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New Year, New Music

Ten composers introduce new music that has inspired them in 2020, including works by Esperanza Spalding, Bent Sorensen, Jimmy Lopez, Diana Baroni and David Lang.

Launching New Year New Music, ten composers featured in the recent Postcards project on Radio 3 introduce pieces of new music that have inspired them over the past year.
Rhiannon Giddens: Ten Thousand Voices
Bent Sørensen: Phantasmagoria
Trio Con Brio
Esperanza Spalding: Winter sun
David Lang: Mystery Sonatas: Glory
Augustin Hadelic (violin)
John Adams: Gnarly Buttons (III. Put Your Loving Arms Around Me)
Michael Collins (clarinet)
London Sinfonietta
Diana Baroni Trio: La manana
Jimmy Lopez: America Salvaje!
Norwegian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Paul Mealor : Ubi caritas
The Cambridge Singers, John Rutter (conductor)
Charles Wuorinen: It happens like this
The Group for Contemporary Music
Djuro Zivkovic: On the guarding of the heart
Ensemble Ernst

(The ten postcard composers who chose these pieces: Anna Clyne, James B Wilson, Dominique Le Gendre, Jay Capperauld, Dobrinka Tabakova, Tunde Jegede, Shirley Thompson, Errollyn Wallen, David Ho-Yi Chan, Anselm McDonnell.)

1 hour, 59 minutes

Last on

Sat 2 Jan 2021 22:00

Music Played

  • Rhiannon Giddens

    Ten Thousand Voices

    Performer: Rhiannon Giddens. Performer: Francesco Turrisi.
    • There Is No Other.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 1.
  • Bent Sørensen

    Phantasmagoria

    Ensemble: Trio con Brio Copenhagen.
    • Danish Piano Trios.
    • Da Capo.
    • 1-5.
  • Esperanza Spalding

    Winter Sun

    Performer: Esperanza Spalding. Performer: Dave Eggar. Performer: Terri Lyne Carrington. Performer: Quintino Cinalli. Performer: Leo Genovese. Performer: Lois Martin. Performer: Entcho Todorov.
    • Chamber Music Society.
    • Heads Up International.
    • 9.
  • David Lang

    Mystery Sonatas: No. 2 (After Joy); No. 7 (Glory)

    Performer: Augustin Hadelich.
    • David Lang: Mystery Sonatas.
    • Cantaloupe.
    • 2, 7.
  • John Adams

    Gnarly Buttons (III. Put Your Loving Arms Around Me)

    Performer: Michael Collins. Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: John Adams.
    • Gnarly Buttons & John's Book Of Alleged Dances.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 14.
  • Diana Baroni Trio

    La mañana

    Ensemble: Diana Baroni Trio.
    • Flor de Verano.
    • Pao.
  • Jimmy López

    America Salvaje!

    Orchestra: Norwegian Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Miguel Harth-Bedoya.
    • Jimmy López: Perú Negro, Synesthésie, Lord of the Air & América Salvaje.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 11.
  • Charles Wuorinen

    It Happens Like This (No. 7, The Wild Turkey)

    Ensemble: The Group for Contemporary Music.
    • Charles Wuorinen, Vol. 3.
    • Bridge Records.
    • 15.
  • Paul Mealor

    Ubi caritas

    Singer: Alison Hill. Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • This Is the Day: Music on Royal Occasions.
    • Collegium.
    • 7.
  • Djuro Zivkovic

    On the Guarding of the Heart

    Ensemble: Ensemble Ernst. Conductor: Thomas Rimul.
    • Xtended Hearts and Unheard Herds.
    • LAWO.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Sat 2 Jan 2021 22:00

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