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Icelandic Chill

Tom Service presents specially recorded Icelandic music, as well as celebrating pianist and composer Mike Westbrook's 90th birthday.

Tom Service presents two new recordings of Icelandic music by Anna Thorvaldsdottir and Bara Gisladottir, from February's BBC 'Total Immersion' Icelandic weekend. We also celebrate the 90th birthday of English composer and pianist Mike Westbrook. And we hear the latest in new music releases from around the world.

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Music Played

  • Magda Drozd

    Rounds

    Performer: Magda Drozd. Performer: Rai Tateishi.
    • Divided by Dusk.
    • PRÄSENS EDITIONE.
    • 4.

  • Hans Reichel

    Waiting (I)

    Performer: Hans Reichel.
    • Dalbergia Retusa.
    • Black Truffle.
    • 3.

  • Anna Thorvaldsdottir

    Reminiscence

    Performer: Ayane Nakajima.

  • Bára Gísladóttir

    Hringla

    Performer: Bára Gísladóttir. Performer: Bergur Þórisson. Performer: Jonathan Green. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Karlsen.

  • Late Bush

    Hark

    Performer: Late Bush. Ensemble: Echo Collective.
    • Hoarses.
    • Vlek.
    • 4.

  • Michi Wiancko

    To Unpacked Waters, Undreamed Shores: VII: Rise Up

    Ensemble: Jupiter String Quartet.
    • Undreamed Shores.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 7.

  • Michael Finnissy

    Two Cut-Ups of Three Fantasias by Alonso Mudarra

    Performer: Sam Cave.

  • Mike Westbrook

    Carillon Blues No. 1

    Performer: Mike Westbrook.
    • The Piano In The Room And The Blues.
    • Thingamajig.
    • 1.

  • Mike Westbrook

    The Cortège (12. A Hearth Burns)

    Ensemble: Mike Westbrook Orchestra.
    • The Cortège (Live At The BBC 1980).
    • Cadillac Records.
    • 12.

  • Mike Westbrook

    The Cortège (2. Democratie)

    Ensemble: Mike Westbrook Orchestra.
    • The Cortège (Live At The BBC 1980).
    • Cadillac Records.
    • 2.

  • Mike Westbrook

    The Cortège (3. Berlin 16.2.79)

    Ensemble: Mike Westbrook Orchestra.
    • The Cortège (Live At The BBC 1980).
    • Cadillac Records.
    • 3.

  • Mike Westbrook

    Chanson Irresponsable (The Reed Bed, The Oak Tree And The Stream)

    Ensemble: The New Westbrook Orchestra.
    • Chanson Irresponsable.
    • Enja Records.
    • 1.

  • Mike Westbrook

    Empress Blues No 1

    Performer: Mike Westbrook.
    • The Piano In The Room And The Blues.
    • Thingamajig.
    • 7.

  • Mike Westbrook

    Metropolis

    Ensemble: Mike Westbrook Orchestra.

  • Mike Westbrook

    Coming Through Slaughter

    Performer: Andy Grappy. Performer: Anne Hooley. Performer: Kate Smith. Performer: Kate Musker. Performer: Julia Debrouley. Singer: Wills Morgan. Singer: Denise Hector. Singer: Richard Chew. Singer: Dorothy Ross. Singer: Robin Green. Singer: Ismail Taylor-Kamara. Singer: Douglas Park. Conductor: Odaline de la Martínez.

  • Mike Westbrook

    Paintbox Jane (Who Does What to Whom)

    Performer: Marcus Vergette. Performer: Mike Westbrook. Performer: Alan Wakeman. Singer: Billy Bottle. Singer: Kate Westbrook. Singer: Martine Waltier. Narrator: Tim Goodwin.
    • Paintbox Jane (Raoul Dufy Paints A Portrait).
    • Westbrook Records.
    • 10.

  • Mike Westbrook

    Sunday Morning

    Performer: Mike Westbrook.
    • The Piano In The Room And The Blues.
    • Thingamajig.
    • 11.

  • Mark Winges

    April Nocturne

    Performer: Blaise Bryski.
    • Red Sky Opening.
    • Ravello Records.
    • 1.

  • Edwin Hillier

    Port Dundas: Traced Landscapes (I. Church Rise; V. Port Dundas)

    Performer: Edwin Hillier. Performer: David Zucchi.
    • Music for Saxophone & Electronics.
    • 1066 HZ.
    • 1, 5.

  • Edward Henderson

    Hold (IV)

    Performer: Edward Henderson. Performer: Josh Spear.
    • Bastard Assignments.
    • Bastard Assignments.
    • 7.

  • Christopher Fox

    Weather Events

    Performer: Elisabeth Flunger.
    • Christopher Fox: Dissenting Voices.
    • EZZ-THETICS.
    • 10.

  • Michael Finnissy

    Outcasts

    Performer: Sam Cave.

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