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Eavesdropping: Nathalie Forget & Audrey Chen

Kate Molleson with live recordings from the Eavesdropping festival of experimental music in London as well as orchestral works by Katherine Balch and Ana Maria Avram.

Kate Molleson presents recordings from this year's Eavesdropping festival of experimental music, curated by the singer Juliet Fraser and staged at London's Cafe OTO. Tonight, one of the world's leading players of the ondes martenot, Nathalie Forget, performs music by the Romanian composer Ana-Maria Avram and an improvisation in collaboration with vocalist Audrey Chen. Elsewhere in the programme, there's the chance to hear orchestral music by Katherine Balch and Oliver Leith in performances by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and BBC Symphony Orchestra. Plus Minus Ensemble with two of their "covers" commissions - modern re-imaginings of landmark 20th-century compositions - and a suite of music for balls - marbles, ping-pong and basketballs - by Ryoji Ikeda recorded at the Barbican in February.

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Music Played

  • Saint Abdullah & Jason Nazary

    Fingerprints, Photographs and Biographical Information

    • Wiretap for Oral.
    • Disciples.
    • 6.
  • Katherine Balch

    musica pyralis

    Performer: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Performer: Jack Sheen.
  • Ashkan Behzadi

    Ballads: Oblique

    Performer: Marie Schreer. Performer: Taher Adel.
    • Ballads: Oblique.
    • Coviello Classics.
    • 4.
  • Benjamin Oliver

    Piano Sonata No.2: The Airplane

    Composer: George Antheil. Ensemble: Plus-Minus Ensemble.
  • Nathalie Forget

    Maria

    Performer: Nathalie Forget.
  • Ana-Maria Avram

    Nouvel Archae

    Performer: Nathalie Forget.
  • Adrián Demoč

    Canon

    Performer: Manuel Zurria.
    • Flute.
    • Elsewhere.
    • 4.
  • Oliver Leith

    Pearly, goldy, woody, bloody, or, Abundance

    Performer: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Jack Sheen.
  • Russell Haswell

    Curated narrative

    • LET IT GO.
    • Mego.
    • 5.
  • Russell Haswell

    Fall 3

    • LET IT GO.
    • Mego.
    • 2.
  • Ryoji Ikeda

    Ball Music

    Performer: Alexandre Babel. Performer: Stéphane Garin. Performer: Amelie Grould.
  • Lili Boulanger

    Nocturne

    Music Arranger: Matthew Shlomowitz. Music Arranger: Matthew Shlomowitz. Ensemble: Plus-Minus Ensemble. Ensemble: Plus-Minus Ensemble.
  • Audrey Chen & Nathalie Forget

    Improvisation

  • Margareth Kammerer

    Amor

    • The Garden.
    • Ftarri Uta.

Broadcast

  • Saturday22:30

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