Creative collaborations in new music. A series where the world’s leading composers and performers explain how they cooperate in the creation of new work.
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Terry Riley and David Harrington
Terry Riley and David Harrington from Kronos Quartet discuss their many collaborations
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Michael Nyman and Hilary Summers
Michael Nyman and contralto Hilary Summers discuss a 20-year musical collaboration
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Krzysztof Penderecki and Anne-Sophie Mutter
Krzysztof Penderecki & violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter discuss a 30-year musical friendship
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Oliver Knussen and Claire Booth
Oliver Knussen & Claire Booth discuss their collaboration on 'Requiem: Songs for Sue'
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Julia Wolfe and Mark Stewart
Composer Julia Wolfe & guitarist Mark Stewart discuss their Bang On A Can collaborations
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Steve Reich and Russell Hartenberger
Steve Reich and percussionist Russell Hartenberger discuss Reich’s masterpiece 'Drumming'
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Kaija Saariaho and Anu Komsi
Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho and Finnish soprano Anu Komsi discuss their work together
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Nico Muhly and Iestyn Davies
Composer Nico Muhly and countertenor Iestyn Davies discuss their collaboration Old Bones
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Sally Beamish, Chris Stout & Catriona McKay
Composer Sally Beamish, fiddler Chris Stout and harpist Catriona McKay on 'Seavaigers'
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Michael Oliva & Carla Rees
Composer Michael Oliva and flautist Carla Rees compare notes on the creative process.
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HK Gruber and Håkan Hardenberger
Composer HK Gruber and trumpeter Håkan Hardenberger compare notes.
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Cristina Zavalloni & Louis Andriessen
Dutchman Louis Andreissen and Italian vocalist Cristina Zavalloni have developed a close working relationship which began in 1998 with Passeggiata in tram in America e ritorno, and…
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John Tomlinson & Harrison Birtwistle
Fellow Lancastrians Harrison Birtwistle and bass John Tomlinson talk about three-decades of creative collaboration, including the operatic roles Birtwistle, alongside librettist Da…
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Wu Wei & Unsuk Chin
Originally from China, the sheng is a traditional instrument – a mouth organ – with a three-thousand year history. Its sound was part of Korean composer Unsuk Chin’s childhood and…
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Shara Worden & David Lang
David Lang and vocalist Shara Worden talk about their collaboration on his 2012 'death speaks', Lang’s 21st century take on Schubert song inspired by Shara Worden’s singing, at onc…
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Kari Kriikku & Magnus Lindberg
Fellow Finns Magnus Lindberg and clarinettist Kari Kriikku began a long and fruitful collaboration when they met as students. By far the most famous of the many pieces they’ve work…
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Mark Padmore & Thomas Larcher
Austrian composer Thomas Larcher and British tenor Mark Padmore talk about their creative collaboration on the set of songs evoking the Tyrolean landscape that Larcher named ‘A Pad…
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Peter Erskine & Mark-Anthony Turnage
Mark-Anthony Turnage and jazz drummer Peter Erskine talk about a collaboration whose seeds were sown when an admiring teenage composer heard Erskine on Weather Report records in th…
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Ian Pace & Michael Finnissy
Pianist Ian Pace and Michael Finnissy discuss twenty-five years of musical collaboration including Finnissy’s five-and-a-half hour piano epic, ‘The History of Photography in Sound’…
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Barbara Hannigan & Gerald Barry
Gerald Barry and soprano Barbara Hannigan discuss past and future collaborations, including the role of Cecily in Barry's 2010 comic opera The Importance of Being Earnest.