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Tom McKinney introduces an edition of the programme recorded yesterday at the 2017 Aldeburgh Festival and featuring a concert of new music given by Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. Their programme, directed by Oliver Knussen, included premieres by Harrison Birtwistle and by Knussen himself alongside music with a Japanese flavour, songs by Jo Kondo and Stravinsky and music by Toru Takemitsu.

The programme also features music by Hanna Tuulikki and Lucy Duncombe, "Tidesongs", music for multi-layered voice and vocal processing, inspired by the tidal languages of the East Coast from Shetland to Suffolk and by the poetry of Alec Finlay, which has been enjoying performances in Hull as part of "Somewhere Becoming Sea" and at "FLOERS" in Dunbar.

BCMG
Marie-Christine Zupancic (flute)
Claire Booth (soprano)
Robert Murray (tenor)
Conducted by Oliver Knussen

Harrison Birtwistle: Chorale from a Toyshop 1
Stravinsky: Two Poems of Balmont; Three Japanese Lyrics
Jo Kondo: Three Songs Tennyson Sung
Harrison Birtwistle: Chorale from a Toyshop 2; Dear Dusty Moth
Jo Kondo: Standing
Harrison Birtwistle: Komachi
Oliver Knussen: O Hototogisu - fragment of a Japonisme (world premiere)
Takemitsu: Tree Line
Birtwistle: Chorales from a Toyshop 1, 2, 3 (2016-7) (world premiere of No.3)

And

Hanna Tuulikki/Lucy Duncombe: Tidesongs
Performed by Lucy Duncombe and Hanna Tuulikki.