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3.00pm
Arthur Benjamin Anniversary
Wendy Hiscocks and Anthony Hunter Smith, piano
This Saturday Session presents a studio recital of works focussing on the music of Arthur Benjamin and those who influenced his own compositions.
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10.30pm
Anthony Pateras: Pateras Takes the Academy
New Music Up Late takes you to Australian National Academy of Music in Melbourne for a concert curated by composer/improviser Anthony Pateras, this year’s guest composer at the academy.
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12.05pm
Arthur Benjamin: The Man and his Music
Written and presented by Wendy Hiscocks
In this Sunday edition of Music Makers Wendy Hiscocks explores the life of Arthur Benjamin, the Australian-born composer who died in London fifty years ago.
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7.05pm
Andrew Ford: Nine Fantasies about Brahms
TrioZ
This live broadcast from the City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney features Trioz piano trio in a program of Beethoven, Piazzolla, Brahms and the world premiere of Andrew Ford's Nine Fantasies about Brahms.
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1.00pm
Sydney Symphony in Edinburgh
Sydney Symphony
recorded just earlier this month, this lunchtime concert broadcast, presented by Margaret Throsby from the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, features the Sydney Symphony performing at this year's Edinburgh International Festival.
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1.05pm
Elena Kats-Chernin after Piazzolla: Re-Collecting ASTORoids: Movts 1, 4 & 5
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
This lunchtime concert broadcast of the MSO includes the world premiere of Elena Kats-Chernin's Re-Collecting ASTORoids: Movts 1, 4 & 5.
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Waiting to turn into puzzles is a unique audio-visual collaboration between film art maker Louise Curham and composer David Young, presented here in flash-video and downloadable instalments. > more
Four new works for lute commissioned by ABC Classic FM
Find out about the instruments and the music, including video demonstrations by lutenist Tommie Andersson. > moreOrpheus Remix Awards
It is 400 years since the premiere of the world's first acknowledged opera, Monteverdi's L'Orfeo. To celebrate, the ABC is inviting you to compose your own response to both the Orpheus myth and the notion of 'opera', in the form of original 4-minute works for radio. > more
The Val Camonica Pieces by David Young are a heterogenous collection of works for diverse ensembles and soloists created over a ten-year period in response to the composer’s experience of the huge collection of rock carvings scattered across northern Italy’s Camonica Valley. > more
An intriguing new web project created by composer Richard Vella, which presents a collection of music, sounds, images, memories, definitions and anecdotes around key words linking musical and spiritual ideas. Produced by ABC Classic FM, the A-Z features new recordings of Sonic Art Ensemble. > more
Listen to the Anniversary concert celebrating 20 years of the Elision Ensemble recorded on 11 June 2006. > About this concert and Elision >> Listen to the concert
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