{"id":16131,"date":"2025-01-27T15:37:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T15:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=16131"},"modified":"2025-01-27T15:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T15:37:44","slug":"bbc-commissions-25-compositions-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2025\/01\/27\/bbc-commissions-25-compositions-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Commissions 25 Compositions For 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16132\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16132\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16132\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/01\/BBC-Radio-3-25-for-25.jpg\" alt=\"25 for 25: Sounds of the Century\" width=\"1200\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/01\/BBC-Radio-3-25-for-25.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/01\/BBC-Radio-3-25-for-25-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/01\/BBC-Radio-3-25-for-25-1024x579.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/01\/BBC-Radio-3-25-for-25-768x434.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Top L- Bottom R (clockwise) Nkeiru Okoye, Jasper Dommett, Elena Kats-Chernin, Karl Jenkins, Anna Clyne and Kieran Brunt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The British Broadcasting Corporation has launched \u201825 for 25: Sounds of the Century&#8217;, which includes 25 commissions for BBC ensembles and New Generation artists.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In with the new:<\/strong> Marking the first quarter of the 21st century, the British Broadcasting Corporation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/mediacentre\/2025\/radio-3-25-for-25-sounds-of-the-century\">has commissioned 25 compositions<\/a> for its ensembles and New Generation artists. Their \u201825 for 25: Sounds of the Century\u2019 program includes compositions inspired by notable British events of the 21st century, which will be performed between January 25th and July 12th. The events range from 9\/11 to the London 2012 Olympics to the death of Queen Elizabeth II. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annaclyne.com\/\">Anna Clyne<\/a>\u2019s composition \u2018The Eye\u2019 played by the BBC Philharmonic launches the series.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Digging deeper:<\/strong> Many of the compositions in the BBC\u2019s series reflect on social and technological changes in our world over the past quarter century. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boosey.com\/composer\/Elena+Kats-Chernin\">Elena Kats-Chernin<\/a>\u2019s piece for the BBC Scottish Symphony reflects on England\u2019s Marriage Act for same-sex couples, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasperdommett.com\/\">Jasper Dommett<\/a>\u2019s piece for the BBC National Orchestra of Wales reflects on the creation of the smartphone.<\/p>\n<p>Each composition meditates on different events or people that have shaped the UK\u2019s national identity since the year 2000. Perhaps other countries (like Canada) might consider followi<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ng suit.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Broadcasting Corporation has launched \u201825 for 25: Sounds of the Century&#8217;, which includes 25 commissions for BBC ensembles and New Generation artists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":16132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[488,34,193,3],"tags":[509],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/01\/BBC-Radio-3-25-for-25.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16133,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16131\/revisions\/16133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16131"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}