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Radio 3's Fifty Modern Classics

Brian Ferneyhough's Bone Alphabet

Dec 4, 2011
11:01

Percussionist Steven Schick recalls how a chance meeting with Brian Ferneyhough led to the commission of Bone Alphabet, the composer's only piece for non-pitched instruments; and writer Paul Griffiths describes the work's physicality and rhythmic complexity.

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