Heiner Goebbels, Alexander Goehr
Presented by Robert Worby. Birmingham Contemporary Music Group perform Heiner Goebbels's Walden and Alexander Goehr's Duos.
Robert Worby introduces a recording of Heiner Goebbels' Walden, inspired by the American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau's account of his two year woodland retreat in a cabin near to Walden Pond in Massachusetts. This is a new version of the work created for Ensemble Klang and the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, with Keir Neuringer as the narrator. Plus Alexander Goehr's Duos, for two violins, performed by members of the BCMG.
Alexander Goehr: Duos
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Heiner Goebbels: Walden
Ensemble Klang; Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
Keir Neuringer (narrator).
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- Sat 16 Feb 2013 22:30大象传媒 Radio 3
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