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The BBC Orchestras

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

from the Royal
Northern College of Music, Manchester. BBC Philharmonic, conductor Peter Maxwell
Davies
Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela; Tapiola
8.00 Michael Hall investigates the background to Maxwell Davies 's Second
Symphony, with its debt to the past, to Beethoven's mighty Hammerklavier
Sonata, and to the Orkney seascape.

Contributors

Conductor:
Peter Maxwell
Unknown:
Michael Hall
Unknown:
Maxwell Davies
Source: Radio Times

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