Kate Molleson visits the world’s largest island to explore the role of traditional and new music for its communities today. The Bad Plus, Carter, Mahler. Be ready to look up a lot of very interesting recordings. “Suffering grief at that age, and something about classical music gets right deep and down, and I guess I fast-tracked the deep and down side of my soul through what happened. Thu 22 Jun 2017 13. Big Issue column 34. And as so many vastly expensive and duff-sounding new concert halls prove, it is still easy to get it wrong. 119, BB 127View the profiles of people named Kate Molleson. At the tender age of 29, young Fergus himself became director of the Dublin International Theatre Festival after five years as its deputy director, and his era there was by all accounts a fresh and energetic one during which he commissioned new work from the likes of Seamus Heaney, Roddy Doyle and Brian Friel. 99 £18. 26 EST. Kate Molleson is a journalist and broadcaster, and one of the UK's leading commentators on contemporary classical music. The music critic and broadcaster Kate Molleson introduces us to ten 20th-century composers whose works are rarely included in the “canon” of classical music – because they are not white, male and Western. Kate Molleson is a journalist and broadcaster. Review: Christophe Rousset. 50 EDT “E njoy yourself,” sings a caustic Ariodante in this darkest of baroque operas. appeared in the March 2017 issue of Gramophone and we republish it as a tribute to the composer, who has died at the age of. Listen now. First published in The Herald on 19 October, 2016. Join Facebook to connect with Kate Molleson and others you may know. 2013 by Kate Molleson. This entry was posted in Features on August 26, 2015 by Kate Molleson. First published in the Guardian on 28 January, 2015. “Setting the story of Pied Piper of Hamelin,” he winces. Kate Molleson meets Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho in Paris - the city she has made her home since 1982. What to do with Bluebeard’s Castle? Bartok’s single-act opera is so devastatingly complete, so ravaging in musical and emotional impact that it needs nothing more or less. Her articles are published in the Guardian, The Herald, BBC Music Magazine, Opera, Gramophone and elsewhere. . Kate Molleson and a female throat singer with swan head fiddle Let us know you agree to cookies. Kate Molleson is a fine communicator with an excellent appetite for detail. 15 - 6. With celebrations of his music at the Proms and Edinburgh within the space of a few weeks, Frank Zappa is looking suspiciously establishment. First published in the Guardian on 18 September, 2017. The Honky Tonk Nun. August 18, 2022 11:37pm. KATE MOLLESON is a journalist and broadcaster and one of the UK’s leading commentators on contemporary classical music. CD review: Pamela Thorby’s Telemann. Stephen Layton conducts a new recording with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge and star soloists including countertenor Iestyn Davies, tenor James Gilchrist and bass Matthew Brook. Soprano Isobel Buchanan is wagging a finger at me intently from across the kitchen table. First published by Sinfini on 11 August, 2014. On the. Tue 13 May 2014 09. Mahler: Ninth Symphony Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer. 2013 by Kate Molleson. Mascagni’s first opera was the mega hit Cavalleria Rusticana and he spent the rest of his life trying to live up to it. Where multiple teeth were observed, the average age estimated from all available teeth was utilized. I f you don’t know the deft and gossamer music of Bryn Harrison, this album would be a beautiful place to start. She presents BBC Radio 3's New Music Show and Music Matters, and her articles are published in the Guardian, The Herald, BBC Music Magazine, Opera, Gramophone and elsewhere. Donizetti’s Scottish opera recorded at Munich’s Philharmonie Gasteig with tenor Joseph Calleja as Edgardo and baritone Ludovic Tézier as Enrico. Kate Molleson and Kevin Le Gendre dive into the lives and music of John & Alice Coltrane. Mahler’s long farewell — Adorno once called it ‘staring into oblivion’ — is given heartbreaking intensity and tenderness by the Budapest Festival Orchestra, always an. Kate Molleson begins Sound within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century with a loud call for change. Kate Molleson. Author: Kate Molleson Narrator: Kate Molleson A radical new book by journalist, critic and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson, which fundamentally changes the way we think about. Abel talks about the "swirling cultures" from which he takes his inspiration, whether it's the different church traditions in South A…A flavour of Tectonics, with Kate Molleson. Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, an Ethiopian nun, composer and pianist, has died at the age of 99. What’s the appeal of improvised music? It’s an experience – call it free jazz, experimental classical, avant-rock or any number of other monikers – that many listeners find. M aybe it’s perverse to pair Ilan Volkov with a totem of the Romantic canon such as Tchaikovsky’s Manfred. Review: The Eighth Door / Bluebeard’s Castle. She has been widely commissioned by international orchestras, ensembles and soloists, and has. “Some news 🥁 Big honour to be joining @BBCRadio3’s Composer of the Week. 1,398 followers. On meeting Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou. Kate Molleson talks to American Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau and reflects on 20 years of the period-instrument ensemble Les Siècles with conductor François. The 46-year-old American made his concerto debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the age of 14 and has been a fixture in the international spotlight ever since. The Berlin Philharmonic came to Glasgow, twice, for the first time since the 1950s. Show more. St Andrew’s Voices hasn’t even turned two yet, but already the ambitious Fife festival is staging an opera. Kate Molleson. Kate Molleson is a fine communicator with an excellent appetite for detail. 36. Listen live. Sara presents The Choir, live concerts, and also appears on Music Matters and Hear. 32 avg rating, 62 ratings, 9 reviews, published 2022), Sound Within Sound (4. . Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. St John Passion Les Musiciens du Louvre/Minkowski (Erato) Conductor Marc Minkowski describes Bach’s John Passion as “the most violent, vivid and dramatic score” of the early 18th century, so it’s not surprising that violence and drama is what we get from his excellent Grenoble-based period band. Tue 13 May 2014 09. We are delighted to announce the shortlists for the RPS Awards – billed by BBC Radio 3 as ‘the BAFTAs of classical music’ – and invite you to join us for the event on 1 March, with tickets from only £10. First published in The Herald on 28 May, 2014. was socially prominent as well. In a parallel universe, Diana Burrell is an architect. The twentieth century was the century of modernity. The entire classical music programme of the 2016 Edinburgh International Festival — 41 concerts, three operas — contains works by just eight living composers (that includes re. Kate Molleson. At an hour when Radio 3 stalwarts were spreading marmalade on their toast and filling in the first line of the crossword, she was togged up as if for an all-nighter at Wigan Casino. First published in The Herald on 2 October, 2013. 24 EST T his production is a joy to watch: an enchanting, big-hearted, supremely lovable piece of whimsical animation. The first striking detail about James MacMillan’s new piano concerto is its name: The Mysteries of Light. 30 EDT Last modified on Mon 3 Dec 2018 10. For her debut on the programme, Kate. “I don’t care how much anyone tells you about technique,” she says. ”. Available now. You can guess how much my bandmates loved that. 20:40 . First published on the Guardian on 29 August, 2013. Kate Molleson Wednesday, March 6, 2019 When it comes to the music of this admired Scottish composer, it’s all about the drama below the surface, writes Kate Molleson. Kate Molleson. At the age of 23, she became principal harp of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. 2016 by Kate Molleson. First published in the Guardian on 14 August, 2015. Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century (Hardback) Kate Molleson. Later we get Tender Second Version — just 47 seconds this time, but now with more tremble and more pain. Home. She studied performance in Montreal and musicology in London, where she specialised in 1930s experimental radio. On merfolk, selkies and Sally Beamish’s new ballet score for The Little Mermaid. Photograph: Kate Molleson. For many years he dressed in orange jumpers, then latterly all in white. “To cure me of a case of the jitters, would you sing a song?” Karine Polwart asked her Celtic Connections audience, who cheerfully obliged with a round of Matt McGinn’s daft number Oor Wee Wean can Sook a Bar of Chocolate (“promoting. First published in the Guardian on 4 June, 2015. An alternative history of 20th-century composers—nearly all of them women or composers of color—by a leading international music critic Think of a composer right now. A radical new book by journalist, critic and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson, which fundamentally changes the way we think about classical music and the musicians who made it on a global scale. Kate Molleson. This entry was posted in Live Reviews on October 27, 2014 by Kate Molleson. This entry was posted in Features on May 6, 2015 by Kate Molleson. The loose framework for the book was provided by a conversation with composer George E. Kate Molleson. This is the impassioned and exhilarating story of the composers who dared to challenge the conventional world of. This is the impassioned and exhilarating story of the composers who dared to challenge the conventional world of. Terrible. Listen now. First published in The Herald on 5 February, 2014. The songs have a gnarled lyricism, a. George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) Kate Molleson shares stories of Handel’s music at summer soirees across the British Isles. Ensemble musikFabrik Usher Hall, Edinburgh. She lights up when she describes music that has the brutal physicality and. Part one: November - December 2018 (1918-36) Part two: February - March 2019 (1936-53) Part three: April - May 2019 (1953-71) Part four: June - July. Perhaps available later on BBC Sounds/i-player. Weight: 581 g. On the day we’re due to speak she has six hours of train travel on various branch lines: she lives in Brecon, a village in the Welsh hills whose charms don’t include speedy access. M atched in musical-myth-mania perhaps only by Richard Wagner,. Kate Molleson is a journalist and broadcaster, and one of the UK's leading commentators on contemporary classical music. Kate Molleson is a Radio 3 presenter and music journalist. “Something from your country,” she instructed, so there I found myself: in the tiny bedroom of this 93-year-old Ethiopian composer-pianist-nun. 05 EST. Thu 6 Jul, 7. Maceda thought a lot about time. 2014 by Kate Molleson. Post navigationThis is music from another age, and it only speaks to us if we can let go of our self-consciousness. Post navigationKate Molleson: 'Where we are at now is tokenism without thinking of the. Classical music flourished, and yet when we reflect on the genre’s history its central figures seem to share. She began studying the sitar with her father at the age of seven; in terms of musical lineage, it doesn’t get much more direct. She currently presents BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show and Music Matters. . Kate Molleson. . Notable episodes. First published in The Herald on 26 November, 2014. Event details. We use. First published in The Herald on 18 February, 2015. Home. First published in The Herald on 23 August, 2017 . Journalist and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson discusses her award-winning Sound Within Sound (Faber, 2022) – “a radical new book which fundamentally changes the way we think about classical music and the. A radical new book by journalist, critic and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson, which fundamentally changes the way we think about classical music and the musicians who made it on a global scale. The World's Largest Island. Thu 11 Feb 2016 13. Since Cleopatra, you see, there are always questions about my beauty…” the food arrives and she trails off to manoeuvre a. Buy Sound Within Sound by Kate Molleson from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25. Next on. Schedule. First published in The Herald on 26 March, 2014. There are no concerns at all about your wonderfully clear presenting style. Personally, I struggled with naming composers who fit into these categories, such has been my own experience of the lack of media and educational bandwidth afforded those of more diverse backgrounds, who have otherwise. Show more. She has worked a multitude of positions in these fields, and has been able to build her experience globally while working in a large. One has missed the broadcast. 76 ratings10 reviews. This entry was posted in Features on October 26, 2016 by Kate Molleson. Kate Molleson presents classical music on BBC Radio 3 Kate Molleson/Twitter. First published in the Guardian on 1 December, 2016. 🧐 😀. T hese quartets don’t do what they should. Auden’s huge 1947 poem of the same name. In the Tectonics mix: Christian Wolff: Burdocks, with Martin Arnold. First published in the Guardian on 14 August, 2016. This is the impassioned and exhilarating story of the composers who dared to challenge the conventional world of classical. 2016 by Kate Molleson. All I wanted was to be brilliant at playing the cello and for people to pay me for it. 15 EDT Last modified on Mon 3 Dec 2018 10. First published in the Guardian on 17 December, 2015. First published in the Guardian on 14 January, 2016. Elizabeth Alker is the host of Unclassified and presents weekend editions of Breakfast. ”. Read 9 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. George Benjamin began writing his first opera at the age of 12. . 99. M aybe it’s perverse to pair Ilan Volkov with a totem of the Romantic canon such as Tchaikovsky’s Manfred. First published in the Guardian on 8 July, 2014. 29 EDT Last modified on Thu 26 Mar 2020 08. Big Issue column 32. Tue 21 May 2019 11. Most musicians — not all, but most — no longer want that old-school authoritative figure of the Victorian portraits. Event details. Time: 5. The love, because I want to shout from the rooftops that classical music is gripping, essential, personally and politically game changing. 38. 36 EST. Thursday August 18 2022, 5. She has presented documentaries for. Two very different 20th-century violin concertos. Available now. by Kate Molleson. Kate Molleson. A. She died in 1983 at the age of 91. Continue reading → This entry was posted in Features on September 4, 2013 by Kate Molleson . This entry was posted in Features on April 11, 2017 by Kate Molleson. Müller-Hermann: Heroic Overture Ryan Wigglesworth: Piano Concerto Mahler: Symphony No 4. SOUND WITHIN SOUND by Kate Molleson - ISBN 10: 0571363237 - ISBN 13: 9780571363230 - Faber Faber - 2023 - SoftcoverKate Molleson. 12:00. She was a classical music critic for the Guardian for seven years and deputy editor of Opera magazine. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Sound Within Sound: Radical Composers of the Twentieth Century written by Kate Molleson which was published in 2022-7-7. Elizabeth Alker is the host of Unclassified and presents weekend editions of Breakfast. First published by Sounds Like Now, September 2017 edition. His second effort, L’amico Fritz, is as pastel and sweet as Cav is blood. In this increasingly fragmentary age, this pooling of embassies sends a strong message of political coordination, similar to the message of cultural cooperation incorporated in the Nordic Music Days. Having grown up. 15am on 1 September, Georgia Mann invited listeners “to tell us how you like to party”. ( 14 ) £6. The orchestra had already given the first and second performances of Suckling’s shimmering storm, rose, tiger; in February they premiere a major new commission called Six Speechless Songs to. W hat will happen to Scotland’s classical music in the event of a Yes vote next week? The question is a. August 18, 2022 11:37pm. The first composer chosen, on 2 August 1943, was Mozart, followed over the following four weeks by Beethoven, Schubert, Bach and Haydn. Show more. ” He’s looking sheepish, like he’s just acknowledged a big guilty secret. The world doesn’t need yet another recording of Beethoven’s string quartets, you might well argue, but this terrific cycle from the Elias String Quartet demonstrates how fresh, probing and confrontational a new account can be. Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, pictured aged 23. Speaker: Kate Molleson. Puerto Rican astrophysicist Wanda Diaz-Merced is revolutionising space science through sound, enabling exploration of the cosmos by ear. Run times may vary by up to 20 minutes as they can be affected by last-minute programme changes, intervals and. Kate Molleson travels to Cairo to discover a lost aural music tradition of microtonal finesse, potently emotional voices and spectacularly skilful instrumentalists. Elizabeth Alker. A minimum of one tooth was observed in each individual. A decade of Sound. This entry was posted in CD Reviews on October 28, 2017 by Kate Molleson. Post navigation. 51 EDT. Radio 3 presenter Kate Molleson celebrates a composer whose music is particularly important to her: the Frenchwoman Eliane Radigue, whose calm and long-form sense of perspective. 15 - 6. Born to a privileged family in Ethiopia in the early 1900s, Emahoy was sent to boarding school in Switzerland, where she discovered her love of music. Kate Molleson: ‘enthusiastic style and eye for character’. Because since founding the John Wilson Orchestra in 1994, his dedication to the music of Hollywood’s golden age has achieved a two-way thing: on the one side he has enticed fans of light music into the concert hall. 31 EDT Last modified on Tue 18 Apr 2017 11. Readers of a certain age may recall the Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club on television in the Seventies, when the cloth-capped Colin Crompton. As part of Radio 3's New Year New Music, Kate Molleson talks at length to one of. 30 minutes. Interview: Diana Burrell. ”. She presents BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show and Music Matters. Radiocarbon dating of unaccompanied skeletons discovered during the excavation of an Iron Age, Roman and Saxon settlement at Yarnton, Oxfordshire, unexpectedly revealed the presence of a middle Iron Age cemetery (3rd or 4th century cal BC). A radical new book by journalist, critic and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson, which fundamentally changes the way we think about classical music and the musicians who made it on a global scale. First published in the Guardian on 9 May, 2016. THE dawn of a new era for the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, with fresh management on the way (yet to be appointed). The wonderful thing is that even in this day and age of fearsome technical precision, there is still a mystique around what makes for perfect acoustics. John has been coming to the Edinburgh International Festival since 1947. Yorkshire-born Hannah French is a musical butterfly: a broadcaster and academic, a public speaker and educator, and a baroque flautist. Kate Molleson, A radical new book by journalist, critic and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson, which fundamentally changes the way we think about classical music and the musicians who made it on a global scale. History is full of the times we got it wrong. 99. . From 2010-2017 she was a music. I t’s hard to imagine the Cologne contemporary music collective Ensemble Musikfabrik deliberately timing a. By nine he was accompanying the school choir and local Eisteddfod (“Mr Richard Jones had me playing for the whole competition, all day long from 9am until 3. Classical music; Radio 3; BBC; Kate Molleson with the stories that matter, the people that matter, the music that matters. . In general, though, Mathieson says she feels “incredibly lucky to be living in an age when people are interested in perceived feminine qualities in leaders, whether men or women. ” This entry was posted in Features on November 24, 2018 by Kate Molleson. Thu 14 Jul 2016 10. “It’s been a long time coming,†he says. “And it was naive and terrible and thankfully came to an end halfway down page 34. Mermaids and mermen — let’s call them merfolk — live for approximately 300 years, after which they turn into sea foam. Tom. She currently presents BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show and Music Matters. “It’s hard to believe,” says the 66-year-old violinist, cheerfully slapping the coffee table as if to confirm that yep, all of this is real. . Her book is a study of ten composers she admires but who she feels have been left out of official. Tom “Waffles” Service continues to live down to his sobriquet and Kate Molleson appears to speak through a bowl of porridge. £18. 49 EDT. Kaija Saariaho. Available now. T here is real heritage here: formed in Moscow in 1945, the original Borodins learned Shostakovich’s quartets. It’s standard etiquette to say that someone doesn’t look a certain age but he genuinely appears decades younger. Faber acquires new landmark alternative history of twentieth-century music by Kate Molleson. Imogen Holst: String chamber music Court Lane Music (NMC) Imogen Holst is in the blood of NMC records: in 1984 – the year she died – she set up the foundation that would end up kickstarting the label five years later. She has presented documentaries for. Emahoy Guèbrou, Age 23 | Photograph: Kate Molleson. This is a book of discovery that speaks of music as a life force, that urges. 3/5 - Summer Series - Anastasia Kobekina, Alessandro Fisher, Alexander Gadjiev, Rob Luft. ‘She raced a horse and trap around the city’. 11hFirst published in The Herald in July, 2011. Schumann, Dvorak & the art of subtle anomaly. She recounts fascinating life stories, gives overviews of their works, and undertakes interviews where. Kate Molleson chooses her favourite recording of Bartók's The Miraculous Mandarin. This album opens with a 53-second piece called Tender: sweet, husky, tentative sounds circling in space like a mobile. In an age of overstretched arts funding, when it is increasingly difficult for small, non-mainstream venues to stay afloat amid commercial heavyweights, Dear Green Sounds is a testament to what a diversity of live arts does for the wellbeing of any city. CD review: Elias play Beethoven, vol 4. A radical new book by journalist, critic and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson, which fundamentally changes the way we think about. Photograph: Kate Molleson. Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds: Ambient sound and radical listening in the age of communication. Haydn mucks about with phrase lengths, harmonies and hierarchies. Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, pictured aged 23. She presents BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show and Music Matters , and her articles have been published in the Guardian , New Statesman , Prospect , the Herald , BBC Music Magazine and elsewhere. The minute your confidence goes, everything else starts to fall apart too. Reviewed in short: New books from Jonathan Freedland, Kate Molleson, Linda Villarosa and Benjamin Wood. First published in the Guardian on 24 March, 2016. First published in the Guardian on 12 October, 2017. SOUND WITHIN SOUND by Kate Molleson - ISBN 10: 0571363237 - ISBN 13: 9780571363230 - Faber Faber - 2023 - SoftcoverFirst published in The Herald on 25 November, 2015. Quotas should be introduced to broaden the range of classical music composers featured in. Her new book demonstrates that she is equally at ease with the written word. Kate Molleson is a journalist and broadcaster and one of the UK's leading commentators on contemporary. All Articles. David Watkin, newly-anointed Head of Strings at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, is leaning forward at his desk, describing in animated detail a class he intends to introduce to the RCS curriculum. She presents BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show and Music Matters, and her articles have been published in the Guardian, New Statesman, Prospect, the Herald, BBC Music Magazine and elsewhere. He started reading music around the age of 16, and jokes that “the writing was on the wall”, compositionally speaking, when he started turning up at band rehearsals with 20-minute instrumental tracks that were “basically all bridge. 00 EST Last modified on Tue 18 Apr 2017 11. Post navigationAn album devoted to the golden age of bel canto Lucia di Lammermoor (Erato, 2014). For ages 16+ Dates & times. Kate Molleson in conversation with cellist Abel Selaocoe and pianist Leif Ove Andsnes. For the last Music Matters of the season, Kate explores the connections between music and language by revisiting her recent trips through parts of England, Scotland. 01 EST Last modified on Thu 26 Mar 2020 08. CD review: John McCabe plays John McCabe. Catalog; For You; The Critic. Kate Molleson’s Sound Within Sound is a sparkling, revelatory lurch off of the highway of male white 20th century composers and across some of the glorious, underappreciated meadows and moors of the innovative but marginalized. 55 EDT Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind InstrumentsEpisode 5 of 5. Faber will publish the as yet untitled work by Kate Molleson in Spring 2022. She joined the BBC as a researcher for Radio 4 in 2005 and soon after became a reporter and. Mainly she is telling me in animated detail about the psychodynamics of Don Giovanni’s relationship with Donna Elvira, but she. Kate Molleson recommends recordings of Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 59 mins; 05 Sep 2022; Franz Schubert (1797-1828). Available now. To find out, Kate Molleson travelled 1,000 miles across the country to meet latest star Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar, drinking mare’s milk, sleeping in yurts and recording its vocal masters Kate Molleson Brief Summary of Book: Sound Within Sound: Radical Composers of the Twentieth Century by Kate Molleson. Abel talks. Show more. Whoever takes on the job could perform one essential service within minutes of taking office, and get rid of Northern Drift , the witless entertainment. Danielle de Niese is doing at least five things at once. Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century 05-Jul-2022. 21 EDT. Kate Molleson revels in the spry and subtly surprising music of Germaine Tailleferre, with guests Barbara Kelly and Caroline Potter. This is the impassioned and exhilarating story of the composers who dared to challenge the conventional world of classical music in the twentieth century. By Kate Molleson. Sound — Scotland’s festival of new music, a two-and-a-half-week series of concerts in and around Aberdeen — has announced John De Simone as its inaugural Composer in. Talk in the cafes was gloomy: Canada had shuffled to the right, boosting Stephen Harper’s Conservative government from minority to forcible majority and leaving the French-speaking, left-leaning province of Quebec yet again at political odds. Last year the Scottish Chamber Orchestra announced that 32-year-old Martin Suckling is to be their new Associate Composer. Available now. SCO/Swensen Town House, Hamilton. Kate Molleson Wed 25 Jan 2017 07. Kate Molleson is a Radio 3 presenter and music journalist. <br /> This is the impassioned and exhilarating story of the composers who dared to challenge the conventional world of classical music in the twentieth. And we visit the home of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - a. On merfolk, selkies and Sally Beamish’s new ballet score for The Little Mermaid. Engaged in all styles of music, she was. BBC Radio 3 listeners know Kate Molleson as one of Britain’s best-respected voices on contemporary classical music. Kate Molleson is a BBC Radio 3 broadcaster and journalist who has taught music journalism at Darmstadt and Dartington. The latest in new music. . Edition: Main.