1antimuzak
Sunday 13th April 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:00 to 22:00 (1 hour long)
Varese: The New World, Machines and the Noise of the 20th Century. Episode 2.
Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century, here focusing on America at the end of the 1910s, and Edgard Varèse's Amériques. Varèse arrived in New York with his mind full of the new sounds he heard around him in his new country, and of the groundbreaking music he had heard back in Europe. The New World would prove to be a new beginning for his music.
(Episode 2)
Time: 21:00 to 22:00 (1 hour long)
Varese: The New World, Machines and the Noise of the 20th Century. Episode 2.
Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century, here focusing on America at the end of the 1910s, and Edgard Varèse's Amériques. Varèse arrived in New York with his mind full of the new sounds he heard around him in his new country, and of the groundbreaking music he had heard back in Europe. The New World would prove to be a new beginning for his music.
(Episode 2)
2antimuzak
Sunday 20th April 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:00 to 22:00 (1 hour long)
Oliveros: Protest, the Art of Listening and Marilyn Monroe. Episode 3.
Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century. This week, Kate explores the quietly revolutionary world of Pauline Oliveros, focusing on the American composer's protest work 'To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of their Desperation' (1970). Hugely affected by the social upheaval and political crises of the time, and inspired by the beginnings of the radical feminist movement in 1960s America, Oliveros would rebel, not through violence, but through the art of listening and what she called 'Sonic Meditation'.
(Episode 3)
Time: 21:00 to 22:00 (1 hour long)
Oliveros: Protest, the Art of Listening and Marilyn Monroe. Episode 3.
Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century. This week, Kate explores the quietly revolutionary world of Pauline Oliveros, focusing on the American composer's protest work 'To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of their Desperation' (1970). Hugely affected by the social upheaval and political crises of the time, and inspired by the beginnings of the radical feminist movement in 1960s America, Oliveros would rebel, not through violence, but through the art of listening and what she called 'Sonic Meditation'.
(Episode 3)
3antimuzak
Sunday 27th April 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:00 to 22:00 (1 hour long)
Takemitsu: Gardens and Eternity. Episode 4.
Gillian Moore explores the crystalline musical world of Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu, centring on his 1990 work 'From me flows what you call time'. Takemitsu's musical heritage, the inspiration he took from the natural world, and his personal theories on music, spirituality and eternity would all make their way into this work, written to celebrate the centenary of the Carnegie Hall.
(Episode 4)
Time: 21:00 to 22:00 (1 hour long)
Takemitsu: Gardens and Eternity. Episode 4.
Gillian Moore explores the crystalline musical world of Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu, centring on his 1990 work 'From me flows what you call time'. Takemitsu's musical heritage, the inspiration he took from the natural world, and his personal theories on music, spirituality and eternity would all make their way into this work, written to celebrate the centenary of the Carnegie Hall.
(Episode 4)
4antimuzak
Sunday 18th May 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:00 to 22:00 (1 hour long)
Xenakis: Birds, Buildings and the Horror of War. Series 1, episode 7.
Kate Molleson explores the violent, architectural music of Iannis Xenakis, leading to a full performance of his abstract ballet Antikthon She plots a course from the war-torn streets of Greece in the 1940s to the heart of a 1950s Paris riding the New Wave, examining the heat and ritual of ancient Greece and Pythagorean theory, and paying visits to the studios of architect Le Corbusier and musique concrète pioneer Pierre Schaeffer.
(Series 1, Episode 7)
Time: 21:00 to 22:00 (1 hour long)
Xenakis: Birds, Buildings and the Horror of War. Series 1, episode 7.
Kate Molleson explores the violent, architectural music of Iannis Xenakis, leading to a full performance of his abstract ballet Antikthon She plots a course from the war-torn streets of Greece in the 1940s to the heart of a 1950s Paris riding the New Wave, examining the heat and ritual of ancient Greece and Pythagorean theory, and paying visits to the studios of architect Le Corbusier and musique concrète pioneer Pierre Schaeffer.
(Series 1, Episode 7)
5comsat38
Yes, I think BBC Radio 3 should play more of the music of Xenakis (antidote to Amy Beach and Florence Price), both of whom seem to be on air whenever I turn the radio on!!
6antimuzak
Sunday 8th June 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:00 to 22:00 (1 hour long)
Schoenberg - Breaking Harmony. Series 1, episode 10.
Gillian Moore explores Arnold Schoenberg's 1912 expressionist masterpiece Pierrot Lunaire and examines why early 20th-century Vienna was the perfect environment to push the limits of the harmonic language that had been forged there centuries earlier by Mozart and Haydn.
(Series 1, Episode 10)
Time: 21:00 to 22:00 (1 hour long)
Schoenberg - Breaking Harmony. Series 1, episode 10.
Gillian Moore explores Arnold Schoenberg's 1912 expressionist masterpiece Pierrot Lunaire and examines why early 20th-century Vienna was the perfect environment to push the limits of the harmonic language that had been forged there centuries earlier by Mozart and Haydn.
(Series 1, Episode 10)
7antimuzak
Sunday 15th June 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:00 to 22:00 (1 hour long)
Cardew: Democracy and U-turns. Series 1, episode 11.
Kate Molleson explores the highly charged political music of English experimental composer Cornelius Cardew. leading to a full performance of his work The Great Learning: Paragraph 7. Along the way, she dips into Hungarian performance art, the niche Hillbilly free minimalism movement, and an Italian improvisation tribe. Plus, Kate finds out how Cardew abandoned the avant-garde and turned against his previous mentor Stockhausen.
(Series 1, Episode 11)
Time: 21:00 to 22:00 (1 hour long)
Cardew: Democracy and U-turns. Series 1, episode 11.
Kate Molleson explores the highly charged political music of English experimental composer Cornelius Cardew. leading to a full performance of his work The Great Learning: Paragraph 7. Along the way, she dips into Hungarian performance art, the niche Hillbilly free minimalism movement, and an Italian improvisation tribe. Plus, Kate finds out how Cardew abandoned the avant-garde and turned against his previous mentor Stockhausen.
(Series 1, Episode 11)
8antimuzak
Sunday 14th September 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:00 to 22:00 (1 hour long)
Witold Lutoslawski: Fate, Struggle and Controlling Chance. Series 1, episode 16.
Gillian Moore explores the beautiful, fractious musical world of Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski, leading to a full performance of his Third Symphony. She examines the underground radical art of Poland under martial law in the 1980s, chances upon an out-of-tune masterpiece born from the loft scene in 1960s Manhattan and travels back to the revolutionary music of Beethoven via the lens of a 20th-century Hungarian visionary.
(Series 1, Episode 16)
Time: 21:00 to 22:00 (1 hour long)
Witold Lutoslawski: Fate, Struggle and Controlling Chance. Series 1, episode 16.
Gillian Moore explores the beautiful, fractious musical world of Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski, leading to a full performance of his Third Symphony. She examines the underground radical art of Poland under martial law in the 1980s, chances upon an out-of-tune masterpiece born from the loft scene in 1960s Manhattan and travels back to the revolutionary music of Beethoven via the lens of a 20th-century Hungarian visionary.
(Series 1, Episode 16)
9antimuzak
Sunday 12th October 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:00 to 22:00 (1 hour long)
György Ligeti: Complexity, Alienation, Horror. Series 1, episode 20.
Following on from Kate Molleson's exploration of the music of György Kurtág in last week's programme, Gillian Moore looks at the music of Kurtág's friend and contemporary György Ligeti. While Kurtág spent the majority of his life behind the curtain in Hungary, Ligeti fled to the West and created works of flamboyant terror, violence and dark humour. Gillian reveals which work caused the famously straightlaced Pierre Boulez to get the giggles, the element in Liegti's music that he likened to Brownian motion, and a symphony scored for just four players. The featured work is Ligeti's Requiem, first performed in Stockholm in 1965, an extraordinary choral work including the composer's pioneering use of micropolyphony.
(Series 1, Episode 20)
Time: 21:00 to 22:00 (1 hour long)
György Ligeti: Complexity, Alienation, Horror. Series 1, episode 20.
Following on from Kate Molleson's exploration of the music of György Kurtág in last week's programme, Gillian Moore looks at the music of Kurtág's friend and contemporary György Ligeti. While Kurtág spent the majority of his life behind the curtain in Hungary, Ligeti fled to the West and created works of flamboyant terror, violence and dark humour. Gillian reveals which work caused the famously straightlaced Pierre Boulez to get the giggles, the element in Liegti's music that he likened to Brownian motion, and a symphony scored for just four players. The featured work is Ligeti's Requiem, first performed in Stockholm in 1965, an extraordinary choral work including the composer's pioneering use of micropolyphony.
(Series 1, Episode 20)
10antimuzak
Sunday 26th October 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:00 to 22:00 (1 hour long)
Luciano Berio: Adventures with the Human Voice. Series 1, episode 22.
Gillian Moore celebrates the life and music of Luciano Berio, a century on from the composer's birth on October 24, 1925, in Liguria, Italy. At the heart of the programme is the chance to hear a full performance of A-Ronne, described as a radiophonic documentary and here realised by Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart with Peter Rundel at the helm. Along the way, Gillian encounters an American singer giving voice to her internal world, learns how Berio's work in Paris had an important impact on 1980s pop music, hears the work his key collaborator Bruno Maderna wrote to launch a satellite, and appreciates the overwhelming influence that Berio's first wife Cathy Berberian had on his music.
(Series 1, Episode 22)
Time: 21:00 to 22:00 (1 hour long)
Luciano Berio: Adventures with the Human Voice. Series 1, episode 22.
Gillian Moore celebrates the life and music of Luciano Berio, a century on from the composer's birth on October 24, 1925, in Liguria, Italy. At the heart of the programme is the chance to hear a full performance of A-Ronne, described as a radiophonic documentary and here realised by Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart with Peter Rundel at the helm. Along the way, Gillian encounters an American singer giving voice to her internal world, learns how Berio's work in Paris had an important impact on 1980s pop music, hears the work his key collaborator Bruno Maderna wrote to launch a satellite, and appreciates the overwhelming influence that Berio's first wife Cathy Berberian had on his music.
(Series 1, Episode 22)
11antimuzak
Sunday 2nd November 2025 (starting this evening)
Time: 21:00 to 22:00 (1 hour long)
Milton Babbitt: Strictly Systematic Structuring of Sounds. Series 1, episode 23.
Kate Molleson explores the history of serialism, one of the key methods through which radical composers tried to break from the past during the 20th century. Featuring both the Viennese master Arnold Schönberg and the Parisian author of an article entitled Schönberg is Dead, while Kate finds out which composer was nicknamed 12-Note Lizzie; and reveals what happened when this controversial compositional technique crossed over into jazz culture. At the heart of the programme is the chance to hear to Milton Babbitt's landmark 1964 work Philomel, which features scored parts for both live and pre-recorded soprano voice, and is one of the very first compositions for the synthesizer.
(Series 1, Episode 23)
Time: 21:00 to 22:00 (1 hour long)
Milton Babbitt: Strictly Systematic Structuring of Sounds. Series 1, episode 23.
Kate Molleson explores the history of serialism, one of the key methods through which radical composers tried to break from the past during the 20th century. Featuring both the Viennese master Arnold Schönberg and the Parisian author of an article entitled Schönberg is Dead, while Kate finds out which composer was nicknamed 12-Note Lizzie; and reveals what happened when this controversial compositional technique crossed over into jazz culture. At the heart of the programme is the chance to hear to Milton Babbitt's landmark 1964 work Philomel, which features scored parts for both live and pre-recorded soprano voice, and is one of the very first compositions for the synthesizer.
(Series 1, Episode 23)
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