Broadcasts

Jonathan Harvey's You will be amongst works performed by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group at London's Wigmore Hall. The concert, which will also be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3, will take place on the 24th of February. Works composed by Milton Byron Babbitt, Thomas Adès, Kurt Schwertsik, Harrison Birtwistle,...

BBC Radio 3 Breakfast is doing a Best of British playlist for 2014 and this morning's entry was Jonathan Harvey's 'Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco', nominated by a university colleague of Jonathan's from the University of Sussex. If you missed it being broadcast this morning, you can catch up with it on the BBC website until...

This week marks five years since Jonathan Harvey met with Donald Macleod for a five-part series on BBC Radio 3. You can listen to a podcast which brings together the five broadcasts and offers an overview of Jonathan’s compositions and musical influences. Radio 3 Composer of the Week Broadcast 13th – 17th July...

Three years ago today, the BBC released a podcast of Donald Macleod’s focus on Jonathan as Composer of the Week on BBC Radio 3 back in 2009. Speaking to Jonathan about his compositions, the podcast constitutes the highlights from the five broadcasts which explore Jonathan’s music and influences. Macleod introduces...

In honour of what would have been Jonathan’s 75th birthday, this Saturday, 3rd May, BBC Radio 3 broadcasts Jonathan’s ‘Glasgow Trilogy’. Jonathan was Composer in Association with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and their principal conductor, Ilan Volkov, from 2005 to 2008 and, as part of his commission for the BBC,...