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Bergen Festival 2007

1/2. Julian Anderson explores his relationship with radio and the works that have caught his ear over the airwaves. With music by Ferneyhough, Grisey, Benjamin, Savaskan and Goehr.

1/2. As he celebrates his own 40th birthday, composer Julian Anderson presents two programmes marking 40 years of Radio 3. In conversation with Tom Service, he reflects on his relationship with radio and on the works that have caught his ear over the airwaves.

Brian Ferneyhough: String Quartet No 2
Arditti Quartet

Gerard Grisey: Partiels
Ensemble Court-Circuit
Pierre-André Valade (conductor)

George Benjamin: Sometime Voices
David Wilson-Johnson (baritone)
´óÏó´«Ã½ Singers
´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra
Oliver Knussen (conductor)

Sinan Savaskan: Symphony No 2 (The Age of Analysis)
´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor)

Alexander Goehr: Behold the Sun
Jeanine Thames (soprano)
London Sinfonietta
Oliver Knussen (conductor).

1 hour, 30 minutes

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Sat 20 Oct 2007 22:30

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