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China Week
A week of programmes that contrast works by contemporary Chinese composers with music from the west inspired by China. The programmes feature performances by a younger generation of Chinese artists. Today Christopher Cook reflects on how some composers respond to the mysteries of night and the natural world. 4: Night and Nightingales
Stravinsky The Song of the Nightingale BBC Symphony Orchestra, conductor 01 iver Knussen
Yl Jlanquan Birds Returning to the Woods Gan Shanshi (gaohu)
Schubert Nacht und Traume Guang Yang (mezzo), IngridSurgenor(piano)
Schoenberg Verklarte Nacht Macau
Chamber Orchestra, conductor Yuan Fang Weir Natural History Dawn Upshaw
(soprano), BBCPO, conductor Mark Elder

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Cook
Unknown:
Traume Guang Yang
Conductor:
Yuan Fang
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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