Performer: Tom Thiel. Performer: Eckehard Guther.
    • TUNING.
    • Faitiche.
    • 1.

  • Lisa Streich

    Red Roses Rain

    Ensemble: Plus-Minus Ensemble.

  • Juli Deák

    Tamed

    Performer: Juli Deák.
    • Brisk.
    • Thanatosis.
    • 1.

  • Annea Lockwood

    World Rhythms

    • World Rhythms.
    • Room40.

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  • Yesterday22:30
    BBC Radio 3

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