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Live at Southbank Centre: Max de Wardener Live Set

Live from Southbank Centre, Robert Worby with new music by Max de Wardener featuring percussionist Joby Burgess and sho player Robin Thompson, plus Frank Zappa and Harry Partch.

Live at Southbank Centre: Robert Worby presents a live set of new music by Max de Wardener, featuring percussionists Joby Burgess and Genevieve Wilkins and sho player Robin Thompson.

Plus music by Frank Zappa and the first-ever UK performance using the amazing musical instruments invented by visionary American composer Harry Partch - a recording of a concert given in Bristol a couple of weeks ago by the Cologne-based ensemble MusikFabrik.
Radio 3 is broadcasting live from a pop-up studio at London's Southbank Centre all day every day for the last two weeks of March. If you're in the area, join us in the Radio 3 studio and performance space in the Royal Festival Hall Riverside Café to listen to Radio 3, ask questions and enjoy the special events.

2 hours

Last on

Sat 22 Mar 2014 22:00

Music Played

  • Frank Zappa

    Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?

    Ensemble: Musikfabrik.
  • Frank Zappa

    Echidna's Arf (Of You)

    Ensemble: Musikfabrik.
  • Frank Zappa

    Peaches en Regalia

    Ensemble: Musikfabrik.
  • Harry Partch

    And on the Seventh Day Petals Fell in Petaluma

    Ensemble: Musikfabrik.
  • György Ligeti

    Volumina

    Performer: Zsigmond Szathmáry.

Broadcast

  • Sat 22 Mar 2014 22:00

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