Tom. | Tempo | Cambridge Core. Dimensions: 234 x 153 x 26 mm. Show more Kate. Elizabeth Alker. “Setting the story of Pied Piper of Hamelin,” he winces. Nicholas Rankin. ' COSEY FANNI TUTTI By genre: Music > Classical. “Some news 🥁 Big honour to be joining @BBCRadio3’s Composer of the Week. . First published in The Big Issue, 18-25 May, 2014. Kate Molleson Wed 25 Jan 2017 07. From 2010-2017 she was a music. Number of pages: 368. Affable and athletic, ever boyish in his handsome looks and ever down-to. Time: 5. Kate has over 15 years of experience in marketing and design. 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. I don’t read anything spiritual into these sounds: they’re very musical, and they’re remarkable natural occurrences, but beyond that I don’t attribute. 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. Onwards to his next band, the London Symphony Orchestra, who come to EIF for two nights. Reviewed in short: New books from Jonathan Freedland, Kate Molleson, Linda Villarosa and Benjamin Wood. Kate Molleson is a journalist and broadcaster. Home. He wants to launch orchestral music for the digital age, and sees an incorporation of electronic sounds, samples, field recordings and techno-inspired drum beats as a natural evolution, “like valves in brass instruments once were. First published in the Guardian on 14 September, 2013. Be ready to look up a lot of very interesting recordings. A mong all the dauntingly good young string quartets currently doing the rounds,. Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century English | 2022 | ASIN: B0B8JX5HR5 | MP3@64 kbps | 10h 24m | 286 MB. Venue: Alison House, Atrium (G10) Abstract. Click here to find personal data about Molleson including phone numbers, addresses, directorships, electoral roll information, related property prices and other useful information. 15 EDT Last modified on Mon 3 Dec 2018 10. Radiophrenia. A minimum of one tooth was observed in each individual. First published in the Guardian on 25 January, 2018. She currently presents BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show and Music Matters. ”. <br /> <br /> The twentieth century was the century of modernity. These stories could get easily bogged down in musical jargon, but Molleson’s enthusiastic style and eye for character and place give them life. SCO/Gardiner; Aimard/Tamestit/Simpson Usher Hall; Queen’s Hall. At the age of seven, she became enthralled by a banjo-harp duo she saw busking at a market. Formation stages were compared to standards that provide estimates of age for the deciduous (Liversidge and Molleson, 2004) and permanent (AlQhatani et al. John has been coming to the Edinburgh International Festival since 1947. When Radio 3 presenter and critic Kate Molleson was a child, she would take her Fisher-Price tape machine to bed, clutching it like a cuddly toy, falling asleep to Monteverdi madrigals. He died in 2006 at the. This is a book of discovery that speaks of music as a life force, that urges. Emahoy Guèbrou, Age 23 | Photograph: Kate Molleson. 50 avg rating, 10 ratin. One soul who will not hear the bugle’s call is Elizabeth Alker, who is being groomed as the new Kate Molleson — and if you think one Molleson is one too many, you stand in excellent company. Kate Molleson Tue 10 Sep 2013 14. The complete set was recorded live at the Wigmore Hall four years ago and. Post navigationHe wants to launch orchestral music for the digital age, and sees an incorporation of electronic sounds, samples, field recordings and techno-inspired drum beats as a natural evolution, “like valves in brass instruments once were. On meeting Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou. Kate Molleson presents Radio 3’s New Music Show and Music Matters. The love, because I want to shout from the. Kate visits pianist Ruth McGinley at her studios in The MAC in Belfast to chat about her upcoming album of Irish airs and her unique approach. This entry was posted in Features on July 8, 2014 by Kate Molleson. Kate Molleson, Sound within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century. First published in the Guardian on 17 December, 2015. “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. Kate Molleson. She was a classical music critic for the for seven years and deputy editor of magazine. 2019 by Kate Molleson. She was a classical music critic for the Guardian for seven years and deputy editor of Opera magazine. Show more. In his early years as artistic director of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Graham McKenzie introduced a festival slogan: ‘Music Lives in Everything’. First published in the Guardian on 29 May, 2015 “At some point,” says Martin Green, accordionist and one third of the folk trio Lau, “we should maybe record some actual traditional music. 12:00. Students worshipped him. First published in The Herald on 13 December, 2017. Born in 1923, she. 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. Classical music flourished, and yet when we reflect on the genre’s history its central figures seem to share. First published in The Big Issue, 10-16 March, 2014. She has been widely commissioned by international orchestras, ensembles and soloists, and has. 12:00. Tue 13 May 2014 09. The World's Largest Island. Explore more on these topics Classical musicKate Molleson with the stories that matter, the people that matter, the music that matters. “I write this book out of love and anger. Kate Molleson in conversation with cellist Abel Selaocoe and pianist Leif Ove Andsnes. £10. Kate Molleson is a journalist and broadcaster and one of the UK’s leading commentators on contemporary classical music. Kate Molleson talks to American Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau and reflects on 20 years of the period-instrument ensemble Les Siècles with conductor François. BBC Radio 3 listeners know Kate Molleson as one of Britain’s best-respected voices on contemporary classical music. Back in the early 1990s, Richard Goode became the first American pianist (the first pianist born in the United States, that is) to record the complete set of Beethoven piano sonatas. 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. There are big laughs at the end of the phone. Retaining the same timeslot on Saturday evenings, New Music Show will feature a regular new presenting line-up of Tom Service and Kate Molleson. His voice is laconic, as though the statement is too obvious to even bother. Since Cleopatra, you see, there are always questions about my beauty…” the food arrives and she trails off to manoeuvre a. 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. Faber acquires new landmark alternative history of twentieth-century music by Kate Molleson. Kate Molleson is joined by South African cellist, singer and composer Abel Selaocoe with his cello in tow, as he prepares to tour this autumn with The Bantu Ensemble. Head of Faber Social Alexa von Hirschberg acquired World All Languages rights from John Ash at PEW Literary in a heated four-way auction. Faber, 2022, 314 pp. This album opens with a 53-second piece called Tender: sweet, husky, tentative sounds circling in space like a mobile. That the inaugural event is literally a piss-up in a brewery sets the. On the. He started making prototypes in 1915 but the instrument was officially born in 1928: a wonder of early electronics whose intangible, eerie-sweet voice captured the imagination of the age. 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. 1 hour, 27 minutes. Proms 2018: what to see But there are always compensations. 43 EST Last modified on Thu 26 Mar 2020 08. 99. I think you should ignore them. Approximate run time: 1 hour 30 mins. He published a magazine called The Faithful Music Master — first ever music journal in Germany — and kept subscribers hooked by. “They take an idea and they go places with it. Read 9 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. £ 18. Kate Molleson is a journalist and broadcaster, and one of the UK's leading commentators on contemporary classical music. The composer talks about buildings in vivid musical terms: the rhythms, the phrasing, the forms, the bold cacophony of lines and gestures. First published in The Herald on 26 August, 2013. First published in The Herald on 21 March, 2018. ”. First published in the Guardian on 23 April, 2015. Mermaids and mermen — let’s call them merfolk — live for approximately 300 years, after which they turn into sea foam. The Blind Astronomer. Big Issue column 34. 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. 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. The Hilliard Ensemble turn 40 this year, and also hang up their boots. 13 EDT. Publisher's summary. British Iron Age burials before the 1st century BC are usually found as individuals,. Thu 21 Apr 2016 10. It is a difficult field for many: we have watched the transition of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring from denunciation as chaos to maturing as. 2013 by Kate Molleson. THE dawn of a new era for the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, with fresh management on the way (yet to be appointed) and a promising reshuffle. In Cassandra. This entry was posted in Features on August 26, 2015 by Kate Molleson. A few year back, an episode of BBC Radio Four’s In Our Time focused on TS Eliot’s The Waste Land. 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. Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up. 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 and Kevin Le Gendre dive into the lives and music of John & Alice Coltrane. First published in The Herald on 23 August, 2017. Show more. She presents BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show and Music Matters. Kate Molleson explores Vaughan Williams’s burgeoning friendships with Gustav Holst and Adeline Fisher, who became his first wife, and the first Christmases they spent together. ‘She raced a horse and trap around the city’. Imagine the most severe voices in folk music pitched against lush, boozy, crushingly tender instrumentals. Yorkshire-born Hannah French is a musical butterfly: a broadcaster and academic, a public speaker and educator, and a baroque flautist. Kate Molleson. I was in Jerusalem to make a documentary about Emahoy. Event details. Kate Molleson revels in the spry and subtly surprising music of Germaine Tailleferre, with guests Barbara Kelly and Caroline Potter. Mark’s interest in music began at the age of 8 when he became a choirboy and he has since sung in choirs all his life. Was it a white man? Perhaps in old-fashioned clothing and wild hair? The music history we're told. It’s standard etiquette to say that someone doesn’t look a. This entry was posted in Features on May 6, 2015 by Kate Molleson. T here are some juicy anomalies at the heart of Tectonics, the festival of new music curated by Ilan Volkov and Alasdair Campbell and hosted by the BBC. Tue 13 May 2014 09. One soul who will not hear the bugle’s call is Elizabeth Alker, who is being groomed as the new Kate Molleson — and if you think one Molleson is one too many, you stand in excellent company. Interview: Danielle de Niese. Her book is a study of ten composers she admires but who she feels have been left out of official histories of the last century. T here were bouquets and balloons for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra's 40th birthday; a packed house, a warm home crowd and a rare. By Kate Molleson. Review: East Neuk’s Schubertiad. This entry was posted in Features on March 14, 2017 by Kate Molleson. Available now. Kate Molleson. was socially prominent as well. 55pm, The Times. 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. This entry was posted in Features on November 10, 2014 by Kate Molleson. Kate Molleson is a journalist and broadcaster and one of the UK’s leading commentators on contemporary classical music. Browse Kate Molleson’s best-selling audiobooks and newest titles. ‘She raced a horse and trap around the city’. Chris Stout is hunched over a vocal score, fiddle set down beside him on the lid of a Steinway grand. On merfolk, selkies and Sally Beamish’s new ballet score for The Little Mermaid. 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. SOUND WITHIN SOUND by Kate Molleson - ISBN 10: 0571363237 - ISBN 13: 9780571363230 - Faber Faber - 2023 - SoftcoverKate Molleson. August 18, 2022 11:37pm. Kate Molleson recommends recordings of Bartók's Piano Concerto No. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Kate Molleson is a Radio 3 presenter and music journalist. Elizabeth Alker is the host of Unclassified and presents weekend editions of Breakfast. Available. Similar programmes. T he final instalments of Kristian Bezuidenhout’s Mozart survey are as stylish as the previous seven volumes:. Kate Molleson tells. This entry was posted in Features on March 11, 2014 by Kate Molleson. 2016 by Kate Molleson. His was a towering account of the great 32, full of insight and unfussy intellect. Kate Molleson Wed 17 Feb 2016 08. Later we get Tender Second Version — just 47 seconds this time, but now with more tremble and more pain. 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 2 August, 2017 “I haven’t been so angry for a long time,” says composer Mark-Anthony Turnage. Edition: Main. For her debut on the programme, Kate. ). Review: The Eighth Door / Bluebeard’s Castle. Shop Sound Within Sound - by Kate Molleson (Hardcover) at Target. Where multiple teeth were observed, the average age estimated from all available teeth was utilized. CD review: Thomas Zehetmair’s Schumann. 2015 by Kate Molleson. Monday 22 May marks Kate Molleson’s debut in the Composer of the Week presenting seat, as she joins Donald Macleod to introduce 10 series of the programme in 2023. Schubertiad Crail Church, Fife. Kate Molleson travels to Cairo to discover a lost aural music tradition of microtonal finesse, potently emotional voices and spectacularly skilful instrumentalists. First published in the Guardian on 14 August, 2016. Winners will be announced during a ceremony at Drygate in Glasgow. 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. The 82-year-old French composer was a pioneer of electronic music in the 1950s and for. Available now. And as so many vastly expensive and duff-sounding new concert halls prove, it is still easy to get it wrong. “Singing is all about the mind. 1. 50 EDT First published on Tue 21 May 2019 11. Beethoven: Quartets, volume 3 Elias Quartet (Wigmore Hall Live) In 2015 the Elias Quartet (sisters Sara and Marie Bitlloch plus violinist Donald Grant and violist Martin Saving) ended several years of intense Beethoven immersion by recording the complete quartet cycle live at the. First published in The Herald on 26 December, 2018. 53 EST Last modified on Tue 8 Aug 2017 14. Her articles are published in the Guardian, The Herald, BBC Music Magazine, Opera, Gramophone and elsewhere. - Volume 76 Issue 302 A groundbreaking music history book from 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. 4. Jesús López Cobos conducts. Show. George Benjamin began writing his first opera at the age of 12. 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 has written a fine obituary of Helen Macleod, 'one of Scotland’s finest harp players', who was killed on the roads at a terribly young age. Show more. Listen now. 49 EDT. Whoever takes on the job could perform one essential service within minutes of taking office, and get rid of Northern Drift , the witless entertainment. First published by Sounds Like Now, September 2017 edition. - Volume 76 Issue 302A child comes of age against the violent background of Kenya’s struggle for independence. . Mostly the discussion covered the standard debates — was Eliot a snob for using so many obscure references?"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. Molleson's first week was about György Ligeti. He himself fostered a personality cult that went way beyond the music to encompass fashion, spirituality, even a galactic origin story. His second effort, L’amico Fritz, is as pastel and sweet as Cav is blood. This entry was posted in Miscellaneous on July 25, 2018 by Kate Molleson. Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, an Ethiopian nun, composer and pianist, has died at the age of 99. Georg Philipp Telemann was a canny operator. , 2010) dentition. 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. This entry was posted in CD Reviews on April 15, 2015 by Kate Molleson. . View Kate Molleson. First published in the Guardian on 28 January, 2015. First published in the Guardian on 25 October, 2016. Quotas should be introduced to broaden the range of classical music composers featured in. David Sanderson, Arts Correspondent. First published in The Herald on 26 March, 2014. . Understandable as English National Opera’s need is to cut costs, to cancel their first project outside London in 15 years is the wrong way to save money. Kate Molleson is a journalist and broadcaster and one of the UK’s leading commentators on contemporary classical music. This survey of ten composers, all basically at one or another extreme of twentieth century music composition, is highly readable. Ep. Rapt, intensely subtle, exquisitely slow, the music of Eliane Radigue was the heart and soul of this year’s Tectonics. Episodes ( 4 Available) Piers Hellawell’s Rapprochement. Kate Molleson is a journalist and broadcaster and one of the UK’s leading commentators on contemporary classical music. Each week, Tom and Kate will showcase recordings. Catalog; For You; The Critic. Kate Molleson. Her book is a study of ten composers she admires but who she feels have been left out of official. . SOUND WITHIN SOUND by Kate Molleson - ISBN 10: 0571363237 - ISBN 13: 9780571363230 - Faber Faber - 2023 - SoftcoverFirst published in The Herald on 25 November, 2015. Two very different 20th-century violin concertos. 30 minutes. 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. For ages 16+ Dates & times. She has presented documentaries for. Between the capital of Nuuk and smaller fishing town of Maniitsoq. Where did the time go? I used to think that 60 was ancient – some unimaginable age when you’d get to ride the buses for free and go swimming at 11 in the morning. 00 EDT Last modified on Tue 17 Jan 2023 07. Catherine, princess of Wales (born January 9, 1982, Reading, Berkshire, England) consort (2011– ) of William, prince of Wales and heir apparent to the British throne. Kate Molleson is a journalist and broadcaster, and one of the UK's leading commentators on contemporary classical music. Kate Molleson: 27 classical concerts not to miss. True, it’s only half-an-hour and involves a cast of three, but it’s a Scottish premiere of a new work by one of Scotland’s leading composers, and it has the makings of a compelling, challenging drama. He declared that God gave birth to him on the star Sirius and that he was musically educated up there in the galaxy. Kate visits pianist Ruth McGinley at her studios in The MAC in Belfast to chat about her upcoming album of Irish airs and her unique approach. Show more. 2013 by Kate Molleson. Facebook gives people the power to. Much of Rimbaud’s work around the globe has to do with connection and loneliness, with memory and the suggestive power of sound, with how electronic music can summon and honour the forgotten. At the age of 23, she became principal harp of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. The progression of dental attrition stages used for age assessment @article{Molleson1990ThePO, title={The progression of dental attrition stages used for age assessment}, author={Theya Ivitsky Molleson and P Cohen}, journal={Journal of Archaeological Science}, year={1990}, volume={17}, pages={363-371} } T. Ep. Tom “Waffles” Service continues to live down to his sobriquet and Kate Molleson appears to speak through a bowl of porridge. comKate Molleson on LinkedIn Jun 24, 2018, 1:31 AM + Show All Citations About Terms Your CA Privacy Rights Kate Molleson is a music journalist and broadcaster who writes for The Guardian (UK), The Herald (Scotland) and publications including Opera and Gramophone. Danielle de Niese is doing at least five things at once. In a parallel universe, Diana Burrell is an architect. First published in The Big Issue, 23-30 March. Asked once whether she had any advice for. Kate Molleson meets Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho in Paris, the city she has made her home since 1982. Since May 2023, some weeks have been presented by Kate Molleson. The number of biographies and autobiographies of artists is colossal, but what makes Sound within Sound unique is the largely unknown contributions of the ten twentieth-century artists Kate Molleson has featured. Stravinsky the shapeshifter. This entry was posted in Features on April 5, 2018 by Kate Molleson. I arrived in Montreal in early May, the morning after a general election. Presented by Kate Molleson Recorded at City Halls, Glasgow on 21 September, 2023. Somehow he’s always been a more rounded, more grounded kind of touring virtuoso than many, though. Is he tormented by new-age association of 1980s whale song albums? “Nah,” he says, gruffly, sounding anything but new-age. First published in The Herald on 2 October, 2013. 55 EDT Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind InstrumentsEpisode 5 of 5. 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 MollesonBrief Summary of Book: Sound Within Sound: Radical Composers of the Twentieth Century by Kate Molleson. Age recommendation. Listen live. At age 6, Sister Guèbrou was sent to a boarding school in. 15 EDT Last modified on Fri 13 Sep 2019 07. Tue 21 May 2019 11. View Kate Molleson. From 2010-2017 she was a music. Kate Molleson's romp through a selection of 20th century composers doesn't tell you about the usual suspects, but finds people from all corners of the world, women and men, ploughing their own furrow. 17 EDT. Quotas should be introduced to broaden the range of classical music composers featured in. Thu 6 Jul, 7. Show more. This entry was posted in CD Reviews on October 28, 2017 by Kate Molleson. Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds: Ambient sound and radical listening in the age of communication. Who can say for sure. However, I’m reserving my greatest excitement for Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century (Faber, July), in which Kate Molleson, the Radio 3 presenter, will tell the story. Today - Alice finds her musical and spiritual home. Next on. 15 - 6. Kuniko (Linn) Whether architects like it or not, buildings will be scruffed up by the humans who use them,. First published by Sounds Like Now, September 2017 edition. Most musicians — not all, but most — no longer want that old-school authoritative figure of the Victorian portraits. Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century 05-Jul-2022. 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. View Kate Molleson. Behind the scenes in Edinburgh – part 2. <br /> This is the impassioned and exhilarating story of the composers who dared to challenge the conventional world of classical music in the twentieth. This is the impassioned and exhilarating story of the composers who dared to challenge the conventional world of classical. . Kate Molleson is a Radio 3 presenter and music journalist. Molleson, P. Kate Molleson. First published in The Herald on 8 March, 2017. Each week, Tom and Kate will showcase recordings. Their iconic sound – sparse and mystical. We use. 4y Report this post Report Report. Run times may vary by up to 20 minutes as they can be affected by last-minute programme changes, intervals and. Mahler: Ninth Symphony Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer. True, the Australian saxophonist makes chart-topping albums of film music and low-lit love ballads. But it’s a balance, getting the gowns right. “I try not to anthropomorphise any animal that I record. The songs have a gnarled lyricism, a. The Bad Plus, Carter, Mahler. Schumann’s Violin Concerto has a rough past. CD review: John McCabe plays John McCabe. 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. Lower quality (64kbps) 06 October 2023. Kate Molleson: Rewriting the Musical Canon. One has missed the broadcast. 44 minutes. Tonight is the first Scottish Awards for New Music. 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: ‘enthusiastic style and eye for character’. Kate Molleson presents classical music on BBC Radio 3 Kate Molleson/Twitter. Kate Molleson is a music journalist who regularly presents BBC Radio 3 programmes including Breakfast, Music Matters and Afternoon Concert. Kate Molleson is a Glasgow-based music critic.