Radio 3's Fifty Modern Classics

Composer and Hear and Now presenter Robert Worby singles out V of IV, an early electronic work by American pioneer Pauli... Read more

Sound artist Kaffe Matthews on Alvin Lucier’s I am sitting in a room and how it’s provided an inspiration for her own wo... Read more

Novelist and critic Philip Hensher makes the case for Per Norgard's Symphony No.2, one of the first works in which the D... Read more

Pianist Nicolas Hodges nominates Jean Barraque's Chant apres chant, one of just a handful of surviving works by this con... Read more

Critic and Hear and Now presenter Ivan Hewett nominates Hungarian composer Gyorgy Kurtag's Officium Breve in memoriam An... Read more

Singer and conductor Paul Hillier celebrates Terry Riley’s icon of musical minimalism and monument to the experimental a... Read more

Gavin Bryars's mould-breaking 1971 score Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet is a work which came about almost accidentally... Read more

Composer John Woolrich nominates Stravinsky's last completed work with orchestra, Requiem Canticles. Commentator Paul Gr... Read more

Critic and Hear and Now presenter Tom Service nominates American composer John Zorn’s Carny, a work for solo piano from ... Read more

Four Tet’s Kieran Hebden explains why Silver Apples of the Moon by the American composer Morton Subotnick stands out for... Read more

Cellist Frances-Marie Uitti celebrates the music of Giacinto Scelsi, the Italian composer from an aristocratic backgroun... Read more

Pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard champions the music of maverick German composer Helmut Lachenmann and his 1980s work for e... Read more

Violinist Alexander Balanescu recounts his part in Michael Nyman's groundbreaking score for Peter Greenaway's 1982 featu... Read more

Author Paul Griffiths singles out this early work for ensemble by Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen, a sonic evocation of ... Read more

The soprano Barbara Hannigan celebrates Claude Vivier’s profoundly moving work for soprano and orchestra, Lonely Child. ... Read more

Composer and writer Gerard McBurney nominates the austere and uncompromising Octet by Galina Ustvolskaya, which changed ... Read more

Pianist Joanna MacGregor celebrates Harrison Birtwistle’s The Triumph of Time, an orchestral work she describes as “scul... Read more

Choreographer Siobhan Davies nominates White Man Sleeps by the South African-born composer Kevin Volans, and describes t... Read more

Gillian Moore champions George Benjamin’s early orchestral score At First Light, praising its “extraordinary detail and ... Read more

Composer George Benjamin advocates the "exuberant, thrilling and virtuosic" orchestral piece Chronochromie by his former... Read more