Juliet Fraser's Listen List

Tom Service introduces some of the most exciting sounds in new music including the premiere of Scott Lygate's Engines and Men, a concerto for contrabass clarinet which brings to life the mighty Dalmellington Ironworks which lie abandoned in the heart of Ayrshire’s Doon Valley.

Also in the programme, the premiere of Klaus Lang's emblemata sonantes, a forty-five-minute exploration in sound for soprano, organ, harpsichord and ensemble tuned in meantone temperament of the 52 room Eggenberg Palace outside Graz in Austria. Just as the palace, with its 52 rooms, represents the weeks of the year, emblemata sonantes is organized so that the work’s 365 measures correspond exactly to the calendar of the year 1625, with its days, weeks, and Catholic feast days.

And, in an ongoing series, the soprano Juliet Fraser talks to Tom about what's on her Listen List at the moment. As a singer, essayist, director of East London's eavesdropping and programme director of VOICEBOX, a new initiative for contemporary vocal performance, who knows where she'll take us?