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Fast and Slow

Tom Service presents Martin Smolka's Presto e lento performed by pianist Joseph Havlat and the BBC Symphony Orchestra plus the latest new releases and Catherine Kontz's Listen List

Tom Service presents music by Martin Smolka, Czech music's self-proclaimed "hooligan": his piano concerto Presto e lento, featuring soloist Joseph Havlat and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jack Sheen. Also tonight, in our latest Listen List, composer and artistic director of the Rainy Days festival Catherine Kontz chooses three tracks she's listening to right now and thinks we should hear. Plus music from experimental vocalist Audrey Chen at London's Cafe Oto and a round-up of some of the latest new releases.

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Music Played

  • Andrew Staniland

    ANTIGRAVITYDRUM

    Performer: Ryan Scott.
    • 21st-Century Canadian Snare Drum.
    • COLLECTION QB.
    • 1.

  • Amy Williams

    Sextet

    Performer: Ensemble intercontemporain. Performer: George Jackson.

  • Laurence Crane

    Bobby J

    Performer: Sam Cave.

  • Noah Meites

    Cadere

    Performer: Brightwork New Music.
    • Counting.
    • New Focus Recordings.
    • 2.

  • Catherine Kontz

    Tea Break for Juliet

    Performer: Juliet Fraser.

  • Lily Greenham

    Seascape

    Performer: Lily Greenham.
    • Lingual Music.
    • Paradigm Discs.
    • 13.

  • Annea Lockwood

    For Ruth

    Performer: Annea Lockwood.
    • Tete-a-Tete.
    • Ergot Records.
    • 3.

  • Adrian Moore

    Horn

    Performer: Ben Goldscheider.

  • Martin Smolka

    Fast and Slow

    Performer: Joseph Havlat. Performer: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Jack Sheen.

  • Audrey Chen

    Improvisation

  • Kyle Miller

    Stones are the Flowers

    Performer: Gamelan Yowana Sari.
    • Gamelan Yowana Sari.
    • Cantaloupe Music.
    • 2.

Broadcast

  • Saturday 22:30
    BBC Radio 3

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